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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. +
Lit. "individual liberation": the collective term for the different kinds of Buddhist ordination and their respective vows, as laid down in the Vinaya. +
The most terrible of the hells, also called the Hell of Ultimate Torment. +
A serpentlike being (classed in the animal realm) living in the water or under the earth and endowed with magical powers and wealth. The most powerful ones have several heads. +
In the context of Buddhist meditation and practice, a demon is any factor that obstructs enlightenment. Four principal demons are described in the teachings: the demon of the aggregates, the demon of afflictive emotions, the demon of the Lord of Death, and the demon of the sons of the gods (or demon of distraction). +
A class of beings who, as a result of accumulating positive actions in previous lives, experience immense happiness and comfort, and are therefore considered by non-Buddhists as the ideal state to which they should aspire. Those in the worlds of form and formlessness experience an extended form of the meditation they practiced (without the aim of achieving liberation from samsara) in their previous life. Gods like Indra in the world of desire, as a result of their merit, have a certain power to affect the lives of other beings and are therefore worshipped, for example, by Hindus. +
Mental factors that influence thoughts and actions and produce suffering. The five principal afflictive emotions are attachment, aversion or hatred, bewilderment or ignorance, jealousy, and pride. +
The Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. +
Lit. "one who listens": one who follows the Basic Vehicle of the Buddha's teachings and aims to attain liberation for himself as an Arhat. +
Transcendent generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom. +
A member of the priestly caste in Indian society. +
