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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. +
Intrinsic nondual awareness. +
Spirits that are the local guardians of a country or general area, such as Tibet or Bhutan. +
The main yidam of the Kagyu lineage. She appears as a red ḍākinī in the charnel ground, wielding a hooked knife and wearing a garland of fresh human heads. She has a human head and a sow's head. Also called Vārahī or Vajrayoginī. +
Literally "action," karma is the action and reaction of causes and conditions, both physical and psychological, in creating new situations. Karma is said to be meritorious (beneficial) or negative (detrimental). +
An Indian teacher from the city of Kapilavastu, one of the teachers of Dampa Sangye. +
A central concept of all schools of Buddhism, the teaching that all things arise on the basis of causes and conditions. The twelve links of interdependent origination, also known as the twelve ''nidānas'' (Skt.), are a particular pedagogical tool for seeing the forces of karma in action in creating future rebirth. +
The "followers of the sutras," an Indian Buddhist tradition that rejected the canonical status of the Abhidharma. This tradition, like the Vaibhāsikas, was within the Sarvastivāda school and continued developing through the first millennium +
A class of demons who can influence people into doing wrong or becoming obsessed with wealth, power, and so on. +
An intermediate state of being that primarily refers to the period between death and rebirth but can also in certain specific contexts be applied more widely +
The bodhisattva in Tusita paradise who will be the next Buddha in a time when the human lifespan has increased to twenty thousand years +
