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Advanced Vajrayāna practices for work with the subtle body: inner heat, illusory body, dream yoga, clear light, bardo practice, and powa. +
States of mind that are experienced as or lead to confusion and suffering. The three root afflictive emotions are passion, aggression, and ignorance. +
The level of vowed moral conduct corresponding to Vajrayāna practice, primarily involving regarding one's teacher and all beings and phenomena as pure in nature. +
A type of demoness often found in company with the ''gyalpo'' class and together are the male and female spirits symbolizing desire and anger. +
A combined term for ''gyalpo'' and ''gongpo'' spirits. +
Literally, "sky-goers," female deities who, along with the protectors, clear away obstacles and help bring about wisdom. Also sometimes used for female practitioners of the Vajrayāna. They are known as the root of activity because through clearing away obstacles they create the conditions for practice and realization. They are divided into wisdom ḍākinīs, who are representations of enlightenment, and worldly ḍākinīs, who manifest in many ways. +
The portion of Buddhist scriptures concerned with detailed teachings on cosmology and psychology. +
''See'' Heavenly realm. +
The seven points of posture recommended for sitting meditation, involving proper positioning of the legs, spine, neck, head, arms, chin, and eyes. +
The fruitional teachings of the Kagyu and Gelugpa schools of Tibetan Buddhism. +
On the relative level, this is the wish to attain buddhahood for the sake of sentient beings, together with the practice necessary to accomplish this. On an absolute level, it is nondual wisdom, the ultimate nature of mind and the true status of phenomena. In certain tantric contexts, bodhicitta refers to the essential physical substance, a fluid found in the heart center, which is the support of mind. +
The indigenous shamanistic religion of Tibet, preceding the arrival of Buddhism. Bön has continued to thrive and integrate various Buddhist ideas while retaining its own separate identity. +
A powerful malevolent or hostile spirit or demon, the embodiment of obstacles on the path to liberation. +
A spirit or hungry ghost who consumes the potent essences of food and wealth. It personifies ultimate envy and miserliness and is usually exorcised during rituals to promote food and wealth. +
Spiritual powers are traditionally divided into supreme and common. Included in the common are magical powers such as telepathy, the ability to fly, clairvoyance, and so on. The supreme spiritual powers refer to the development of perfect wisdom, enlightenment itself. +
Empowerment is an important practice of Vajrayāna Buddhism in which students are symbolically invested with the ability to do particular practices by a qualified lama. The four empowerments are (1) the vase empowerment, the empowerment of body; (2) the secret empowerment, the empowerment of speech; (3) the wisdom empowerment, the empowerment of mind; and (4) the word empowerment, the nonconceptual empowerment. +
A type of ''sadak''. A spirit attached to a particular path of ground, taking that ground to be a self. +
Literally, "Great Illusion," an important tantric yidam deity. +
The second phase of yidam practice, in which one dissolves the visualization of oneself as the yidam deity and rests directly in the nature of mind. The yogic practices such as tummo are also counted as completion phase. +
Beings or spirits who act to protect a given place or person. Dharma protectors are beings that have been tamed by a great dharma teacher like Padmasaṁbhava and actually serve the best interests of the Dharma. +
