ma rig pa gnyis;མ་རིག་པ་གཉིས་;two types of ignorance;two types of ignorance;Fundamental ignorance (rtsa ba'i ma rig pa) and compelled ignorance (kun nas bslang pa'i ma rig pa). +
de ma thag rkyen;དེ་མ་ཐག་རྐྱེན་;immediate condition;immediate condition;samanantarapratyaya;That which primarily produces mere clear and aware consciousness. See Mind and Its World II Sourcebook 2007, 32–33. +
thun;ཐུན་;period;period;prahara,prahāra;There are eight three-hour periods in a day. Also translated as "session," or "watch." See Kongtrul 2012, 352. +
sems yid rnam shes;སེམས་ཡིད་རྣམ་ཤེས་;mind,mentation,consciousness;mind,mentation,consciousness;chitta manas vijñāna;Vasubandhu, in his Treasury of Abhidharma (chapter 2, verse 34ab;C.T. 79:11), states "Mind, mentation, and consciousness are equivalent." See Pruden 1988–90, 205. Asaṅga's Compendium of Abhidharma (chapter 1;C.T. 76:137) defines mind as the ālaya consciousness, mentation as afflictive mentation, and consciousness as the six sense consciousnesses. See Boin-Webb 2001, 21–22. The Compendium of the Mahāyāna (chapter 1, section 13;C.T. 76:11) states: "Some consider mind, mentation, and consciousness to be equivalents;that it is [just] the words that are discrete. This is not feasible because it has been observed that mentation and consciousness are discrete referents. Therefore, mind is also a discrete referent." See Keenan 1992, 19. +
'das ma 'das kyi lam;འདས་མ་འདས་ཀྱི་ལམ་;paths,worldly and transcendent;paths,worldly and transcendent;The worldly paths are the paths of accumulation and preparation. The transcendent paths are the paths of seeing, meditation, and beyond training. +
rjes thob;རྗེས་ཐོབ་;subsequent state of attainment;subsequent state of attainment;pṛiṣhṭhalabdha;The period following meditative equipoise. Although often translated as "postmeditation," it refers to the level of realization of emptiness that is attained when emerging from meditative equipoise. Bodhisattvas then apply this realization to seeing the illusion-like nature of all appearances and experiences while they cultivate the six pāramitās. A synonym for the subsequent state of attainment is "the samādhi in which [appearances are seen to be] illusion-like" (sgyu ma lta bu'i ting nge 'dzin). +
rngul 'du;རྔུལ་འདུ་;"sweat gatherers";"sweat gatherers";Dak Rampa (170) identifies this channel as one that is explained in the medical texts. See Parfionovitch, Dorje, and Meyer 1992, paintings 9, 12, and 47, and 189, 195, and 265. +