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five aspects of the complete path to enlightenment, following one
another in succession: preparation or accumulation; application; vision or seeing;
cultivation; no more learning. +
of the four joys is associated with one of the four cakras:
Awakened Joy (forehead cakra); Joy of Limitless Good Qualities (throat cakra);
Supreme Joy of the Mahāmudrā (heart cakra); and Spontaneous Transcendent
Awakened Joy (navel cakra). +
powerful long-lived serpent-like beings who inhabit bodies of water and
often guard great treasure. Nanda was one of their great kings. He helped protect
the Buddha from the elements when the Buddha was seated at Bodh Gayā, and
gave Nāgārjuna various treatises from the nāga treasure. +
lit. 'Perfection of Wisdom'; six pāra-
mitās are generally referred to: giving, morality, patience, effort, meditation, and
wisdom. +
according to the Bon tradition, the founder of the Bon religion.
Siddha one who has accomplished the siddhis. +
the community of those practicing the teachings of the Buddha, united
by their vision and their commitment to the path. In order to lay the foundation
for Dharma practice, various forms of discipline are undertaken. Eight traditional
kinds of Sangha exist: bhikṣu and bhikṣuṇī: fully ordained monks and nuns;
śramaṇara and sramaṇĩ: novices who have taken preliminary vows; śikṣamaṇa:
aspirants too young to join the community but who follow special rules; upavasta:
laymen or laywomen who take monk's vows for a certain limited time; upāsaka and
upāsikā: laymen and laywomen who practice Buddhist teachings and follow five
precepts: not to kill, not to steal, not to lie, not to take intoxicating substances, not
to engage in sexual misconduct. +
small ritual drum used in tantric ceremonies. +
he transformation of the bodily substance into
multi-hued light. +
meditation or concentrative absorption. +
a small white round bone-like substance which appears in the hearts
of the great practitioners, and is often discovered in the ashes of the great tantric
lamas after they have been cremated. +
lit. 'concentric circle'; a maṇḍala is a symbolic,
graphic representation of a tantric deity's realm of existence, as well as the
arrangement of offerings in tantric ritual. +
tantric deity always shown with a horse's head
within his flaming hair; wrathful aspect of Amitābha, Lord of Speech. +
the eight Heruka Sādhanas are part of the meditative
realization transmission which preserves essential instructions for practice. Each of
these sādhanas is connected with a particular root text and with various specific
practices containing everything necessary for enlightenment. They were transmit-
ted from Padmasambhava to eight of his disciples who were known as the Eight
Great Ācāryas. The Eight Heruka Sādhanas are: 'Jam-dpal-sku (gshin-rje);
Padma-gsung; Yang-dag-thugs; rDo-rje phur-ba 'phrin-las; bDud-rtsi yon-tan;
Ma-mo rbod-stong; 'Jig-rten mchos-bstod; and dMod-pa drag-sngags. +
lord of the desire realm, master of illusion who attempted to prevent the
Buddha from attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gayā. +
lit. 'awakened'; the Enlightened One; a perfected
Bodhisattva, after attaining complete, perfect enlightenment in a human form,
is known as a Buddha. The Buddha generally referred to is Sākyamuni Buddha,
the Buddha of this era, who lived in India around the 6th century B.C. But there
have also been perfected Bodhisattvas in ages past who have manifested the
way to enlightenment. In the current fortunate era, there will be one thousand
Buddhas, Sākyamuni Buddha being the fourth. In some eras, no Buddhas appear
at all. +
small, very hard glittering objects found in the burnt ashes of certain
very great lamas. +
