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Often translated as "teacher" or "guru." The lama corresponds to the Buddha among Three Roots of Vajrayāna practice. Because lamas can work directly with the mind of the student, they are said to be the most important being for the student's development. Thus they are called the root of blessings. +
The Buddhist scriptures on monastic discipline and moral conduct and the code of conduct they teach. +
Guardians of power spots or sacred places. +
An important Vajrayāna practice common to all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, in which one requests and symbolically receives the blessings of one's root lama. +
The third vehicle of Tibetan Buddhism, sometimes also called the path of skillful means. The Vajrayāna path, associated with the tantras, involves doing special practices, including deity visualization practice, as the means to speedily attain enlightenment. Also called Secret Mantra or Mantrayāna or Tantrayāna. +
The structures of the subtle body, emanating out from the cakras and through which ''prāṇa'', or life-force energy, flows. The central channel, which directly connects the cakras, is of particular importance. It is said that realization occurs when the prāṇa enters the central channel, and hence it is the object of yogic practice. +
The great bodhisattva and yidam deity associated with perfect wisdom. He carries a flaming sword, which cuts through ignorance, and a text signifying learning. +
"Treasure-lord harm-bringer," class of spirits who guard treasure or wealth and can be treacherous. ''See'' Nöchin. +
A tantra and associated deity that became one of the major practice lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. It is known for its unique system of cosmology and association with the hidden realm of Śambhala and its lineage of kings. +
In the Buddhist cosmological systems, there are several ways of dividing the universe. The three realms are the desire realm, the form realm, and the formless realm. Within the desire realm, a further categorization is made into six realms: the hell realms, the hungry ghost realms, the animal realm, the human realm, the demigod realm, and the god realms. +
An indigenous spirit associated with fire and destruction. +
Literally, "Great Completion," the fruitional teachings of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. +
The constituent parts of a sentient being: form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. Sometimes the word ''aggregate'' is used to refer to the entire body. +
Also called the ten ''bhūmis'' or ten grounds. The ten levels of advanced realization of one following the path of a bodhisattva. +
In Mahāyāna Buddhism the path is described in terms of a gradual journey consisting of the five paths of Accumulation, Application, Seeing, Meditation, and No More Learning. +
''See'' Tripiṭaka. +
Something like a theologian; literally, "A virtuous spiritual friend ." Most often the term refers to monks who have earned a degree after many years of religious studies. +
A type of malicious spirit, associated with hungry ghosts, which is said to influence the weather and send hailstorms. +
Literally, "kings," gyalpos are spirits that impersonate leaders, bring illness, and supposedly cause insanity. +
The state of confusion experienced as reality by ordinary beings in which afflictive emotions and karma create states of suffering that are experienced as the existences of the hell realm, hungry ghost realm, animal realm, human realm, demigod realm, and god realms. +
