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nominally different

Two phenomena are nominally different when they are not the same thing and can be…

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nonconceptual consciousness (nirvikalpaka, Tibetan: ...

A consciousness that knows its object directly, not by means of a conceptual appearance.

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inner heat (candālī, Tibetan: gtum mo)

A practice of highest yoga tantra to draw the winds inside.

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general characteristics (sāmānya-lakṣaṇa, sāmañña-la...

Characteristics, such as impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self that are common to all functioning things.

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essentialists (proponents of true existence, Tibetan...

Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophers following a non-Madhyamaka tenet system who assert that the person and…

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foundation consciousness (ālayavijñāna, Tibetan: kun...

A storehouse consciousness where all latencies and karmic seeds are placed. It carries this from…

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dualistic appearance (Tibetan: gnyis snang)

The appearance of subject and object as separate, the appearance of inherent existence, the appearance…

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conceptual consciousness (kalpanā, Tibetan: rtog pa’...

A consciousness that knows its object by means of a conceptual appearance.

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