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Vajra seat. The place in Bihar, India, where all the buddhas of this eon have attained and will attain enlightenment. +
One of the six realms where beings experience intense suffering as a result of past actions, especially those actions related to anger, such as killing. There are eighteen different hells, eight hot and eight cold as well as neighboring hells and ephemeral hells. +
The chief disciple and successor of Manjushrimitra in the lineage of the Dzogchen teachings. He extracted the tantras that had been concealed in Bodhgaya and went to China, where he classified the Ati Yoga Instruction Class into four cycles: outer, inner, secret, and innermost secret. His main disciples were Jnanasutra, Vimalamitra, Padmasambhava, and Vairotsana. +
According to this text, a period of six months. +
The orally transmitted lineage through individuals in which it is necessary for the teacher to use words for the disciple to hear, rather than transmitting them mind-to-mind or through symbols. +
Treasury of Wealth. An island in Oddiyana, or present-day western India, encircled by many sublime kinds of trees, which is why it is called Treasury of Wealth. +
Literally, "treasures." The transmission through concealed treasures hidden by Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal that are to be revealed at the proper time by a treasure revealer for the benefit of future disciples. It is one of the two chief traditions of the Nyingma school, the other being the Kahma tradition. This tradition is said to continue even long after the Vinaya of the Buddha will have disappeared. +
The corpus of teachings and practices based on the tantras, scriptures that discourse upon the primordial purity of the mind. See Secret Mantra. +
A mischievous male spirit of a class of spirits born of the union of the ''rgyal po'' and '' 'gong po''. +
A scripture on Avalokiteshvara that comes in the Mani Kahbum of King Songtsen Gampo. +
Of the nine vehicles these are the first eight, which depend on cause and effect. The nine vehicles comprise the three vehicles of the sutras — those of the shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas — and the six vehicles of Kriya, Upa, Yoga, Maha Yoga, Anu Yoga, and Ati Yoga tantras. They can also be grouped into three vehicles: Hinayana, which includes the first two; Mahayana, the third one; and Vajrayana, the last six. +
The Hinayana and Mahayana doctrines. +
A female soothsayer. +
One of the Indian Dzogchen lineage masters, who was a disciple of the prostitute Barani and the teacher of abbot Maharaja. +
Demi-god, one of the six classes of beings in samsara. The asuras are usually considered to be similar to the gods with whom they are sometimes classified. Their dominant emotional characteristic is envy, and they are constantly at war with the gods, of whom they are jealous. +
Evocation, viz. the envisaging and calling forth of a divinity normally by means of repetitive recitation (japa) of the appropriate formula (mantra) and by meditation (dhyāna) upon his formal representa- tion. Thus a written sādhana of a divinity usually provides a full description of his form and attributes together with his special formula. +
'Bond' or 'Union', translated by Tibetan sdom-pa, which has the same meaning. It may be used in the sense of religious observation (I. vi. 24 and II. iii. 29), but more commonly in that of mystic union. Thus the Innate is described as the 'single union of all forms' (I. x. 41) and Vajrasattva, supreme buddha-being, as the 'single union of all elements' (II. x. 1). Samvara has a special technical use in the sense of the union within theyogin's body, the 'internal maṇḍala' (see I. i. 21 ff. and II. iv. 48 ff.). Here it can refer to the union of macrocosm and microcosm as well as to the union of the two coefficients (represented by the two outer veins) in the central vein of the body, which is also the centre and union of all phenomenal forms. This unity is conceived of as a consuming by cosmic fire and this consuming is the consummation of the yogin's practice, his reintegration with the Innate, the supreme buddha-being. One may note in this respect the Tibetan translation of Saṃvara (= Śaṃvara, a form of Heruka) as 'Supreme Bliss' (bde- mchog). +
Repetitive recitation of set formulas (mantra), which has the effect of directing the mind one-pointedly upon the divine form, with which the particular formula is traditionally related. Beads are normally em- ployed for counting. +
Moment. There are four moments, marking the stages of the four joys: Variety vicitra<br> Development vipāka<br> Consummation vimarda<br> Blank vilaksana<br> My use of 'consummation' for vimarda represents an interpretation and not a translation. Vimarda, which actually means 'rubbing' is regularly glossed by ālocana, łreflection', viz. the reflection that bliss has been experienced oneself (see pp. 35 and 95). +
'Spell' in the special sense of the formula (mantra), which is the verbal expression of a divinity. Like 'speech' (vāk) it is considered as the feminine aspect and thus becomes one of the names for the feminine partner (see Buddhist Himalaya, pp. 288, 289). It is used in the Hevajra- tantra exclusively in the sense of 'feminine partner', i.e. as a synonym for prajñā. +
