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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 +
unwholesome tendencies, much the same as defilements. +
the cessation of everything samsaric such as ignorance and suffering, the Liberation of an ''Arhant'' or a Buddha. Hīnayāna ''Nirvāṇa'' is supremely blissful but unhelpful to others, and the ''Arhant'' must eventually abandon that self-absorbed state and enter the Mahāyāna. '' 'Nirvāṇa' '' is also used for the passing away of a Buddha (and sometimes for that of other, presumably saintly persons), 'the N/ being the passing of 'the Buddha', Śākyamuni; when we ask Buddhas not to enter N., they are of course in N. already in one sense, but we want them to continue manifesting themselves, not to pass away. Non-conceptual (nirvikalpa, mam par mi rtog (pa)). +
the third Perfection. +
the Family of Amitābha. +
a dome-shaped monument housing relics of the Buddha or some revered person, embodying in its form an elaborate symbolism. +
Union of the Illusory Body and Clear Light, final section of the Completing Stage. The U of the Four ''Kāyas'', or U Beyond Learning, is Buddhahood. +
1. The magical weapon of the Vedic god Indra, made of metal and very hard and sharp. 2. A thunderbolt. 3. A Tantric implement symbolizing Method (Compassion), held in the right hand (male side), cf. Bell. Also a part of various other Tantric implements, e.g. v. hook, a hook with v.-shaped knobs on. 4. As a description of anything that is supposed to be impenetrably hard (v. wall, v. tent) or indestructible (Vajrayāna and just about everything involved in it) — adamantine. +
Awakening to Buddhahood from the sleep of ignorance, perfect knowledge +
'half-cross-legged' position +
