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| Five Elements | Earth, water, fire, wind and space. |
| Five Eyes | The physical eye, the divine eye, the eye of discriminating knowledge, the eye of dharma, and the eye of wisdom. |
| Five faculties | The five faculties ruling over the first two of the four aspects of ascertainment on the path of joining: faith, mindfulness, diligence, concentrations and discriminating knowledge. |
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| Garuda | The mythological bird, able to travel with a single movement of its wings from one end of the universe to the other. |
| General Preliminaries | The four contemplation's on precious human body, impermanence and death, cause and effect of karma, and the defects of samsara. |
| God Realms | Six abodes of the gods of the desire realm: seventeen abodes of the gods of the realm of form, and four abodes of the gods of the formless realm. |
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| Habitual Tendencies | Subtle inclinations imprinted in the all ground consciousness. |
| Hinayana | The vehicles focussed on contemplation of the four noble truths and the twelve links of dependent origination for the sake of individual liberation. |
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| Insight meditation | (Skt. vipashyana, Tib. lha tong) Meditation that develops insight into the nature of mind. The other main meditation is shamatha meditation. |
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| Jowo | A title often used by Tibetans for the Indian pandita Atisha. |
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| Kagyu | One of the four major schools of Buddhism in Tibet. It is headed by His Holiness Karmapa. The other three are the Nyingma, the Sakya, and the Gelugpa schools. |
| Kayas | (Tib. ku sum) The three bodies of the Buddha: the nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya and dharmakaya. The dharmakaya, also called the "truth body," is complete wisdom of the Buddha which is unoriginated wisdom beyond form which manifests in the sambhogakaya and the nirmanakaya. The sambhogakaya, also called the "enjoyment body," is a realm in which the Buddha manifests only to bodhisattvas. The Buddha manifests in the world as an ordinary being as the historical Buddha. |
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| Lamdre | 'Path and fruition/result' The main teaching of the Sakya school. |
| Lower Vehicles | Compared to vajrayana, the lower are the vehicles of shravakas, pratyekabuddhas and bodhisattvas. |
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| Mahamudra | Literally means "great seal" or "great symbol." This meditative transmission is especially emphasized in the Kagyu school. |
| Mahasiddha | (Tib. drup chen) A great practitioner who has achieved great realization. |
| Mahayana | The vehicle of bodhisatvas striving for perfect enlightenment for the sake of all beings. |
| Matireya | The 'Loving One'the bodhisattva regent of the Buddha Shakymuni, presently residing in the Tushita heaven until he becomes the fifth buddha of this kalpa. |
| Machik Labdron | The great female master who set down the cho practice. |
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