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Ignorance, formation, consciousness, name-andform, the six sense bases, contact, sensation, craving, grasping, becoming, rebirth, old age, and death. These twelve links are like an uninterrupted vicious circle, a wheel that spins all sentient beings around and around through the realms of samsara.  +
A bodhicitta practice of giving one's virtue and happiness to others and taking their suffering and misdeeds upon oneself.  +
Usually this term refers to the intermediate state between death and the next rebirth, but in this context it means "gap" or "period" between two things. Sometimes it is translated as "intermediate state."  +
Not being in the three lower realms, not being a long-living god, not having wrong views, not a savage, not a mute, and not born in an age without buddhas.  +
The definitive meaning as opposed to the expedient or relative meaning.  +
The five paths or stages on the way to enlightenment: the path of accumulation, joining, seeing, cultivation, and no learning.  +
Someone who has developed bodhicitta, the aspiration to attain enlightenment in order to benefit all sentient beings.  +
The third of the three experiences of appearance, increase, and attainment.  +
The attainment of enlightenment without having to go through the intermediate states.  +
The second stage of the subtle dissolution stages of appearance, increase, and attainment.  +
The capacities for performing miracles, divine sight, divine hearing, recollection of former lives, and cognition of the minds of others.  +