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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. +
Refers to the union between deity and consort. +
The fifth of the six yogas that make up an alternative categorization of the completion stage. Recollection is included in the stage of union from the five stages. ''See also'' six-branch yoga. +
Often refers to the practice of a visualized deity form disappearing into emptiness or to the impure illusory body disappearing into the clear light. +
Euphemism for male sex organ, often just referred to as ''jewel''. +
In this work this term refers to the fourth- stage actual clear light. +
Central channel. ''See also'' channel. +
A way of dividing the completion stage of tantra into substages.
:1. ''body and speech isolation'': When using the set of five, body isolation and speech isolation are grouped together. Speech isolation includes vajra repetition (''rod rje zlas pa'', ''vajrajāpa'') and prāṇāyāma (''srog rtsol'').
:2. ''mind isolation'':. Also known as ''focus on the mind'' (''seems la dmigs pa'')
:3. ''illusory body'': Also known as ''self-consecration'' (''bdag la byin brlabs'', ''svādhiṣṭhāna''), where "self" refers to the subtle wind imputed as self and "consecrate" means to transform (Phabongkha, ''Compilation of Notes'', 126)
:4. ''actual clear light'': Also known as ''mastery'' (''mngon par byang chub, abhisambodhi'').
:5. ''union'': Includes the practice and no-further-practice stages of union +
Often coupled with the six sides, these are four particular modes, or types, of tantric text. The work is said to be sealed by these four modes and cannot be fully understood without their recognition. The four are open mode, general or shared mode, hidden or exclusive mode, and ultimate mode. +
The advance tantric practice of forcing the consciousness to enter the corpse or living body of another being. +
Channels that carry the winds are grouped together at certain "vital points" within the body, such as the heart, navel, and throat, often in a form resembling the spokes of a wheel or petals of a lotus. The Tibetan term means "channel wheels". +
