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The southern continent of the four continents of Buddhist cosmology that surround Mount Meru. The "land of the rose-apple tree" originally designated India alone, but later, in the Indocentric Buddhist cosmology that developed, it came to mean our world +
An Apabhramśa word meaning "couplet," specifically rhyming couplets with a set meter, a form much favored by tantric authors such as Saraha in around the end of the first millennium. drop (thig le). See bindu; tilaka +
This is the "third turning of the Dharma wheel" and includes such sutras as those that emphasize that all phenomena are manifestations of the mind and that all beings possess a buddha nature. These sutras, though numerous and varied, tend to be represented by Asaṅga—who revealed some of these sutras from visions of bodhisattva Maitreya—and by the Yogacāra tradition +
Literally, "wheel of time," Kālacakra is the latest and the most complex of the Buddhist tantras. It appeared in India sometime around the tenth century. Sometimes, instead of being classed with Cakrasamvara and Hevajra as a yoginī or mother tantra, it is given a class of its own: nondual tantra. It is comprehensive in including the other higher tantra deities, and covering also such mundane matters as astrology and military tactics +
Concern with various kinds of pleasure and displeasure, specifically gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and blame, fame and obscurity +
Synonymous with samādhi and śamatha, it means "placed" and "fixed" and is etymologically a form of the dhi in samādhi. The closest translation would be "concentration," for it means the mind fixed upon a point without deviation, but in a less technical context could simply be called meditation, as in the perfection of meditation (dhyānapāramitā). In Buddhas time the attainment of various levels of dhyāna was the goal of many of his contemporaries and was a path that he tried. The night before his enlightenment at dawn, he is said to have gone through these levels of dhyāna and then beyond them +
Sometimes rendered as "coemergent" or "connate" union, innate union means to become united with the natural state that is innate in the mind, or connate with everything that arises within it +
This well-known Indian title originally referred to someone who had received a revelation from the deities of a divine scripture. The term later became one of general respect to a religious master, including the Buddha. The Tibetan translation is "straight," meaning an unwavering mind +
The "Great Way" or the "Great Vehicle," a term that is first propagated by the Lotus Sutra to demonstrate the superiority of itself but later used retrospectively on various earlier sutras. Ihe Sanskrit word predominantly means "way," but the Tibetan translation has favored the meaning "vehicle." In India, the Mahayana was not a discrete school of Buddhism but was comprised of a wide variety of teachings that appeared within the existing traditions. The Mahayana is characterized primarily by altruistic aspiration and vast activities of its bodhisattva ideal, but it came to be associated particularly with the Cittamātra and Madhyamaka philosophical schools +
A classes of nonhuman beings usually portrayed as having animal heads, such as of a horse, and being master musicians +
There are two separate texts that collectively are called the Hevajra Tantra, and as with other tantras, such as the Cakrasaṃvara, the chapters appear to have accumulated over time as a compilation of discrete texts and manuals. The bulk of the tantra is a description of a form of tantric living and practices as were followed in India, much of which is not directly relevant to Tibetan Buddhism +
Though a term for a female practitioner, particularly a practitioner of the higer [sic] tantras, it is also applied for the nonhuman tantric females in a manner synonymous with dākinī +
The abstract noun from the adjective empty (śūnya). n of reality. +
The fire offering was a central feature in the traditions based on the Vedas and Brahmanas and had no place in early Buddhism. Well-known pracitioners[[sic]] of homa threw away their implements in a gesture of renunciation on becoming disciples of the Buddha. However in the tantra, the offering to Agni, the deity of fire, is a prelude to offering to the yidam deities, and different shapes of hearth, offerings, color of costumes, and so on will bring the accomplishment that is either peaceful, increasing, controlling, or wrathful +
d. 1125 A Bengali who became the leading Buddhist scholar and author of his time, teaching at the monasteries of Vikramaśīla, Vajrāsana, and Odantapuri. He systematized the tantric teachings, thus greatly influencing their future in Tibet. He helped to translate numerous works into Tibetan, and thirty-six of his own works are included in the Tibetan Tengyur +
Though more commonly referred to in Tibetan as Śatakratu (brgya byin), which refers to the hundred Vedic sacrifices he made that gave him the merit to become the king of the devas. In Vedic literature he is the supreme lord of the devas, living on Meru and wielding a thunderbolt. Later, the personification of the universal force Brahman as Brahmā, in a higher paradise above Indra, relegated Indra to second place. During the historical Buddhas time, which was before the rise of Śiva and Visnu, these two deities were the principal deities. In Buddhist cosmology, a number of paradises above Mount Meru came to be envisaged, making Indra even less significant +
Derived from gandha "incense," it means a shrine building that is used primarily for offerings rather than assemblies, such as the Mahābodhi temple in Bodhgaya +
Four existences that are states of meditation that a being who dies in one of those four states is born into +
This can sometimes mean just one's own personal knowledge or perception. It is also particularly used, as in the Mind Only tradition, for consciousness perceiving itself. sense bases. See āyatanas +
"Validity": the study of logic and epistemology, or "valid cognition." +
