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lit. “six gatherings of consciousness” (signifying the gathering of a sense object, a sense organ, and a consciousness). The consciousnesses related to vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mentation. +
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Collectively, the object of refuge of all Buddhists. The Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha. +
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A term generally used to denote non-Buddhist proponents of nihilistic and eternalistic philosophical views. The Tibetan term refers to the fact that they are said to stay on the steps (''stegs'') leading down to the edge ('''mu'') of the river, that is, the path flowing into the ocean of nirvāṇa. +
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See attentiveness. +
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Also called conqueror. A general epithet for a buddha, one who has won victory over all negative forces. +
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The accumulation of merit (Tib. ''bsod nams'') and the accumulation of wisdom (Tib. ''ye shes''). +
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The incorrect mental processes that lead to the imputations of subject and object and of intrinsic existence. +
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The highest possible state of worldly realization, the fourth stage of the path of joining that immediately precedes the direct realization of emptiness on the path of seeing. +
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See Secret Mantrayāna. +
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Uncontaminated by defilements, including concepts due to the defilement of ignorance. +
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This term is applied to followers of the Lesser Vehicle who attain liberation (the cessation of suffering) on their own, without the help of a spiritual teacher. Although some solitary realizers with sharp intellects remain alone “like rhinoceroses,” others with dull minds need to stay in large groups, “like flocks of parrots.” Solitary realizers’ practice consists, in particular, of meditation on the twelve links of dependent arising. +
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Obscurations related to defilements, or defilement-related obscurations (''nyon sgrib''), and those that obscure knowledge, or cognitive obscurations (''shes sgrib''). +
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lit. “Dharma body.” Also called absolute dimension. The emptiness aspect of buddhahood. +
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The ultimate nature of the mind and the true status of phenomena, which can only be known by gnosis, beyond all conceptual constructs and duality. See also relative truth. +
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The principal practice of a bodhisattva, combining skillful means and wisdom, the compassionate motivation of attaining enlightenment for the sake of all being sand the view of emptiness. See six and ten transcendent perfections. +
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A scripture containing teachings given by the Buddha or by one of his disciples inspired by the Buddha. +
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The third of the three worlds, at the peak of existence. It comprises the spheres of infinite space, infinite consciousness, utter nothingness, and neither existence nor nonexistence. +
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A member of the priestly caste in Indian society. +
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Also called sublime being. An epithet applied, in the Great Vehicle, to someone who has attained the path of seeing, a bodhisattva on one of the ten bodhisattva levels. In the vehicles of the listeners andsolitary realizers, it is used to refer to stream enterers, once-returners, nonreturners, and arhats. +
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The five aggregates that are at the same time the result of past defilements and deeds and the causal basis of the defilements and deeds that perpetuate rebirth in saṃsāra. +
