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lit. naked ascetics. An important Indian rdigious system founded in the sixth century B.C.E. by ]ina (whence Jaina or Jain), also known as Vardhamana. The Jainas or Jains advocate a very pure ethical system involving, in particular, an extreme form of ahimsa, or nonviolence. +
King of Tibet and member of the Chögyal dynasty. He assumed the kingship in Ngari, western Tibet, with the name of Tsenpo Khore. Later he abdicated in order to become a monk and was subsequently known as Lha Lama Yeshe Ö. In a bid to revive Buddhism in his country, he sent a party of twenty-one young men to Kashmir to learn Sanskrit and to study the teachings. It was in response to his generous offerings that Atisha accepted his invitation to visit Tibet. +
A class of dangerous, flesh-devouring nonhuman beings figuring in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. +
beings of the form of women, of many types from witches and fiends, through various grades of guardians of the Doctrine, to fully Enlightened deities +
one who rules over the four continents of human beings. He bears the thirty-two Marks of a Great Being, and is assisted in his rule by the Seven precious Things (''sapta-ratna''), listed in Sarvajña-mitra's verse 24, the precious wheel etc. These have remarkable magical properties, and are also interpreted as symbolic of the seven Enlightenment factors (''bodhyaṅga, byang chub kyi yan lag''), mindfulness etc. +
a Tantric chopping knife with an almost semicircular blade slightly hooked at one end and a ''vajra'' handle in the middle. +
e.g. space, temporary absence of defilements, final cessation of obscurations, Emptiness, ''Nirvāṇa''. +
in the set Loving-kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity — the Four Immeasurables — it is Skt. ''muditā'' and implies joy in the virtues and happiness of others +
a Noble Being, or Saint — one who has realized the Path of direct Insight into Ultimate Reality. Āryā feminine of ''Ārya'' +
the 'Great Vehicle' — the way of a Bodhisattva, and the schools that emphasize it in their teaching. +
''Rottleria tinctoria'' or ''Calophyllum inophyllum''. +
see Universal Monarch. +
''Anuttara-yoga-tantra'' is divided into two main Stages, first the Stage of Generation, then when that is perfected, the Completing Stage. +
negative emotions involving one or more of the three poisons (greed, hate and delusion), under whose influence we create actions that cause us to be reborn in ''saṃsāra''. They include six root defilements — ignorance, attachment, aversion, pride, defiled doubt and wrong view — and secondary defilements, sometimes counted as twenty +
the 'Bodies' of a Buddha, usually counted as three, see pp. 272—3. Sometimes, to make four ''Kāyas'', the ''Dharmakāya'' is divided into two, the ''Jñāna-dharma-kāya'' or ''Dharmakāya'' of Wisdom-knowledge and the ''Svābhāvikakāya'' or 'Natural Body', respectively the Buddha's Mind and its Ultimate Nature. +
the Perfection of Wisdom, esp. as a branch of literature and study; (''sher phyin ma''): the Perfection of Wisdom as a female deity. +
'Hearer, Disciple (of a Buddha)': a Hīnayāna ''Arhant'' who attains ''Nirvāṇa'' under the guidance of a teacher; or someone practising to become such an ''Arhant'', a Hīnayānist. +
success, attainment, esp. magical attainment such as flying in the sky, becoming invisible, everlasting youth, or powers of transmutation. They are divided into supreme s. (''mchog gi dngos grub'') and ordinary or common s. (''mthun mong gi dngos grub''), see Beyer 245—255. +
'He who looks down from on high', n. of a Bodhisattva, often called Avalokiteśvara (''spyan ras gzigs dbang phyugs'') 'Lord Avalokita', Āryâvalokiteśvara 'Noble Lord A.', etc. +
fem. of Hero (dpa' bo) +
