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Nāgārjunas six major texts: ''Fundamental Treatise on the Middle Way, Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness, Finely Woven Scripture, Refutation of Objections'', and ''Precious Garland''. +
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Madhyamaka and Cittamātra. +
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Mental activity that is prone to discursiveness, complication, and fantasy. Useful in everyday life, elaboration, like ''conceptual thought'', is an impediment to the direct realization of ''emptiness'' and so must be overcome on the path to ''liberation''. +
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In Kadam tradition： Geshé Potowa, Geshé Chengawa, and Geshé Puchungwa. +
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In Nyingma, one of the three major lineages, with the treasure and ''pure vision'' lineages. It consists of the triad of sutra, magical net, and mind class: the ''Sutra that Gathers Intentions'', the ''Net of Illusion'', and the mind-side teachings. +
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These are the Root Tantra (''Rtsa bai rgyud''), ''Explanatory Tantra'' (''Bshad rgyud''), ''Tantra of Special Instruction'' (''Man ngag gi rgyud''), and the ''Supplementary Tantra'' (''Phyi mai rgyud''). +
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Abstention for twenty-four hours from killing, stealing, lying, sexual activity, intoxicants, eating after noon, sitting on high beds or thrones, and singing, dancing, or enjoying theatrical shows. +
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A discourse of the Buddha, contained in the canonical collection of either a ''Hinayana'' or ''Mahayana'' school. There is significant disagreement between Hinayana and Mahayana schools over which sutras were actually taught by the Buddha, with the former having a narrower, and the latter a more expansive, understanding of “what the Buddha taught.” +
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In Kadam： Śākyamuni Buddha, Avalokiteśvara, Tārā, Acala. +
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Sautrāntika Svātantrikas and Yogācāra Svātantrikas. +
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In ''Mahayana'' soteriology, the obstacles to complete buddhahood that are removed by ''bodhisattvas'' on the final three stages of the ten-stage sequence. Knowledge obstacles are not ''delusions'' per se, but the subtle propensity to them that remains even when delusions have been removed. When the last knowledge obstacle is removed on the tenth bodhisattva stage, one is enlightened in the next instant. +
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In Buddhist ''tantra'', the “chosen deity” who becomes the principal focus of ones meditation practice. The meditational deity may be chosen by the practitioner or the practitioner chosen by the deity; in most cases, one must receive confirmation from ones guru that the deity is the one with which one has a true affinity. +
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In contrast to wisdom (''prajñā'', ''shes rab''), which may be either worldly or transmundane, gnosis usually connotes a realization of the nature of things that is profound and liberating. The “accumulation” of gnosis on the ''bodhisattva'' path eventuates in the attainment of a ''buddhas dharmakāya''. +
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A multivalent term in Indic religions more generally and Buddhism in particular. In English orthography, Dharma (capitalized) refers to the entirety of the Buddhas teachings or to a particular teaching or set of teachings (e.g., the six Dharmas of Nāropa), while dharma (not capitalized) denotes the basic constituents of reality as described by the Buddha and categorized in the texts of the ''abhidharma'' tradition. +
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In China: Wu Tai Shan in the east, Hua Shan in the west, Nan Heng Shan in the south, Bei Heng Shan in the north； and Song Shan in the center. +
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Violations of monastic conduct that result in immediate expulsion: killing a human being, stealing from the Three Jewels, lying about one’s attainments, and engaging in sexual intercourse. +
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With ''analytical meditation'', one of the two basic types of meditation recognized in Buddhism. Placement meditation usually involves focus on a single object; when seriously practiced, it leads to states of ''tranquil abiding, meditative absorption, meditative equipoise'', and ''concentration''. Though a necessary condition for attaining ''enlightenment'', it is riot sufficient on its own and must be combined with analytical meditation. +
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Not to hate others despite being the object of their hatred, not to retaliate in anger even when angry, not to injure others even when injured, and not to beat others even when one is beaten by them. +
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In Bön the shen of prediction, the shen of appearance, the shen of magic, the shen of existence, the vehicle of the layperson, the vehicle of the white ''a'', the vehicle of the seer, the vehicle of the primordial shen, and the especially great vehicle. +
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''Asaṅgas Stages of Yogic Practice, Compendium of Bases, Compendium of Ascertainments, Compendium of Enumerations, and Compendium of Explanations''. +
