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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. +
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To be abandoned on the path of meditation: coarsecoarse, medium-coarse, subtle-course, coarse-medium, medium-medium, subtle-medium, coarse-subtle, medium-subtle, and subtle-subtle. +
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The Kadam lineage's central tantric practice, wherein the meditations focus gets progressively smaller, moving from: the entire universe, to your world in particular, to the realm of Tibet, to your own dwelling. Within your heart, there lie in sequence—one inside the heart of the other—the deity Prajñāpāramitā, the Buddha, Avalokiteśvara, Wisdom Tārā, Wrathful Tārā, the protector Acala, Atiśa, and Dromtönpa, inside of whose heart are the drops of the three lineages—extensive conduct, profound view, and inspirational practice—finally culminating in the drop of great awakening. +
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The term used most often by Tibetan Buddhists to designate both a school of thought and a system of religious practice. It is broader than the Sanskrit notion of a philosophical viewpoint (''darśana'') but somewhat narrower than the modern notion of a “religion.” +
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The nine stages of tranquil abiding: mental placement, continuous placement, patched placement, close placement, taming the mind, pacification of the mind, complete pacification, one-pointed attention, and balanced placement. +
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Knowing what abides and does not; knowing the maturation of acts; knowing the various inclinations of beings; knowing various sensory realms; knowing whose faculties. are superior and whose are not; knowing all paths leading everywhere; knowing meditative absorption, liberation, concentration, meditative equipoise, delusions, and purification; remembering past lives; knowing death and birth; and knowing the cessation of affliction. +
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Fish, Tortoise, Boar, Man-Lion, Dwarf, Rāma, Rāma with the Ax, Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, Kalkin. +
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There is suffering, there is an origin of suffering, there is a cessation of suffering, and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. +
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In tantric traditions, the single savor一 of emptiness— that all dharmas possess. Also referred to as the taste of sameness (''ro snyoms'', ''samarasa''), it is a practice tradition in Kagyü and the third ofthe four yogas in the sequence of Mahāmudrā meditations. +
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Fortnightly confession, the summer rains retreat, and the end-of-retreat ceremony. +
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The tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the Nyingma, that arose during the ''early spread of the teaching'' (650-850) and relies upon the translations of Indian Buddhist texts made during that period, rather than the “new translations” made during the ''later spread of the teaching''. +
