“Indestructible,” one of the subtle channels in the body. According to Ratnākaraśānti, this channel is associated with the yoginī Vajrā.
Toh 4089. An important treatise on Buddhist metaphysics composed by Vasubandhu in the fourth century ce.
The “truth of the highest meaning” that can only be directly realized, but not grasped conceptually.
The negative states of mind that bind to saṃsāra. The main three are delusion, anger, and desire.
The five aggregates of individual existence are form (
This seems to be a Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit version of the name Adhomukhā, one of the Buddhist goddesses.
One of the five tathāgatas, he is located in the eastern quarter of tantric maṇḍalas and presides over the vajra family.
A posture where the right foot is extended forward, and the left knee slightly bent.
The eleventh bodhisattva level.
A system of code words and terms with symbolic meaning that are used in the higher tantras.
One of the five tathāgatas, he is located in the western quarter of tantric maṇḍalas and presides over the lotus family.
One of the five tathāgatas, he is located in the western quarter of tantric maṇḍalas and presides over the lotus family. An alternate name of Amitābha.
Another name for Amoghasiddhi.
One of the eight nāga kings. He is also the cosmic serpent that Viṣṇu sleeps upon.
Another name of Yama.
One of the secondary kṣetras.
There are two types of
An offering that consists primarily of water, which is made ritually to the deity as an act of welcome and to bid farewell. The ritual act is based on the similar practice of receiving a guest in the home.
According to Buddhist tradition, one who is worthy of worship (pūjām arhati), or one who has conquered the enemies, the mental afflictions (kleśa-ari-hata-vat), and reached liberation from the cycle of rebirth and suffering. It is the fourth and highest of the four fruits attainable by śrāvakas. Also used as an epithet of the Buddha.
Another name for Amitābha.
A very broad term referring to both mental and physical forms, qualities, and aspects that, in the Yogācāra system, lack objective reality.
standard
A proponent of philosophical views that assert the primacy of enduring self. The various schools of Vedānta would fall into this category.
The ninth bodhisattva level.
Literally meaning “heat,” the term refers to intense, austere practices intended to generate yogic energy.
One of the three main subtle channels associated with the experience of emptiness; it is located in the center of the body. In the Hevajra system, this channel is identified with Nairātmyā.
The worst of all hells, where the suffering is most intense.
An offering to the deity or spirits that consists chiefly of food.
The ritual activity of banishing or exorcising hostile forces. A type of hostile rite (
There are four bases of confidence possessed by realized beings, beginning with the confidence of having realized phenomena as they are.
When used as an abstract noun, the term can refer to the nondual aspect of the experience of phenomena.
A polyvalent term that refers in tantric scriptures to the
“Generating,” one of the subtle channels in the body. According to Ratnākaraśānti, this channel is associated with the yoginī Vajraḍākī.
One of the five Pāṇḍava brothers. Son of Vāyu.
A Buddhist goddess.
One of the fifteen yoginīs that inhabit the thirty-two subtle channels. Also, the name of a yoginī in the maṇḍala of Nairātmyā.
This term in its broadest sense can refer to any being, whether human, animal, or nonhuman. However, it is often used to refer to a specific class of nonhuman beings, especially when bhūtas are mentioned alongside rākṣasas, piśācas, or pretas. In common with these other kinds of nonhumans, bhūtas are usually depicted with unattractive and misshapen bodies. Like several other classes of nonhuman beings, bhūtas take spontaneous birth. As their leader is traditionally regarded to be Rudra-Śiva (also known by the name Bhūta), with whom they haunt dangerous and wild places, bhūtas are especially prominent in Śaivism, where large sections of certain tantras concentrate on them.
One of the main gods of the Brahmanical tradition.
Also called
In the general Mahāyāna teachings, the “mind of awakening” (
A being who is dedicated to the cultivation and fulfilment of the altruistic intention to attain perfect buddhahood, traversing the ten bodhisattva levels (daśabhūmi, sa bcu). Bodhisattvas purposely opt to remain within cyclic existence in order to liberate all sentient beings, instead of simply seeking personal freedom from suffering. In terms of the view, they realize both the selflessness of persons and the selflessness of phenomena.
The levels or stages through which a bodhisattva progresses before becoming fully awakened. There are between ten and thirteen levels, depending on the traditions of explanation.
Unidentified.
The “enjoyment body,” one of the two form bodies (
A code word for male genitalia.
One of the primary deities of the Brahmanical pantheon in which he is considered a creator god. Brahmā occupies an important place in Buddhism as one of two deities (the other being Śakra) who are said to have first exhorted Śākyamuni to teach the Dharma. He is also considered to be the “Lord of the Sahā world” (our universe).
The absolute reality. The timeless and unconditioned ground of being, first taught in the Upaniṣads.
“Brahmin woman,” one of the five mudrās, representing the activity family in the Hevajra system.
A unit of time equal to the duration of an exhalation and inhalation.
Literally “wheel,” cakra is an energy center in the subtle body where subtle channels converge. In tantric Buddhism there are either four or five main cakras. The
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