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 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. +
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. +
The existence of any thing or person ''without'' depending on causes, parts, or a mind that designates; the opposite of '''dependent arising'''. Nothing whatever exists in this manner; to conceive of things this way is thus a deeply ingrained error. +
Fifth-century Indian-born formulator of '''Theravada''' doctrines, did his major work in Sri Lanka, author of ''Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)''. +
Fourteenth-century spiritual inspiration of the Very Essence of the Great Expanse, one of the main liturgical lineages of '''Nyingma''' and the tradition of the Great Bliss Queen liturgy. +