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'brug pa kun legs;DRUKPA KUNLEG;drukpa kunleg;(1455-1529) An accomplished master and poet who adopted the lifestyle of a "mad yogi," belonging to the Drukpa Kagyu school. He was famous for his songs of realization and for his eccentric, picaresque lifestyle. +
de bzhin gshegs pa;TATHAGATA;tathagata;lit. thus gone, an epithet of Buddha or buddhahood. +
tsong kha pa;TSONGKHAPA;tsongkhapa;Otherwise known as Lozang Drakpa and Je Rinpoche, the founder of the Gelugpa school. He founded the monastery of Ganden in 1410. A great scholar, revered as a manifestation of Manjushri. +
KATYAYANA;katyayana;A disciple of Buddha Shakyamuni. He attained arhatship and committed to writing a part of the Abhidharma teachings. +
jo bo rje;ATISHA;atisha;Also known as Dipamkarashrijnana (982-1054), abbot of the monastic university of Vikramashila, India. His visit to Tibet in 1042 at the invitation of the Lama king Yeshe Ö, provided the main inspiration for the restoration of Buddhism after a period of persecution inflicted by King Langdarma. Atisha introduced the mind-training teachings, which he received from his teacher Suvamadvipa Dharmakirti and which combine the two currents of bodhichitta teachings transmitted by Nagarjuna and Asanga. He was also a master of the tantras. His principal Tibetan disciple and successor was the upasaka Dromtön ('brom ston), the founder of the Kadampa school. Atisha remained in Tibet for twelve years and died there at Nyethang in 1054. +
dus 'khor gyi rgyud;KALACHAKRA-TANTRA;kalachakra-tantra;A tantra taught by the historical Buddha Shakyamuni to Chandrabhadra (zla ba bzang po), king of Shambhala, who was an emanation of the Bodhisattva Vajrapani. It belongs to the nondual class of Anuttara tantras and presents a complete path to enlightenment, together with an elaborate system of cosmology. +
dpal sprul o rgyan 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po;PATRUL RINPOCHE;patrul rinpoche;(1808-1887) A highly accomplished master of the Nyingma tradition, from eastern Tibet;the author of numerous works;of which The Words of My Perfect Teacher (kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung) is one of the most celebrated. He was famous for his nonsectarian approach and renowned for his compassion and the extraordinary simplicity of his lifestyle. +
klong chen rab 'byams;LONGCHENPA;longchenpa;Regarded as the greatest genius of the Nyingma tradition, an incomparable master and author of over 250 treatises. +
so sor thar pa;PRATIMOKSHA;pratimoksha;Lit. individual liberation. This term is used to refer to the eight kinds of Buddhist ordination (both monastic and lay), together with their connected vows and disciplines (including the temporary vow of upavasa, or twenty-four-hour discipline). +
rgyal sras thogs med;GYALSE THOGME;gyalse thogme;(1295-1369) Also known as Thogme Zangpo (thogs med bzang po) and Ngulchu Thogme (dngul chu thogs med). A great Sakya master and abbot of Bodong, celebrated by aU schools for his mind-training teachings, author of The Thirty-seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas (rgyal sras lag len). +
bsnyen gnas;UPAVASA;upavasa;The twenty-four-hour Pratimoksha vow, consisting of nine precepts and taken by lay people. +
dri med bshes gnyen;VIMALAMITRA;vimalamitra;One of the greatest masters and scholars of Indian Buddhism. He went to Tibet in the ninth century where he taught and translated numerous Sanskrit texts. He was one of the principal sources, together with Guru Padmasambhava, of the Dzogchen teachings of Tibet. +
lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje;CHANGKYA ROLPE DORJE;changkya rolpe dorje;(1717-1786) A major scholar and prolific writer of the Gelugpa school. He had close connections with Mongolia and China, presiding over the translation of the Kangyur into Manchu and the translation and revision of the Tengyur into Mongolian. He composed the celebrated encyclopedic description of Buddhist teachings, The Presentation of the Tenets (grub mtha'i rnam par bzhag pa). +
KAMALASHILA;kamalashila;(713-763) The principal disciple of Shantarakshita and an exponent with him of the Yogachara-Madhyamika school. He was invited to Tibet, where he successfully debated against the Chinese master Hoshang Mahayana, thereby establishing the gradual approach of the Indian tradition as normative for Tibetan Buddhism. +
chos rgyal ngag gi dbang po;CHÖGYAL NGAKYI WANGPO;chögyal ngakyi wangpo;(1759-1807) Also known as Ngawang Dargye;a Mongolian king living in the,Blue Lake (Kokonor) region who was a celebrated Nyingmapa master and disciple of the first Dodrupchen Rinpoche. +
dul ba'i mdo rtsa;VINAYA-SUTRA;vinaya-sutra;A commentary on the Vinaya teachings, composed by Gunaprabha. +
klu grub;NAGARJUNA;nagarjuna;A great second-century master of the Mahayana and founder of the Madhyamika system of thought closely associated with the Prajnaparamita-sutras. +
de bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po;TATHAGATAGARBHA;tathagatagarbha;The essence of buddhahood, the luminous and empty nature of the mind, which is present, albeit veiled, in all sentient beings. When the obscuring veils are removed and it is revealed, it is Tathagata, or buddhahood. +
mi la ras pa;MILAREPA;milarepa;(1040-1123) One of the greatest yogis and poets of Tibet. He was one of the foremost disciples of Marpa the Translator, founder of the Kagyu lineage. +
'dul ba;VINAYA;vinaya;The corpus of the teachings on ethical discipline given by the Buddha. +
