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'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 +
any beings who have not yet attained Buddhahood. +
'praise', n. of a Skt verse metre +
the essential dependence of things on each other, whereby they are empty of independent self-existence; causality, expressed in a formula of twelve links +
rite for summoning or controlling another person. +
one who has attained ''Nirvāṇa''. Pali ''Arahant'' +
ruler of the gods of the lower heavens of the Desire Realm, who dwells in the immense Vaijayanta palace on the summit of Mount Meru. Sometimes referred to as Indra. +
first of the four Sublime Mothers (''yum (mchog)''), the female aspects of the ''Tathāgatas'' of the Five Families. +
the second Perfection. +
'free of elaboration', i.e. devoid of conventional objects, which are mere mental projections. +
