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From Buddha-Nature
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(1) Taking life, (2) taking what is not given, (3) sexual misconduct, (4) lying, (5) speaking divisively, (6) speaking harshly, (7) gossiping, (8) coveting, (9) harboring ill will, and (10) harboring wrong views. +
Riwoche County is located in the Chamdo Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest of Nangchen. Also the name of the village in Riwoche County, home to the famous Riwoche Tragyelma Temple, a great center of the Taklung Kagyü and Nyingma traditions, and the seat of the successive Pakchok and Jedrung incarnations. +
(1012–90). Drapa Ngönshey. Founded Dratang Monastery in 1081. Treasure-revealer of Four Tantras of Tibetan medicine, established Phuntong Chenye, a tantric practice community. +
To refrain from (1) drinking alcohol, (2) eating after noon, (3) dancing, (4) jewelry, (5) high beds, and (6) accepting gold and silver. +
A small valley halfway between Khenpo Ngakchung's birthplace and Jönpalung. +
(fl 12th century). Disciple of Milarepa, lineage holder of the Ngamdzong Whispered Lineage. +
See Seven Vajra Verses. +
Eight forms of Guru Rinpoche: (1) Shakya Senge, (2) Padmasambhava, (3) Nyima Özer, (4) Senge Dradrok, (5) Dorje Drollö, (6) Tsokye Dorje, (7) Padma Gyalpo, and (8) Loden Choksey. +
In Mahayoga: (1) the yoga of great emptiness, which is wisdom; (2) the apparitional display of compassion, which is skillful means; (3) and the seals of the meditational deities, which are subtle and coarse in their appearances. +
The preliminary, preparatory, or foundational "practices" or "disciplines" (Skt. sadhana) common to all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and also to Bön. Often referred to as ngöndro, they establish the foundation for the more advanced and rarefied Vajrayana sadhana, which are held to engender realization and the embodiment of enlightenment. The outer preliminaries consist of the four thoughts that turn the mind: (1) precious human birth (2) impermanence, (3) karma, and (4) suffering. The inner preliminaries comprise one hundred thousand accumulations of (1) taking refuge, (2) generating bodhichitta, (3) meditating on Vajrasattva and reciting his hundred-syllable mantra, (4) offering the mandala, as well as (5) guru yoga with one or ten million recitations of the vajra guru mantra. +
Also called the Seven-Line Prayer, this is the famous supplication to Padmasambhava in seven lines that begins: "On the northwest border of Oddiyana..." +
These are the four essential recollections, the four correct trainings, the four supports for miraculous ability, the five faculties, the five powers, the seven branches of enlightenment, and the eightfold path. +
Founded in 1709 by Jamyang Sheypa. In Amdo, southwest of Lanzhou. +
See Nyoshul Jönpalung +
(1) Red, (2) yellow, (3) green, (4) blue, and (5) white. +
Possibly Tromge Jigme Dongak Tendzin (fl. 19th century). +
Forest hermitage behind Dzogchen Monastery, near the Pematang and the upper Rudam Gangtrö hermitages. +
Four visionary appearances that arise in Dzogchen Tögal practice: (1) the vision of the direct perception of reality (chos nyid mngon sum gi snang ba); (2) the vision of ever-increasing meditative experience (nyams gong 'phel ba'i snang ba); (3) the vision of the culmination of awareness (rig pa tshad phebs kyi snang ba); and (4) the vision of the cessation of clinging in reality (chos nyid du 'dzin pa zad pa'i snang ba). +
See Four Nyingtik Mother-and-Child Cycles. +
(1) Vidyadhara of Maturation (rnam smin rig 'dzin); (2) Vidyadhara with Power over the Life Span (tshe dbang rig 'dzin); (3) Vidyadhara of the Great Seal (phyag chen rig 'dzin); and (4) Vidyadhara of Spontaneous Presence (lhun grub rig 'dzin). +
