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One of two crucial attainments in Buddhist meditation, the other being ''superior insight''. Tranquil abiding is a state of effortless ''concentration'' upon an object of meditation accompanied by mental and physical ease, and is the doorway to the ''mental absorptions''. In most Buddhist path-systems, a practitioner must join tranquil abiding with superior insight to become an ''ārya'' being and assure the attainment of ''liberation'' or ''buddhahood''. +
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The “path-and-result” tradition of the Sakyapas, which is the definitive tantric transmission in that order. It is rooted in the Hevajra corpus and was introduced in Tibet in the eleventh century by Drokmi Lotsāwa on the basis of ''instructions'' from the Indian master Gayādhara and a root text composed by the great adept Virūpa. +
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In Madhyamaka, the investigation whether an entity exists as separate from its components, as identical to its components, possessing its components, inherently dependent upon its components, as the basis upon which the components depend, as the collection of components, or the shape of its components. +
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The distilled forms of earth, water, fire, air, and space. +
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According Tibetan analyses： vinaya (Lu), secret mantra (CKenycn), extensive practice (''school of Xuanzang''), profound view (Tiantai and Huayan), and essential meaning (Chan). +
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In tantric Buddhism: Aksobhya, Vairocana, Ratnasambhava, Amitābha, and Amoghasiddhi. +
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The empty, very empty, and greatly empty. Cf. ''four empties''. +
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Past, present, and future. +
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In virtually all Indic traditions, a potent syllable or phrase, most often in Sanskrit, which may or may not have denotative meaning. In Buddhist ''tantra'', a mantra evokes the ''buddha''-deity with whom one identifies, and is uttered as the speech of that deity, with the power to affect and effect events in the mind and in the world. +
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The reasons presence in the logical subject, pervasion by the predicate, and absence from all instances of the nonpredicate. +
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In the triad lineage of Nyingma the five transworldly classes— of Manjuśrī/Yamāntaka; lotus/ Hayagrīva purity/Heruka nectar/Vajrāmṛta; and dagger/Vajrakīla— and the three worldly classes— sending invitations to the mother goddesses, reciting the destructive wrathful mantra, and praising and making offerings to worldly deities. +
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The complction-stage phases described by the Guhyasamāja tantric tradition: isolated speech, isolated mind, illusory body, clear light, and union. +
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The second of the five stages of ''completion stage'' practice in the Guhyasamāja tantra tradition. Following upon isolated speech, in which energies arc brought into the central channel of the ''subtle body'', this stage involves mimicry of the death process, in which energies are brought to the heart center, then the indestructible drop within it; there, conceptuality is stilled, or “isolated.” On the basis of isolated mind, one creates an impure ''illusory body'', attains ''clear-light'' realization of the nature of reality, and attains the final union of ''buddhahood''. +
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In Sakya: Khöntön Künga Bar, Sönam Tsemo, Drakpa Gyaltsen, Chungpal Ö, Sakya Pandita, Sangtsa Sönam Gyaltsen, Phakpa (all emanations of Mañjughoṣa), and Chakna (an emanation of Vajrapāṇi). +
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The meaning lineage of the conquerors, the symbol lineage of mantra adepts, the ear-whispered lineage of ordinary persons, the lineage of prophecies of the special oral tradition, the lineage of the karmically projected treasure, and the lineage of the mindseal prayer. +
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One of the six or ten perfections that must be mastered by a ''bodhisattva''; also, a corpus of literature related to wisdom. The main subject matter of the corpus is the career of the ''bodhisattva'', with a special emphasis on the compassionate methods he or she must develop, and the wisdom realizing ''emptiness'' that he or she must attain. +
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In Jainism: These are souls (''jīva''), the non-living (''ajīva'')，evil (''pāpa''), afflictions (''āsrava''), bondage (''bandha''), merit (''puṇya''), stopping affliction (''saṃvara''), destruction of bondage (''nirjarā''), and liberation (''mokṣa''). See also Hopkins, ''Maps of the Profound'', pp. 179-80. +
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n Geluk, in the Mé tantra system： the direct instructions on the five stages of Guhyasamāja; the two guidelines on Cakrasamvara, by Lūipa and Ghantapa; the stages of the four yogas of Vajrabhairava; the six yogas of Kālacakra; the fourfold blessing of the Great Wheel Vajrapāni the six Dharmas of Nāropa; and the opening of the golden door to the guidelines on transference of consciousness. +
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Among ''Cittamātrins'' following scripture, a foundational or “storehouse” consciousness that is the source of the other seven consciousnesses (six sense consciousnesses and a deluded consciousness) as well as their objects. It is the carrier of various cognitive and affective tendencies as well as of the seeds of ''karma'', and it will be transformed at ''enlightenment'' into the ''gnosis'' of a ''buddha''. +
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A buddhas natural and gnostic dharmakāyas and the enjoyment and emanation bodies. +
