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Gnostic dharmakāya and natural dharmakāya. +
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In Mīmāṃsā: perception, inference, testimony, comparison, implication, and cognition of nonexistence. +
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Euphemism for exploitative sex and murder as practiced by self-styled tantric teachers in Tibet, especially in the period between the ''early'' and ''later spreads of the teaching''. +
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A set of vajra sayings in the Drigung Kagyü traditions that explicates basic features of the Drigung understanding of Buddhist tradition. +
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A term that can refer to an anchorite, ascetic, visionary, or silent sage in a range of Indian religious traditions. For Buddhists, the Buddha is ''the'' Muni, the ascetic par excellence. +
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In China: Yangtze (in the south), Huanghe (in the north), Huai (in the center), and Ji (in the east). +
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In the Geluk tradition: renunciation, the awakening mind, and right view. +
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Buddha Heruka, Vajra Heruka, Ratna Heruka, Padma Heruka, and Karma Heruka. +
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One of the three or four seals of practice in the higher tantras. In ''highest yoga tantra'') it most often is used to refer to a sexual partner whose embrace assists one in manipulating energies in the subtle body so as to hasten enlightenment. +
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Action tantra, performance tantra, yoga tantra, and highest yoga tantra. +
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Pūrvaśaila, Aparaśaila, Haimavata, Lokottaravāda, Prajñāptivāda (all Mahāsāṃghika), Sarvāstivāda, Kāśyapīya, Mahlśāsaka, Dharmaguptaka, Bahuśrutīya, Tāmraśāṭīya, Vibhajyavāda (all Sarvāstivāda), Jaitavanīya, Abhayagirīvāsīya, Mahāvihāravāsīya (all Sthavira), Kurukullaka, Āvantika, Vātsīputrīya (all Saṃmatīya). +
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A ''bodhisattva'' who has, through tantric practice, gained both worldly and transmundane ''. The great adepts of medieval India, whose lifestories are both colorful and inspirational, were instrumental in transmitting the tantras and are at the source of many Tibetan practice lineages. +
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Piṇḍola Bharadvaja, Ajita, Subinda, Kalika, Vajraputra, BKadra, Kanakavatsa, Kanakabhadra, Nakula (Vakula), Rāhula, Chuḍapaṇṭhaka, Aṅgaja, Paṇṭhaka, Nāgascna, Jīvaka, Vanavasin. +
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A quality of ''dharmas'' that, if they possessed it, would define them as permanent, partless, and independent. The notion of inherent existence (generally synonymous with true existence) is the primary object of refutation in ''Madhyamaka'' philosophy, and realization of dharmas’ ''emptiness'' of inherent existence is the necessary condition for the elimination of ''delusions'' and the attainment of ''liberation''. +
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In, e.g., the ''Brahmajala Sutta'' of the ''Dīgha Nikāya'': four grounds for asserting the eternity of the self and world； four grounds for asserting the partial eternity and partial noneternity of the self and world; four grounds for asserting the finitude and infinitude of the self and world; four grounds for avoiding assertion altogether; two grounds for asserting origination through chance; sixteen assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and conscious and either material, immaterial, both material and immaterial, neither material nor immaterial, finite, infinite, both, neither, of uniform perception, of varied perception, of limited perception, of unlimited perception, wholly happy wholly miserable, both, or neither； eight assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and unconscious and either material, immaterial, both, neither, finite, infinite, both, or neither; eight assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and unconscious and either material, immaterial, both, neither, finite, infinite, both, or neither; seven grounds for asserting the annihilation of the self after death; and five grounds for wrongly asserting the attainment of nirvana here and now. +
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In Kadam tradition： four deities— the Buddha, Avalokitcśvara, Tārā, and Acala— and the triple Dharma of the three sections of the Tripiṭaka. +
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Earth, water, fire, and air. +
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In Shijé the ''Manual of the Profound InitiaManual ofthe Root Identification, Manual ofthe Guidelines of the EarWhispered Lineage，Manual of the Vital Points of the Four Doors, Manual of tbe Vańous Magical Powers, Manual of the Profound Mantra) Manual of Dākiṇī Doctrine-Protector, and Manual of the Three-Part Royal Special Instruction''. +
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Mahāsāṃghika, Sarvāstivāda, Sthavira, and Saṃmatīya. +
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A tantric ritual anointment, coronation, or empowerment, in which a guru confers upon disciples the blessings of the practice lineage of a particular deity and allows them to undertake practices related to that deity. There are different types and categorizations of initiations, but all of them require that the disciple visualize the lama as the deity, make offerings, and undertake vows. +
