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ma hā yoga'i theg pa;Mahāyogayāna;The spiritual vehicle of the "Great Yoga," which is perfected by realizing the nondual reality of the deity and one's own appearances.  +
rang grol gyi dran pa;mindfulness,self liberated;mindfulness,self liberated;See mindfulness, manifest.  +
nges tshig,Skt. nirukti;etymology,contextual;etymology,contextual;A definition given by the semantic roots of terms.  +
rig pa tshad phebs;reaching consummate awareness;reaching consummate awareness;The third of the four stages on the path of direct crossing over, in which the entire universe appears to be totally pervaded with rainbow light and blazing fire, and everything appears as bindus in which the five families of male and female peaceful and wrathful deities appear in union. This sage of spontaneous manifestation corresponds to the attainment of the eighth āryabodhisattva stage, known as Immovable.  +
nyams snang gong 'phel ba;The second of the four stages on the path of direct crossing over, in which all appearances during and after meditation transform into displays of light and rainbow bindus with ever-increasing clarity, until finally all ordinary appearances vanish and dissolve into continuous, omnipresent displays of visions of light. This stage corresponds to the attainment of the fifth āryabodhisattva stage, known as Difficult to Cultivate.  +
gter ston;treasure revealer;treasure revealer;A highly realized being who reveals Dharma teachings concealed in the physical world or in the nature of mind.  +
rgyud;tantra;A thread or continuum. An esoteric scripture belonging to the class of Vajrayāna Buddhism, as opposed to the exoteric teachings of the sūtras.  +
drag po;drag po;rūdra;A meditator takes birth as a rūdra, a type of demon, by firmly and clearly visualizing himself or herself as a wrathful deity— while having no realization of emptiness and no motivation of compasion. It can also mean the conceptual grasping by which one reifies the distinctions of outer, inner, and secret phenomena.  +
spros pa;conceptual elaboration;conceptual elaboration;prapañca;Conceptual constructs, such as those of existence, nonexistence, birth, and cessation.  +
stug po bkod pa;Ghanavyūha;Lit. "Compact Display" this is the buddhafield of Vairocana in the central direction. See VE 192.  +
nus pa;potencies,eight;potencies,eight;Heavy, oily, mild, sharp, light, rough, hot, and cool.  +
bag chags;propensities,habitual;propensities,habitual;vāsanā;Mental imprints accumlated as a result of previous experiences or actions, which influence later events and conduct.  +
mnyen btsal ba;training in pliability;training in pliability;A direct crossing over practice in which one visualizes Hūm syllables emerging from and withdrawing back into one's heart, as a means to gain mastery over one's vital energies and mind. See VE 413-15.  +
sems;mind;mind;citta;Dualistic awareness that clings to appearances, conceptually observes its own processes, and arouses pleasure and pain through intellectual fabrications and the acceptance and rejection of virtue and vice.  +
rang rgyud;svatantra;That which functions independently. Characteristic reasoning of the Svātantrika Madhyamaka system.  +
'byung phran lnga;elements,five derivative;elements,five derivative;The outer elements. The impure "residues" of the five great elements;they arise externally as space, water, earth, fire, and air due to grasping and reification of the five lights of the great elements. See CM 398, BM 327-29, GD 150-53, VE 123-25.  +
spros pa'i mtha;philosophical stance;philosophical stance;Conceptual constructs, such as those of existence and nonexistence, which are apprehended by way of dualistic grasping.  +
nyer len;substantial cause;substantial cause;A substantial cause of a phenomenon is a prior phenomenon that actually transforms into the subsequent phenomenon that it produces, such as a seed that transforms into a sprout. substantialism (Tib. gngos par lta ba). The view that phenomena exist by their own inherent natures, prior to and independent of conceptual designation.  +
gzhir gnas kyi rig pa;pristine awareness that ispresent in the ground;pristine awareness that ispresent in the ground;The all-pervasive, fundamental nature of awareness, which is equivalent to the dharmakāya.  +
mi 'am ci;kiṃnara;Lit. "man or what?" —a human-bird chimera. One of the eight classes of haughty gods and demons.  +