(8th-9th cent.) — renowned Indian master who visited Mount Kailash at the time of King Trisong Deutsen and transmitted the ''Guhyagarbha'' tantra to the Tibetan translator Jnana Kumara of Nyag. +
Lodrö Thaye (1813-1899); prophesized by the Buddha Shakyamuni in the ''King of Samadhi Sutra'' and by Padmasambhava in many of his termas. He studied and mastered all the Buddha's teachings. His primary teachers were the Fourteenth Karmapa, Situ Pema Nyinje Wangpo and the Great Khyentse. He became the teacher of the fifteenth Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje. He is renowned as an accomplished master, scholar, writer, poet, and artist, and authored and compiled more than 100 volumes of scriptures. Among these, the best known is the ''Five Treasuries''. In ''Splendor'' he is referred to as Old Kongtrul or simply Kongtrul. +
nature of mind. Pointing out the mind essence: the main aim of the 'pointing-out instruction' is to make obvious to the meditator what it is that knows and thinks —— not as a theory but a direct experience. ''See'' pointing-out instruction. +
one of the three main 'seats' of Chokgyur Lingpa. When the tertön went there, he had a vision of the Sixteen Arhats or the Sixteen Elders. "Neten" means "elders" in Tibetan. It is situated on the border between Nangchen (Qinghai) and Chamdo (Tibet Autonomous Region) near Tsechu Gompa. +
A Tibetan accomplished master of the Drigung Kagyu school who was an emanation of Nagarjuna and also Phamo Drupa (1110-70), one of the three foremost disciples of Gampopa. +