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smig rgyu;སྨིག་རྒྱུ་;mirage;mirage;mig-gyu;mig-gyu;a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena  +
gsang sngags rdo rje theg pa;གསང་སྔགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ་;sang-ngag dor-je t'heg-pa;sang-ngag dor-je t'heg-pa;literally, "secret mantra approach of vajrayana";the first of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati  +
shes rab;ཤེས་རབ་;prajñā;shey-rab;shey-rab;transcendent knowledge as the element in spiritual development that corresponds to the level of ultimate reality;its initial phase, or "ground aspect," is understanding of the fundamental state of samsara and nirvana as supreme emptiness;its "path aspect" is the ongoing experience of that understanding, directly introducing one to the unceasing avenue of relaxed and open awareness [wisdom (BM, DZP, MW, WPT);discriminative awareness (in the context of the three trainings) (DZP);critical analytical acumen (FRC);knowledge (LM);appreciative discernment (MW);gnosis, transcendental wisdom (NGP);knowledge (NJ, PC);profound wisdom (PT);discriminating wisdom (SL);knowledge or intelligence;in particular, the knowledge that realizes egolessness (VH);discerning wisdom (WPT)]  +
wylie;tibetan;english;english;sanskrit;t'hod-gal;t'hod-gal;definition  +
sprul pa'i sku;སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ་;emanation body;emanation body;nirmāṇakāya;nirmanakaya,trul(-pai) ku;nirmanakaya,trul(-pai) ku;literally, "emanation body";the impermanent physical manifestation of enlightened being in response to the needs of ordinary beings [Manifested Body (BM);manifest dimension of awakening (MW);incarnate body (NGP);unobstructed miraculous emanation form (ws)]  +
dug lnga;དུག་ལྔ་;dug-nga;dug-nga;literally, "five poisons";basic afflictive emotions—desire-attachment, aversion, ignorance, pride and jealousy-envy—that involve ordinary dualistic mind and so obscure the true nature of mind  +
slong;སློང་;long;long;upheavals occurring as hallucinations due to outside forces, on an inner level as disease and physical pain or on a secret level as emotional and mental instability  +
rang rgyal,rangs sangs rgyas;རང་རྒྱལ་,རངས་སངས་རྒྱས་;pratyekabuddha,rang-gyal,rang sanggyay;pratyekabuddha,rang-gyal,rang sanggyay;literally, "self-made buddha";one who follows or has accomplished the hinayana path that leads to realization of the nonexistence of the self of the individual personality and partial realization that phenomena are interdependent and have no self-nature  +
gzung ba;གཟུང་བ་;zung-wa;zung-wa;the objective pole of dualistic experience;the emergence of apparent phenomena as sensory objects for avenues of sensory consciousness (e.g., visual forms as objects of visual consciousness) [object (GL)]  +
lha;ལྷ་;god, in the sense of a being reborn within the relatively highest realms of cyclic existence;in other contexts, the term refers to a meditation deity embodying a particular quality of pristine awareness  +
lam;ལམ་;path;path;the process that leads from the unenlightened state of a sentient being to the awakened state of a buddha  +
'od gsal;འོད་གསལ་;sheer lucidity;sheer lucidity;prabhāsvara;od-sal;od-sal;denotes the sphere of intrinsic awareness, or buddha nature, as being that of subtle lucidity free of defilement [clarity, luminous absorption (BM);clear light (GL, MW, SL, WPT);sheer lucency, vibrant source of experience (KB);luminosity (LS, SGK, VH);utter lucidity (PT)]  +
rgyud;རྒྱུད་;mindstream;mindstream;gyud;gyud;the flow or "thread" of conserous awareness from moment to moment that is misapprehended as a discrete "self" or ego-entity  +
sgrub pa;སྒྲུབ་པ་;sādhana;drub-pa;drub-pa;formal techniques to promote spiritual development and accomplishment  +