Property:Glossary-Definition
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"Glossary-Definition" is a predefined property of type Text. This property is pre-deployed (also known as special property) and comes with additional administrative privileges but can be used just like any other user-defined property.
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The American Institute of Buddhist Studies (AIBS) created by Robert Thurman at Columbia University in New York. http://aibs.columbia.edu/ +
Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University +
Mental stains that are not inherent to the nature of the mind but are temporarily present as the residue of past actions or habitual tendencies. It is sometimes iterated as adventitious defilements (Skt. ''āgantukakleśa'', Tib. ''glo bur gyi nyon mongs''), which references the fickle and temporary nature of disturbing emotions that lack an ultimately established basis for existence. +
Abhidharma generally refers to the corpus of Buddhist texts which deals with the typological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and epistemological presentation of Buddhist concepts and teachings. The abhidharma teachings present a meta-knowledge of Buddhist sūtras through analytical and systemic schemas and are said to focus on developing wisdom among the three principles of training. The Abhidharma is presented alongside Sūtra and Vinaya as one of the three baskets of the teachings of the Buddha. +
Actualized enlightenment is enlightenment that is attained through practice. It is contrasted with original enlightenment, which is the mind's innate purity in its natural state. Ultimately, there is no difference between them. Because of the presence of ignorance, sentient beings are blind to their true nature. By removing that ignorance, one actualizes enlightenment. +
Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two. +
The ninth consciousness, the immaculate pure mind. +
