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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 +
The right channel above the navel. +
Literally, “to hold,” in the sense of developing the power to not forget the meaning of dharma words. Often it refers to mantra orspell-like recitations that produce powerful effects. Word, meaning, mantra, and forbearance are the four main types of dhāranī. +
An actual consort +
Calendrical calculation that employs addition to the mean position of a planet to ascertain true planetary position. +
Left channel above the navel. +
Predominantly referring to Viśvamātā, the mahāmudrāconsort, the highest development of aspected emptiness or empty form. +
The twelve daily shifts or movements of inner wind or breath from petal to petal of the navel channel wheel. These occurapproximately every two hours and are correlated with the twelve lagna or ascendants appearing on the horizon approximately every two hours. +
A consort is called a mudrā or “seal” because she guarantees or can be relied upon (yid ches, āpta) to grant bliss.The three main types of consorts are activity, wisdom, and mahāmudrā consort +
As well as referring to the afflictions and the corresponding karmicly produced phenomena of the world, in Kālacakra thinkingordinary phenomena, including the body, are “obscured” until they are transformed into nonmaterial empty form, which at its developmental peak is the enlightened form of Kālacakra and his enlightened surroundings +
Fleshly, celestial, wisdom, dharma, and gnosis: the suprasensory perception of empty forms occurring in completion stagemeditations, and generated by the winds entering the central channel. +
