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region of East Tibet. +
abbreviation of Samten Gyatso. +
sambhogakaya buddha who embodies all the five families; source of purification practices. +
canonical scripture in which the Buddha taught Vajrayana in his sambhogakaya form. The real sense of tantra is 'continuity,' the innate buddha nature, which is known as the 'tantra of the expressed meaning.' The general sense of tantra is the extraordinary tantric scriptures also known as the 'tantra of the expressing words.' Can also refer to all the resultant teachings of Vajrayana as a whole. +
Karma Gyaltsen; one of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoches teachers and regarded as one of the emanations of Jamgön Kongtrul the first. Kargyam is an abbreviation of Karma Gyaltsen. The king of Nangchen had four gurus; one of them, Kyungtrul's father, resided at Heru Gompa. +
one of Chokgyur Lingpa's four close disciples who spread his teachings in eastern Tibet. +
The fact that phenomena and the ego are empty of, or lack, independent true existence. +
one of the fifteenth Karmapa's chief disciples. +
the final and most important part of the preliminary practices. The practice of supplicating for blessings and mingling the mind of an enlightened master with one's own mind. +
synonym for mind-essence or buddha nature; should be distinguished from the thinking mind (''sem''), which refers to ordinary discursive thinking based on ignorance. This nature is the basic space from and within which these thoughts take place. +
local chieftain, similar to district governor. +
chief seat of the Karma Kagyu lineage established in Sikkim, India, by the sixteenth Karmapa. +
(b.19th cent.) — (Gebchak Tokden), chief disciple of the first Tsoknyi; founded numerous nunneries in Nangchen. +
(1893-1959) — Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö of Dzongsar monastery; one of the five reincarnations of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. He upheld the Rimey (nonsectarian) tradition, and was one of the two main root gurus of Dilgo Khyentse. +
village in the Helambu region (Yölmo), three days walk north of Kathmandu. +
temple complex and monastery in Central Tibet founded by Padmasambhava, King Trisong Deutsen, and Shantarakshita; center of the early transmission. +
-Jamgön Kongtrul's compilation of the most vital instructions from the eight chariots of the Practice Lineage. +
source of protection, place of trust, object of support. +
district in the northeastern mountains of Nepal. +
sacred mountain in west Tibet. +
