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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'' +
bla ma;guru;A superior teacher. See entry for "guru." +
rtsa dbu ma;avadhūti;The central channel, or vein, of the arcane body generated by the tantric adept. +
dkon mchog gsum;triratna +
śug 'bru ba;definition=The kernel,or berry,of the juniper tree. The epithet won by Jampel Gyatso by virtue of his having encouraged the "juniper berry" pill retreat at Wölka and by virtue of his having subsisted throughout the retreat on the fewest of such pills,made from ground juniper berries. +
gsun 'bum;definition=Literally,the "collected sayings" of a teacher. The term is used to refer to the collected writings or collected works of such a one. ''bKa' 'bum'' is a synonym for the term. +
thugs kyi sras;definition=Literally,"heart-disciple." This term is used with reference to a teacher's closest disciples. Heart-disciples are usually the ones who later author the teacher's biography. However,they need not necessarily be the students who are chosen to advance a particular lineage or transmission,these being more properly called ''bka' babs pas''. For example,Chennga Lodrö Gyeltsen wrote the biography of his teacher,Jampel Gyatso;but the latter chose Baso Je as the singular ''bka' babs'' to whom he entrusted the Oral Tradition teachings on Mahāmudrā. +
vows,three;vows,three;definition=See entry under ''sdom pa gsum''. +
