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From Buddha-Nature
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dpal;An honorific form meaning "glorious" and "resplendent." +
dByans-can-ma;Sarasvati;The "Goddess of Learning and Eloquence" in both the Hindu and Buddhist pantheons. She appears several times in these namtar and was the special tutelary deity of the First Panchen, Losang Chökyi Gyeltsen. +
dKra-śis-lhun-po;definition=The great Gelukpa monastic institution established in 1447 in Tsang by Gendündrub. +
sPyan-ras-gzigs;Avalokiteśvara +
luṅ;definition=An oral recitation blessing. A reading transmission. Also,instruction. +
mkha' 'gro ma;ḍākinī;Literally, "she who goes in the sky." A wrathful or semiwrathful feminine ''yidam'' symbolizing voidness and insight. She is the tricky and playful inspirer who instigates or occasions consummate insight. +
gnas brtan,dgra bcom pa;arhat;One who has destroyed (''hata'') the three great enemies (''ari'') of greed, hatred, and ignorance. The ideal saint of Theravādin Buddhism. +
bskyed rim;utpatti-krama;The first of the "two stages" associated with the practices of highest yoga tantra. Called the "Generation Stage," it is preliminary and preparatory to the practices taken up during the "Completion Stage." +
Mi-bskyod-pa;Akṣobhya;Literally, "the Immovable." Name of the Saṃbhogakāya form of Buddha-nature, and a central deity in the ''Guhyasamāja Tantra''. +
rtsa ba'i bla ma;definition=One's primary,or "root," teacher. +
dpa' bo mkha' 'gro;ḍāka;Literally, a "warrior sky-goer." Specifically, a masculine semiwrathful or wrathful ''yidam'', who may also function as a messenger or as a protector. +
Phyag rgya chen po;Mahāmudrā;Literally, the "Great Gesture," or "Great Seal." Mahāmudrā refers both ro the ground of realiry and to those advanced tantric meditative methods relied upon by the ''siddhas'' of India and Tibet to lead them to the supreme attainment of enlightenment in one lifetime. Interpreting the term's philosophical position poetically and aesthetically, a contemporary author translates the term as the "Magnificent Stance." +
sbyin bdag;dānapati;A patron or sponsor, especially of religious persons or undertakings. +
rdzogs rim;sampanna-krama;The second of the "rwo stages" of highest yoga tantric practice, called the "Completion Stage." That stage wherein, having attained identity with the deity, the tantric adept performs the yogic techniques of controlling the vital energies (''Skt. prāṇa'') and the mystic "drops" (''Skt. bindu'') until he or she is successful in uniting the "illusory body" and the "clear light" yogas so as to usher in the experience of "total integration" (''Tib. zuṅ 'jug''), enlightenment itself. +
