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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. +
cyclic existence;cyclic existence;samsara;Skt., samsara;the unsatisfactory state of existence, rooted in ignorance of the actual nature of reality, in which beings experience the various sufferings of repeated death and rebirth. +
apperception;apperception;the aspect of consciousness that is aware only of the consciousness itself. It is asserted by the Chittamatra school and refuted by the Madhyamaka school. +
Nāgārjuna;Indian Buddhist master of the second century who elucidated the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras of Buddha;the major expounder of the Madhyamaka philosophy. +
Chandrakīrti;Indian master of the sixth century who elucidated Nāgārjuna's exposition of the Madhyamaka philosophy;author of the ''Madhyamakāvtāra'' ([[sic]]). +
ten bhumis;ten bhumis;the ten stages or grounds through which advanced bodhisattvas pass on their way to enlightenment. +
Chittamātra;third of the four major schools of Buddhist philosophy;this Mahāyāna school denies the existence of external objects and asserts the true existence of the mind;sometimes referred to as the Mind-only school. +
Mahāyāna;those paths of Buddhist thought and practice stressing the attainments of the full enlightenment of buddha hood for the benefit of others;the paths of the bodhisattva;the so-called greater vehicle. +
Vaisheshika;the mistaken view with which one believes one's I or self to exist independently and inherently, instead of being a mere imputation on the everchanging aggregates. +
Mount Meru;mount meru;the hub around which the various segments of the universe are arranged;visualized especially at the centre of mandala offerings. +
foundation consciousness;foundation consciousness;Skt., ''ālayavijñāna'';asserted by the Chittamātra school as the consciousness upon which the seeds of karmic actions are placed. +
