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A positive or virtuous act that serves as a cause propelling one towards happy states. +
Sweet, cool, soft, light (on the digestion), clear, without odor, not irritating to the throat, soothing on the stomach. +
A sublime being; in the Great Vehicle, a Bodhisattva on one of the ten Bodhisattva levels. +
A general epithet for a Buddha. +
The world of desire. +
See Four concentrations. +
A Buddha who is victorious over the four demons. +
The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. +
The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things. +
A commentary on the Buddha's teachings. The term shastra does not only apply to a commentary on one particular teaching (a named sutra, for example) but also includes works by both Indian and Tibetan masters that provide condensed or more accessible expositions of particular subjects. +
A fully ordained monk. +
A person practicing a spiritual path. +
An emperor who, with his golden, silver, copper, or iron wheel, has dominion over the beings of the four continents. Universal monarchs only appear in certain eras when the human life span is greater than eighty thousand years. +
A follower of the Great Vehicle whose aim is enlightenment for all beings. +
Lit. "basket": a collection of scriptures, originally in the form of palm leaf folios stored in baskets. The Buddha's teachings are generally divided into three pitakas: Vinaya, Sutra, and Abhidharma. +
The Buddha's doctrine, the teachings transmitted in the scriptures, and the qualities of realization attained through their practice. Note that the Sanskrit word dharma has ten principal meanings, including "anything that can be known." Vasubandhu defines the Dharma, in its Buddhist sense, as the "protective dharma" (chos skyobs): "It corrects ( 'chos) every one of the enemies, the afflictive emotions; and it protects (skyobs) us from the lower realms: these two characteristics are absent from other spiritual traditions." +
The four aspects of the truth of suffering—impermanent, unsatisfactory, empty, and not the self; those of the truth of origination—source, cause, intensely producing, and condition; those of the truth of cessation—cessation, pacification, goodness, and definitive; and those of the truth of the path—path, pertinent, effective, and conducive to release. (See Treasury of Precious Qualities, Appendix 3.) +
An Asian palm tree, the palmyra. +
The Great Capable One, an epithet of Buddha Shakyamuni. +
The world of desire, the world of form, and the formless world (see chart on pp. 184-185). Alternatively ( 'jig rten gsum, sa gsum, srid gsum), the world of gods above the earth, that of humans on the earth, and that of the nagas under the earth. +
