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one of the four heads of the Kashag, the highest government office +
army commander +
lieutenant in the Tibetan army +
one of the four heads of the Yigtsang, the highest monk-official office +
monk official who is head of the Dalai Lama's personal staff +
member of the committee consisting of the four trunyichemmo and the four tsipöns +
(1) high rank in the Tibetan government; (2) manager of the labrang of the regent (e.g., Reting Dzasa) +
college-type unit in large monasteries +
This is a synonym for Vajradhara, the Buddha as the teacher of tantras, and refers to seven constantly present characteristics:
:1. ''body of complete enjoyment'': Being endowed with the thirty-two marks and eighty features of complete enlightenment
:2. ''union'': Being in meditative union with consort
:3. ''great bliss'': Experiencing great bliss through the winds entering, abiding, and dissolving in the dhūtī
:4. ''no inherent nature'': Understanding the non-inherent nature of the mind dwelling in pure bliss
:5. ''unbroken continuum'': Never entering nirvana but remaining until the end of samsara
:6. ''filled with compassion'': Never straying from working for others by way of nonapprehending compassion
:7. ''unending'': An endless and continuous stream of enlightened activity +
Although bliss can occur on the sutra path, and even in the basic state before entering the path, this is not ''great bliss'', which has to be caused by bringing the winds in the central channel. Great bliss is brought to focus on emptiness to form the "union of bliss and emptiness." It is also known as ''innate bliss''. +
This term is mostly used in this work to describe the second of the six yogas, which equates with body isolation from the five stages. Generally, it refers to an advanced state of meditative concentration, often associated with the form and formless realms of existence. Birth in these realms is determined by an absorption into form as an antidote to desire, and into formlessness as an antidote to attachment to form. ''See also'' six-branch yoga. +
Meditative process involving three main visualizations. The ''samādhi'' sattva is usually a deicy syllable or a drop and is usually at the heart. The pledge (''samaya'') sattva is normally one self as a deity. The wisdom ''(jñāna'') sattva is the actual deity absorbed from without or resident in the heart. +
Literally, "listeners". Non-Mahayana disciples of the Buddha who, as opposed to the pratyekabuddha disciples, relied heavily upon the Buddha's words. +
One of the three or four bodies of an enlightened being; literally, the "enjoyment body", it is "enjoyed" by those who have attained the first bodhisattva ārya level. +
Synonymous with illusory body. ''See also'' five stages. +
The second of the three appearances as they occur during the death process; it is characterized by a reddish sunset appearance. ''See also'' three appearances/consciousnesses. +
On this term Phabongkha (''Compilation of Notes'', 57b7) says, "Subtle mind is innate mind, and the bliss experienced by that mind is innate bliss. Generally, never being separated from the mindstream throughout samsara, whether good or bad, is the meaning of ''innate''. To create the completion stage, you must create innate bliss". +
If something exists, it can be known. Therefore, ''knowable phenomena'' is a synonym of ''existence''. At every instance consciousness knows its own object; there is no consciousness without an object. Thus, ''consciousness'' is a synonym of ''knowing consciousness''. +
The first two of the five paths common to both vehicles. On the path of accumulation and the path of preparation, the under standing of emptiness, or the nature of reality, is based upon solid reasoning, but it is not a direct cognition free of conceptuality. Therefore there remains an element of belief, but not in the sense of blind faith. +
Specific points within the body, usually at the very center of the cakras. In completion-stage practice these points are concentrated upon in order to bring the winds there for the purposes of withdrawing the mind, loosening the channel knots, and so on. +
