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From Buddha-Nature
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Ultimate Truth, Emptiness. +
sometimes = the three poisons. +
the Universal Law, the fact that phenomena do not exist as they are apprehended by consciousness adhering to their true existence. The ''Dharmadhātu'' Wisdom is the Wisdom-knowledge directly cognizing this +
the conventional aspect of the practice of Dharma, equivalent to Compassion, as contrasted with the ultimate aspect, Wisdom. In Tantra, it is symbolized by the ''vajra'' and the male aspect. Also counted as seventh of the ten Perfections. +
the Ultimate Mode of Being of all things +
set of twenty-two prohibitions that anyone receiving an empowerment of ''Yoga-tantra'' or ''Anuttara-yoga-tantra'' must undertake to observe. See Lessing & Wayman, 328-9. +
the coral tree, ''Erythrina indica'', one of the five trees of paradise, with brilliant scarlet flowers. +
female deity considered a form of Tārā, whose particular function is subjugating, hence Her red colour. +
past, present, future. +
usually for 'migrating beings' ('''"`UNIQ--nowiki-0002FE17-QINU`"'gro ba'') or 'sentient beings' (''sattva, sems can'') — it excludes Enlightened Beings unless written with a capital B. +
prominent Hīnayānist school, to which in the seventh century more than a quarter of the Buddhist monks in India were counted as belonging. They were notorious for their heretical, 'Personalist' views and often their bigotry and moral depravity. +
''lalitāsana'' is a name for Green Tārā's usual sitting posture (right leg lowered), but this meaning is not always applicable in the texts translated here. +
Enlightened Being taken as an object of practice +
common title of Tārā. +
n. of a Bodhisattva, who represents particularly Wisdom and is depicted flourishing a blazing wisdom sword in the right hand and holding a lotus that supports a book in the left. He is called 'the Youthful' (''kumāra(-bhūta), gzhon nu(r gyur pa)'') because of his everlastingly youthful appearance; the same title is sometimes taken to mean 'Crown Prince'. +
faults of meditation +
second of the four Sublime Mothers (see Locanā). +
the most subtle state of samsaric existence, without anything physical at all; lacking even mental pleasure, its beings dwell in unchanging equanimity. +
concentration of the mind on a single object. +
