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A set of instructions for practice conveyed by a guru to a disciple or group of disciples, either orally or in writing. Among Buddhist pedagogical styles, guidelines are less broad than teachings (''bstan'') or explanations/expositions (''bshad''), and more like instructions, praxis, or special instructions, which tend to be quite specifically focused. +
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A monk from the Chinese Buddhist
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In the Tiantai system the sudden entrance, gradual entrance, secret or special entrance, indefinite entrance, entrance to the ''piṭakas'', entrance to awareness, entrance to discrimination, and entrance to perfection. +
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In highest yoga tantra: vase, secret, wisdom gnosis, and fourth (or word). +
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For all Buddhists, the five constituent factors that comprise what we usually call a “person”： form or matter, sensation or feeling, perception or recognition, mental formations or dispositions, and consciousness or awareness. +
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In ''Madhyamaka'' thought, one of the two levels of discourse or truth. Unlike ultimate discourse, the conventional conceals the true nature of things, and is a mere nominal designation, acceptable by worldly standards but unable to withstand analysis, hence sublated in the attainment of an ultimate realization. +
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In the Kālacakra tantric corpus, the completion-stage yogas of： withdrawal, mental absorption, breath control, retention, recollection, and concentration. +
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The attribution to a phenomenon of characteristics that it does not possess, most notably the imputation of ''inherent existence'' to entities through ''conceptual thought or elaboration''. +
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Love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. +
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In Cittamātra ontology, the three types of phenomena: imaginary, dependent, and thoroughly established. +
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A type of text taught by the Buddha to expound the doctrines and practices of the secret-mantra vehicle, in contradistinction to the sutras through which he expounded the ''śrāvaka'' and ''perfection vehicles''. In English，the term also has come to connote the doctrines, practices, and outlook described in the tantras. +
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The eighteen root and forty-six auxiliary bodhisattva and the fourteen root and eight auxiliary tantric vows. +
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An expert in the ''Tripiṭaka'', the three canonical collections of Buddhism; the term implies extraordinary scholarly achievement. +
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The general causal law in Buddhism that asserts that whatever arises does so in dependence upon causes and conditions. Sometimes taken to be the essential Buddhist teaching, it is given specific instantiation in the twelve links of dependent arising, which explain how it is we continually take birth in ''samsara''. It is also explained by Nāgārjuna as equivalent to—and the major proof of—''emptiness''. +
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The vajra, lotus, and tathāgata. +
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Nāgārjuna and Asaṅga. +
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In Chinese religion： Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions. +
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Praying to and doing intensive retreat on the inseparable guru/meditational deity； striving well in both accumulation of merit and purification of negativities; and analyzing the meaning of textual systems carefully through reason, and thinking about them in detail. +
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Downfalls entailing expulsion, downfalls entailing suspension, minor transgressions, “confessable'' transgressions, and small infractions. +
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In the Vaiśeṣika system of Hindu philosophy: substance, quality, generality, particularity, activity, and inherence. +
