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sentient beings, wandering continually from one samsaric existence to another. +
a teacher, in certain instructional or ritual functions such as advising a translator or giving ordination (see also Preceptor). +
'knowledge-bearer, mantra-bearer', a kind of supernatural being, possessed of magical power; usually depicted flying in the air in beautiful human form, sometimes with the lower half of the body bird-like. Fem. ''vidyā-dharī''. +
1. dharmas are elementary constituent events into which the world is broken down, what we see as the Person or Self being no more than a collection of dharmas, without ultimate reality. In the higher schools of Buddhist philosophy it is shown that ''dharmas'' themselves have no ultimate existence: their Suchness, or true nature, is to be Empty (or pure) of true existence. 2. The Dharma that is one of the Three Jewels of Refuge (Buddha, Dharma and Saṅgha) is the realizations and abandonments in the mind of a Buddha. 3. 'The Dharma' frequently means the Doctrine of the Buddha, Truth, what is right. +
'a kind of evil spirit, often associated with ''vetālas' '' +
vowed discipline common to followers of all three Vehicles. It is of eight types: (a) the eight fasting vows, taken for one day only; (b, c) the five vows of laymen and laywomen; (d, e) the vows of male and female novices; (f) additional vows taken by probationer nuns as a step towards becoming full nuns; (g) the discipline of the full nun (''bhikṣunī''); (h) that of the full monk (''bhikṣu''). +
rebirth as a god or human being +
a grade of Tantric adept +
a title of female Buddhas. +
a Buddhist layman, bound by the five vows (to avoid killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, intoxicating liquor and lying). Fem. upāsikā. +
'basket' of the scriptures (see ''Piṭaka'') concerned with monastic discipline, the rules for the behaviour of monks and nuns and the conduct of their communal business. +
'Roarer, Howler': Vedic god of tempests, who later became known by the euphemistic title of Śiva, 'benevolent, auspicious'. +
e.g. disbelief in rebirth and the laws of actions and results. +
n. of a Buddha, Lord of the Jewel Family. +
a fully-ordained Buddhist monk, observing 253 rules (or thereabouts) +
first of the two Stages of ''Anuttara-yoga-tantra'' +
a mind apprehending an independently existent self-nature of a person or of ''dharmas''; the misconception of a truly-existing self. +
a sentient being can be regarded as made up of eighteen e., three for each sense — visual object e., visual faculty e., visual consciousness e., etc. ... mental object e., mental faculty e., mental consciousness e. +
the flower ''Pentapetes phoenicia'' +
