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Pure awareness, spontaneously present in the minds of beings from beginningless time. +
A Himalayan region corresponding more or less to modern Bhutan with the addition of certain contiguous regions in Tibet itself. +
See threefold concentration +
A central Asian race, probably the Uighurs, a nomadic people of Turkoman stock. +
lit. Accomplishment of Purpose. The Buddha of the Activity Family, corresponding to all-accomplishing wisdom, which is the pure nature of the aggregate of conditioning factors and the affliction of jealousy. It is associated with the enlightened activity of forceful subjugation. +
The innermost teachings of the pith-instruction section of Dzogpa Chenpo, or Great Perfection. OATH-BOUND. See dharmapala ODDIYANA. See Orgyen +
Lit., a ritual gesture, sign, seal. There arc four types of mudra, which have numerous levels of meaning according to the context. +
There are six kinds of clairvoyance or preternatural knowledge: for example, the knowledge of one's own and others' past existences. The sixth one is the knowledge of the exhaustion of karma and defilement. This is enjoyed by the Buddhas alone. +
The wheel or round of existence; the state of being unenlightened, in which the mind, enslaved by the three poisons of Desire, Anger, and Ignorance, moves uncontrolled from one state to another, passing through an endless stream of psychophysical experiences, all of which are characterized by suffering. See world of desire and six realms of samsara +
A mountainside above Samye monastery and the location of many cave hermitages. +
In this text, this term refers not to regions of modern geography, but to the regions located around the vast universal mountain that, according the Buddhist cosmology, forms the central axis of one universal world system. +
The most important practice in tantric Buddhism, consisting of the visualization of the Guru, prayers and requests for blessing, the reception of these blessings, and the merging of the mind with the Guru's enlightened wisdom mind. HAYAGRIVA, Skt. (rta mgrin, Tib.). Wrathful yidam of the Lotus Family. HEARER (nyan thos, Tib.). See Shravaka +
Progressive stages in the generation stage of tantric practice, in the course of which yogis gradually identify themselves with the deity through visualization and the recitation of mantra. +
According to the teachings of the Nyingma school, the teachings of the Buddha are classified into nine sections or vehicles. These are the three vehicles of sutric teachings, Shrava-kayana, Pratyekabuddhayana, and Bodhisattvayana; the three outer tantric vehicles of Kriya, Upa, and Yoga; and the three inner tantric vehicles of Maha, Anu, and Ati. The six vehicles refer to the three sutric vehicles and to the three outer tantras. +
The rainbow body, synonymous with the diamond body (rdo rje sku), is the name given to the attainment of Buddha-hood according to the practices of the Great Perfection of the Nyingma school. There are three kinds of rainbow body: the rainbow body so called (ja I us), the radiant body ('od sku), and the rainbow body of great transfer-ence (ja Ins 'pho ba chen po). The first is attained through the practice of Trekcho. When someone accomplished in this practice dies, his or her body will be seen to emit rainbow light and diminish (often very considerably) in size. After about a week, if left undisturbed, the body will disappear completely, leaving behind only hair and finger- and toenails. Yogis have demonstrated this attainment well into modern times, indeed the present day. The Radiant Body is accomplished through a Dzogchen practice called thogal, and at death the body is transformed directly into light, leaving behind no remainder whatever. In the case of the rainbow body of great transference (ja Itis \pho ba chen po), the accomplished practitioner trans-forms his physical body into an indestructible form composed of rainbow light and continues to live for centuries, remaining visible for as much this is of benefit for sentient beings. When there is no further purpose for such a manifestation, the practitioner dissolves his or her body into a radiant body and merges into the Primordial Ground. +
Demigods, one of six classes of beings in samsara. +
The ancient tradition. The first and mother school of Tibetan Buddhism, so called in contrast with the subsequent schools founded at a later date. +
The focus or object of a practitioner's devotion, offerings, and prayers, whereby merit and wisdom are accumu-lated on the path towards enlightenment. +
Diamond Vehicle. Corpus of teach-ings and practices based on the tantras, scriptures that discourse upon the primordial purity of the mind. It is the vehicle of result, as opposed to the causal vehicle of Shravakas and Bodhisattvas. Synonym of Matitrayatia. +
