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milk, sour milk or yogurt, butter, dung, urine  +
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.  +
visualized image of the deity, with which the Tantric practitioner identifies herself.  +
pertaining to the Yogācāra, a Mahāyāna philosophical school also known as Citta-mātra.  +
the terrible judge of the dead, king of the ''pretas'' in the underground Yama-world (''yama-loka'') and also guardian of the southern quarter. The 'Yamas' are either the ''pretas'' or his servants who on his orders throw sinners into hell (AdK, III pp. 153,156).  +
faith, morality, conscience, consideration, learning, generosity and wisdom.  +
the thirty-two characteristic Marks and eighty minor Signs of a Great Being (a Universal Monarch or a Buddha), such as thousand-spoked wheels on the palms and soles, the hairs of the body pointing upwards, and copper-coloured nails. See Conze, ''Large Sutra'', Appendix II.  +