Buddhahood is attained by uniting means and knowledge; in Mahayana, compassion and emptiness, relative and ultimate bodhichitta. In Vajrayana, means and knowledge are the stages of [[development and completion]]. According to the Kagyu schools, means refers specifically to the '[[path of means]],' the [[Six Doctrines of Naropa]] and knowledge to the '[[path of liberation]],' the actual practice of [[Mahamudra]]. According to Dzogchen, 'knowledge' is the view of [[primordial purity]], the [[Trekcho]] practice of realizing the heart of enlightenment in the present moment, while 'means' is the meditation of [[spontaneous presence]], the [[Togal]] practice of exhausting defilements and fixation through which the [[rainbow body]] is realized within one lifetime. [RY]
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The Life Story of Vairotsana
*[[Glossary from The Great Image]]
*Tibetan title: ([[rje btsun thams chad mkhyen pa bE ro tsa na'i rnam thar 'dra 'bag chen mo]])
