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Tib. byang chub sems dpa';bodhisattva;A being in whom bodhicitta arises effortlessly and who devotes himsel for herself to the cultivation of the six perfections, in order to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. +
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lhag mthong;vipaiyanā;Lit. "superior vision," contemplative insight into fundamental aspects of reality, such as impermanence, suffering, nonself, and emptiness. +
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ba ling gtor ma;bali;balingtorma;balingtorma;A ritual offering cake in which the nutritive essence of the universe is synthesized and which acts as a source of all desirable things. See VE nr. +
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dbang bzhi;empowerments,four;empowerments,four;caturabhiśeka;(1) The vase, or water, empowerment, (2) the secret, or crown, empowerment, (3) the wisdom-primordial-consciousness, or vajra, empowerment, and (4) the word, or bell, empowerment. To take the four empowerments, visualize that (1) from a white Om at your gurus crown, white light rays descend to the point between your eyebrows, purifying physical obscurations with the vase empowerment;(2) from a red Ah at your guru's throat, red light rays descend to your throat, purifying verbal obscurations with the secret empowerment;(3) from a dark blue Hūm at your guru's heart, dark blue light rays descend to your heart, purifying mental obscurations with the wisdom-primordial-consciousness empowerment;and (4) from a red Hrih at your guru's navel, red light rays descend to your navel, purifying the obscuration of grasping at the three doors as differentwith the fourth, or word, empowerment. See also Padmasambhava, Natural Liberation-. Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos, commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche, trans. B. Alan Wallace (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1008), 78-79. See GD 25S-57,271;VE 248-9. +
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mngon du gyur pa'i dran pa;mindfulness,manifest;mindfulness,manifest;The natural power of mindfulness occurring without strenuously observing the mind's stillness and movement. +
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byang chub;enlightenment;enlightenment;bodhi;Spiritual awakening. +
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gza' chen po brgyad;planets,eight great;planets,eight great;Venus, Jupiter, the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Rāhula, the Sun, and Saturn. +
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sngags;mantra;Sanskrit syllables imbued with special symbolic significance or spiritual blessings. +
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gtsug tor;uṣṇīṣa;The topknot of hair or protuberance on the crown of a buddhas head. +
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lha;deva;A "god" within saṃsāra, who experiences great joy, extra sensory perception, and paranormal abilities, but who suffers greatly when faced with death. +
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gter ma;terma;terma;A Dharma treasure such as those hidden by Guru Rinpoché and Yeshé Tsogyal to be discovered by a predicted revealer for the benefit of future generations. Earth treasures are physical objects concealed in the environment, and mind treasures are concealed in the mindstreams of realized beings, particularly of the incarnated disciples of Padmasambhava. +
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rgyal po;pārthiva;A demonic force or being that emerges from the aggregates of grasping at the "I and consists of the conceptual mental factors that reify appearances, arising as an apparition of ignorance. +
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gdams ngag;instruction,practical;instruction,practical;avavāda;Lit. "oral instruction", quintessential guldance in spiritual practice, which synthesizes the teachings of the buddhas into specificpractices for specific individuals, according to their needs. +
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bramze;brahmin;A member of the priestly class in the Vedic caste system of India. +
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ye shes lnga;primordial consciousness,five facets of;primordial consciousness,five facets of;pañcajñānāni;Mirror-like primordial consciousness, discerning primordial consciouness, primordial consciousness of equality, primordial consciousness of accomplishment, and primordial consciousness of the absolute space of phenomena. +
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dregs pa'i lha srin sde brgyad;haughty gods and demons,eight classes of;haughty gods and demons,eight classes of;aṣṭasenā;Devas, nāgas, yakṣas. asuras, gandharvas, garuḍas, kiṃnaras, and mahorāgas. +
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dam tshig;samaya;A commitment or vow made to the buddhas as represented by one's vajra guru. +
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kriya'i theg pa;Kriyāyāna;The spiritual vehicle of the "action tantras," which is practiced by not confounding one's pure Vajrayāna behavior with ordinary, impure conduct. +
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gab;gab;A demon who works in stealth. +
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dran pa rnam pa bzhi;mindfulness,four kinds of;mindfulness,four kinds of;Single-pointed mindfulness, manifest mindfulness, the absence of mindfulness of the substrate, and the self-illuminating mindfulness of the substrate consciousness. See CM 354, VS 511-13, VE 40-41. +
