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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. +
Vedic goddess of a now dried-up river, who became patron deity of poetry, music, science and all the creative arts, and in much this form was adopted into the Buddhist pantheon, with Mañjuśrī as Her consort. +
'the Sun-like', n. of a Buddha, Lord of the Tathāgata Family. +
Field of (Accumulation of) M. (''tshogs zhing''); Merits and Wisdom (''tshogs (gnyis)''): see Accumulations. +
lit. 'departed', i.e. the spirit of a dead person, one of the six destinies of samsaric beings, often called 'hungry ghosts' because of their main form of suffering. They are of many kinds; those that dwell in our world are normally invisible to humans, but may be seen by animals. +
sixty qualities are ascribed to the Buddha's voice in a Sūtra. +
a kind of ''vīṇā''. +
'wrathful king', a title of fierce deities +
the ''vajra'' cross-legged position, like the 'lotus position' of Hindu ''yoga'' but reversed. +
'seer', inspired Vedic sage, Brahmanical ascetic with magical powers. +
release from the bondage of ''saṃsāra'', whether as an ''Arhant'' or as a Buddha, the latter being 'Great L.' +
