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Avalokiteshvara;the bodhisattva embodying the boundless compassion of full enlightenment. +
conventional existence;conventional existence;the interdependent nature of phenomena;their manner of appearance and functioning. +
guru;spiritual mentor and guide +
tantra;an esoteric discource attributed to the Buddha;a way to enlightenment which makes use of mantra, visualization, and the control of subtle physical energies;the adamantine vehicle to enlightenment (vajrayāna). +
method;method;those practices of compassion and so forth leading to the attainment of the form body (rupakaya) of a buddha. +
name-mantra of guru;name-mantra of guru;Sanskrit syllables incorporating the name of one's spiritual mentor, recited to enhance devotion and to request inspiration. +
qualities;qualities;(sattva, rajah, tamah) asserted by the non-Buddhist Sāṃkhya school as the three basic constituents of the "primal substance" (prakrti): lightness, activity and darkness. +
pratyekabuddha;solitary realizer;a Hinayāna practitioner who does not rely on a spiritual master during the final stages of the path. +
sutra;a discourse preached by the Buddha;the non-tantric way to enlightenment. +
Saṃmitīya;one of the eighteen earliest schools of Buddhism;classified by the Tibetans as one of the sub-sects of the Vaibāshika school. +
attachment;attachment;the deluded mental factor that is attracted to and wishes to possess misery-producing objects, mistakenly believing them to be true sources of happiness. +
shūnyatā;voidness;emptiness;the absence of inherent existence;the ultimate mode of being of all phenomena. +
voidness;voidness;shunyata +
yogī;a practitioner following a spiritual discipline that "yokes" him or her to a specific path and practice;one who has mastered the practices of concentration and insight. +
sambogakāya;the form in which a buddha appears to advanced bodhisattvas;the enjoyment body. +
ten powers of a buddha;ten powers of a buddha;(1) the power of knowing right from wrong;(2) the power of knowing the consequences of actions;(3) the power of knowing the various inclinations of living beings;(4) the power of knowing the various types of living beings;(5) the power of knowing the degree of the capacities of living beings;(6) the power of knowing the path that leads everywhere;(7) the power of knowing the obscurations, afflictions and purifications of all contemplations, meditations, liberations, concentrations and absorptions;(8) the power of knowing one's former lives;(9) the power of knowing the time of death and future lives;(10) the power of knowing the exhaustion of defilements. (Adapted from Thurman, Robert, ''The Holy Teachings of Virmalakirti''([[sic]]). Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.) +
two truths;two truths;conventional or deceptive truth, i.e. the way in which phenomena normally appear and function, and ultimate truth, i.e. the way in which phenomena actually exist. +
buddhahood;buddhahood;full enlightenment: the goal of the Mahāyāna practitioner. +
twelve links;twelve links;the twelvefold chain of causation describing the way in which suffering arises from ignorance and the actions motivated by ignorance;(1) ignorance;(2) formative actions;(3) consciousness;(4) name and form;(5) the six sense bases;(6) contact;(7) feeling;(8) craving;(9) longing;(10) existence;(11) birth;(12) ageing and death. +
Gelug;gelug;one of the four major Tibetan traditions of Buddhism, established in the fifteenth century by Je Tsong Khapa and his followers. +
