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Arhat;One who, through hinayana practices, has gone beyond emotional defilements to attain the lesser fruition of individual liberation, or "arhatship." +
Bodhgaya;From ''bodhi'', meaning "awakening," the actual place where the Buddha attained enlightenment and first taught. Also known as Vajrasana, "land of vajra," or "vajra mind," referring to buddha mind or a situation or place where, upon viewing vajra mind, one could realize one's inherent buddha nature. +
Ten unvirtuous actions;ten unvirtuous actions;The three unvirtuous actions of body (killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct);four of speech (lying, sowing discord, harsh speech, and idle chatter);and three of mind (covetousness, wishing harm on others, and wrong view). Their opposites are the ten virtuous actions. +
yi dam;yidam;yidam;The energetic or expressive aspect of enlightened mind in the form of a tutelary deity. In Tibetan Buddhism, the focus of one's formal practice might be one of hundreds of such deities. As tutelary deity, the yidam is a personal protector of one's practice and guide to enlightenment. +
spyan ras gzigs;Avalokiteshvara;Chenrezig;chenrezig;One of the deities in the Tibetan vajrayana teachings, known as the embodiment of compassion. +
Milarepa;milarepa;(1040-1123) Great yogi and poet of Tibetan Buddhism and the Karma Kagyu lineage. +
lhag mthong;Vipashyana Meditation;vipashyana meditation;From the ground of awareness stabilized by shamatha meditation, vipashyana (insight meditation) arises as the wisdom of discernment that recognizes the true nature of all inner and outer phenomena. +
'byor ba bcu;Ten endowments;ten endowments;jorwa chu;jorwa chu;The five individual and five circumstantial endowments of a precious human birth: (i) in a human body;(2) in a "central place";(3) with senses intact;(4) with right view;(5) with devotion, or irreversible confidence;(6) with the Buddha having been born in this kalpa;(7) with the Buddha having taught the Dharma;(8) in the presence of the Dharma;(9) among practitioners of the Dharma;and (10) with compassion in the hearts of the teachers. +
Three poisons;three poisons;Attachment, aggression, and ignorance, which arise from basic duality and the initial clinging to a self. +
dal 'byor bco brgyad.;Discursive thoughts;discursive thoughts;daljor choje;daljor choje;The basic qualities of a precious human existence, composed of the eight freedoms and ten endowments. +
Three kayas;three kayas;Three "bodies" of realization — dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, nirmanakaya — connected with mind, speech, and body of existence. Dharmakaya refers to the "body of reality," or fundamental essence;sambhogakaya to the "body of complete enjoyment," or nature of the essence;and nirmanakaya to the "emanated body," the action, or compassion, aspect of nature and essence together. The indivisibility of the three kayas is the ''svabhavikakaya'', also referred to as the "essence body." +
rnam rtog;Discursive thoughts;discursive thoughts;namtok;namtok +
Three realms;three realms;The form, formless, and desire realms are the three basic manifestations of samsara. Human beings are born into the desire realm, which expresses itself as the six realms of existence. +
gro ba;Sentient beings;sentient beings;drowa;drowa +
rgyud;Tantra(s);jud;jud;The vajrayana teachings given by the Buddha in his sambhogakaya form. Tantra, meaning "continuity," refers to the expression of innate buddha nature in tantric scriptures. Tantra can also refer to all the resultant teachings of vajrayana as a whole. +
Terdag Lingpa;terdag lingpa;(1646-1714) Also known as Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje, an incarnation of Vairochana and one of the greatest Nyingma lineage holders and discoverers of hidden teachings. He was a teacher/disciple of the fifth Dalai Lama and founder of Mindrolling Monastery in central Tibet. +
Stupa;A form of sacred architecture representing the pure presence of the Buddha and embodying essential principles of the body, speech, mind, qualities, and actions of enlightenment. +
dal brgyad;Eight freedoms;eight freedoms;dal-je;dal-je;The freedoms that make it possible to bring one's human existence to fruition. The first three refer to freedom from birth in the three lower realms. The fourth is freedom from birth in a barbarous place;the fifth, freedom from birth in the god realm;the sixth, freedom from wrong view;the seventh, freedom from birth in a place without a buddha;and the eighth, freedom from being born deaf and mute. +
bskal pa;kalpa;=kalpa;=kalpa;An eon lasting for thousands of years and made up of four stages: origination, continuation, gradual disintegration, and complete extinction. +
byang chub sems;Bodhichitta;jangchub sem;jangchub sem;"Awakened heart" or "enlightened mind." It relates to the mahayana principle of loving-kindness and genuine compassion, the generation of which cuts through selfishness and dispels the ignorance that grasps at individual liberation. +
