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khrid;ཁྲིད་;guidelines;guidelines;A set of instructions for practice conveyed by a guru to a disciple or group of disciples, either orally or in writing. Among Buddhist pedagogical styles, guidelines are less broad than teachings (''bstan'') or explanations/expositions (''bshad''), and more like instructions, praxis, or special instructions, which tend to be quite specifically focused. +
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hvā shang;ཧབ༹་ཤང་;heshang;A monk from the Chinese Buddhist
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''’jug sgo mam pa brgyad'';འཇུག་སྒོ་མམ་པ་བརྒྱད་;eight entrances;eight entrances;In the Tiantai system the sudden entrance, gradual entrance, secret or special entrance, indefinite entrance, entrance to the ''piṭakas'', entrance to awareness, entrance to discrimination, and entrance to perfection. +
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dbang bskur bzhi;དབང་བསྐུར་བཞི་;four initiations;four initiations;In highest yoga tantra: vase, secret, wisdom gnosis, and fourth (or word). +
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phung po;ཕུང་པོ་;aggregates;aggregates;skandha;For all Buddhists, the five constituent factors that comprise what we usually call a “person”： form or matter, sensation or feeling, perception or recognition, mental formations or dispositions, and consciousness or awareness. +
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tha snyad pa/kun rdzob;ཐ་སྙད་པ། ཀུན་རྫོབ་;conventional;conventional;vyāvahara/saṃvṛti;In ''Madhyamaka'' thought, one of the two levels of discourse or truth. Unlike ultimate discourse, the conventional conceals the true nature of things, and is a mere nominal designation, acceptable by worldly standards but unable to withstand analysis, hence sublated in the attainment of an ultimate realization. +
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rnal ’byor drug;རྣལ་འབྱོར་དྲུག་;six yogas;six yogas;In the Kālacakra tantric corpus, the completion-stage yogas of： withdrawal, mental absorption, breath control, retention, recollection, and concentration. +
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sgro 'dogs;སྒྲོ་འདོགས་;superimposition;superimposition;The attribution to a phenomenon of characteristics that it does not possess, most notably the imputation of ''inherent existence'' to entities through ''conceptual thought or elaboration''. +
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tshad med pa bzhi;ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི་;four immeasurables;four immeasurables;Love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. +
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mtshan nyid gsum;མཚན་ཉིད་གསུམ་;three characteristics;three characteristics;In Cittamātra ontology, the three types of phenomena: imaginary, dependent, and thoroughly established. +
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rgyud;རྒྱུད་;tantra;A type of text taught by the Buddha to expound the doctrines and practices of the secret-mantra vehicle, in contradistinction to the sutras through which he expounded the ''śrāvaka'' and ''perfection vehicles''. In English，the term also has come to connote the doctrines, practices, and outlook described in the tantras. +
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sdom pa gong ma gnyis;སྡོམ་པ་གོང་མ་གཉིས་;two higher vows;two higher vows;The eighteen root and forty-six auxiliary bodhisattva and the fourteen root and eight auxiliary tantric vows. +
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sde snod ’dzin pa;སྡེ་སྣོད་འཛིན་པ་;Tripiṭaka master;tripiṭaka master;tripiṭakadhara;An expert in the ''Tripiṭaka'', the three canonical collections of Buddhism;the term implies extraordinary scholarly achievement. +
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rten ’brel ’byung ba;རྟེན་འབྲེལ་འབྱུང་བ་;dependent arising;dependent arising;pratītya samutpāda;The general causal law in Buddhism that asserts that whatever arises does so in dependence upon causes and conditions. Sometimes taken to be the essential Buddhist teaching, it is given specific instantiation in the twelve links of dependent arising, which explain how it is we continually take birth in ''samsara''. It is also explained by Nāgārjuna as equivalent to—and the major proof of—''emptiness''. +
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bya rgyud kyi rigs gsum;བྱ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རིགས་གསུམ་;three families of the action tantras;three families of the action tantras;The vajra, lotus, and tathāgata. +
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shing rta chen po gnyis;ཤིང་རྟ་ཆེན་པོ་གཉིས་;two great charioteers;two great charioteers;Nāgārjuna and Asaṅga. +
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lugs gsum;ལུགས་གསུམ་;three systems;three systems;In Chinese religion： Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions. +
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rgyu tshogs gsum;རྒྱུ་ཚོགས་གསུམ་;three requisites;three requisites;Praying to and doing intensive retreat on the inseparable guru/meditational deity； striving well in both accumulation of merit and purification of negativities;and analyzing the meaning of textual systems carefully through reason, and thinking about them in detail. +
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ltung ba sde lnga;ལྟུང་བ་སྡེ་ལྔ་;five divisions of the 253 downfalls;five divisions of the 253 downfalls;Downfalls entailing expulsion, downfalls entailing suspension, minor transgressions, “confessable'' transgressions, and small infractions. +
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tshig don drug;ཚིག་དོན་དྲུག་;six categories;six categories;In the Vaiśeṣika system of Hindu philosophy: substance, quality, generality, particularity, activity, and inherence. +
