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rkyang ma;lalana;The left channel among the three principal channels that run vertically through the torso and up into the head  +
nyams snang;experience,visionary;experience,visionary;The four visions of direct crossing over practice.  +
phra men,sha za;piśācī;One of eight flesh-eating protector deities with a bird's head and a woman's body or with a carnivorous animal's head and a man's body. See GD187, VE261.  +
dbu ma;Madhyamaka;The Middle Way, the higher of the two Mahāyāna schools in the sūtra system.  +
rang songs rgyas;pratyekabuddha;Lit. "solitary buddha," a person who is committed to his own individual liberation by solitary practice. Pratyekabuddhayāna (Skt., Tib. rang sangs rgyas kyi theg pa). The spiritual vehicle of a pratyekahuddha, which is perfected by realizing the nature of all appearances and mindsets of the three realms as dependently related events and as the t welve links ofdependent origination.  +
gzhal yas khang;palace,immeasurable (celestial);palace,immeasurable (celestial);vimāna;The "conceptually immeasurable abode" of a deity.  +
mnyam pa nyid kyi ye shes;primordial consciousness of equality;primordial consciousness of equality;samatājñana;Primordial consciousness of the equal purity of saṃsāra and nirvāna in great emptiness;this is purified as Bhagavān Ratnasambhava. When obscured by ignorance, it manifests externally as yellow light;this is reified as the derivative element of earth. Its radiance is transformed into afflictive mentation and gives rise to thoughts of pride and the aggregate of feeling. See GD 150-53, VE 121-25.  +
mam thar sgo gsum;doors of liberation,three;doors of liberation,three;vimokśamukha;Emptiness, signlessness, and desirelessness.  +
kun gzhi rnam shes;substrate consciousness;substrate consciousness;ālaya vijñāna;An ethically neutral, inwardly directed state of consciousness, free of conceptualization, in which appearances of self, others, and objects are absent. suchness (Tib. de bzhin nyidSkt. tathatd). The ineffable realityofemptiness;the ultimate nature of all phenomena.  +
dag snang;pure vision;pure vision;A teaching received by an accomplished master in a visionary experience or dream as ablessing from a wisdom beingsuch as a deity, siddha, or dākinL  +
khams;elements;elements;dhātu;*''elements'' (Tib. khams, Skt. dhātu). The eighteen elements of conscious experience, consisting of the twelve sense bases and the six consciousnesses.  +
rgyan gyi 'khor lo;wheel,ornamental;wheel,ornamental;A metaphor for the qualities of a buddha. The term ornament refers to those excellent qualities, and the term wheel refers to the all-encompassing, inexhaustible nature of the outer, inner, and secret qualities.  +
spros pa dang bral ba;freedom from conceptual elaboration;freedom from conceptual elaboration;The second of the four stages of mahāmudrā meditation.  +
las;karma;Actions defiled by mental afflictions, especially the delusion of self-grasping.  +
grub mtha';tenet system;tenet system;siddhānta;The final, stated position of a school of thought or of an individual practitioner.  +
ngo bo;nature,essential;nature,essential;svabhāva;The fundamental nature of a phenomenon, as in the case of awareness being the essential nature of the mind. Emptiness, as the essential nature of mind.  +
dkyil 'khor;maṇḍala;A symbolic representation of the world, which is ritually offered;a representation of the pore abode of a deity.  +
las 'phro;karmic momentum;karmic momentum;The carryover into this life of one's karma from previous lifetimes.  +
nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa;obscuration,afflictive;obscuration,afflictive;kleśavaraṇa;The coarse obscurations that are abandoned on the path of seeing the nature of reality.  +