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Literally "cutting." A system of practices based on prajnaparamita and set down by Machik Labdron for the purpose of cutting through the four maras and ego-clinging. One of the Eight Practice Lineages of Buddhism in Tibet. +
"Mother luminosity" is the buddha nature inherent in all beings. "Child luminosity" Is the recognition of that which one's teacher points out. +
Experience structured as perceiver and object perceived. +
The "body of perfect enjoyment." Of the five kayas of fruition, this is the semimanifest form of the buddhas endowed with the five perfections of perfect teacher, retinue, place, teaching, and time, which is perceptible only to bodhisattvas on the ten bhumis. See also Three kayas. +
"Form body," a collective term for both sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya. +
Exemplified by the dream experience, this term is sometimes translated as "one's own projection" or "self-display." Personal Manifestation (rang snang) Synonymous with personal experience. +
The dharmakaya aspect of one's own mind. +
The teachings received from the dharmakaya buddha Vajradhara by the Indian siddha Tilopa, Saraha, and others. Transmitted by Naropa and Maitripa to the Tibetan translator Marpa, the lineage was gradually passed on to Milarepa, Gampopa, Karmapa, and others. The main emphasis is on the path of means, which is the Six Yogas of Naropa, and the path of liberation, which is the mahamudra instructions of Maitripa. In addition to these teachings, Gampopa also received the Kadampa teachings on mind training brought to Tibet by Lord Atisha, which he fused into one system now renowned as the Dakpo Kagyu. It is from the chief disciples of Lord Gampopa that the four great and eight lesser lineages trace their sources. For more details, read Rain oj Wisdom and The Life oj Marpa the Translator (both from Shambhala Publications). +
See Four formless realms. +
See Nadi, prana, and bindu. +
Generally, buddha hood is attained by uniting the two aspects of means and knowledge, in mahayana compassion and emptiness, and in vajrayana the stages of development and completion. According to the Kagyu schools in particular, these two aspects are the "path of means," referring to the six doctrines and the "path of liberation," referring to the actual practice of mahamudra. +
The skandhas, elements, and so forth of the world and beings are, in their pure aspects, the five male and female buddhas. +
The third of the ten bhumis. +
The path of mahamudra practice. +
The winds circulating within the human body, which have the nature of the five elements: the life-upholding, the downward-clearing, the upward-moving, the equally-abiding, and the pervading wind. +
The ten bodhisattva levels or stages: the joyous, the stainless, the radiant, the brilliant, the hard to conquer, the realized, the reaching far, the unshakable, the good intelligence, and the cloud of dharma. These ten stages are included in the last three of the five paths. +
One of the four domains in the realm of form, the causes of which are produced through a meditation state of the same name. +
Individual continuity of cognition. +
The four dhyanas, the four formless states, and the shravaka's samadhi of peace. +
The sixth of the ten bhumis. +
