Property:Gloss-def
From Buddha-Nature
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a kind of large drum. +
one learned in the profound mantric lore (D). +
besides the Bodhisattva vows and (in the higher classes of Tantra) the Tantric vows, one receiving a Tantric empowerment has to take numerous pledges, which must be kept purely if the practice is to be successful. See Tsong-ka-pa, ''The Yoga of Tibet'', 69—76; Beyer, 406-7. +
the female genitals. +
a staff surmounted by a freshly-severed head, a withered one and a skull, and a triple point, carried by Tantric adepts and representing the secret consort. +
a class of beings slightly inferior to ''devas'', who live within sight of a ''deva'' realm and are plagued by envy of their neighbours. +
through i. of good and evil one is reborn in ill destinies; through i. of Ultimate Truth one is reborn in ''saṃsāra'' in general +
a Buddhist monastery or monastic college. +
milk, sour milk or yogurt, butter, dung, urine +
body, speech and mind +
a very large finite number +
often pron. 'Kanjur': 'the Translated Word (of the Buddha)', the Tibetan canon of scriptures, comprising the Vinaya, several collections of Sūtras, and the Tantras +
samsaric being temporarily enjoying a heavenly state of existence +
a stanza, esp. one of four eight-syllable pādas; as a unit of length of prose, 32 syllables. +
'basket', collection of the Buddhist scriptures. There are three — Vinaya, Sůtra and Abhidharma. +
