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The kind of cohesiveness that can come from a story that is complete and conclusive, a cohesiveness that does not exist for postmodern sensibilities. +
A '''Great Completeness''' term referring to the whole of everything in all its diversity, as experienced by '''innate awareness''' +
The Bodhisattva whose name means "love" and who, after the demise of Buddhist traditions, will incarnate as the Buddha who revives them. +
In Tibetan ritual, a representation of the divine abode of an enlightened being. +
Styles of practice, for example, '''Theravada''' or '''Geluk''' sutra traditions, that emphasize the necessity of cultivating various qualities; coextensive with what some Buddhists refer to as "gradualist" forms of practice. +
Scriptures said to have been spoken by the Buddha, but written down at least one or more centuries after his lifetime. +
Sixth-century Indian Buddhist philosopher, regarded as part of the transmission lineage of the Seven Unfoldings. +
A mind's natural and clear awareness of itself, a state identified for '''Great Completeness''' practitioners so that they can discover it in the course of their training +
Oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism, brought to Tibet from India in seventh century by Padmasambhava. +
Female muse of enlightenment, associated especially with the '''Great Completeness''' and other esoteric Buddhist practice lineages +
A special kind of '''Bodhisattva''' who is the embodiment of all the wisdom of all enlightened Buddhas +
That which does not depend on causes or conditions for its existence, and which does not change in any way during the course of its existence. Space and '''emptiness''' are two prime examples of the unconditioned in most Buddhist traditions. +
Complete enlightenment, freedom from both conceptual and sensory error regarding the nature of self and world. +
Often synonymous with enlightenment and freedom from cyclic existence ('''samsara''') and for this reason translated into Tibetan as "passage beyond suffering." +
Any thing or person that exists in dependence on causes and conditions, or on its own parts (temporal or spatial), or in dependence on being designated by the mind that observes it. In the Indo-Tibetan '''Consequentialist''' schools of Buddhism, everything that exists is a dependent arising. +
Sense of subject and object as unseparated by image or distance. +
Styles of practice, for example, Zen and the '''Great Completeness''', that emphasize that full realization is already present and awaits discovery; coextensive with what some Buddhist traditions refer to as "sudden" traditions. +
Eleventh-century Indian Buddhist teacher, a major figure in the second transmission of Buddhism from India to Tibet. +
The absence of any final boundary be between ordinary persons and the state of Buddhahood, or enlightenment. +
The absence of '''inherent existence''' (according to '''Geluk Consequentialists'''). +
