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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. +
The basis of all concentrations: a calm, undistracted state of unwavering concentration. +
The first stage in monastic ordination. Shramaneras do not observe all the precepts of fully ordained bhikshus or bhikshunis, but it is incorrect to refer to them as "novices" in that many of them remain shramaneras throughout their lives without necessarily progressing to full ordination. +
The philosophical doctrine propounded by Nagarjuna and his followers, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence. +
The community of Buddhist practitioners. +
The vehicle of the Bodhisattvas, referred to as great because it aims at full Buddhahood for the sake of all beings. +
Knowledge of the nature of things (ji lta ba'i mkhyen pa) and knowledge of all things in their multiplicity (ji snyed pa'i mkhyen pa). +
One of the Three Pitakas; the section of the Buddha's teaching that deals with discipline, and in particular with the vows of monastic ordination. +
See Pitaka. +
Lit. "one who has vanquished the enemy" (the enemy being afflictive emotions): a practitioner of the Basic or Fundamental Vehicle who has attained the cessation of suffering, i.e., nirvana, but not the Perfect Buddhahood of the Great Vehicle. +
Lit. "pure": the name given to the principal god in the world of form. +
