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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. +
The no-self of the individual (gang zag gi bdag med) and the no-self of phenomena (chos kyi bdag med). +
The threefold training in discipline, concentration, and wisdom. +
Also known as hungry ghost or spirit: a class of beings whose attachment and miserliness in previous lives result in constant hunger and the frustration of their desires. +
The hells, the preta realm, and the animal realm. +
An epithet of the Buddha, one who is victorious over the four demons. +
Lit. "beyond suffering": while this can be loosely understood as the goal of Buddhist practice, the opposite of samsara, it is important to realize that the term is understood differently by the different vehicles; the nirvana of the Basic Vehicle, the peace of cessation that an Arhat attains, is very different from a Buddha's nirvana, the state of perfect enlightenment that transcends both samsara and nirvana. +
A fully ordained nun. +
The five psychophysical components into which a person can be analyzed and which together produce the illusion of a self. They are form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors, and consciousness. +
See Five aggregates. +
The point at which an enlightened being leaves his or her earthly body. +
