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Free from the darkness of unknowing and endowed with the ability to cognize. The two aspects are "empty luminosity," like a clear open sky, and "manifest luminosity," such as five-colored lights, images, and so forth. Luminosity is the uncompounded nature present throughout all of samsara and nirvana. +
See Means and knowledge. +
A meditation state characterized by attachment, especially to bliss, clarity, and non thought, and lacking insight into the emptiness of a self-entity. +
Tummo, illusory body, dream, luminosity, bardo, and phowa. See also Means and knowledge. +
Heat, summit, acceptance, and supreme attribute. For details see each individually. +
The abodes of beings who have cultivated the meditative states of the four dhyanas. +
People whose qualities of experience and realization increase and decrease without sequential order. +
Lord Gampopa's seat in Central Tibet. +
One who holds (dhara) or upholds the wisdom of knowledge (vidya)-mantra. An accomplished master of vajrayana. +
The obscurations that are not intrinsic to the sugatagarbha, like clouds are not inherent in the sky. +
is the eight collections of consciousness. +
The conferring of power or authorization to practice the vajrayana teachings, the indispensable entrance door to tantric practice. +
The seventh of the ten bhumis. +
"Hearer" or "listener," the practitioners of the first turning of the wheel of the dharma on the four noble truths. +
The "Ever-Weeping" bodhisattva of a past aeon used as an example for unwavering devotion and perseverance. He is mentioned in the prajnaparamita scriptures. +
Synonymous with vajrayana. See also Guhyamantra. +
"Transcendent knowledge," the mahayana teachings on insight into emptiness, transcending the fixation of subject, object, and action. +
Emancipation from samsaric existence. +
Mindfulness of the body, sensations, mind, and phenomena. Their essence being discriminating knowledge concurrent with mindfulness, they are chiefly practiced on the lesser stage of the path of accumulation. +
