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Ganden;Tuṣita;The Sanskrit name refers to the "heaven" of Tuṣita, whence all Buddhas issue, and which is now presided over by Lord Maitreya, the future Buddha. Here, ''dGa'-ldan'' [Ganden] refers to the great monastic institution near Lhasa founded by Tsongkapa himself in the year 1409. +
jñāna;That type of transcendent or supramundane knowledge possessed by the Buddhas. +
dgon pa;vihāra;Literally, a "place of meditation." The term is used to refer to a monastery. +
rjes gnaṅ;definition=A ceremony of oral recitation and blessings that empowers a student to study a given text or to practice a prescribed ''sādhana''. +
yi dam;iṣṭadevatā;The Vajrayāna practitioner's personal or guardian deity. That special deity to whom one's mind is bound. +
phyag rgya chen po;mahāmudrā +
sgrub thabs;sādhana +
rdzogs rim;sampanna-krama +
dDe-mchog;Cakrasaṃvara +
byan chub;Enlightenment;enlightenment;bodhi;The term used to characterize the ''summum bonum'' of Mahāyāna Buddhist practice. +
rdzogs chen;definition=Literally,the "Great Encompassment" or "Great Completion," the term is used to characterize the experience of the ultimate state of realization. The name for the ''summum bonum'' of tantric practice,especially in the Nyingmapa order. +
Pad-ma- 'byun-gnas;Padmasambhava;The eighth-century Indian ''siddha'' usually credited with having established Buddhism in Tibet. Together with the Indian monk-scholar Śāntirakṣita, he founded the earliest order of Buddhism in Tibet, the Nyingmapa. +
Bras-spuṅs;definition= One of the three great Gelukpa monastic institutions near Lhasa. The monastery was founded in 1416 by Jamyang Chöje Tashi Pelden. +
Dam-can Chos-rgyal;Kālarūpa +
gSaṅ-'dus;Guhyasamāja +
rDo-rje-phag-mo;Vajravārāhi;Known as the "Diamond Sow," Vajravātāhi is the female deity who, as insight incarnate, functions to destroy ignorance, symbolized by the pig's head. She is alternately referred to as "Vajrayogini." +
''rDo-rje-phreṅ-ba'';''Vajramālā'' +
