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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.  +
Sarvāstivāda, Kāśyapīya, Mahīśāsaka, Dharmaguptaka, Bahuśrutīya, Tamrasātīya, and Vibhajyavāda.  +
In Kadam, special instructions on mind training based on food, mind training based on the breath, emanating as many bodies as there are sands in the Ganges, mind training based on flesh and blood, mind training based on tormas, mind training based on the elements, training the mind to emanate the body as a wish-granting jewel, and the time just before death.  +
In Indo-Tibetan tradition: earth, water, fire, air, and space. In Chinese tradition: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.  +
In Nyingma śrāvaka, pratyekabuddha, bodhisattva, kriyā tantra, upa tantra, yoga tantra, mahāyoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga.  +
Literally a “means of accomplishment,” it refers to the meditative procedures applied in tantric practice whereby one visualizes oneself as a deity at the center of a ''mandala''. It also may refer to a text that describes those procedures.  +
In Drigung Kagyü: the awakening mind, deity yoga, guru yoga, Mahāmudrā, and dedication of merit.  +
The Buddhas teaching of: dharma realism through Hinayana sutras at Sarnath; emptiness through the perfection of wisdom sutras on the Vulture Peak at Rājagrha; and mind-only and/or buddha nature through various sutras at Mount Malaya and/or Vaiśālī.  +
In Kagyü: using conceptual thoughts as the path, using delusions as the path, using illness as the path, using gods and ''dré'' demons as the path, using suffering as the path, and using death as the path.  +
In Indie mythology: the ''kṛta, treta, dvapara'', and ''kali'' yugas. These are roughly equivalent to the gold, silver, bronze, and iron ages of Western mythology.  +