‘Corpus of Manifest Enlightenment‘ is called in Buddhist Sanskrit as the Abhisambodhikaya. According to some Dzogchen systems, the appearance-making aspect of the deep awareness of a Buddha‘s pure appearance. In other words, theRead More…
See Corpus of Manifest Enlightenment.
A static state in which an emotional obscuration or a cognitive obscuration has been removed forever from a mental continuum. Equivalent to a true stopping (true cessation). Translated by others as “riddance” Read More…
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The lasting, enduring nature of all phenomena; the emptiness of all phenomena. J. Hopkins’ translation: “mode of subsistence.”
Three Pitakas (Skt. tripiṭaka; Tib. སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ་, Wyl. sde snod gsum) — the three collections or ‘baskets’ into which the Word of the Buddha is divided. They are the Vinaya, SutraRead More…
Botanical name: Terminalia arjuna Botanical family: Combretaceae Dravyaguṇa • Energetics: Rasa taste: astringent (kaṣāya), sweet (madhura), pungent-spicy (kaṭu) Vīrya heating or cooling energy: cooling (śīta) Vipāka Post-digestive effect: pugent-spicy (kaṭu) • Actions of the Doshas: V+,Read More…
Karma is a Sanskrit word meaning action. Generally speaking, the use of the term is with reference to its spiritual implications and has the status of law–that which never has an exceptionRead More…
vaidya: One who knows. A respectful title of an Ayurvedic medical practitioner, indicating appreciation of the depth and scope of knowledge in the training of this science. See our Buddhist Ayurveda vaidyaRead More…
VATA. One of the three doshas, combining the space and air elements; it is the subtle energy associated with bodily movement and governs breathing, blinking, muscle and tissue movement, pulsation of theRead More…