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The completion-stage practice of meditatively focusing the mind at certain crucial sites along the centralchannel in order to manipulate the winds +
The subtle and primordial state of mind, everpresent in all sentient beings, manifested naturally at death andintentionally in the completion stage, where it is used as a subtle consciousness to focus on emptiness. +
Sanskrit verse meter with eight syllables per line, four lines per verse; the meter of the 12,000-verse Root Tantra +
Usually sunrise to sunrise. +
Secondary quality and increment. These refer to grades of vowel strength. For example, guṇa increases the vowel ito e, and vṛddhi increases it to ai. +
Central channel. +
The zodiac divided into twenty-seven constellations +
The fire of the fierce or low-caste woman.” A fundamental practice of highest yoga tantra completion stage, in which aninner fire is ignited at the navel cakra, through penetrative focusing or the use of a consort, which “burns” off impurities and produces the bliss of the four joys +
Joy; attraction to the consort. +
Sage, reciter of the vedas. Literally, “straight, upright,” often in the sense of their words having “the power of truth,” which wereused like mantras to bring about desired results. +
Emptiness taught in Kālacakra is of two kinds. In a strictly Geluk interpretation, aspected emptinessrefers to empty forms in general and specifically to the mahāmudrā consort “endowed with every supreme aspect.” This is the main “wisdom” meditation of the six yogas, the kāla of Kālacakra, and the direct cause of the enlightened body of Kālacakra. Nonaspected emptiness is the ultimate truth emptiness taught in the perfection of wisdom sutras and is the object of the bliss consciousness, or clear-light mind, manifested in the completion stage. It is the main “method” meditation, the cakra of Kālacakra, and the direct cause of the dharmakāya or enlightened mind of Kālacakra. Alternatively Kīrti Tsenshap Rinpoché says that according to Khedrup Jé, aspected emptiness is specific ultimate-truth emptiness linked to specific phenomena, while nonaspected emptiness is the general phenomenon of emptiness. The Jonang tradition would say that the nonaspected emptiness as taught in the perfection of wisdom sutras, or the second turning of the wheel of dharma, has no essence, is a nihilistic emptiness, and therefore is ineffective in the development of enlightenment. Aspected emptiness, on the other hand, refers to the ultimate-truth buddha essence eternally present in al living beings or, in a tantric sense, to the ultimate-truth māhamudrā consort “endowed with every supreme aspect,” whose practice will lead to enlightenment in the form of Kālacakra. +
When the planets, commencing from the mean sun, move through the progressive and and regressive early and later steps by way ofincrement and decrement. +
The deities that inhabit the base mandalas of the celestial mansion. +
The averaged or mean orbit of a planet. +
Echo-like aspiration of preceding vowel in Sanskrit, romanized as ḥ +
In Kālacakra literature a simile for empty form wherein forms or images miraculously appear of their own volition in aclairvoyant’s mirror +
The afflictions, chief of which is ignorance, that create karma and perpetuate thecircling of samsara +
An essential characteristic of those empty forms that arise by their own volition. +
The averaged-out position of the sun on the assumption that its northern and southern passages through the constellations are at aconstant speed, without taking into consideration its fast and slow stages +
