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The community of Buddhist practitioners. +
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. +
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. +
A fully ordained nun. +
A layman who has taken refuge in the Three Jewels and keeps one or more of the basic precepts. +
Lit. "the supreme mountain": the four-sided mountain in the form of an inverted pyramid which is the center of our universe according to Buddhist cosmology. +
Also called the "seven attributes of royalty" (rgyal srid sna bdun): the precious golden wheel, precious wish-fulfilling jewel, precious queen, precious minister, precious elephant, precious horse, and precious general. +
The Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. +
The threefold training in discipline, concentration, and wisdom. +
See Great Vehicle. +
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. +
See Pitaka. +
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). +
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 absolute nature of things, emptiness, the absolute space free from elaboration. +
The southern continent according to Buddhist cosmology, the world in which we live. +
An Asian palm tree, the palmyra. +
Lit. "union with the natural state": a term for spiritual practice. +
The point at which an enlightened being leaves his or her earthly body. +
The Sanskrit name of the Hell of Torment Unsurpassed. See Torment Unsurpassed. +
