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bag chags;བག་ཆགས་;vāsanā;bag-chhag;bag-chhag;habitual patterns;patterns established by physical, verbal or mental actions carrying over from lifetime to lifetime [habitual tendencies (cs);unconscious propensities (GL);ingrained tendencies, sedimented (KB);instinct (MW);habitual propensities (NJ);karmic traces (SL)] +
atiyoga;ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག་;the sixth of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school, also known as the Great Perfection approach (''see'' Dzogchen), within which are subsumed the meanings of the eight lower approaches (''see t'heg-pa rim-pa gu''). The great perfection is the nature of reality—the ground of being and its manifest aspect—spontaneously present and self-arising [yoga of the innermost essence (MW)] +
mtshan ma med pa;མཚན་མ་མེད་པ་;tsan-ma med-pa;tsan-ma med-pa;literally, "absence of ultimate defining characteristics";one of the three "doorways to liberation" (''see t'har-pai go'');refers to the fact that buddha nature is free of characterization, comparison or demonstration [absence of characteristics (NJ, PC);attributelessness (NS);signlessness (HTV)] +
las kyi rlung;ལས་ཀྱི་རླུང་;lay-kyi lung;lay-kyi lung;subtle energy of karma, resulting in discursive thought patterns +
man ngag sde;མན་ངག་སྡེ་;man-ngag-dhe;man-ngag-dhe;the category of direct transmission instructions;the third of three categories of teachings in atiyoga, or Great Perfection +
so sor rtogs pa'i ye shes;སོ་སོར་རྟོགས་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་;so-sor tog-pai ye-shey;so-sor tog-pai ye-shey;discriminating pristine awareness;one of the five aspects of pristine awareness (''see ye-shey nga'');the unceasing avenue for the expression of the lucidity of mind that knows the inherent nature of things and perceives them in their variety [discriminative primordial wisdom (BM);All-encompassing Investigating Awareness (MK);pristine wisdom of discernment (MW);discerning timeless awareness (PPTC);discriminating awareness-wisdom (RW);discerning wisdom (SGK);discriminating wisdom (WPT)] +
thabs;ཐབས་;upāya;t'hab;t'hab;skillful means as the element in spiritual development that corresponds to the level of relative reality, associated with the gaining of merit +
ting nge 'dzin;ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་;meditative absorption;meditative absorption;samadhi;meditation in which the mind rests naturally [contemplation (BM, MW, PE, SL);meditative concentration (DZP, VH);meditative stabilization (ME, NJ, PC)] +
sa ra ha;ས་ར་ཧ་;Saraha;saraha;a great vajrayana master and siddha of Indian Buddhism;Dudjom Lingpa was an emanation of Saraha +
snang ba;སྣང་བ་;apparent phenomena;apparent phenomena;nang-wa;nang-wa;manifestation [appearances (cs, NJ, PC);display (cs);coming-into-presence (FRC);thereness, (self-)presentation, reflective-thematic (KB);how things appear, presence (PE);sensory appearances (PT);perceptions (WPT)] +
theg pa rim pa dgu;ཐེག་པ་རིམ་པ་དགུ་;t'heg-pa rim-pa gu;t'heg-pa rim-pa gu;the schema of nine yanas, or spiritual approaches, elaborated in the teachings of the Nyingma school;the three paths of the shravaka, pratyekabuddha and bodhisattva, and the six levels of tantra—kriyatantra, upatantra, yogatantra, mahayoga, anuyoga and atiyoga;the eight lower approaches are subsumed within the ninth yana of atiyoga, or Great Perfection +
bdud;བདུད་;māra;mara,dud;mara,dud;forces that bind one to cyclic existence and obstruct the pursuit of virtue;four are usually enumerated—afflictive emotions, the mind-body aggregates, mortality and fascination with positive meditative experiences that impedes progress on the path to enlightenment +
ji lta ba mkhyen pa'i ye shes;ཇི་ལྟ་བ་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་;pristine awareness of the true nature of reality;pristine awareness of the true nature of reality;ji-ta-wa khyen-pai ye-shey;ji-ta-wa khyen-pai ye-shey +
bdag med rtogs pa'i shes rab;བདག་མེད་རྟོགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་;dag-med-tog-pa'i shey-rab;dag-med-tog-pa'i shey-rab;transcendent knowledge that constitutes realization of the ultimate nonexistence of both the self of the individual personality and the self-nature of phenomena +
thar pa'i sgo;ཐར་པའི་སྒོ་;t'har-pai go;t'har-pai go;literally, "doorway or gateway to liberation";factors that allow for the possibility of liberation from the cycle of unawakened existence (''see mon-pa med-pa, tong-pa-nyid'' and ''tsan-ma med-pa'') +
don dam;དོན་དམ་;don-dam;don-dam;ultimate reality;the final mode of being as "meaningful" (''don''), which is "sacred" (''dam'') in that it is the foremost of what is to be realized +
gti mug;གཏི་མུག་;ignorance;ignorance;ti-mug;ti-mug;one of the five basic emotional "poisons" that obscure the nature of mind +
chos nyid;ཆོས་ཉིད་;dharmatā;dharmata;dharmata;the true nature of phenomena or reality [ultimate nature (BM);the nature of phenomena and mind (FG);meaningfulness (KB);ultimate content of what is (PE);uncontrived essential nature (ws)] +
thig le;ཐིག་ལེ་;sphere (of being);sphere (of being);bindu;implies "beyond all the angles and corners of concepts" [sphere, circle (cs);creative essence (DZP);essence (WPT)] +
ye shes;ཡེ་ཤེས་;pristine awareness;pristine awareness;jñāna;ye-shey;ye-shey;awareness (''shey'') that is atemporal and pristine (''ye''), having always been the true nondual nature of mind [primordial wisdom (BM, NJ, PC);wisdom (DZP, RW);existential awareness (FRC);pristine cognition (KB);ever fresh awareness (PE);timeless awareness (PT);primal wisdom (SL, WPT);wakefulness (VH)] +
