Property:Gloss-def
From Buddha-Nature
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Presence and absence of thought activity. +
The twelfth bhumi. +
The "realm of phenomena"; the suchness in which emptiness and dependent origination are inseparable. In this context "dharma" means the truth and "dhatu" means space free from center or periphery. Another explanation is "the nature of phenomena" beyond arising, dwelling, and ceasing. +
According to abhidharma, one of the eight consciousness. Its function is to discriminate and label things. +
One of the two aspects of vajrayana practice that is to create pure images mentally in order to purify habitual tendencies. See also Development and completion. +
Primordial ignorance perpetuated in the minds of sentient beings. +
The vajrayana system of taking the fruition as the path as opposed to the causal philosophical vehicles. See also Secret mantra. +
The capacities for performing miracles, divine sight, divine hearing, recollection of former lives, and cognition of the minds of others. +
A type of conduct for enhancement. +
The subtle obscuration of holding on to the concepts of subject, object, and action. +
One of the three aspects of the sugatagarbha: essence, nature, and expression. +
"Sugata-essence," the most common Sanskrit term for what in the West is known as "buddha nature." +
The four Buddhist schools of thought: Vaibhashika, Sautrantika, Chittamatra, and Madhyamaka. The former two are hinayana and the latter mahayana. +
Oral instructions received from an authentic master which, when practiced, liberate one's mind from delusion. +
The practice of a set of teachings which "carries" one to the level of fruition. +
A tantric scripture concealed by Guru Rinpoche and revealed by Rigdzin Godem, the master who revealed the Jangter tradition of the Nyingma school. Contains the renowned "Aspiration of Samantabhadra." Paramita Vehicle (phar phyin gyi theg pa) The sutra system of the gradual path through the five paths and ten bhumis according to the prajnaparamita scriptures. +
Described in The Flower Ornament Scripture, vol. 3 (Shambhala Publications, 1987). +
The vajrayana teachings given by the Buddha in his sambhogakaya form. Literally "continuity," tantra means the buddha nature, the tantra of the expressed meaning. Generally, the extraordinary tantric scriptures, which are exalted above the sutras, the tantra of the expressing words. Can also refer to all the resultant teachings that take the result as the path. +
Action free from accepting and rejecting. +
Absence of fixation on subject, object, and action. +
