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mind-for-enlightenment (''bodhicitta'');mind-for-enlightenment (''bodhicitta'');bodhicitta;The intent to attain one's own enlightenment in order to help liberate others. It is not the state of enlightenment itself, but the selfless drive to attain it for the sake of others. In the Great Vehicle it is the necessary complement to the penetrating insight into voidness and in the Tantric Vehicle the prerequisite to real practice. +
centers;centers;cakra;The foci of the flow of current (''prāṇa'') in the psychophysiological system of tantric yoga. They are located at the head, throat, heart, and navel. +
enlightenment;enlightenment;bodhi;The state of buddhahood constituted by perfection of the two stores and removal of the two obscurations. It is the only level of attainment beyond the range of samsara. +
siddhi;The supernormal powers developed by the practice of yoga: clairvoyance, clairaudience, levitation, thought-reading, and control of the body and external world. All siddhis are mundane (samsaric), with the exception of the supreme siddhi, enlightenment. Also, a woman siddha. +
yakṣa;Destructive demons of Indian folklore. +
wisdom;wisdom;prajñā;Generally, any correct knowledge. Specifically, transcendent wisdom, the direct perception of the void nature of persons and things. During such experience the perception of the apparent world is temporarily suppressed. +
repa;repa;A yogi who has activated inner heat by ''tummo'' yoga and thus wears only a thin cotton robe even in winter. +
kalyānamitra;geshe;geshe;"Spiritual friend";a title given to a person who has demonstrated exceptional competence in the scriptures and subjects of basic Buddhism. +
channels;channels;naḍī;Pathways along which the currents (''prāṇa'') move. The main channels are the ''avadhūti'' (central channel), and the ''ida'', and ''pingala'' (left and right channels). +
fabrication;fabrication;prapaṅca;The internal stream of conceptualization directed by imprinted preconceptions. The term includes both the internal flow of thought constructs and the self and environment resulting from them. +
dpa' bo;warrior;warrior;Male tantric figure. +
currents;currents;prāṇa;The psycho-physical forces of the mind, body, and environment. +
samsara;samsara;saṃsāra;Literally "to run around";the condition of recurrent birth through the force of action (''karma'') and afflictive mental states. It applies to all states of existence of the three realms and their six life-forms. +
illusory,illusion;illusory,illusion;māyopama,bhrānti;Mayopama, "like a (magical) illusion" (''maya-upama'') , emphasizes the fact that the mind distorts experience of reality in the way a magician alters our perceptions. Our conditioned perception causes the world to appear as something it is not. +
realms,three;realms,three;tridhātu;The totality of samsara. The desire realm-so named because its inhabitants are primarily concerned with sensory gratification-includes beings of all six states of existence. The form and formless realms consist exclusively of gods whose mental states correspond with those of the eight absorption levels. The form realm corresponds to the first four absorption levels and the formless realm to the second four levels. +
triple gem;triple gem;triratna);The refuge sources of Buddhism: the Buddha, representing enlightenment;the Dharma, his teachings;and the Sangha, the community of practitioners. +
seed-syllable;seed-syllable;bīja;Monosyllabic mantric sounds embodying a universal principle, a deity's reality, or a psychic process. +
obscurations,two;obscurations,two;āvaraṇa;The afflictional obscuration (''kleśāvararza'') consists of negative mental states that obscure nirvana's freedom from misery. The objective obscuration (''jñeyāvararza'') consists of fundamental misperceptions of the world that obscure perfect enlightenment. +
superficial reality,superficial world;superficial reality,superficial world;saṃvṛtisatya;The world as it appears when perception is conditioned by verbal conventions. The term "reality" emphasizes the fact that, owing to its relative self-consistency, it does appear to be a valid reality to ordinary beings. +
voidness;voidness;śūnyatā;The actual nature of all things;the lack of any independent ego of persons and identity of things. +
