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From Buddha-Nature
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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 +
generally means a world or world-system. +
the five immediate karmas, sins or evil acts are killing one's mother, one's father, or an ''Arhant''; causing schism in the Saṅgha of ''bhikṣus''; and drawing blood from a ''Tathāgata'' with evil intent. The five close to or approaching them (''de dang nye ba lnga'') are defiling one's mother who is an Arhantī; killing a Bodhisattva on the Definite Stage (''niyata-bhūmi''); killing an ''Ārya'' on the Path of Training (i.e. not yet an ''Arhant''); robbing the Saṅgha of means of livelihood; and destroying a ''stūpa'' +
synonym for ''saṃsāra''. The three becomings (or states of existence) are the Desire Realm, Form Realm and Formless Realm. +
often pron. 'Tänjur': 'the Translated Treatises', the collection of Tib. translations of the Indian Buddhist literature other than the actual Buddha-Word — commentaries, treatises, hymns, rituals, dictionaries, medical texts, etc. — amounting to over two hundred volumes, or about twice the length of the Kangyur. +
barbarian, one ignorant of Sanskrit. +
Vedic god of the sky, 'the Encompassing', lord of light and darkness, celestial order, morality, and the primordial waters. Later relegated to overlordship of the terrestrial oceans, hence the Tib. translation of his name, 'water-god'. Guardian of the western quarter. +
an adherent of a non-Buddhist religion, esp, a Hindu, Jain or Lokāyata (Materialist). +
a class of fierce, malignant, goblin-like demons, belonging to the ''preta'' realm, said to eat human flesh. +
'Precious One', Tib, title for someone identified as the rebirth of an earlier distinguished Dharma practitioner. Also called Tülku (''sprul sku''), lit. ''Nirmāṇa-kāya'' but in most cases simply a courtesy title. +
Emanation Body of a Buddha, see p. 273. +
