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The name given to our world in the cosmological system of ancient India. +
lit. immeasurable light. The Buddha of the Lotus lineage, symbolizing the speech of all the Buddhas. +
lit. wheel or channel-wheel. A configuration of spokes or petal-like channels resembling a wheel, which is supported by the central channel. Depending on the tantra, four or six chakras are mentioned. The dharmachakra is the channel-wheel situated at the level of the heart. +
Another term for emptiness; the nature of phenomena. +
(1820-92). One of the greatest figures in the recent history of the Sakya and Nyingma traditions and one of the principal founders of the Rimé, or nonsectarian, movement in Eastern Tibet. He was a great treasure-revealer, being considered the last of the five "tertön kings." +
A tantric deity, in male or female form, representing different aspects of Buddhahood. Yidams may be peaceful or wrathful and are meditated upon according to the nature and needs of the individual practitioner. +
The Tibetan form of Oddiyana. ''See'' Oddiyana. +
(seventeenth century). A celebrated master and tertön of the Nyingma tradition. Among his discovered texts figures the autobiography of Yeshe Tsogyal, translated into English as the ''Lady of the Lotus-Born''. +
lit. treasure. Teachings and blessed substances concealed principally by Guru Padmasambhava, to be revealed later, at a time when they would be more beneficial for the world and its inhabitants. +
lit. continuum. The texts of Vajrayana Buddhism expounding the natural purity of the mind. ''See also'' agama. +
A name of the pure land of Padmasambhava, or Guru Rinpoche. ''See also'' Chamara. +
A substance akin to adamant or diamond. Sometimes referred to as a thunderbolt, it is an emblem of indestructibility. In the form of a ritual implement, regularly used in tantric ceremonies, the vajra is the symbol of skillful means, that is, compassion, and is coupled with the bell (Skt. ''ghanta''; Tib. ''dril bu''), symbolizing the wisdom of emptiness. +
''See'' buddhafield. +
A way of referring to the schools of Tibetan Buddhism founded during the later period of translation of Sanskrit texts into Tibetan, which coincided with the period of restoration of the teaching following the persecution by King Langdarma in the eleventh century. +
A transcendent perfection or virtue, the practice of which leads to Buddhahood. There are six paramitas: generosity, ethical discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom. +
Name of the long oral lineage of transmission of the teachings from the Buddha down to the disciples of the present day. +
The Vajrayana, or the Secret Mantra, which takes the pure nature of the mind not as a goal to be attained at some point in the future, but as the actual path of practice. +
lit. center and circumference. A term with numerous meanings. Most basically, it means a simple circular arrangement of offerings. More profoundly, it refers to the configuration of the deities within their sacred environment as visualized in the generation-stage practice. Finally, it may refer to the natural, spontaneously present expanse of primordial wisdom. +
A practice of the Great Perfection that focuses on the spontaneously present "clarity aspect" of ultimate reality. By contrast, trekchö focuses on the aspect of primordial purity. +
