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eight mental fabrications;eight mental fabrications;Not having the eight mental fabrications is to be without a beginning, without a cessation, without nihilism, without etemalism, without going, without coming, not being separate, and not being non-separate.  +
three marks of existence;three marks of existence;These are the characteristics of impermanent objects and mean an object has a beginning, it has a solid existence in the present, and it decays or disintegrates into smaller constituents in the future.  +
knowledge of variety;knowledge of variety;ji nye pa;ji nye pa;This is the transcendent knowledge of the variety of reality.  +
knowledge of how-it-is;knowledge of how-it-is;I'i ta ba;i'i ta ba;This is transcendent knowledge of the true nature of reality, not as it appears to individuals in saṃsāra.  +
upḍāya;tab;tab;The skillful means used by enlightened beings to present the dharma taking the person's capabilities and propensities into account.  +
cho chi khor lo;wheel of dharma;wheel of dharma;dharmacakra;The Buddha's teachings correspond to three levels: the hīnayāna, the mahāyāna and the vajrayāna with each set being one turning of the wheel of dharma.  +
mahāyāna;tek pa chert po;tek pa chert po;Literally means "great vehicle" and are the teachings of the second and third turning of the wheel of dharma that teach the path of a bodhisattva, compassion for all beings, and realization of emptiness.  +
bhūmi;sa;sa;The levels or stages a bodhisattva goes through to reach enlightenment. Also called the bodhisattva levels and usually described as consisting of ten levels in the sūtra tradition and 13 in the tantra tradition.  +
Kagyu;kagyu;One of the four major schools of Buddhism in Tibet headed by His Holiness Karmapa. The other three schools are the Nyingmapas, the Sākyas, and the Gelupas.  +
tog pa cho;dharma of realization;dharma of realization;The dharma teachings which have been derived from direct realization. These contrast with dharma of statements.  +
four fearlessnesses;four fearlessnesses;catvāravāiśāradya;mi jig pa  +
gsuṅ-rab-yan-lag-bcu-gñis;dvādaśānga-dharma-pravacana  +