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This life, the stages of dying, the dharmadhātu, becoming" one’s next rebirth, dreaming, and meditative absorption.  +
The principal (or fundamental nature), the great, the I-principle, form, sound, smell, taste, tangibles, earth, water, fire, air, space, eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, voice, hands, feet, excretory organs, generative organs, mind, and the person.  +
Padmavajra's ''Secret Yogic Attainment'', Anaṅgavajras ''Yogic Attainment Ascertaining Wisdom and Means'', Indrabhūti's ''Yogic Attainment of Gnosis'', Laksmīṅkarās ''Yogic Attainment of Nonduality'', Dārikapa's ''Special Instruction on the Reality of the Greatest Secret'', Yoginī Cintā's ''Yogic Attainment of Reality Following the Clarification of Entities'', and Ḍombi Heruka's ''Yogic Attainment of the Innate.''  +
Like ''guidelines, praxis'', and ''instructions'', a pithy, esoteric, and highly important set of teachings imparted by a master to a disciple or disciples. In most Tibetan traditions, special instructions are regarded as the most vital teachings of all.  +
In advanced tantric systems: action seal, dharma seal, pledge seal, and great seal (mahāmudrā). Cf. ''four authenticating seals''.  +
The five basic texts of the Geluk monastic educational system: Candrakīrtis ''Entering the Middle Way'' (for Madhyamaka), Dharmakīrti's ''Thorough Exposition of Valid Cognition'' (for valid cognition), Maitreya's ''Ornament of Higher Realization'' (for perfection of wisdom), Guṇaprabhas ''Vinaya Sutra'' (for vinaya), and Vasubandhus'' Treasury of Higher Knowledge'' (for Abhidharma).  +
The basic threefold collection of Buddhist canonical scriptures, divided into ''vinaya, sutra'', and ''abhidharma''. This organization of scriptures is most applicable in the cases of the Pali and other ''Hinayana'' canons; the Tibetan and Chinese Tripiṭakas are organized along rather different lines.  +
In Geluk tradition: Ganden, Sera, Drepung, and Tashi Lhünpo.  +
In traditional Indian cosmo-geography : the eastern continent of Pūrvavideha, the southern continent of Jambudvīpa, the western continent of Aparagodanīya, and the northern continent of Uttarakuru.  +
The state of release, or emancipation, from ''samsara'' achieved by every ''arhat'', hence the same as ''nirvana''. In ''Hinayana'', it is the highest achievement. In ''Mahayana'', it either is synonymous with the highest achievement, buddhahood, or is regarded as an attainment preliminary to following the ''bodhisattva'' path to full enlightenment.  +
The major impediments to receiving secret teachings: desire, fear, anger, and confusion. Alternatively, it may refer to the sorts of beings who are controlled by these tendencies.  +
Sādhanas related to Mahāsahasrapramarsanī, Mahāmayuri, Mahāmantrānudhāriṇl, Mahāśītavatī, and Mahāpratisara.  +
As found in, e.g., ''Ornament of Higher Realization'', 8:13-17: palms and soles marked with wheels, feet firm like a tortoises, webbed finger and toes, soft and supple hands and feet, well proportioned limbs, long toes and fingers, broad arches, a tall and straight body, hidden ankles, upward-curling body-hair, calves like an antelopes, long and beautiful arms, contracted sex organ, golden complexion and delicate skin, body hairs curling to the right, hair-ring between the eyebrows, leonine chest, rounded shoulders, broad back, superior sense of taste, body symmetrical like a banyan, protuberance at the crown, long tongue, voice like Brahmas, leonine jaws, white teeth, equal teeth, closely spaced teeth, forty teeth, sapphire blue eyes, bovine eyelashes.  +