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Term	Translation of Term / Title
rigpa, appearance-making basis rigpa
rigpa, basis
rigpa, effulgent
rigpa, essence
Rimey
Rimey tradition
ripen Tib: smin-pa Skt: vipaka (1) A karmic cause developing or growing to the point at which it can bear fruit, which means produce its result. This is ripening in its definitional sense. (2) A karmic causal factor on a mental continuum exhausting and finishing its pre ... (more)
ripened result Tib: rnam-smin-gyi 'bras-bu Skt: vipakaphalam A nonobstructive unspecified item conjoined with the mental continuum of a limited being, such as the body, consciousness, and feelings of happiness and unhappiness, and which comes from a ripening cause that was also conjoined with his or ... (more)
ripening Tib: smin-pa Skt: vipaka The process whereby a karmic cause gives rise to its result. See: ripen.
ripening cause Tib: rnam-smin-gyi rgyu Skt: vipakahetu A destructive or tainted constructive phenomenon that, unless one has rid one's mental continuum forever of craving, has the power to produce the nonobstructive unspecified items contained in the five aggregate factors of future rebirth st ... (more)
ripenings
ritual bountiful feast Tib: tshogs A specially consecrated torma offered to one's tantric master, inseparable from the Buddha-figure, during a tantra ceremonial round of offering.
ritual ceremony Also called puja. See: offering ritual.
ritual trainer A teacher who instructs one in how to perform Buddhist rituals.
ritual, expiation
ritual, offering
root bodhisattva vows The eighteen primary bodhisattva vows which, if kept purely, act as a root for attaining enlightenment, and which, if fully transgressed, act as a root for rebirth in one of the worse rebirth states.
root disturbing emotion
root disturbing emotions and attitudes Tib: rtsa-nyon
root downfall Tib: rtsa-ltung A transgression of a root bodhisattva or root tantric vow, which, if it is a full transgression, acts as a root for falling to rebirth in one of the worse rebirth states.
root downfall, Kalachakra tantra
root guru Tib: rtsa-ba'i bla-ma The spiritual teacher that inspires one the most, such that his or her inspiration serves as the root giving sustenance to one's spiritual growth.
root tantric vows The fourteen primary tantric vows which, if kept purely, act as a root for attaining enlightenment, and which, if fully transgressed, act as a root for rebirth in one of the worse rebirth states.
roots of constructive force Tib: dge-rtsa
roots of positive force Tib: dge-ba'i rtsa-ba The network of positive force (collection of merit), described from the point of view of it serving as the "root" for one to grow into a Buddha.