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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'''). +
one of the five Dhyāni buddhas. +
lit. 'the Bearer of the Vajra'; all-embracing
Buddha nature. +
giving, kind words, assisting the development of
others, consistency between words and actions. +
Bodhisattva of Wisdom. Mañjuśrī manifested in
Tibet as King Khri-srong lde'u-btsan in order to help the Tibetans firmly establish
the Dharma. +
the twelve-fold cycle of causal connections which binds
beings to samsaric existence and thus perpetuates suffering: ignorance (Tib. ma-
rig-pa) which gives rise to karmic dispositions (Tib. 'du-byed) which gives rise to
consciousness (Tib. rnam-par-shes-pa) which gives rise to name and form (Tib.
ming-dang gzugs) which give rise to the six senses (Tib. skye-mched drug) which
give rise to contact (Tib. reg-pa) which gives rise to feeling (Tib. 'tshor-ba) which
gives rise to craving (Tib. sred-pa) which gives rise to grasping (Tib. nye-bar-len-
pa) which gives rise to existence (Tib. srid-pa) which gives rise to birth (Tib.
skye-ba) which gives rise to old age and death (Tib. rga-shi). +
a female tantric initiation deity. +
systematic teachings which analyze elements of experience and
investigate the nature of existence, thus dispelling wrong views and establishing
analytic insight. +
known as the Bodhisattva of Compassion,
he is an emanation of the Dhyānibuddha Amitābha. Avalokiteśvara manifested in
Tibet as King Srong-btsan sgam-po in order to help the Tibetan people and to lay
the foundation for the spread of the Dharma. +
a non-conceptual
stage in tantric practice; in the Perfecting Stage, the visualizations of the
Development Stage dissolve into an experience of openness. +
