Sacred sites in India and Nepal associated especially with Chakrasamvara; also Hindu holy sites.

Also called the two collections or two types of merit, they are: the merit of virtue, which develops the method side of the path by practicing generosity and so forth, and the merit of (transcendental) wisdom, which develops the wisdom side of the path by meditation on emptiness and so forth. See also merit.

They are: conventional bodhicitta, wishing to attain enlightenment in order to free all sentient beings from suffering, and ultimate bodhicitta, the realization of emptiness within a bodhisattva's mental continuum. See also bodhicitta.

The truth body or dharmakaya, the result of the wisdom side of the practice and the form body or rupakaya, the result of the method side of the practice.

See two accumulations.

Eternalism, seeing things as having an intrinsic reality, and nihilism, seeing things as having no reality at all.

The classification of a buddha's body into two: dharmakaya (truth body) and rupakaya (form body). See also three kayas and four kayas.

Deluded mental states that block the attainment of liberation and enlightenment. They are: the grosser kind, called disturbing-thought obscurations or obscurations to liberation, and the subtle obscurations, the imprints left when those are purified, called obscurations to knowledge or obscurations to enlightenment.

See generation stage and completion stage.

Two great Indian scholars, Gunaprabha and Shakyaprabha, who were learned in the Vinaya (ethical discipline). See also the Six Ornaments.

The two ways of relating to phenomena, as conventional or all-obscuring truth, the truth to a worldly mind, and ultimate truth, the truth to a mind engaged in ultimate analysis.

See two accumulations.