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shes sgrib;Cognitive obscurations;cognitive obscurations;Dualistic thought processes that apprehend subject, object, and action as being truly existent and which thus act as obstructions to the mind's omniscience. +
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nges don;Ultimate meaning;ultimate meaning;Teachings which directly express the way things are from the point of view of realized beings. +
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ma dag pa'i sa bdun;Seven impure grounds;seven impure grounds;''See'' Ground. +
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rdo rje;Vajra;Diamond or vajra weapon, a symbol of indestructibility, also used to represent skillful means or compassion. The vajra or dorje is frequently employed in tantric rituals in conjunction with a bell (''dril bu''), which in turn symbolizes the wisdom of emptiness. +
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tshogs zhing;Field of merit;field of merit;A technical term referring to the Three Jewels, the guru, and so forth, considered as proper objects of reverence and offering, whereby the vast accumulation of merit is generated. +
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'phags pa'i lam gyi yan lag brgyad;Eightfold Noble Path;eightfold noble path;Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. These constitute the scheme of moral and spiritual disciplines leading to enlightenment expounded by the Buddha in the course of his teaching on the four noble truths at Sarnath. As such, they form the backbone of the fundamental practice of Buddhism. +
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yi dvags;Preta;Famished spirits, one of the six classes of beings in samsara. +
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mos spyod kyi sa;Aspirational practice;aspirational practice;All practice prior to the attainment of the path of seeing, in which ultimate reality is perceived directly, is regarded as being of the nature of aspiration or interest. +
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gling phran brgyad;Eight ancillary continents;eight ancillary continents;''See'' Four continents. +
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de gshegs snying po;Tathagatagarbha;''See'' Sugatagarbha. +
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ri rab;Mount Meru;mount meru;The name of an immense cosmic mountain, acting as the axis of the universe and around which are located the four continents. Every universal system has its Mount Meru and four continents. +
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khor lo sgyur ba'i rgyal po;Chakravartin;A universal monarch, the name given to a special kind of exalted being who has dominion over a greater or lesser part of the three-thousandfold universe. According to traditional cosmology, such beings appear only when the human life span surpasses eighty thousand years. By analogy, the word is also used as a title for a great king. +
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sde snod gsum;Three collections;three collections;Tripitaka;''See'' Tripitaka. +
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Buddhaghosha;A celebrated fourth-century master of the Theravada, contemporary of Asanga and Vasubandhu. He was the author of the ''Visuddhimagga'', a text greatly revered in Theravada Buddhism as the classic presentation of their tradition. +
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rdzogs pa chen po;Great Perfection;great perfection;mahasandhi;The ultimate view of the Nyingma school: the union of primordial purity (''ka dag'') and spontaneous presence (''lhun grub''), in other words, of voidness and awareness. ''See also'' Ati, Atiyoga. +
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so sor brtags pa'i 'gog pa;Cessation through analysis;cessation through analysis;The cessation of afflictive emotion brought about by an analytical understanding, or wisdom, that eliminates the conditions in which such affliction can occur. The cessation itself is a nirvana (the "small nirvana" of Arhats) and is regarded as an "uncompounded phenomenon." +
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yon tan 'od;Gunaprabha;A disciple of Vasubandhu and master and exponent of both the Hinayana and Mahayana teachings. He is celebrated as the great authority on the Vinaya and composed the famous ''Vinaya-sutra''. +
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yod pa;True existence;true existence;According to Buddhist teaching, true existence implies characteristics, such as indivisibility, immutability, and so on. +
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All-concealing truth;all-concealing truth;''See'' Relative truth. +
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shes rig gi skyes bu;Purusha;According to the Hindu Samkhya philosophy, the conscious Self, real and eternal, the counterpart of prakriti, the primal substance. ''See also'' Prakriti. +
