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Alan Carr observed object (ālambana, ārammaṇa, Tibetan: dmigs ...
The basic object that the mind refers to or focuses on while apprehending certain aspects…
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own-characteristics/specific characteristics (svalak...
The specific characteristics unique to each phenomenon. Things have their own characteristics, but they do…
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primal substance (fundamental nature, prakṛti, pakat...
A truly existent substance out of which everything is created, asserted by the non-Buddhist Sāṃkhya…
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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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focal object (viṣaya, Tibetan: dmigs pa)
The main object the mind refers to or focuses on.
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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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