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Tantric adepts who have achieved high levels of attainment. +
The fundamental ignorance that acts as a cause for the continuation of the cycle of suffering and whose characteristic is the mistaken perception that the phenomenon Held by the conscious ness exists in its own right, from its own side, without depending on other factors. +
Included in the stage of speech isolation, this is the exclusive form of mantra repetition on the completion stage. It is not vocalized chanting but an identification of the tones of the movement of the inner breath with the three fundamental syllables. +
The topic of part 10 of this volume. See page 15 of the introduction. +
Great compassion focused on all living beings but grasped by the wisdom that characterizes these beings as not existing inherently. +
Often used to describe an advanced meditative session, often involving absorption in emptiness, and is contrasted with "post-meditation". +
''All-at-once'' refers to advanced tantric practices that seem to negate or omit any preceding preparatory practices, such as the generation stage. The ''gradual method'' is a sequential process to advanced tantric states. As Tsongkhapa points out, there are divergent views on what these two terms actually refer to. +
The three main meditative concentrations of the generation stage:initial yoga, sovereign mandala, and sovereign activities mandala. +
Tsongkhapa discusses the meaning of this term in the section "The way to meditate on the generation stage" beginning on page 87. Phabongkha (''Compilation of Notes'', 47a4) also says that single-thought yoga occurs in the coarse generation stage and refers to focusing solely on the deity to the exclusion of all else, or to recollecting that you and the deity are of one nature. +
(i) Hand gestures made to illustrate particular states of mind such as wrathfulness and inner activities such as making offerings; (2) a consort, in the sense of she who seals the bliss of the yogi by way of meditative union. ''See also'' karma consort; wisdom consort. +
The stage of union is the last of the five stages and refers to the union of the illusory body and the clear light. This is known as the union of the two truths. ''See also'' five stages. +
The concentrated mental activity in tantra of focusing on specific points within the body, usually the centers of cakras, with the purpose of manipulating the winds. +
Conceptual states of mind that arise and dissolve by the circumstance of the winds stir ring and sinking at birth and death respectively. These are also just referred to as ''intrinsic natures'' (''rang bzhin, prakṛti''), which indicates that these states of mind are innate and are made manifest by the movement of the winds at birth. In this sense there seems to be some resonance with the non-Buddhist Sāmkhya philosophy for whom the ''prakṛti'' is a primal source, but that may be a case of a single term with distinct applications. +
This term can refer to the ultimate truth, when it is often trans lated as "suchness." At other times it means "principle" or "reality." In this work the term is used in the section describing the "reality" of mantra and the winds, and I have translated it as such. However, elsewhere in this work, it is found in citations from Indie tantric works and on its own refers to bliss and emptiness combined. In such cases, I have left it as ''tattva''. +
Supernatural abilities gained from tantric practice. Usually eight types of ordinary siddhi are mentioned, and the ''supreme siddhi'' refers to the attainment of enlightenment. +
Three main types are discussed in this work: Meditation upon a mantra drop at the heart, meditation upon the light drop at the tip of the nose, and meditation upon the substance drop at the secret-area. Along with vajra repetition, prāṇāyāma makes up the stage of speech isolation in the completion stage. It is also the name of one of the six yogas of the alternate categorization of the completion stage. +
Elsewhere this term is an "approach", or "approximation" in the sense of getting close to the deity. The Sanskrit also has the meaning of homage, worship, devotion, and so on, or "service" in the sense of devoted attendance to a master or deity. Wayman translates it this way. In indigenous Tibetan (usually without the nominative ''pa''), it can refer to a qualifying meditation retreat on the generation stage. In this work it is mostly used as one of the four branches of approach and accomplishment. ''See also'' four branches. +
Fourth of the five stages; also the very subtie nature of the mind that dawns at the moment of death and that can be actualized during life through yogic practices. ''See also'' actual clear light; five stages; illustrative clear light; three appearances/consciousnesses. +
One of the 108 winds. +
Refers to the body of the deity created on the completion stage from the creation of the illusory body onward as opposed to the mantra body visualized on the generation stage. Not to be confused with the exalted-wisdom dharmakāya (''jñānadharmakāya''), which is the consciousness of the enlightened state. +
