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From Buddha-Nature
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perhaps an error for ''bimbā, Momordica monadelpha'', a plant with bright red gourd fruits. +
one of the three poisons +
common description of a Buddha's speech +
(meaning confirmed by Jackson & Jackson). +
'counter-''ālīḍha'"`UNIQ--nowiki-0002FE24-QINU`"''' posture — sitting or standing with the right leg bent more sharply than the left. +
the menial classes +
the 'Lesser Vehicle' — the Buddhist practices of those who have taken Refuge in the Three Jewels but are not and do not aspire to be Bodhisattvas, and the schools advocating such an attitude +
Buddha. The five ''Jinas ((rgyal ba) rigs lnga)'' are the Lords of the Five Families +
the sets of vowed discipline — Prātimokṣa, Bodhisattva and Tantric vows. +
lit. 'deathless': nectar, ambrosia (conferring immortality or other powers). +
rebirth as a god or human being. +
lowest of the four levels of Tantra +
the imprints of actions and defilements, which are carried from life to life and can ripen as a persistence of the same defilement or as the various forms of karmic results +
following the Nyāya system of Brahmanical philosophy. +
as a Tantric implement, symbolizes the Wisdom that directly comprehends Emptiness. It is held in the left hand (female side), while the ''vajra'' is held in the right +
n. of a Hindu god with an elephant's head, who both creates and removes obstacles, lord (''īśa'') of the troop (''gaṇa'') of subordinate gods attendant on Śiva. His title ''Vināyaka'' 'Remover (of obstacles)' is deliberately misinterpreted by Buddhists as 'Leader-astray' (Tib. ''log 'dren'') +
'this life's f.' will mean everything making up one's present personality, formed by a coming-together of causes and conditions. However, the same word is also used for volitions, the karmic motivations created in this life that contribute to shaping future lives. +
Tārā's flower, the blue lotus, whose earthly representative is ''Nymphaea caerulea''. +
one who has taken Refuge in the Three Jewels and vows of pure moral conduct — to abandon killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and drinking alcohol. +
birth from a womb, from an egg, from moist heat, or miraculously +
