Also known as Tsurphu Jamyang Chenpo (mTshur phu 'jam dbyangs chen po) (1424–82), he was a student of Vanaratna and Gö Lotsāwa ('Gos lo tsā ba), the author of the Blue Annals. See Roerich [1949] 1979, 805–37. +
The perfection process of the Guhyasamāja system consisting of speech isolation (ngag dben) or vajra repetition (rdo rje'i bzlas pa); mind isolation (sems dben); illusory body (sgyu lus) or self-blessing (bdag byin rlabs); luminosity ('od gsal); and unification (zung ' jug). See Kongtrul 2007b, 298; and Kongtrul 2008. +
A name for the red bindu (located four finger-widths below the navel) that relates to its shape. It may refer to the final vertical stroke mark in the letter a—the ा (from अ in Devanāgarī, rendered as A in Tibetan)—or to the Vartula script's representation of the letter A by a single vertical line. See Kongtrul 2007b, 159; and Roberts 2011, 703. +
Root bindu free from conceptual elaborations (rtsa ba spros bral gyi thig le), bindus of deluded ignorance (' khrul pa ma rig pa'i thig le), and remedial bindus (gnyen po'i thig le); or the three bindus of mentation (yid), awareness (dran pa), and nonawareness (dran med). +
For a discussion of the Sanskrit translated by the Tibetan bla na med pa ("unexcelled") being niruttara, not *anuttara, see Dalton 2005, 152n84; and Sanderson 2009, 146. +
Mere consciousness, or mere cognition. This term is also translated as "dependent nature," "other-powered nature," or "relative identity." See Kongtrul 2007a, 179–81 and 255–57; and Kongtrul 2012, 565–74. +
Innate ignorance (lhan skyes kyi ma rig pa), ignorance involving the conditions of formative forces ('du byed kyi rkyen gyis ma rig pa), and ignorance involving imagination as its conditions (rkyen kun tu brtags pa'i ma rig pa). +
The master from whom Jamgön Kongtrul received instructions on Rangjung Dorje's Profound Inner Principles, Treatise on the Distinction between Consciousness and Wisdom, and Treatise That Reveals the Tathāgata Heart. See Barron 2003, 25. +
Marrow (rkang); bones (rus pa); tendons and ligaments (chu rgyus), or body hairs (spu), originating from semen; and skin (lpags pa); flesh (sha); and blood (khrag), originating from menses. +
This is defined as the support for the life-force that is explained in Indian astrology. GTCD. "Life-essence abodes" (bla gnas) is also translated as "life-supports." See Parfionovitch, Dorje, and Meyer 1992, 39. +