Property:Gloss-def
From Buddha-Nature
This is a property of type Text.
T
One of the various types of enhancement. +
Four stages; in dzogchen practice: manifest dharmata, increased experience, awareness reaching fullness, and exhaustion of concepts and phenomena. +
The short version of the Hevajra Tantra. +
The four kayas and five wisdoms. +
The sacred pledge, precepts, or commitment of vajrayana practice. Many details exists, but the samayas essentially consist of: outwardly, maintaining harmonious relationship with the vajra master and one's dharma friends and inwardly, not straying from the continuity of the practice. +
"Pacifying." one of the Eight Practice Lineages, brought to Tibet by Phadampa Sangye. +
"Thus-gone," a fully enlightened buddha. The buddhas who have gone (gata) to the state of dharmata or suchness (tatha). Synonym for sugata and Jma. +
The mountain in the center of the four continents. +
The great father of all the Kagyu lineages. For details see The Life of Milarepa and The Raill of Wisdom (both from Shambhala Publications). +
The first of the three kayas, which is devoid of constructs, like space. The nature of all phenomena designated as "body." Should be understood individually according to ground, path, and fruition. See also Three kayas. +
The "highest"; the realm of Vajradhara, the dharmakaya buddha. For a discussion of the various types of Akanishtha, see Gyurme Dorje's forthcoming translation of Longchen Rabjam's Phyogs bCu Mun Sel. +
Four stages in mahamudra practice: one-pointedness, simplicity, one taste, and nonmeditation. +
Similar to mundane dhyana. +
The aspect of mind which, taking the all-ground as reference, conceives the thought "I am"; one of the eight collections of consciousnesses. +
See Two accumulations. +
The lesser nirvana refers to the liberation from cyclic existence attained by a hinayana practitioner. When referring to a buddha, nirvana is the great nondwelling state of enlightenment, which falls neither into the extreme of samsaric existence nor into the passive state of cessation attained by an arhant. +
Same as complete enlightenment or buddhahood. +
Belief in a permanent and causeless creator of everything. In particular, the belief that one's identity or consciousness has a concrete essence which is independent, everlasting, and singular. +
The second of the five paths on which one grows closer to and joins with the realization of the truth of reality. +
The wisdom which is the unity of awareness and emptiness introduced through the fourth empowerment. +
