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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. +
A layman who has taken refuge in the Three Jewels and keeps one or more of the basic precepts. +
An epithet of the Buddha Shakyamuni, often translated as "Mighty One." He was called capable because, when he was a Bodhisattva and there was no one who had the courage to tame the most unfortunate beings with extremely gross views, afflictive emotions, and actions, he, our kind Teacher, was the only one, of all the 1,002 Buddhas of this Excellent Kalpa, who had the strength or capacity to vow to benefit them. +
The ruler of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three. +
Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. +
The five "tainted" aggregates produced by afflictive emotions and actions in a previous life and which will again produce further afflictive emotions and actions. +
Also "Victorious One": a general epithet for a Buddha. +
Eliminating (or getting rid of) all obscurations, and realizing the two kinds of knowledge of a Buddha (q.v.). +
See Great Vehicle. +
Those related to (1) earth (earthquakes, landslides), (2) water (oceans, floods, drowning), (3) fire, (4) wind (cyclones), (5) lightning, (6) weapons, (7) imprisonment and the law, (8) robbers, (9) ghosts, (10) wild elephants, (11) lions, (12) poisonous snakes and food poisoning, (13) epidemics and disease, (14) untimely death, (15) poverty, and (16) not accomplishing one's wishes. Also listed as dangers and fears related to (1) obstacles created by gyalpo spirits, (2) celestial beings, (3) sicknesses caught from sadag spirits, (4) diseases such as leprosy, (5) famine, (6) war, (7) harm caused by sadhu, (8) harm caused by elemental spirits, (9) lightning, (10) frost and hail, (11) earthquakes, (12) fire, (13) water, (14) falling stars, (15) outer space, and (16) nightmares. +
In the context of the Basic Vehicle, a state of realization where one will no longer be reborn in the desire realm. It is the stage before the attainment of the level of Arhat. In the context of the Great Vehicle, a Bodhisattva Non-Returner is one who cannot return to a samsaric state of mind, though he may still manifest in samsara to benefit beings. +
