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the states in which there is no opportunity to practise the Dharma, namely being born in hell, as an animal, as a ''preta'', among the long-lived gods, or in a barbaric country where there are no Buddhist monastics or lay followers; being dull-witted, deaf and dumb; being addicted to perverse views such as disbelief in rebirth or Liberation; and when no Buddha has appeared and taught the Dharma. +
the tree ''Jonesia asoka'', with magnificent red flowers. Lit. 'sorrowless' +
the Southern Continent of Indian mythical geography, often identified with the Indian subcontinent; but from the point of view of the characteristics of its human inhabitants, all this Earth is classed as Jambudvīpa. I have usually translated it as 'India' or 'our world' according to the context. +
Emptiness, Signlessness, Wishlessness +
epithet of the Buddha Śākya-muni ('the Sage of the Śākyas'). +
direct intuitive apprehension of Ultimate Truth, i.e. of Emptiness; the sixth Perfection. The Path combines W. and Method; Tantric symbolism centres on the union of the two, W. being the female aspect and Method, or Means, the male. The wisdoms of listening, thinking and meditation are steps towards this W. 3. In verse, 'Wisdom' is sometimes short for 'Wisdom-knowledge'. +
Offspring of the Buddhas or Conquerors: Bodhisattvas +
lit. 'tint, colour': a mode in Indian classical music +
the three Objects of Refuge — Buddha, Dharma and Saṅgha +
a kind of ''preta'' +
Ultimate Nature, lack of true existence. +
a series of seven groups of qualities — thirty-seven in all — to be practised at successive stages of the Path. See Mppś III, chap. XXXI. +
a canonical scripture of the esoteric class; the whole set of practices taught in such scriptures and their commentaries, involving identification of oneself with a fully Enlightened deity, the Vajrayāna; a subset of such Tantric teachings, centred on a particular deity (e.g. 'the T. of Heruka') or of a particular level (''Kriyā-tantra, Caryātantra, Yoga-tantra, Anuttara-yoga-tantra''). +
divine energy or power, personified as female in Hindu Tantra. The term is never used for female deities in Buddhist Tantra, and would for most of them be inappropriate, though Tārā might be an exception. +
'Measureless Light', n. of a Buddha, Lord of the Lotus Family and of the Sukhāvatī Pure Land. Usually red in colour +
'Lord', Hindu non-sectarian term for 'God', but sometimes treated as synonymous with Śiva +
the three Deliverances, or Doors of Deliverance +
Enlightened or Awakened One, Who has completely abandoned all obscurations and perfected every good quality. +
