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Generally, a highly developed meditative concentration, whose power divorces the mind temporarily fromafflictions such as desire. It shares essential characteristics with meditative concentration and peaceful abiding. Specifically, in the Sutra Vehicle, it refers to the four meditative absorptions that act as causes for birth in the form or Brahmā realms. In Kālacakra, meditative absorption is the second of the six yogas +
The nonmaterial, empty-form nature of phenomena of the three realms at the time of the final attainmentof enlightenment. +
Months are either waxing-led or waning-led depending on which half of the lunar month ofCaitra the sun enters Aries. Entering Aries in the waxing or “bright” half designates Caitra as a waxing-led month beginning from the first lunar day of the waxing. That month becomes the first month of the new year. When the sun enters Aries during the waning or “dark” half of Caitra, Vaiśākha is posited as beginning from that full moon and becomes the first month of the new year. +
The “moving air” that flows within the channels of the vajra body, or anatomically the mobility of bodily constituents.Although srog (prāṇa) sometimes refers to the life-sustaining air that flows mainly through the right and left channels above the navel, in Kālacakra it is also a general term for the ten winds. Rlung as “wind” has been distinguished from meaning the element of air, even though the same word is used in Tibetan. +
Particles added to roots in Sanskrit +
Right channel above the navel. +
Nasalization of the previous contiguousvowel, romanized as ṃ. +
Refers to the emission or “falling” of semen. See also bliss. +
The fourth chapter of the Condensed Kālacakra dealing with generation-stage practices, and often used torefer to their written form +
Etymologically a meditative absorption in which all mental and bodily elements are evenly balanced. Intantra it often refers to sexual union with a consort +
When, for example, the sun moves through Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces—the first three houses of itsnorthern journey. +
The consummate development of bliss; definitively achieved for the first time on the branch of meditativeconcentration; also used sometimes to refer to the nondefinitive bliss of nonemission +
The time the sun takes to complete its orbit through the twelve houses or signs divided by 360 +
Literally, “turn-around of the sun.” +
The bliss of nonemission or the nondefinitive unchanging bliss +
Central channel below the navel. +
Yoginīs who possess special siddhis; female deities born in buddha realms; female spirits who assist in tantric rites. +
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Literally, "the one gone to suchness," an epithet for the historical Buddha, or, as in this text, in general for the state of buddhahood. +
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Extraordinary, direct knowledge gained as a result of the practice of concentration. The five types of supernatural knowledge are: (1) divine eye, seeing others' karmic destinations; (2) divine ear, hearing divine and human sounds from near and far; (3) knowledge of the minds of others, knowing the mental states of others; (4) recollection of past lives, knowing one's own previous lives; and (5) miraculous powers, such as the ability to multiply one's body, passing through solid objects, and so forth. To this list a sixth type of knowledge is added: knowledge of the exhaustion of outflows or afflictions. This knowledge is based on the practice of insight and is only possessed by buddhas. +
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The true nature of things, a synonym for ultimate reality and emptiness. +
