rang rgyud kyi rjes dpag;རང་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་དཔག་;autonomous inference;autonomous inference;svatantrānumāna;Inferential cognition based on reasoning with the three logically established modes. +
rjes dpag tshad ma;རྗེས་དཔག་ཚད་མ་;inferential cognition;inferential cognition;anumāna pramāna;Cognition based on deduction or logical reasoning;one of the two valid cognitions. +
thal ‘gyur pa;ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་;Prāsaṅgika;One of the two main branches of the Madhyamaka school, which instead of using autonomous syllogisms to establish ultimate reality, principally employs the method ofusing illogicalities in the opponent’s thesis to demonstrate the ‘harmful’ or illogical consequences flowing from it +
zhig pa dngos po;ཞིག་པ་དངོས་པོ་;entity of extinction;entity of extinction;Unique philosophical term introduced by Tsongkhapa, who maintains that the extinction of actions is a compounded phenomenon. +
shes bya’i sgrib pa;ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་པ་;cognitive obscuration;cognitive obscuration;jñeyāvaraṇa;This term is used only in the Mahāyāna teachings. This obscuration is regarded as a barrier to attaining omniscience. +
post-attainment;post-attainment;The state immediately following any direct, transcendent experience of voidness, called "actual realization state." During the actual realization state the perception of the apparent world yields to the perception of its voidness, while in the post-attainment state the preconceived perception of the apparent world returns subtly altered by the preceding experience. +
appearances,apparent world;appearances,apparent world;snang ba;snang ba;Reality as it appears to a common individual whose conditioned, distorted perception experiences reality in the form of discrete, independent identities. Synonym: illusory world, superficial reality. +
fundamental consciousness;fundamental consciousness;ālayavijñāna;The eighth consciousness, according to the Mind-Only system developed by Asaṅga in the fifth century. It is the basic substratum of the individual's consciousness that carries the imprintings of "seeds" of past and future experiences. +
non-identification;non-identification;niravalamba;In gnostic wisdom, the perception free from the preconceptual conditionings that "create" the discrete, independent identities of the apparent world. +
afflictions;afflictions;kleśa;Mental functions that are obstructive to the quiescence of nirvana. There are six primary afflictions: ignorance, desire, aversion, doubt, pride, and wrong views;and a number of subsidiary afflictions associated with their occurrence. +
dedication;dedication;pariṇāma;The sharing with others of one's virtuous actions, successful practice, and attainment. It consists of prayer, visualization, and attitude that should close each practice session, and also includes the dedication customarily given by yogis in return for food. +
mandala (maṇḍala);he symbolic, graphic representation of a tantric deity's realm of existence. Also, the arrangement of offerings in tantric ritual (''pūjā''). +
food of absorption,food of concentration;food of absorption,food of concentration;Nourishment during meditative states derived from concentrative absorption. It can sustain the yogi in place of food for periods of time. +
sutra,sūtra;The original spoken scriptures of Shakyamuni Buddha. They are divided into three divisions or "baskets" (''piṭaka''): instruction and philosophy (''sūtra''), mental science (''abhidharma''), and discipline (''vinaya''). +