Property:Gloss-term
From Buddha-Nature
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rūpakāya;the form body of a buddha comprising the sambhogakāya and nirmanakāya. +
wisdom;wisdom;knowing or understanding, specifically of the actual way in which things exist;the realizations leading to the attainment of the truth body (dharmakāya) of a buddha. +
nirvana;liberation from cyclic existence;the "higher" nirvana refers to the complete enlightenment of a buddha. +
mantra;Sanskrit syllables and words used in tantric practices to transform ordinary speech and protect the mind from ordinary conceptualizations. +
Saraha;Indian master;mentor to Nāgārjuna and highly accomplished tantric practitioner. +
enlightenment;enlightenment;the state of realization of an arhat or a buddha. +
dependent arising;dependent arising;the dependent and relational character of phenomena;any phenomenon so characterized. Establishing things as dependent arisings - i.e. as dependent upon parts, causes and mental imputation for their existence - overcomes the false view of their being inherently self-existent. +
Tsong Khapa;tsong khapa;founder of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. +
Chārvāka;a non-Buddhist school of materialist thinkers who denied the validity of the law of moral causation (karma). +
Shāriputra;one of Shākyamuni's closest disciples, known for his wisdom. +
four formless absorptions;four formless absorptions;states of deep meditative concentration four immeasurables meditation upon love, compassion, equanimity and joyfulness. +
karma;intentional action that determines the nature of future experience in accordance with the laws or moral causation. +
buddha;one who has removed every gross and subtle obscuration veiling the mind and has developed all good qualities, such as wisdom, compassion and skilful means, to the full. +
Particularist;particularist;Vaisheshika;or Particularist;a non-Buddhist school teaching a path to liberation employing ablutions, fasts, etc. +
Shākyamuni;title conferred upon Gautama Buddha (sixth century BC);Sage of the Shākya Clan. +
impute;impute;designate;apprehend;the mental process by which phenomena are established to exist conventionally. +
samsara;cyclic existence +
Madhyamaka;a school of Buddhist philosophy formulated by Nāgārjuna, Chandrakīrti and others on the basis of the ''Perfection of Wisdom (prajñāpāramitā) Sutras'' of the Buddha. It emphasizes the voidness of all phenomena through a radical denial of any notions such as substance, essence, and inherent existence. Through understanding voidness one is freed from the ignorance that keeps one bound to samsara. +
Hīnayāna;those paths of Buddhist thought and practice stressing the attainment of individual or self-liberation from the sufferings of cyclic existence;the so-called lesser vehicle. +
