Lit. “great seal.” One of the three types of mudrā, with aspects as causal and resultant mahāmudrā (see Introduction, UT22084-077-002-77 et seq.).

Awakened state described as the union of wisdom and means.

A very advanced practice that combines wisdom and means.

Literally “great mudrā,” this is an important and polyvalent term in esoteric Buddhist literature. Here it refers to spontaneous union as the deity maṇḍala and the transformation of one’s own body, speech, and mind into a the body, speech, and mind of the deity.

Though the term has a range of meanings depending on the context in which it used, it is often used to denote one of the highest accomplishments of tantric practice.

An important and polyvalent term in esoteric Buddhist literature, it is used here to refer to the form of Vajradhara as a “seal” of ultimate reality that one adopts in one’s meditative practice.