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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. +
An obstruction to spiritual progress, sometimes personified as the tempter Māra. There are four types: the aggregates, mental afflictions, death, and ''devaputra''. The last, literally "son of the gods," is the personification of intoxication with desire-realm pleasures. +
Phabongkha (''Compilation of Notes, 64b3'') says that, generally, to think of "the core teachings of the lama" as merely oral teach ings passed on from one to another is not correct; rather you should think that explaining the entire doctrine according to the thought of the Buddha is a core teaching. In that sense, the works of Nāgārjuna and his disciples are core teachings. Often overlaps with "instructions" (''grams ngag''). +
Generally, ''ārya'' refers to the levels (''bhūmi'') of attainment, or to those who have attained these levels, characterized by a direct and non conceptual understanding of the ultimate truth in meditation. Becoming an ārya, attaining the first of the ten levels, and reaching the path of seeing all happen simultaneously. Specifically, in this work the Ārya tradition is the Guhyasamāja tradition that primarily follows Ārya Nāgārjuna and his disciples. +
An adept who has gained mastery over certain practices. +
The process of forcibly separating the consciousness, or primordial body, from the coarse body in order to take another life without going through the death and intermediate-state process. Also refers to the more commonly known practice of ensuring, with a lamas help, migration into a pure land at the time of death. +
Sanskrit term, transliterated in Tibetan, referring to the female sexual organ. +
Flesh and blood consort. There are two explanations for the sense of ''karma'' as used in this term: that the consort is a woman whose form is produced by karma, and that ''karma'' here refers to the activity or function of the consort in creating great bliss. The term ''mudrā'' (seal) refers to the consorts ability to seal the yogi with great bliss. +
A categorization of the developments on the paths of the generation and completion stages: Approach (''bsnyen''), close accomplishment (''dyer grub''), accomplishment (''shrub pa''), great accomplishment (''shrub chen''). Each set of four occurs on both stages. +
Non-Mahayana disciples of the Buddha who, unlike śrāvaka disciples, prefer to meditate on their own, leading some tenets to classify them as more intelligent than the śrāvakas. +
A completion-stage practice included in the first of the five stages in which the ordinary view of bodily constituents is replaced with a divine view in which these constituents appear as the play of bliss and emptiness in the form of deities. This is distinguished from generation-stage practice because this practice arises from the practice of dissolving the winds in the central channel. ''See also'' five stages. +
