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kun gzhi or kun gzhi rnam par shes pa;ground of all;ground of all;ālaya;The ground consciousness that is the basis for the other consciousnesses and in which the habitual tendencies are stored. +
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rten ‘brel bcu gnyis;twelve links of dependent arising;twelve links of dependent arising;The twelve factors or stages through which the process of birth and rebirth in cyclic existence takes place. They are ignorance, conditioning factors, consciousness, name-and-form, the sense powers, contact, feeling, craving, grasping, becoming, birth, and aging-and-death. +
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byang chub sems dpa’;bodhisattva;A follower of the Great Vehicle whose aim is perfect enlightenment for all beings. One who has taken the vow of bodhicitta and practices the six transcendent perfections. +
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ri rgyal po ri rab;Mount Meru;mount meru;The immense mountain, wider at the top than at the bottom, that forms the center of the universe around which the four continents of the world are disposed, according to ancient Indian cosmology. +
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byams pa;Maitreya;lit. “Love.” One of the Buddha’s eight closest bodhisattva disciples. As the future Buddha, he presently resides in the Tuṣita heaven. +
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ye shes;gnosis;gnosis;jñana;Also called primal wisdom or primordial wisdom. The knowing (''shes pa'') that has always been present since the beginning (''ye nas'');awareness, clarity-emptiness, naturally dwelling in all beings. +
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rgyud;mindstream;mindstream;lit. “continuity” or “continuum.” Also translated as “stream of being,” or simply “mind.” This term denotes that aspect of an individual that continues from one moment to the next and from one life time to the next, and which therefore includes the individual’s stock of positive and negative deeds along with their positive and negative habitual tendencies. +
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dge sbyong;śramaṇa;An Indian term for a renunciant or mendicant, denoting anyone, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, pursuing a religious life. +
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bcom ldan ’das;bhagavān;An Indian term of veneration for someone of high spiritual attainment, used in Buddhism as an epithet of the Buddha. In its Tibetan translation, which might be conveyed in English as “Transcendent, Virtuous Conqueror,” it is defined as “he who has overcome (''bcom'') the four demons, who possesses ''(Idan)'' the six excellent qualities, and who does not dwell in either of the two extremes of samsara and nirvana but has gone beyond them (''’das'').” +
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dbu ma'i lam;Middle Way;middle way;madhyamaka;The series of teachings on emptiness based on the second turning of the wheel of the Dharma first expounded by Nāgārjuna and considered to form the basis of the Secret Mantrayāna. “Middle” in this context means that it is beyond the extremes of existence and nonexistence. +
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yid la byed pa;attentiveness;attentiveness;Deliberate mental activity directed onto a particular object or topic. In this translation we have used “to keep in mind” to convey its verbal form. +
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chos nyid;ultimate reality;ultimate reality;dharmatā;Also translated as “true nature.” The true nature of phenomena, which is emptiness. +
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las;deeds;deeds;karma;Also translated in this book as “actions,” or as “past deeds.” Implied in the use of this term is the force created by a positive or negative action which is then stored in an individual’s stream of being and persists until it is experienced as pleasure or pain (usually in another life), after which the deed is said to be exhausted or spent. Although the Sanskrit term ''karma'' simply means “action,” it has come to be widely used to signify the result produced by past deeds (Tib. ''las kyi ’bras bu''), which is sometimes wrongly equated with destiny or fate, that is, with something beyond one’s control. In the Buddhist teachings, the principle of karma covers the whole process of deeds leading to results in future lives, and this is taught as being something that is very definitely within one’s control. +
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bdud;Māra;The demon, the tempter in general, that which makes obstacles to spiritual practice and enlightenment. +
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gnas ma’i bu pa;Vatsīputrīya;One of the eighteen original schools of the Listeners’ Vehicle in India. Its followers believed in a substantially existing self. +
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theg pa chen po;Great Vehicle;great vehicle;mahāyāna;The vehicle of the bodhisattvas, referred to as great because it leads to perfect buddhahood for the sake of all beings, and because of the greatness of its object, accomplishment, gnosis, diligent application, skill in means, consummation, and activities. +
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de bzbin nyid;suchness;suchness;tathatā;The ultimate nature of things, emptiness, the expanse of reality free from elaboration. +
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sems byung;mental factors;mental factors;caitta;The aspects of mental function that accompany the main mind (citta), apprehending and reacting to the objects detected by consciousness. +
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lhag mthong;profound insight;profound insight;vipasyanā;The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things. +
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theg pa gsum;three vehicles;three vehicles;triyāna;The vehicles of the listeners, solitary realizers, and bodhisattvas. +
