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''People Treasury of Dohas, Queen Treasury of Dohas'', and ''King Treasury of Dohas''. +
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In Mahayana discourse, an alternative name for the ''perfection vehicle'' or sutra vehicle. It sometimes is translated as “dialectical vehicle” or “philosophical vehicle. +
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In ''highest yoga tantra'', the second and final stage of practice, usually involving manipulation of energies in the ''subtle body'' and culminating in ''buddhahood''. Completion-stage practices arc divided in various ways, e.g., the five stages of the Ārya tradition of Guhyasamāja, the six yogas of the Kālacakra, the six Dharmas of Nāropa, etc. +
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Powers attained by advanced meditators: retrocognition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, yogic achievements, and knowledge of the destruction of the corruptions, i.e., delusions. The first five can be gained through deep ''concentration'', and arc not specific to Buddhism； the last is unique to Buddhists and is attained only on the basis of ''superior insight'' into the nature of reality. +
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A gradual approach to the attainment of ''enlightenment'' (especially prominent among the Geluk) in which one develops progressively stronger motivation and understanding, moving from a narrowly focused desire for self-improvement to an altruistic aspiration to ''enlightenment'' for the sake of all beings, and from the acceptance of common Buddhist truths to the cultivation of the ''Mahayana'' perfections and, ultimately, the path of the ''secret-mantra vehicle''. +
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The eighth through tenth bodhisattva stages, on which one has fully abandoned all delusion obstacles but is separated from buddhahood by knowledge obstacles. +
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Objective cause, immediate cause, cooperative cause, dominant cause. +
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Deities in the Nyingma tradition of eight transmitted precepts： Manjuśri/Yamāntaka, Hayagrīva, Heruka, Vajṛāmrta, and Vajrakila. +
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Gugé, Purang, and Mangyul. +
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That which comprises the “person”： form, scnsations, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. +
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According to ''Mahayana'' soteriology, the obstacles to liberation removed by both ''śrãvakas'' and bodhisattvas en route to liberation. ''Śrāvakas'' remove only delusion obstacles, whereas bodhisattvas subsequently remove ''knowledge obstacles'', which are the subtle traces of ''delusion'' that keep one from the full omniscience of a ''buddha''. +
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The trainings in morality, meditation, and wisdom. +
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In Tibetan traditions, the main monastery of a particular lineage, which usually will have associated with it various subsidiary monasteries, retreat houses, and other religious institutions. +
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Imputed and innate. +
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According to Tibetan scholarly tradition, the school of ''Madhyamaka'' philosophy that (a) stresses syllogistic reasoning rather than the use of ''reductio ad absurdum'' (''prasaṅga'') in establishing the nature of ''dharmas'' as ''emptiness'' and (b) asserts that dharmas possess inherent defining characteristics (''svalak^ana''), at least conventionally. The school is subdivided into Sautrāntika Svātantrika Madhyamaka (represented by Bhāvaviveka andjñānagarbha) and Yogācāra Svãtantrika Madhyamaka (represented by Śāntaraksita and Kamalaśīla). +
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In Chinese traditions: Fu Xi, Wen Wang, Zhou Gong, and Kongzi (Confucius). +
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The mind class, expanse class, and special-instruction class. +
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The central term in ''Mahayana'' philosophy, especially the ''Madhyamaka'' school, and the truth that must be realized if enlightenment is to be attained. A radicalization and universalization of the early Buddhist idea of no-self, emptiness is the true nature of all entities and concepts in both ''samsara'' and ''nirvana'', variously taken to be the absence of ''inherent existence'', the enlightened minds lack of samsaric ''dharmas'', or external objects’ nondifFerence from the mind that perceives them. +
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Qualities of the enjoyment body: complete enjoyment, union, great bliss, essencelessness, perfect compassion, noninterruption，and noncessation. +
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In any Buddhist tradition, a practitioner who attains the final goal either very rapidly or instantaneously. The simultaneist approach is generally reserved for advanced meditators and is particularly celebrated in Chan Buddhism and, among Tibetans, by those in ''Dzokchen'' and ''Mahāmudrā'' lineages. +
