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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. +
The philosophical doctrine propounded by Nagarjuna and his followers, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence. +
Lit. "pure": the name given to the principal god in the world of form. +
The Great Capable One, an epithet of Buddha Shakyamuni. +
Ordinary, ignorant beings who lack wisdom and are thus trapped in samsara. +
The six great commentators on the Buddha's teachings: Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Asanga, Vasubandhu, Dignaga, and Dharmakirti. +
A sublime being; in the Great Vehicle, a Bodhisattva on one of the ten Bodhisattva levels. +
See Four concentrations. +
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. +
A proponent of extreme philosophical views such as nihilism and eternalism. This term is often used to imply non-Buddhist religious traditions in India. +
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. +
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). +
The vehicles of the Shravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Bodhisattvas. +
Lit. "basket": a collection of scriptures, originally in the form of palm leaf folios stored in baskets. The Buddha's teachings are generally divided into three pitakas: Vinaya, Sutra, and Abhidharma. +
Lit. "possessing the cause of downfall (zag pa)": tainted by afflictive emotions, or by concepts of subject, object, and action. +
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). +
Lit. "one who has gone to bliss": an epithet of a Buddha. +
The ruler of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three. +
The five "tainted" aggregates produced by afflictive emotions and actions in a previous life and which will again produce further afflictive emotions and actions. +
The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. +
