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== ''A Glossary of Buddhist People, Places, and Things'' ==
1- Meditate on Bodhicitta<br>
''-The Terms by which They're Defined -- Not by which They Come to be Realized 'As These Are'.''
2- Meditate on the Yidam deity<br>
 
3- Meditate on the Guru Yoga<br>
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4- Meditate on the Mahamudra<br>
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5- Seal the practice with the dedication.<br>
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Abandonment and realization ([[spangs rtogs]]). - A synonym for 'buddhahood' or 'enlightenment.' [RY]<br><br>
NOTE: Although these five are basic practices for all the Kagyu lineages and other schools, it is the Drigungpas who presented this as a five-fold system of practice. [MR]<br>
Abhidana of the Samvara Tantra -  a tantric text. [RY]<br>
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[[Abhidharma]] -([[chos mngon pa]])-  1) systematic teachings which analyze elements of experience and investigate the nature of existence, thus dispelling wrong views and establishing analytic insight. 2) One of the three parts of the [[Tripitaka]], the Words of the [[Buddha]], the essence of which is prajna, or [[discriminating knowledge]]. 3) Systematic teachings on metaphysics focusing on the training and developing of discriminating knowledge by analyzing elements of experience and investigating the nature of existing things. The chief commentaries on Abhidharma are the [[Abhidharma Kosha]] by [[Dignaga]] from the [[Hinayana]] perspective and the [[Abhidharma Samucchaya]] by [[Asanga]] from the [[Mahayana]] point of view. [RY]<br>
1) The Great Seal of Bodhichitta ([[byang sems phyag chen]]);<br>
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2) the Great Seal of the Deity's form ([[lha sku'i phyag chen]]);<br>
-A Work in Progress- --[[User:Richard|Richard]] 03:32, 19 January 2006 (EST) --[RWB]
3) the Great Seal of Fervent Devotion ([[mos gus phyag chen]]);<br>
 
4) the Great Seal of the True Nature ([[gnas lugs phyag chen]]);<br>
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5) the Great Seal of Dedication ([[bsngo ba'i phyag chen]]). [MR] [RY]

Latest revision as of 05:27, 17 January 2006

1- Meditate on Bodhicitta
2- Meditate on the Yidam deity
3- Meditate on the Guru Yoga
4- Meditate on the Mahamudra
5- Seal the practice with the dedication.

NOTE: Although these five are basic practices for all the Kagyu lineages and other schools, it is the Drigungpas who presented this as a five-fold system of practice. [MR]

1) The Great Seal of Bodhichitta (byang sems phyag chen);
2) the Great Seal of the Deity's form (lha sku'i phyag chen);
3) the Great Seal of Fervent Devotion (mos gus phyag chen);
4) the Great Seal of the True Nature (gnas lugs phyag chen);
5) the Great Seal of Dedication (bsngo ba'i phyag chen). [MR] [RY]

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