clear light
Pure, unfiltered brightness
Clear light is a concept in Tibetan Buddhist tradition referring to the most fundamental state of consciousness—the luminous, empty awareness believed to underlie all experience.
It becomes accessible at death, deep meditation, or certain moments of transition.
Practitioners aim to recognize and rest in the clear light to achieve liberation: He trained for years to recognize the clear light at the moment of death.
- luminousEmitting or reflecting light
- transparentAllowing light through
- brightEmitting or reflecting light
- radiantEmitting light or joy
- brilliantIntensely bright or gifted
crystalline · pure · dawn · glow · translucent · beam · shine · lucid · pristine · sunlight · broad daylight · gleaming · window · glass · illumination · vivid · sparkling · limpid
- lightsunlight, daylight, shine, rays, moonlight
- Tibetan BuddhismBuddha, Tibet, Dalai Lama, lama, lamas
- Bardoluminosity
- Tantric yogachakra, prana, kundalini, inner fire, mudra
- Bon
- Buddha-naturetathagatagarbha, dharmakaya, true nature, suchness, natural state
clear lightdarkness
Total absence of light
faint light · shadow · gloom · blackness · pitch dark
clear lightfiltered light
Illumination passing through obstruction
diffused light · murk · haze · opacity · dappled light
clear lightdarkness
Total absence of light
ignorance · delusion · obscuration · spiritual darkness · confusion
clear, light, clearly, clearer, clearest, clearness, clarity, clearance, cleared