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First step of three: understanding, experience, and realization. +
One of the "three realms," the seventeen samsaric heavenly abodes consisting of the threefold four dhyana realms and the five pure abodes. The beings there have bodies of light, long lives, and no painful sensations. +
One of the "three gates of emancipation." +
See Four yogas of mahamudra. +
The enlightened essence of one's own mind. +
The three aspects of the sugatagarbha according to the dzogchen system. +
The second stage in the practice of mahamudra. +
The fourth of the four aspects of ascertainment on the path of joining. The highest spiritual attainment within samsaric existence. +
Compared to vajrayana, the lower are the vehicles of shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas. +
The shurangama samadhi described in the Shurangama Sutra. +
The Mind-Only school of mahayana, asserting the view that all phenomena are "only" the appearances of "mind." +
See Eighty inherent thought states. +
Although there were no new or old schools in India, these names refer to the early and later spread of the teachings in Tibet. Translations up to and including King Triral are called the Old School of Early Translations (snga 'gyur snying rna), and later ones are known as the New Schools of Later Translations (phyi 'gyur gsar rna). The Old School is the Nyingma tradition. Lochen Rinchen Sang po (10 chen rin chen bzang po) is regarded as the first translator of the New Mantra School. The New Schools are the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gclug. +
Also called the "precious word empowerment" (tshig dbang rin po che), the purpose of which is to point out the nature of mind. +
The seven qualities of a sambhogakaya buddha: complete enjoyment, union, great bliss, absence of a self-nature, presence of compassion, being uninterrupted, and being unceasing. +
An illness caused by prana getting stuck in the heart center due to various strenuous circumstances. +
The tenth of the ten bodhisattva levels. +
Cutting through the stream of the thoughts of the three times. See also Trekch6. +
The aspects of phenomena as set forth by the Chittamatra and Yogachara schools; the imagined, the dependent, and the absolute. The imagined (kun brtags) is the two kinds of selfentity. +
The fifth of the ten bhumis. +
