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Traditional classification of Tibetan medicine that groups all illnesses into 404 kinds. On the site, it shows that the Tara mandalas counter every root of illness.

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其他写法: 404 raízes de doenças

The highest of the four classes of tantra, which includes the generation and completion stages. Some of the centre's practices, such as Kangso, are reserved for those who have completed their highest yoga tantra classes.

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其他写法: Yoga tantra superior, Anuttarayoga tantra

changchub sem

The mind that aspires to full enlightenment in order to benefit all sentient beings. It is the heart of the Mahayana path.

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其他写法: Bodicita, Bodhicitta, Mente da iluminação

One who has generated bodhichitta and strives for enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. The bodhisattva vow is the formal commitment to follow this path.

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其他写法: Bodisatva, Voto de bodhisattva

"The Awakened One": a being who has removed every fault and perfected every quality, attaining full enlightenment. In the plural, it refers to all enlightened beings.

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其他写法: Buddha, Budas

Group of the centre's practitioners who conduct the Jangwa Puja.

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其他写法: classe de dadju

Offering the virtue of a practice to a purpose or to someone, such as a person's health, the liberation of someone who has died or the good of all beings. At the centre, the names sent in are dedicated in the daily prayers and festivals.

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其他写法: dedicação de nomes

chö

The Buddha's teachings and the realisations they bring about; the path that leads to freedom from suffering and to enlightenment.

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其他写法: Darma

The two phases of highest yoga tantra practice. In the generation stage the practitioner trains in visualising themselves as the deity; in the completion stage they work directly with the subtle mind to attain enlightenment.

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其他写法: Estágio de geração, Estágio de conclusão, Estágio de completude

The state of a Buddha: a mind completely free of all obscurations and endowed with perfect wisdom and compassion. It is the goal of the Mahayana path.

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其他写法: Plena iluminação, Budeidade

The fact that all composite things change from moment to moment and eventually come to an end. Reflecting on it is one of the foundations of the Lamrim.

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The law of cause and effect of actions: virtuous actions bring happiness and non-virtuous actions bring suffering, in this life or in future lives.

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其他写法: Carma, ações cármicas

The first of the four classes of tantra, emphasising ritual, purification and outer conduct.

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其他写法: Tantra de ação

Final freedom from the cycle of rebirth marked by suffering (samsara), attained by removing the mental afflictions and their causes.

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其他写法: Nirvana

"Great Vehicle": the Buddhist path motivated by bodhichitta, which seeks full enlightenment in order to free all beings. It is the basis of training at the centre.

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其他写法: Maaiana, Grande Veículo

Beings connected with water, earth and the natural environment, called "lords of the environment" on the site. Cultivating a good relationship with them is part of the Environment and Pacification project.

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其他写法: Naga

Name given by the teacher to someone who takes refuge in the Three Jewels. At the centre, it can be added in My Account and is used in emails.

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其他写法: Refuge name

Four pairs of concerns that bind the mind to worldly life: gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and blame, fame and disrepute.

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其他写法: Oito preocupações mundanas

Eight dangers from which Tara protects, according to tradition. They have an outer meaning (physical threats) and an inner one (disturbing emotions such as pride, anger, attachment and doubt).

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其他写法: Oito perigos

Traditional consultation carried out at monasteries on request, to guide decisions or to indicate suitable personal pujas.

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其他写法: consulta ao oráculo

Three of the enlightened activities to which rituals such as fire pujas and le-shin are dedicated: pacifying obstacles and illness, increasing favourable conditions and empowering virtuous activities.

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其他写法: atividades iluminadas

An enlightened or oath-bound being committed to protecting the teachings and practitioners, removing obstacles and creating favourable conditions for practice.

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其他写法: Protetores, Dharmapala

The traditional division of the tantric teachings into kriya (action), charya (performance), yoga and highest yoga tantra, in increasing order of depth.

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Relying on the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha as guides on the spiritual path. Formally taking refuge before a teacher marks one's entry into the Buddhist path.

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其他写法: tomar refúgio, data do refúgio

Traditional image for the act of teaching the Dharma. "Turning the wheel of Dharma" means giving teachings.

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其他写法: girar a roda do Dharma

gendün

The spiritual community. Broadly, the practitioners who follow the Dharma together; strictly, the monastic community and realised beings.

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其他写法: Sanga

The six kinds of rebirth in cyclic existence: gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hell beings.

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其他写法: Seis reinos de existência

Every being with a mind that has not yet attained enlightenment, in any form of life. Benefiting all of them is the motivation of the Mahayana.

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其他写法: todos os seres

The Buddha's discourses, and the body of teachings and practices of the common path that form the basis for tantra.

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其他写法: Sutras

The teachings and methods of the Vajrayana, practised on the basis of renunciation, bodhichitta and wisdom, and received through initiation from a qualified teacher.

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其他写法: Tantras

"The One Thus Gone": one of the Buddha's titles, meaning one who has reached ultimate reality. On the site, it refers to Buddha Shakyamuni.

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其他写法: Tathagata Supremo

A realm manifested by a Buddha, where conditions are entirely favourable to practising the Dharma and attaining enlightenment.

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其他写法: Terras Puras, Campo de Buda

"Teaching of the Elders": the Buddhist tradition prevalent in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, based on the Pali canon.

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其他写法: Teravada

The consciousness of a person who has died, moving on from one life to the next. In the Jangwa Puja, the names of the departed are dedicated so that they may find a good rebirth.

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其他写法: ente falecido

The Buddha (the teacher), the Dharma (the teachings) and the Sangha (the spiritual community): the three objects of refuge in Buddhism.

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其他写法: Três Joias Preciosas

"Diamond Vehicle": the part of the Mahayana that includes the methods of tantra, practised with initiation and the guidance of a qualified teacher.

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其他写法: Veículo do Diamante, Mantrayana, Tantrayana

A positive action, word or thought that creates causes for happiness and progress on the path. Offerings, practice and service to the centre accumulate virtue.

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其他写法: karma virtuoso