Property:Gloss-def
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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. +
lit. 'seal, token'. 1. A symbolic hand gesture, endowed with power not unlike a mantra. 2. A tantric consort. +
the trainings relating to Morality, to Concentration, and to Wisdom. +
fluid that exudes from bumps on the temples of a male elephant when he is in rut. +
see Defilement. The five ''kleśa'' and their relation to the Buddhas of the Five Families and their Wisdom-knowledges are given in ''Hevajra-tantra'' II.ii.52—59 and II.iv.101 and its commentaries as follows. Hatred when purified is Akṣobhya and his ''Dharmadhātu'' Wisdom-knowledge; delusion, Vairocana and the Mirror Wisdom knowledge; avarice, Ratnasaṃbhava and the Wisdom knowledge of Equality; greed, Amitābha and the Discriminating Wisdom-knowledge; and envy, Amoghasiddhi and the Wisdom-knowledge of Doing What Is to be Done. +
a realm inhabited entirely by ''Ārya'' Bodhisattvas, where Buddhas teach in ''Saṃbhoga-kaya'' form. +
a follower of Viṣṇu. +
'the Friendly', n. of a Bodhisattva now residing in Tuṣita, who is to appear on Earth as the next Universal Buddha. +
hand gesture similar to Boon-granting but with the hand the other way up, i.e. palm outward, fingers extended parallel pointing upwards +
a title of male Buddhas +
