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The highest god realms, where beings have cut off attachment to both the Desire and Form Realm objects, but are still fixated on the bliss of meditation. They have no bodies, since they have transcended form. +
Complete and perfect enlightenment. +
One of the two main stages of tantric practice. In the completion stage of Mahamudra, one dissolves the visualization of the deity and mandala established in the generation stage, and does formless meditation on the non-dual nature of mind.
:"Completion stage with signs" refers to the highest levels of tantric practice, where the emphasis is on working with the prana, nadis, and bindu. The goal is to change ones karmapranas into jnanapranas, transforming one's ordinary body, speech, and mind into the body, speech, and mind of a Buddha. This phase of practice is also called tsa-lung, meaning nadi-prana or channel-wind practice; it is the central focus of all Six Yo gas of Naropa. Tsa-lung practice requires prior mastery of the generation stage to achieve success.
:"Completion stage without signs" refers to the practice of Essence Mahamudra, which is the essential view of Mahamudra, introduced directly to the student without dependence on intellectual or philosophical reasoning. +
The bodhisattva of compassion, Chenrezig in Tibetan. Avalokiteshvara is considered to be a historical person, one of Shakyamuni Buddha's main disciples. The Dalai Lamas of Tibet are considered to be nirmanakaya emanations of Avalokiteshvara, as are the Gyalwa Karmapas of the Karma Kagyu lineage. +
Union. The practices of Vajrayana, through which one awakens to one's innate union with the unborn nature of ultimate wisdom. Some yogas emphasize working with the body, as in yantra yoga and prostrations; others emphasize the breath, as with mantra and pranayama practice; others emphasize the mind, as in quiet seated meditation. However, none emphasize one part to the exclusion of the others; each yoga serves to train all three components of body, breath, and mind, to bring the yogi to full realization of the true nature of existence. +
Impure winds. The pranas moving in the left and right channels, as well as in the rest of the 72,000 channels, are impure karmapranas, or winds giving birth to dualistic concepts. They perpetuate the concept of a separate, inherently existing self. From this fundamental fixation on self we create the idea of others; we divide others into friends, enemies, and those to whom we are indifferent; from this we develop the three poisons of attachment, aggression, and ignorance. Thus we develop and perpetuate our existence in samsara. See also ''jnanaprana''. +
The Hinayana teachings are the sutras taught by Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, to the monks and lay people who followed him. One collection of these scriptures was later recorded in writing as the Pali Canon. The Hinayana tradition includes many of the Buddha's basic teachings, such as the Vinaya or rules of moral discipline for monks and lay people, the Four Noble Truths on the origin and cessation of suffering, the Noble Eightfold Path on the right way of life, and the ''Dhammapada''.
:Although the virtues of loving-kindness and compassion are taught within the Hinayana, meditation, mindfulness, non-attachment, and strict moral discipline are emphasized as the keys to developing penetrating wisdom, which would lead one to nirvana or liberation from suffering. The Hinayana is often referred to as "the path of renunciation," and those who accomplish this path attain to the level of Arhatship by means of the path of the Hearer (Shravaka) or that of a Solitary Realizer (Pratyekabuddha). +
(pronounced Ree-may) was a movement for intersectarian harmony and cooperation, rekindled and revitalized in the nineteenth century by several of Tibet's greatest masters. Led by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, the greatest scholar and eclectic master of the time, he and others collected and compiled the complete teachings, transmissions, empowerments, and meditation practices from all the various orders of Tibetan Buddhism. This collection was called The Five Great Treasures. Their goal was to eliminate the sectarian divisions and often bitter rivalry among the various schools, and to revivify the emphasis on the actual practice of the teachings. +
Greed, hatred or aversion, and ignorance. Buddha taught that from these three all the suffering of samsara arises. +
Also known as the Six Perfections or Six Transcendent Virtues. Cultivation of the six paramitas is the basis of the Mahayana, the path of the bodhisattva. The six paramitas are: generosity, patience, ethics or moral discipline, joyous effort or diligence, meditative concentration, and wisdom. +
means abbot or preceptor. +
The teaching that self and all phenomena are empty of, or lack, inherent and independent existence. +
The highest of the four classes of tantra, according to the New Translation schools. +
In addition to the Three Jewels, in Vajrayana the practitioner also takes refuge in the Three Roots: the guru as the source of all blessings, the yidam as the source of all siddhi, and the dharma protectors as the source of enlightened activity. +
Realization of the non-dual nature of mind and phenomenon. One of the four yogas of Mahamudra. +
Tilopa, the father of the Kagyu lineage, received four sets of yogic practice from several gurus, which he in turn transmitted to his disciple, Naropa. These four transmissions are often said to be: the illusory body yoga, dream yoga, clear light or luminosity yoga, and tummo or candali yoga. These became the main source of the Six Yogas of Naropa. For a different account of the four transmissions, see Nalanda and Chogyam Trungpa, ''The Life of Marpa the Translator'', pp. xxxii-xxxiii. +
Truth, law, way, path. The teachings of the Buddhas. In other contexts "dharma" refers to phenomena or mental and physical objects. +
Venerable, reverend. A Tibetan honorific term used in addressing highly respected masters. +
The unborn realm of all-encompassing space in which all things arise, exist, and cease. +
