rgya chad phyogs lhung med par'dod pa'i sems phyogs: 1 definition
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In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
rgya chad phyogs lhung med par'dod pa'i sems phyogs (རྒྱ་ཆད་ཕྱོགས་ལྷུང་མེད་པརའདོད་པའི་སེམས་ཕྱོགས) in Tibetan refers to “the area of mind which holds the result to be the mind’s point of origin” and represents one of the seven categories of the Mental Class (Semde or sems-sde) which represents one of the three Divisions of Atiyoga (Dzogchen).—Concerning the fourth area of mind (rgya-chad phyogs-lhung-med-par'dod-pa’i sems-phyogs): Although mind-as-such, the naturally present pristine cognition, encompasses all of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, it is impartial with respect to substantial appearances, impartial with respect to insubstantial emptiness, and, being without either, it does not even descend into bias with respect to their coalescence. Since its empty essence is liberated from the extreme of eternalism and its unimpeded expressive power is liberated from the extreme of nihilism, it is the reality without activity, transcending happiness and suffering.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
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