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In the Kālachakra Tantra presentation, it is said that there are five types of compassion with reference to sentient beings, five types with reference to phenomena, and five types without any reference. The sixteenth is the great compassion of a buddha. See the Stainless Light, chapter 1, section 2. C.T. 6:292; and Newman 1987, 286. For a presentation of sixteen types of compassion within the commentarial tradition of the Highest Continuum, see Mathes 2008, 307, 309–10. +
The highest of the six levels of desire realm gods. +
The visual faculty, which is shaped like a flax flower; the auditory faculty, which is shaped like birch gnarls; the olfactory faculty, which is shaped like parallel fine copper needles; the gustatory faculty, which is shaped like two half-moons; and the bodily faculty, which is shaped like the skin of the bird called "Soft to Touch." GTCD. +
Generation of the deity through the three steps of seed syllable, emblem, and the complete form of the deity. See Kongtrul 2008, 95. +
Earth (sa); water (chu); fire (me); wind (rlung); softness (' jam pa nyid); roughness (rtsub pa nyid); heaviness (lci ba nyid); lightness (yang pa nyid); cold (grang ba); hunger (bkres pa); and thirst (skom pa). See Kongtrul 2012, 482–83; and Pruden 1988–90, 66. +
Another name for Neither Discrimination nor Nondiscrimination, the fourth and final sphere of the formless realm. +
Intentional unambiguity about what is temporary (gnas skabs) and intentional unambiguity about the final ultimate (mthar thug gi don dam). +
Literally, "the moon and sun held by Rāhu." According to ancient Indian astrology, solar and lunar eclipses occur when the sun and moon are held or eaten by Rāhu. See Henning 2007, 95–139; and Kongtrul 2012, 349–51. +
Often simply transliterated in Tibetan; when translated, it is either kun 'dar ma ("all-shaking," "all-vibrating," "all-encompassing," possibly "ascetic") or kun spang ma ("all-abandoning," possibly "renunciant"). Ngo-tro Rabjampa (194.6) explains: "It is called avadhūti because it is the path that abandons the two extremes. . . . It is "all-shaking" because it is [where] the white elements fall." An Encyclopædic Tibetan-English Dictionary (27) defines it (my own translation): "The madhyamā channel of the body is called "all-shaking": "All" because it is the ground that divides into all the [other] channels, the place where the bindus flow, and the path where the winds move. "Shaking" because it pervades all those generally." Germano (1992, 828) says: "While the term "all-encompassing channel" (''Kun 'Dar Ma'') is often understood as the Tibetan translation of this Sanskrit term [avadhūti], there appears to be some question as to [the] original linguistic source of Kun 'Dar Ma (or at least the syllable 'Dar), and in Great Perfection writings it would appear there is a distinction between how these two terms are used, though whether a distinct reference is entailed is debatable. Padmasambhava in KGNT1 60, 3ff [mKha' 'gro snying thig] details three aspects to the term "central channel": the Avadhūti channel which is the spinal cord, the all-encompassing channel which is the vitality channel, and the ultimate central channel which is the luminous channel. . . ." +
Code name for the female sexual organs. See the Hevajra Tantra, part 2, chapter 3, verse 60cd. Farrow and Menon 1992, 201; and Snellgrove 1959, part 1, 100. +
One of two aspects of sugatagarbha (the other being the naturally abiding gotra). Generally identified as the gotra that is produced through listening, reflecting, and meditation. GTCD. Butön (Brunnhölzl 2010, 455) defines it as "the conditioned virtue that serves as the cause for perfect enlightenment."<br> In the Vajrayāna, this is called the vajra body. Also translated as "unfolding disposition," "evolving affinity," "developed lineage," and so on. +
The places that are other than the desire realm: the sixteen levels of the form realm and the four formless spheres. +
The five major elements subdivided into five each: earth-earth, water-earth, fireearth, wind-earth, space-earth, and so on, up to earth-space, water-space, fire-space, wind-space, and space-space. +
More commonly known as Bodong Paṇchen Chokle Namgyal (Bo dong paṇ chen phyogs las rnam rgyal) (1376–1451). For an essay on his life and works, see Smith 2001, 179–208. +
In the Chakrasaṃvara system, they are Ḍākinī, Lāmā, Khaṇḍarohā, and Rūpiṇī. +
A form of divination using mirrors or other reflective surfaces (including water or the sky) into which prepubescent children may see prognostic images. See Strickmann 2002, 210–18. +
See horse-faces' fires. +
The consonants of the Sanskrit alphabet, which begin with ka. +
Earth, water, fire, wind, and space. +
Brahmā, Īshvara, and Viṣhṇu. +
