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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.  +
gang zag gi bdag;identity,personal;identity,personal;pudgalātmya;An intrinsically existent self, which is actually nonexistent but which is grasped as real by the deluded mind.  +
he ru ka'i gnas bcu;abodes of Heruka,ten;abodes of heruka,ten;The ten are the (1) abodes (Tib. gnas, Skt.pīṭha), (2) outer abodes (Tib. nye ba'i gnas, Skt. upapīṭha), (3) fields (Tib. zhing, Skt. kṣetra), (4) outer fields (Tib. nye ba'i zhing, Skt. upakṣetra), (5) pleasing places (Tib. tshan do, Skt. chandoha), (6) outer pleasing places (Tib. nye ba'i tshan do, Skt. upachandoha), (7) meeting places (Tib. 'du ba, Skt. melapaka), (8) outer meeting places (Tib. nye ba'i 'du ba, Skt. upamelāpaka), (9) charnel grounds (Tib. dur khrod, Skt. śmaśāna), and (10) outer charnel grounds (Tib. nye ba'i dur khrod, Skt. upaśmaśāna).  +
snyoms 'jug;meditative absorption;meditative absorption;samāpatti;One of eight attainments in the form and formless realms corresponding to the dhyānas. meditative concentration. See samādhi.  +
srog rtsa;channel life-force;channel life-force;The channel in the heart through which flow the life-sustaining vital energies, corresponding to the aorta of the physical body and the avadhūti  +
shes bzhin;introspection;introspection;saṃprajanya;The mental process by which one monitors one's own body and mind. In the practice of śamatha, its principal function is to note the occurrence of laxity and excitation.  +
mkbris pa;bile;bile;pitta;In the Ayurvedic and Tibetan medical systems, the bodily constituent, or humor, responsible for heat, metabolism, and transformation.  +
yongs su myang ngan las 'das pa;parinirvāna;The complete enlightenment of a buddha, manifesting outwardly as death.  +
'khrul pa;delusion;delusion;bhrāntī;The principal delusion is the reification of oneself and ''other phenomena,'' which acts as the root of all other mental affliction  +
matraṃ;The designation of matricide for the rūdra (of self-concepts) because he devours (obscures) his mother (the sugatagarbha). See CM 403, GD 276.  +
spros pa'i mtha'a brgyad;extremes of conceptual elaboration,eight;extremes of conceptual elaboration,eight;aṣṭānta;The eight philosophical assertions of origination, cessation, existence, nonexistence, coming, going, diversity, and unity.  +