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sangs rgyas;buddha;Lit. "awakened one," an enlightened being in whom all mental afflictions and obscurations are dispelled and all excellent qualities are brought to perfection. +
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'dul ba;vinaya;The teachings concerning rules and discipline of the Buddha's disciples;one of the three baskets of sūtra, vinaya, and abhidharma. +
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gzhi'i shes pa;ground consciousness;ground consciousness;āśrayajñāna;The unceasing stream of consciousness that goes from one life to another and finally to the state of enlightenment, so it may become virtuous or nonvirtuous. Only when its essential nature becomes manifest is it seen to be of the nature of unstructured awareness. It is identical to the substrate consciousness. See VE 109-10. +
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rang gsal;self-illuminating;self-illuminating;The mirror like aspect of primor dial consciousness. A characteristic of the sharp vajra of wisdom, the experience of the spontaneously actualized essential nature. See CM 363,386. +
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mtshan ma;sign;sign;nimitta;An object grasped by the conceptual mind. +
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mdangs;glow,inner;glow,inner;The natural glow (rang mdangs) of awareness, which is transcendently present in the ground, expresses itself as self-emergent, innate primordial consciousness. When this is obscured by ignorance, its radiance is transformed into subde grasping, afflictive mentation, mentation, and the external display of the elements and aggregates of saṃsāra. See SV 618;VS 533-34, 555-56;CM 326-29;GD 151-56;VE122-27. +
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mya ngan las 'das pa;nirvāṇa;Spiritual liberation, in which one is forever freed from suffering caused by delusion and all other mental afflictions. +
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mchod rten;stūpa;A reliquary that holds sacred objects, such as the remains of an enlightened being;its form symbolizes the mind of a buddha. +
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thig le stong pa'i sgron ma;lamp of empty bindus;lamp of empty bindus;The appearance of the five quintessences in luminous spheres or bindus. See CM 426-27, VE 417» VS 591. +
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khams gsum;realms,three;realms,three;tridhātu;The desire, form, and formless realms. +
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zhing bcu;fields,ten;fields,ten;Those who engage in (i) destroying the teaching, (2) despising the Three Jewels, (3) robbing the possessions of the Sangha, (4) abusing the Mahāyāna, (s) threatening the bothes ofgurus, (6) holding vajra siblings and friends in contempt, (7) creatingobstacles to spiritual practice, (8) being utterly devoid ofmercy and compassion, (9) lacking samayas and vows, and (10) holding false views concerning actions and their ethical consequences. +
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gzhi;ground of being;ground of being;aśraya;The ground of the whole of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. The unaware aspect of the ground is the substrate, and its enlightened aspect is the dharmakāya. See CM 377-78» MF 486. +
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sgrub chen;mahāsiddha;A "great adept," who has accomplished mundane and supermundane abilities and realizations. +
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byang chub kyi sems;bodhicitta;Lit. "awakening mind," it is described as having two relative aspects called aspirational and engaged, along with its absolute, ultimate aspect. The nominal cultivation of aspirational bodhicitta means wishing to achieve enlightenment in order to liberate all sentient beings in saṃsāra. Bodhicitta is called engaged when one actually practices with this motivation to achieve buddhahood. In Vajrayāna, the red and white bodhicittas are the female and male regenerative fluids, which are composed of the red and white bindus. In the Great Perfection, bodhicitta is the primordial, originally pure ground, which pervades the whole of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. SeeVE19, n9,204-5, 291,294. +
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'pho ba grong 'jug;transference by entering the dwelling;transference by entering the dwelling;The culminating phase of the stage of generation. See VE 199-200. +
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chos nyi dzad pa;extinction into ultimate reality;extinction into ultimate reality;The fourth and final vision on the path ofdirect crossing over, in which all phenomena dissolve into the space of awareness. This corresponds to the attainment of the supreme ground of a spontaneously actualized vidyādhara on the mantra path, which surpasses the tenth āryabodhisattva ground, known as the Cloud of Dharma. +
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'dre;demon;demon;Negative thoughts, rooted in ego-grasping, which cause saṃsāra to come into existence. +
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nang gi sngon 'gro bdun;inner preliminaries,seven;inner preliminaries,seven;(1) Taking refuge, (2) cultivating bodhicitta, (3) offering the mandala, (4) practicing the purificatory meditation and mantra of Vajrasattva, (5) guru yoga, (6) transference of consciousness, and (7) severance of māras. +
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dkar gsum;offerings,three white;offerings,three white;Milk, curd, and butter. +
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mdo;sūtra;Discourses attributed to the Buddha, but not included among the tantras, many of which, according to the Vajrayāna tradition, are also attributed to the historical Buddha (as in the case of the Kālacakra Tantra) or to later emanations of the buddhas (as in the case of the Vajra Essence, which is described as a tantra). +
