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An expression apparently Tibetan in origin, it is synonymous with the three afflictions of ignorance, attachment, and aversion +
Samāhita is actually the past participle of the verb samādha from which comes the noun samādhi and is likewise a general name for a state of meditation. Pṛṣthalabdha or rjes thob is literally "post-accomplishment" but rendered here as post-meditation. The "accomplishment" refers to the accomplishment of meditation and so refers to the period when, having obtained those qualities, they are put to use in daily life by teaching and benefiting beings. In Tibet, the word was also interpreted to mean the accomplishment of realization while not in a meditation session +
The word nāḍī can mean any tube or pipe as well as the physical veins and arteries of the body, but in this work it generally refers to the network of subtle channels, analogous to the nervous system, through which flow the winds that are mentally manipulated as part of tantric practice. Although earlier commentaries emphasized that the channels were simply visualizations without a physical existence, later Tibetan tradition attempted to conjoin these with the medical tradition, with inconclusive results +
The principal deity in the Kagyü tradition, who appears to have originated in the late eighth century in India. It is explicitly a transmutation of Śiva +
The tendency of thoughts to multiply in discursive wandering. The Sanskrit word can mean expansion, diffusion, or diversification, and also covers prolixity, creation, and deceit. "Conceptual" is sometimes added to the English to better communicate the meaning +
In early Buddhism, in contrast to those who were "disciples" (śrāvaka), these individuals attained buddhahood not with a teacher but through contemplation of the remains of humans in charnel grounds and so on. In the Mahayana tradition in India there was disagreement as to whether their attainment equaled that of the Buddha. In present day Tibetan Buddhism, the differing views continue, with the Kagyü, for example, declaring that their realization is less than that of a buddha, while Gelukpas state that while the realization is the same, they lack the compassionate activity for others +
One of the thirty primary physical marks of a great being that a buddha possesses +
The Tibetan has taken the etymology inventively to mean "those who ascend on the margin" and uses it to refer to non-Buddhists, but those in the Indian tradition only. The phrase in its original form refers solely to thejains +
One of the two form bodies (rūpakāya) of a buddha. The "emanation body" is the form of a buddha that appears in this world, perceivable by other beings, in contradistinction to the saṃbhogakāya, which can only be seen by enlightened beings. Together these are classed as the "form body" of a buddha. The idea of nirmāṇakāya was also extended to emanations that are not obviously a buddha: seemingly ordinary beings, animals, and even matter, such as bridges, boats, food, or whatever would assist beings. The Tibetan term has also become institutionalized to mean anyone who is recognized as the rebirth of a lama. Nirmānarati. "The enjoyment of emanations " The fifth of the six paradises within the realm of desire, according to the Abhidharma +
The worst and physically lowest of the hells, where beings remain longer and suffer greater than any other hell +
One of the six classes of existence, these beings suffer from continuous hunger and thirst. The Sanskrit literally means "departed" and is inspired by the pitṛ, or ancestral spirits of India, who, without descendants to make the regular traditional offerings to them, are tormented by hunger and thirst +
Immeasurable love, compassion, rejoicing and impartiality +
The Sanskrit literally means "death." In the early sutras Māra is a deity that continually tries to stop the Buddhas enlightenment and the spread of his teachings. Māra has also been portrayed as the personification of obstacles to enlightenment, as in the list of four māras: the māra of the body, the māra of the defilements, the māra of death, and the divine māra (the distraction of pleasures). The Tibetan translation of māra (bdud) is also the name for a class of Tibetan local deities that can function as protectors +
A trident held by wrathful meditational deities such as Vajrayoginī. +
The Tibetan uses the term thig le for both tilaka and bindu, both of which can mean mark, spot, dot, or circle. Both terms were and still are used in India to denote a forehead mark, and in English are called tilak and bindi. The tilaka in particular is a traditional Indian mark worn on the forehead by religious devotees and is associated with enlightenment, but in Tibet its application normally occurs only in the context of some higher tantra empowerments. Bindu has a wider meaning than tilaka, but they both have the connotation of an essential point, a quintessence, and may be rendered here also as "drop." See the bindu entry for additional meanings +
The age of goodness and the first of four ages in which humans become progressively more degenerate and their lives progressively shorter. We live in the fourth and most degenerate age +
Vajravārāhī, also known as Vajrayoginī, rises to prominence within the Cakrasamvara literature. There she is both that deity's consort and features as the central deity in a number of practices. Instead of having a sow's head, as in the goddess Vārāhī, she is sometimes depicted with a sow emerging from the top of her head, its grunt destroying ignorance. She is also the principal deity within the Karma Kagyü tradition. +
One of the four classes of India. This upper class is roughly equivalent to the nobility, providing secular rulers and warriors. According to Buddhist mythology buddhas appear in the dominant class of its time; thus Śakyamuni was a ksatriya while the previous and next buddhas are brahmans +
Literally "nonattention." In early Buddhism, this term signified the negative state of inattentiveness. Maitripa, through reinterpreting the Sanskrit negative marker "a" as the primordial letter A, taught that this was a positive quality and really meant attention on the true nature. However, in the context of mahāmudrā, even if the "a" is interpreted as a negative marker, it can mean nonattention or nonengagement as a positive quality +
A follower of the Madhyamaka +
