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From Buddha-Nature
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gnas lugs;natural state;natural state;The natural mode of existence of all things;the mental state wherein experience is not distorted by preconceived perceptions of identities. +
illusory-body;illusory-body;The mentally controlled body of an accomplished yogi. (When unhyphenated it indicates the ordinary body of an undeveloped being that takes its form through deluded preconceptions). Synonym: rainbow-body, vajra-body. +
action;action;karma;Exactly that;any intentional or unintentional act performed through the "three doors," that is, body, speech, and mind. There are three types: virtuous, yielding positive results;evil, yielding negative results;and fixed, which refers to action in a state of absorption which yields results that are "fixed" or limited to the absorption levels. +
poisons,three or five;poisons,three or five;viṣa;The principal afflictive mental functions: ignorance, desire, aversion, as well as jealousy and pride. +
drops;drops;bindu;"Substances" of the yogic psycho-physical system. In tantra the white bindu, or white element, is equivalent to the mind-forenlightenment. It must be "melted" at the head center and "dripped" down the central channel to the lower centers, producing the four ecstasies. +
vehicle,three vehicles;vehicle,three vehicles;yāna;The term vehicle connotes a means of traveling to enlightenment, that is, a major system of teaching and practice. The Small, or Elders', Vehicle is the oldest, relying on the scriptures set down in Pali. The Great Vehicle includes the teachings of the Small Vehicle, but in a new context and expanded scope. The Tantric Vehicle (synonym: Vajra Vehicle, Mantra Vehicle) combines the outlook of the Great Vehicle with a radically different, high-powered system of practice. +
dharma-realm,dharma-element;dharma-realm,dharma-element;dharmadhātu;The ultimate reality of all things. +
bardo;bardo;The state of consciousness between death and rebirth. +
disciple;disciple;śrāvaka;he disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni and the followers of their schools. There were eighteen such schools in India whose teachings comprise the Small Vehicle. Specifically it refers to persons who have attained arhatship. +
mahāmudrā;"Great Gesture" or "Great Seal." An advanced practice closely aligned with the Peerless (''anuttara'') Yoga Tantras;aimed at direct revelation of the natural reality of the apparent world. +
three commitments;three commitments;samvara-śīla;The vows of personal liberation of the Small Vehicle, the bodhisattva vows of the Great Vehicle, and the tantric vows of the Tantric Vehicle. +
stores,two;stores,two;sambhāra;The two accumulations of personal power: the store of merit based on ethical behavior and ritual, and the store of gnosis based on knowledge and wisdom. When completed, the two stores provide the necessary elements to achieve direct experience of voidness. +
śāstra;The works of Indian masters that develop, systematize, or clarify the original teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha. +
nāga;Fabulous human-headed serpents of Indian mythology who dwell under water in their own advanced civilization. +
ḍākinīs;Female tantric deities who aid the yogi and oversee his practice and behavior. +
realities,two;realities,two;satyadvaya;The two modes of existence of phenomena. The superficial reality (''saṃvṛtisatya'') is the world appearing in the form of independent identities to ordinary, undefective perception conditioned by preconceptions. Absolute reality (''paramārthasatya'') is the voidness of all phenomena, that is, their inherent lack of independent identity. +
bodies,three;bodies,three;trikāya;The three modes of existence and communication for an enlightened being. The dharma-body (''dharmakāya'') is the embodiment of voidness and its realization, the enjoyment-body (''saṃbhogakāya'') is the means of communication with advanced meditators, and the emanation-body (''nirmāṇakāya'') appears like a physical body in the world, but its form and activities are consciously directed and consist of the training of undeveloped beings. A fourth body, the essential-body (''svabhāvakāya'') represents the unity of the above three. +
mantra;Sound in the form of syllables and words that can communicate the realities of tantric deities, grant supernormal powers (''siddhi''), or induce purification and realization. +
gnosis;gnosis;jñāna;Generally, knowledge;specifically, the wisdom by which the apparent world and its reality are simultaneously perceived. +
clear light;clear light;ābhāsvara;od gsal;od gsal;The experience of the natural, primal, unmodified state of the mind. +
