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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." +
With the development of higher yoga tantras, classifications arose to distinguish newer tantras from their predecessors. The stress on the female deities in such tantras as Cakrasaṃvara resulted in their being termed yoginī tantras. A later classification, which has become dominant in the Tibetan tradition, names this group mother tantras to contrast with Guhyasamāja and Yamāntaka, which are classed as father tantras. The mother tantras are traditionally said to stress wisdom while the father tantras stress method +
The six types of existence in samsara are rebirth as a hell being, preta, animal, human, asura, or deva +
"Lord of Secrets" is a common alternative name for the deity and bodhisattva Vajrapānī (see glossary entry), who is said to have been the compiler of the tantras +
Feminine: yakṣi or yakṣiṇī. A class of supernatural beings, often represented as the attendants of the god of wealth, but the term is also applied to spirits. Though generally portrayed as benevolent, the Tibetan translation means "harm giver," as they are also capable of causing harm +
Most commonly it means a race of celestial musicians. Literally, however, it means "smell eater," and it is found as the term for the consciousness in between death and birth: the consciousness that enters the womb. The consciousness during that period is said to gain its sustenance from smells +
Synonym for buddha. In contrast with rishis, who had received their knowledge through divine revelation, munis and buddhas understood deeper meanings within the Vedic rituals from their own understanding. While buddha has the meaning "awakened," muni has more of the meaning of "inspired." The Tibetan translation literally means ' able one." +
This is the "second turning of the Dharma wheel" and includes such Mahayana sutras as the perfection of wisdom sutras, and the earlier sutras on emptiness that feature the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī prominently. Though the subjects are varied, including such sutras as those on Amitābha and his pure realm, this group of sutras is seen as emphasizing emptiness as represented by the Madhyamaka texts of Nāgārjuna +
As with the dākas, earlier Indian and Buddhist literature represent dākinīs as malevolent devourers of humans. This aspect still survives as the class of dākinīs known as flesh eaters. In the antinomian higher tantras, these creatures became guardians of secret teachings. Wisdom dākinīs (jñānaḍākini) are those who have attained buddhahood and manifest in the form of a dākinī in order to benefit beings. Similarly women who are enlightened, especially if they are not ordained, are known as dākinīs, including the mothers and consorts of lamas. The term has thus come to have a wide application, with numerous exegeses as to their symbolism +
The "truth body" of a buddha, in contradistinction to a buddhas corporeal form body (rüpakāya). Dharmakāya originally referred to the teachings themselves, which remained as the Buddhas presence or body even after his form body was gone. As the term evolved, it came to be a synonym for ultimate reality, or emptiness, and the realization of these in the mind of a buddha +
The name first appears in Indian literature in the Vedas as the deity of the jungles, outside civilization. He became a principal deity much later and eventually, under the name of Śiva, one of the most important deities in India today. The tantric deity Cakrasaṃvara is said to destroy Rudra/ Siva, but then adopts his body, sacred sites, and so on. In Tibet, Rudra is most often used as the symbol of powerful, self-fixated, deviant mind +
