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Acacia catechu, a tree with very hard wood used for the points of ploughshares, the axle-pins of chariots, amulets, etc. Its resin is used medicinally. +
a Tibetan-style book, made of long strips of paper, unbound, in imitation of the Indian palm-leaf manuscripts. +
state of existence into which beings are born under the influence of their karma and defilements. The six destinies comprise three ill destinies, or bad migrations (''dur-gati, ngari 'gro or ngan song'') — hell-beings, ''pretas'' and animals — and three good destinies (''sugati, bde 'gro'') — gods, asuras and human beings. When five are spoken of, the gods and ''asuras'' are counted together +
the perfect, absolute, heavenly, divine wisdom, which will suddenly break forth from the bodies of terrifying gods in the shape of fire' (Jäschke), the transcendant knowledge of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas beyond the Seventh Stage; the tenth Perfection. Five W.-k.: see ''Kleśa''. +
a gesture of threat, pointing the forefinger. +
a member of the military or governing caste +
world-age, cosmic cycle +
perhaps 'flashing or shining one' (MW): Brahmanical god of the wind, and the numerous Vedic storm-gods. +
'one who goes in the air', deity, ''ḍākinī''; also conceivably Kha-sarpaṇa, a form of Avalokiteśvara. +
professor of Tantric studies. +
one of the three poisons +
the intermediate state between death and the next rebirth +
'knowledge-woman, mantra-woman', a yogin's consort in Tantric sexual practices. +
the accumulations of merits and of Wisdom-knowledge that one must gather by practising the Perfections so as to achieve Enlightenment +
a class of semidivine beings, generally beneficent but sometimes malignant so that it is well to propitiate them with offerings. Many are local divinities of the countryside, often dwelling in sacred trees and guarding the treasure buried nearby. Others live on Mount Meru, guarding the realm of the gods. They are ruled by ĸubera, the god of wealth and guardian of the northern quarter. +
second of the Two Stages of Anuttara-yoga-tantra +
The early lamas of the Kadam lineage, founded by the Indian master Atisha, after he arrived in Tibet in 1042. ''See also'' Gelug. +
An Indian siddha and first human progenitor of the Dzogchen teachings of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. +
