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"The yāna of the [six] perfections" is an alternative name for the Mahayanas sutra tradition +
These are texts and practices based upon the Mahāvairocana Sutra, popularly known as the Mahāvairocana Tantra. This is important for the Chinese and Japanese tantric traditions. In contemporary Tibetan Buddhism, performance tantra is primarily represented by the practice of Sarvavid Vairocana but is considered inferior in praxis and view to the higher tantras +
The five texts attributed to him are held in great reverence and are precursors to the philosophy developed and propounded by Asańga and Vasubandhu and their Cittamātra tradition +
The separate collections of the Buddhas teachings, originally Sutra, Vinaya, and Mātrka. The latter evolved into the Abhidharma, although the Tibetan tradition, following the Sautrāntika view on the noncanonical status of the Abhidharma texts, does not have an Abhidharma section in the Kangyur +
A mind intent on achieving enlightenment for the sake of others. +
The "Great Vehicle" Buddhist traditions, associated with the '''Bodhisattva''' vow, practiced today in Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam. +
Seventh-century Indian Buddhist philosopher, famous for his development of the '''Middle Way''' school first systematized by '''Nagarjuna'''. +
Sacred syllable used in recitation and other ritual practices. +
Consort and teacher of Yeshey Tsogyel, and a founding figure of Buddhist '''Great Completeness''' traditions in Tibet. +
Regarded as the highest practice by both '''Nyingma''' Buddhist and '''Bön''' practitioners. +
Early form of Indian Buddhism, practiced today in Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. +
The round of birth and death. +
Indissoluable unity between conventional, conditioned phenomena and their ultimate or unconditioned nature of emptiness. +
A person who has '''bodhicitta''', and who has therefore vowed to seek enlightenment in order to be capable of leading all persons to their enlightenment. +
A diverse group of meditative techniques considered especially esoteric and effective, often working with physical posture and the body's energy currents or involving the experience of oneself as a particular enlightened being. The writings associated with these practices are also known as tantras. +
A special "Enjoyment Body" form of Yeshey Tsogyel, the Great Bliss Queen, that can be seen only by highly developed spiritual practitioners. +
A major '''Mahayana''' school of philosophy that expresses a principle to which virtually all Buddhist schools claim to adhere, namely, a path of moderation between philosophical extremes, especially the beliefs that persons are permanent or do not exist at all, or between behaviors such as severe asceticism and lavish luxury. +
The residue of past actions or ideas and the harbingers of future ones. +
One of the two major '''Middle Way''' (''Mādhyamika'') schools of Buddhism, widely regarded in Tibet as the subtlest philosophical discussion of emptiness and ignorance +
Major Tibetan religious tradition, which since the seventh century has been very much influenced by and influential upon Buddhism. BÖn, like '''Nyingma''', has its own '''Great Completeness''' traditions. +
