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The texts of Vajrayāna Buddhism, generally regarded as secret and difficult to understand without interpretation. +
A kind of spirit who causes mischief and brings harm. +
Advanced Vajrayāna practices for work with the subtle body: inner heat, illusory body, dream yoga, clear light, bardo practice, and powa. +
The "Perfection of Wisdom," the sixth perfection or pāramitā, (''see'' Six pāramitās), or the goddess associated with transcendent intelligence, the Great Mother, Yum Chenmo. It also refers to the Mahāyāna sutras and teachings expounding the doctrine of śūnyatā, the emptiness of phenomena. These include ''The Heart Sutra'', the ''Eight Thousand'', the ''Twenty-Five Thousand'', and the ''One Hundred Thousand Verse'' sutras, among others. +
A yidam deity traditionally associated with practices of longevity and good health. +
A demon associated with eclipses, and with one of the nine planets in Indo-Tibetan cosmology. Also regarded as a dharma protector. +
A type of malicious spirit, associated with hungry ghosts, which is said to influence the weather and send hailstorms. +
The portion of Buddhist scriptures concerned with detailed teachings on cosmology and psychology. +
Teachings that are especially pithy or explicit, often concerning the absolute nature. ''Red'' can mean exposed or naked or essential. +
Literally, "wheel of bliss," a male yidam and a cycle of tantras and practices associated with him, particularly associated with bliss. Cakrasaṁvara is very important in many schools of Vajrayāna Buddhism, especially the Kagyu school. +
Meditational deity or "chosen" deity. The second of the Three Roots, yidams are the central figures in the elaborate visualization practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism. These practices are done only with the blessing and guidance of a qualified lama. The yidam is called the root of accomplishment, as it is through doing these practices that realization is accomplished. +
Literally, "wheel," a central point in the body where psychophysical energy tends to concentrate and from which it is dispersed to the rest of the body. +
The life-force energy current, literally, "wind," the psychophysical energy present in the body which gives vitality and life, moving through the inner channels and cakras. +
A type of evil spirit symbolizing ego-clinging. An enchanter, sorcerer; bewitching demon, craving spirit; an evil spirit, a demon who causes disease. +
A spirit that dwells in a town, either temporarily or as the permanent spirit of that area. +
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. +
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. +
A type of ''sadak''. A spirit attached to a particular path of ground, taking that ground to be a self. +
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 particularly dreadful female demon, among the most feared of the spirits in Tibetan Buddhism. Mamos are associated with warfare and disease. +
