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the followers of Sammita. This Hinayana group (of which no original writings have survived) seems to have been large and, to judge by the Tibetan name ("honored by many"), prestigious. It is divided into three subgroups or lineages: (1) Kaurukullaka (''sa sgron ril gnas pa'i sde''); (2) Avantava (''rung ba pa'i sde''); and (3) Vatsiputriya (''gnas ma bu ba'i sde''). +
See Affirming negative. +
A technical term in Buddhist logic, used to refer to objects of the conceptual mental consciousness that identifies and names things. It refers to sense objects as apprehended by this consciousness, but also to objects wrongly assumed to exist (e.g., the self). +
This term has a very wide range of meanings. In general, it refers to all the "elements" that the mind can consider or investigate-from the senses and their objects to the postmeditation experience of a Bodhisattva residing on the grounds of realization. +
The teachings of the ultimate or definitive meaning expound the ultimate truth, or emptiness, in direct terms. They are contrasted with the teachings of expedient meaning. +
These are the five psychophysical constituents of the individual person: form, feelings, perceptions, conditioning factors, and consciousness. +
Concrete individual phenomena characterized by impermanence and ability to function. See also Generally characterized phenomena. +
Name of an ancient Indian philosophical school professing materialistic nihilism. The Charvakas denied causality, the law of karma, and the existence of past and future lives. +
A system of thirty-seven factors practiced on the paths of accumulation, joining, seeing, and meditation, by means of which progress is made toward enlightenment. +
(1357-1419). Also known as Lozang Drakpa and, more honorifically, as Je Rinpoche. A major scholar and master of the Tibetan tradition, considered to be an emanation of the Bodhisattva Mañjushri. He was the founder of the Gelug school. +
See Kaya. +
(c.1870-c.1940). A greatly respected Nyingma master in eastern Tibet, also known as Khenpo Kunpel. He was a disciple of both Patrul Rinpoche and Mipham Rinpoche. He wrote a commentary on the latter's ''Beacon of Certainty (nges shes sgron me)'' and on Shantideva's ''Bodhicharyavatara'' in which he closely follows the interpretation of Mipham Rinpoche. He founded the ''shedra'', or college of higher studies, at Kathok monastery. +
This is reasoning that investigates the absolute or ultimate status of phenomena, employing the four or five Madhyamika arguments. +
Name of two distinct Hindu tenet systems based on the exegesis of the Vedic texts. +
Innate and conceptual apprehension of an inherently existent I, ego. It is a mere assumption of what does not in fact exist. +
The perception of an object as separate from the perceiver. Despite the fact that they realize emptiness on attaining the path of seeing, Bodhisattvas traversing the path of meditation continue to experience, when not absorbed in meditative equipoise, the percept and the perceiving mind as two separate entities. This is the residue of dualistic habit and continues until full enlightenment even though, by virtue of their realization, the Bodhisattvas in question have long abandoned any belief in the reality of this appearance. +
These are innumerable mental factors or events concomitant with the consciousness (the main mind), which can be gathered, according to Asanga, in fifty-one principal ones. These are again subdivided into six groups: (1) five omnipresent factors; (2) five object-ascertaining factors; (3) eleven wholesome factors; (4) six root defilements; (5) twenty lesser defilements; and (6) four variable factors. +
Longchen Rabjam (1308-1363) is regarded as the greatest genius of the Nyingma tradition, an incomparable master and author of over two hundred and fifty treatises. Longchenpa's wide-ranging commentaries cover the whole field of Sutra and Mantra, in particular the teachings of the Great Perfection, but also such topics as history and literature. +
A master of the Chittamatra tradition and disciple of Dignaga, whom he followed as the abbot of Nalanda. He was a brilliant scholar and logician and was one of the teachers of Dharmakirti. He composed commentaries on the works ofVasubandhu and also on Aryadeva's ''Four Hundred'', which have been preserved in Chinese translation. +
(1880-1925). A nephew and disciple ofJamyang Khyentse Wangpo (in the transmission of whose teachings he was instrumental) and a disciple of Mipham Rinpoche. +
