The preparatory mind of the first mental absorption, and then the actual experiences of the four form-realm and four formless-realm mental absorptions. +
In Sakya: The three ''kecarīs'': Nāro Khecarī, Indra Khecarī, Maitrī Kliccarī; the three great red ones: Kurukulla, Gaṇapati, Ṭakkirāja; the three lesser red ones: Kurukulla with a Golden Heartdrop, Red Norgyunma, Tinuma; and Amāravajradevī, Red Jambala, Siṃhamukhā, Black Mañjughosa, and Siṃhanāda Avalokiteśvara. +
In Nyingma, the expanses or spaces in which: the view is unchanging, meditation is neither present nor absent, there is neither hope nor doubt for the result, the essence is neither accomplished nor clarified, natural expression is unimpeded, appearance and mind are liberated with respect to characteristics, the expanse is unchanging, display unimpededly and naturally arises, and there is the total presence of spontaneous sameness and primordial liberation. See NS, vol.II, p. 4511591; cf. BA, p. 172. +
A Kadam special instruction involving recollection of: your lama as an object of refuge, your body as a deity, your speech as mantra, all beings as your parents, and your mind as empty. +
One of the most common epithets of the Buddha,literally meaning one who is “thus gone” (''tathā āgata'') beyond samsara to the far shore of ''nirvana'', or who is “thus come” (''tathā āgata'') to the world to show the way to nirvana. +
On the completion stage of highest yoga tantra (especially the mother tantras), four experiences induced by the movement of energies within the central channel: joy, ultimate joy, joy of cessation, and innate joy. +
In the most general terms, a ''buddha's'' physical body, in contrast to the “body of Dharma” (''dharmakāya''). In ''Mahayana'', the form body is the aspect taken by dharmakāya for the sake of others. It is achieved through the accumulation of merit and is usually subdivided into the ''enjoyment body'' and ''emanation body''. +
In Confucian tradition: the ''Daxue'' (''Great Learning''), the ''Zhongyong'' (''Doctrine of the Mean''), the ''Lunyu'' (''Analects''), and the ''Mengzi'' (''Book of Mencius''). +
With ''Cittamātra'', one of the two major ''Mahayana'' philosophical schools. Founded by Nāgārjuna, it focuses on the doctrine of ''emptiness'' expounded in the perfection of wisdom literature. Madhyamaka was the most influential single philosophical tradition in Tibet and spread in other parts of the Mahayana world as well. +