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abhisheka (Tib. wang) To do a vajrayana practice one must receive the empowerment or abhisheka from a qualified lama. One should also receive the practice instruction (Tib. tri) and the textual reading (Tib. lung).
Abhidharma (Tib. chö ngön pa) The Buddhist teachings are often divided into the Tripitaka: the sutras (teachings of the Buddha), the vinaya (teachings on conduct,) and the abhidharma which are the analyses of phenomena that exist primarily as a commentarial tradition to the Buddhist teachings. There is not, in fact, an abhidharma section within the Tibetan collection of the Buddhist teachings.
absolute truth (Skt. paramartha satya Tib. dondam) There are two truths or views of reality—relative truth which is seeing things as ordinary beings do with the dualism of "I" and "other" and absolute truth, also called ultimate truth, which is transcending duality and seeing things as they are.
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