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a class of demigods who inhabit the atmospheric regions.
siddhi – “perfection” – one of the many supernatural powers possessed by siddhas as a result of their practice,
their sadhana. Included among the siddhis are the power of flight, invisibility, the power of attraction and the
power to realize one’s every desire.
shravaka – “auditor” – a person who attains emancipation by listening a buddha.
stupa – a funerary monument in the shape of a dome or pyramid, containing a relic of a Buddha or some other
objects of veneration; a meditation support symbolizing the formless body of the Buddha and the essential
structure of the cosmos.
shunyata – “emptiness” – the principle that all objects of the senses, mental concepts, and categories are void of
self-existence.
susumna – mapping of the yogic body; the major subtle channel identified with fire, which runs down through
the centre of the spinal column. See also nadi.
tathatgata - “one who comes thus” – an epithet of the Buddha or of one the five celestial buddhas
terma – “treasure” – indigenous Tibetan Budhist collections of works, mainly containing instructions for special
forms of Tantric practice. They are brought to light by treasure-discoverer specialists, either in the form of
hidden manuscripts or of visionary revelations with no physical substrate.
torma – conical flour and butter cones used as ritual offerings to a person’s enlightened beings and protectors.
tulku – “the form body of a Buddha” – the recognized reincarnation of a past Buddha master.
upaya – “skill in means” – array of expedient devices employed by bodhisattvas to enlighten beings trapped in
suffering existence. Upaya becomes deified as the male member of a bipolar relationship – with the female
prajna (“wisdom”).
vajra – (Tibetan dorje) – “Thunderbolt, diamond, penis” – adamantine symbol of strength, immovability, and
transcendent nature of the state aimed at by Tantric practitioners; name of an implement used in Tantric ritual.
vajrakaya – “diamond body”
vajrayoga – “adamantine union” – the fusion of wisdom realizing emptiness and compassion, which
spontaneously manifests appearances in order to guide living beings to freedom from samsara.
vidya – “esoteric knowledge, wisdom” – wisdom personified as a goddess. Vidya is one of the terms used for a
male practitioner’s female consort.
yab-yum (Tibetan) – “father-mother” – term used to describe deities in sexual union.
yantra – “instrument of restraint; machine” – one of a group of instruments, including diagrams, amulets, and
alchemical apparatus, used by a Tantric practitioners to control or subdue his own mind, demonic beings, or
elements of the phenomenal world.
yidam – “vow, oath, covenant” – a tutelary deity.
Yoga Tantra – “Tantra of Yoga” – one of the four classes of Buddhist Tantric texts, sects and teachings.
yogin – a male practitioner of yoga.
yogini – one of a class of powerful, fierce and often sexually alluring female demigods and human sorceresses
who imitate or are identified with them; a female Tantric practitioner.
yoni – the female sexual organ, womb.
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