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common epithet of a Buddha +
an ascetic, a practitioner of ''yoga'', i.e. of Tantra; esp. one who engages in sexual and other Tantric practices incompatible with keeping monastic vows. Fem. yoginī. +
a means to Liberation; in the 'Lotus Sūtra' (Sad-dharma-puṇḍarīka-sūtra) the various V. are compared to carts of different sizes. 'Both V.' (theg pa che chung, lit. 'the Great and Small V.') means the Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna, the latter being also called the V. of the Perfect Buddhas. 'The Supreme V.' (theg mchog) is Tantra, the Vajrayāna, strictly speaking included in the Mahāyāna. The three V., in the present book, are Hīnayāna, (non-tantric) Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna. +
a Hīnayāna ''Arhant'' who attains ''Nirvāṇa'' without needing teachings in that lifetime, but lacks the complete realization of a Buddha so cannot benefit limitless sentient beings as a Buddha does. +
'Great Being', standard epithet of Bodhisattvas. +
see Corpse-raiser. +
'Lord of the World', a title of the Bodhisattva Lord Avalokita. +
a ''Saṃbhoga-kāya'' or ''Nirmāṇa-kāya'' of a Buddha — what we would call Her 'Body' as contrasted with the ''Dharmakāya'', which is Her Mind. +
the Family of Amoghasiddhi +
one of noble nature, exceedingly wise, etc. +
monk and nun novices alike are bound by a somewhat less severe version of the ''bhikṣu's'' discipline. While ''bhikṣu'' ordination cannot be taken before the age of twenty, novice ordination can be taken younger; the vows are taken for life. +
second of the four levels of Tantra +
a mythical river formed by the juice of the fruits of the immense ''jambu'' tree (rose-apple tree, ''Eugenia jambolana'') growing on Mount Meru, with golden sand +
mythical beings with a horse's head and a human body (or vice versa). They became celebrated as celestial musicians, along with the ''gandharvas''. +
'pan-realism', a prominent and influential Hīnayānist school named after their assertion that a ''dharma'' exists during all time, wandering from the future to the present when it seems to arise and transferred into the past when it perishes. +
gesture in which the arm is outstretched with all the fingers extended and the palm outwards +
'thus gone' or 'thus come', a Buddha. +
fem. ''kalaviṅkā (ka la bing ka mā)'': the Indian cuckoo, to whose sweet song the Buddha's voice is often compared +
