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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. +
'even cross-legged posture', according to Geshe Kayang 'the ordinary crosslegged posture'; perhaps the same as ''sattva-paryaṇka''. +
the four empowerments, consecrations or initiations are the Flask, Secret, Wisdom-knowledge and Word Empowerments of ''Anuttara-yoga-tantra'' +
'Enjoyment Body', the Body endowed with the thirty-two Marks and eighty minor Signs that a Buddha displays to ''Ārya''-Bodhisattvas in a Pure Land, teaching the Mahāyāna until the end of ''saṃsāra''. +
the fifth Perfection, see ''Dhyāna; (dhyāna, mnyam bzhag)'': gesture of both hands flat with palms upward, right fingers resting on the left, thumbs slightly bent with the tips touching. +
probably 'the Pervader'; as preserver of the universe, he forms part of the Hindu triad of gods, with Brahma the creator and Śiva the destroyer. +
used several times in the sense of the Right View of Emptiness. +
the edible white water-lily, Nymphaea esculenta. +
Vedic god of the wind, guardian of the northwest quarter. +
the concentration in which Liberation or the Enlightenment of a Buddha is attained. Called 'destroyer of hostile forces' (''para-sainyapramardin'') since it eliminates the last obstructions +
