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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. +
Lit. "wheel," and therefore also translated as "cyclic existence": the endless round of birth, death, and rebirth in which beings suffer as a result of their actions and afflictive emotions. +
A follower of the Basic Vehicle who attains liberation (the cessation of suffering) without the help of a spiritual teacher. +
Mental factors that influence thoughts and actions and produce suffering. The five principal afflictive emotions are attachment, aversion or hatred, bewilderment or ignorance, jealousy, and pride. +
The four aspects of the truth of suffering—impermanent, unsatisfactory, empty, and not the self; those of the truth of origination—source, cause, intensely producing, and condition; those of the truth of cessation—cessation, pacification, goodness, and definitive; and those of the truth of the path—path, pertinent, effective, and conducive to release. (See Treasury of Precious Qualities, Appendix 3.) +
The Sanskrit term for afflictive emotions. +
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 emperor who, with his golden, silver, copper, or iron wheel, has dominion over the beings of the four continents. Universal monarchs only appear in certain eras when the human life span is greater than eighty thousand years. +
The no-self of the individual (gang zag gi bdag med) and the no-self of phenomena (chos kyi bdag med). +
Sweet, cool, soft, light (on the digestion), clear, without odor, not irritating to the throat, soothing on the stomach. +
One thirtieth of the time taken for a complete passage of the moon through the lunar mansions +
