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The eighth, ninth, and tenth bodhisattva levels. +
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See Great Vehicle. +
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Bodhisattvas’ ability to remember unfailingly the infinite words and meanings of the Dharma, enabling them to teach for kalpas on end. +
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Also called limitless āyatanas. The power, through concentration, to transfer the characteristics of the different elements, colors, space, and consciousness onto other elements, etc., thus enabling one to walk on water as if it were earth,for example. +
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An emperor who, with his golden, silver, copper, or iron wheel, has dominion over the beings of the four continents. Universal emperors only appear in certain eras when the human life span is greater than eighty thousand years. +
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The five aggregates that are at the same time the result of past defilements and deeds and the causal basis of the defilements and deeds that perpetuate rebirth in saṃsāra. +
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Stream enterer, oncereturner, nonreturner, and arhat. +
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The thirty-two major marks and eighty minor marks of excellence that characterize a buddha’s physical form. +
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Relative truth and ultimate truth. +
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The physical acts of killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct; the verbal acts of lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, and meaningless chatter; and the mental acts of covetousness, malice, and wrong view. +
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This important term, also translated in its adverbial form as “from one instant to the next,” does not, in the context of discussions on impermanence and emptiness, mean simply “short-lived” or “lasting only a moment.” It is used in this text to denote the fact that the existence of all phenomena is made up of a succession of moments or instants that cease as soon as they arise. This succession of instants makes it possible for things to change from one moment to the next. Depending on the degree to which these changes are perceptible, things appear to last for smaller or greater lengths of time, and even to give the illusion of being permanent. +
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Also called sense bases, sources of perception, and so on. The twelve āyatanas comprise the six sense organs and the six sense objects. Together, they give rise to the six sense consciousnesses. +
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lit. “Dharma body.” Also called absolute dimension. The emptiness aspect of buddhahood. +
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A class of beings whose jealous nature spoils their enjoyment of their fortunate rebirth in the higher realms and involves them in constant conflict with the gods in the god realms. +
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The hells, the realm of hungry spirits, and the animal realm. +
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The opposite of supramundane, anything that does not transcend saṃsāra. Translations of this term as “ordinary” or “worldly” can be misleading since meditators who have mastered the four dhyānas (but without being liberated from saṃsāra), and who have immense powers of concentration, magical powers, and so forth, cannot really be called “ordinary,” nor are they worldly in the sense of being materialistically minded and interested only in the present world. +
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Habitual patterns of thought, speech, or action created by one’s attitudes and deeds in past lives. +
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An epithet for a bodhisattva, also translated as “child of the Buddha.” +
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The first of the two accumulations. “Merit” is also sometimes used loosely to translate the Tibetan terms ''dge ba'' (virtue, positive action) and ''dge rtsa'' (sources of good for the future). +
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A state of concentration, especially one of the four states of concentration associated with the world of form. +
