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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. +
Ordinary, ignorant beings who lack wisdom and are thus trapped in samsara. +
See Five aggregates. +
The Buddha of Infinite Light. +
The karmic result of practicing these four concentrations without integrating them with the path of enlightenment is that the meditator is reborn in one of the twelve ordinary realms of the four concentrations, in the world of form (see chart on pp. 184-185). +
An epithet of the Buddha, defined as he who has overcome (bcom) the four demons, who possesses (ldan) the six excellent qualities, and who does not dwell in either of the two extremes of samsara and nirvana but has gone beyond them ( 'das). +
The southern continent according to Buddhist cosmology, the world in which we live. +
See Capable One. +
Lit. "certain good" or "ultimate excellence": the lasting happiness of liberation and omniscience (i.e., Buddhahood). +
The absolute nature of things, emptiness, the absolute space free from elaboration. +
One of the Three Pitakas; the branch of the Buddha's teachings that deals mainly with psychology and logic. +
