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A spiritual guide or teacher. +
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Also called brilliant eloquence, confidence and eloquence. Bodhisattvas’ ability to speak from insight, realization, or the Buddha’s inspiration. It implies that they are never afraid of being unable to teach. See also power of retention. +
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A pure land or world manifested by a buddha or great bodhisattva through the spontaneous qualities of their realization, in which beings can progress toward enlightenment without falling back in to the lower realms of cyclic existence. Also, any place whatsoever, when it is perceived as a pure manifestation of spontaneous wisdom. +
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The nondual ultimate reality that is neither existent nor nonexistent, neither the same nor different, neither produced nor destroyed, subject to neither growth nor diminution, neither pure nor impure. +
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The first of the two accumulations. “Merit” is also sometimes used loosely to translate the Tibetan terms ''dge ba'' (virtue, positive action) and ''dge rtsa'' (sources of good for the future). +
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The ultimate nature of things, emptiness, the expanse of reality free from elaboration. +
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Asaṅga’s half-brother and disciple, famous in particular for his authorship of the classic text ''Treasury of Abhidharma'' (''Abhidharmakośa''). +
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The world of desire, the world of form, and the world of formlessness. Alternatively (Tib. ''‘jig rten gsum, sa gsum, srid gsum''): the world of gods above the earth, that of humans on the earth, and that of the nāgas under the earth. +
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The demon, the tempter in general, that which makes obstacles to spiritual practice and enlightenment. +
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The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things. +
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Also called five sins with immediate effect: (1) killing one’s father, (z) killing one’s mother, (3) killing an arhat, (4) creating a split in the Saṅgha, and (5) malevolently causing a buddha to bleed. Someone who has committed one of these five actions takes rebirth in the Hell of Torment Unsurpassed immediately after death, without going through the intermediate state between one rebirth and the next. +
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The series of teachings on emptiness based on the second turning of the wheel of the Dharma first expounded by Nāgārjuna and considered to form the basis of the Secret Mantrayāna. “Middle” in this context means that it is beyond the extremes of existence and nonexistence. +
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A serpent-like being (classed in the animal realm) living in the water or under the earth and endowed with magical powers and wealth. The most powerful ones have several heads. In Indian mythology they are preyed on by the garudas. +
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In the context of Buddhist meditation and practice, a demon is any factor, on the physical or mental plane, that obstructs enlightenment. +
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The concepts of subject, object, and action perceived as having a real and independent existence. +
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The followers of Nāgārjuna who adhere to the Madhyamaka, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence. +
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lit. “pure.” The name given to a number of gods in the world of form. +
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A common epithet for a bodhisattva, with its plural (“the wise”) being used to denote bodhisattvas, and in some instances translated directly as such. +
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Factors that veil one’s buddha nature, maintaining one in cyclic existence and preventing one from attaining enlightenment. See also two obscurations. +
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The collective terms for the sense objects, sense faculties, and sense consciousnesses (form, the eye, and the eye consciousness, for example). Since there are six sense organs (including the mind), there are eighteen sense spheres in all. +
