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The '''resultant vehicle''' (Skt. ''phalayāna''; Tib. འབྲས་བུའི་ཐེག་པ་,  [[Wyl.]] '' 'bras bu'i theg pa''), or '''‘fruitional vehicle’''' refers to the '''[[Tantrayana]]''' (aka [[Mantrayana]] or [[Vajrayana]]). It is  called ‘fruitional’ or ‘resultant’, because the path is no longer based on establishing the cause (as in the [[causal vehicle]]), but identifying directly with the ''fruition''—the fundamentally pure essence of mind, or [[buddha nature]], which has been present within our minds from the very beginning, but has been temporarily obscured.

[[Longchenpa]] says:
:The resultant vehicles are so called because of asserting that the '''basis for purification''' is the [[buddha nature|(sugata) essence]] endowed with qualities that are spontaneously present as a natural possession in [[sentient beings]], just as the sun is endowed with rays of light; that the '''objects of purification''' are the temporary defilements of the [[eight collections of consciousness|eight collections]], like the sky being (temporarily) obscured by clouds; and that one realizes the '''result of purificatio'''n, the primordially present nature by means of that which purifies, the paths of ripening and liberation. <ref>[[Padmasambhava]] & [[Jamgön Kongtrul]], ''The Light of Wisdom Vol. One'', translated by Erik Pema Kunsang (Boudhanath: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1999), pages 152-153.</ref>

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