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The three kindnesses of a spiritual master. In sutra: (1) giving precepts (sdom pa); (2) reading-transmissions (lung); and (3) guidance (khrid). In tantra: (1) conferring empowerments (dbang bskur); (2) explaining the tantras (rgyud bshad); and (3) imparting pith instructions (man ngag gnang ba). +
Region of Kham corresponding to Tengchen County. +
This is the code of monastic discipline for monks. It consists of the five precepts: (1) no killing, (2) no stealing, (3) no sexual activity, (4) no lying, and (5) no intoxicants, as well as five further restrictions designed specifically for members of the ordained Sangha: (6) no eating after noon, (7) no adorning the body with anything other than monastic robes, (8) no participating or attending public entertainments, (9) no sleeping in high or luxurious beds, and (10) no touching or using money, gold, or silver. +
The six bardos: (1) the natural bardo of this life (skyes gnas bar do); (2) the bardo of dreams (rmi lam bar do); (3) the bardo of meditation (bsam gtan bar do); (4) the painful bardo of dying ('chi kha bar do); (5) the luminous bardo of dharmata (chos nyid bar do); and (6) the karmic bardo of becoming (srid pa'i bar do). +
These comprise the principal cycles contained in the distant lineage of the orally transmitted Kama (ring brgud bka' ma) of the Nyingma school. The entire collection currently includes 120 volumes in its most extensive compilation. See bibliography of texts referenced by the author under NK; for a history of their transmission, see Dudjom Rinpoche, Nyingma School, 597–739. +
Khenpo Ngakchung's previous incarnation. Scholar and tantric practitioner from Labrang Tashikyil Monastery. +
The setting or context in which the tantras are expounded, comprised of (1) the perfect place (buddha realms); (2) the perfect teacher (buddhas); (3) the perfect assembly (male and female bodhisattvas, meditational deities, and so forth); (4) the perfect teaching (tantras); and (5) the perfect time (indefinite time). +
(1124?-1192?). Treasure-revealer, first of the Five Tertön Kings. Revealed a biography of Padmasambhava. +
Possibly Khenchen Gyurme Tubten Jamyang Drakpa (c. 1883–1945). +
(1) The far-reaching water lamp (rgyang zhags chu yi sgron ma) as a gateway that causes the arising of the three other lamps through the eyes, with the help of the light channels ('od rtsa); (2) the lamp of the basic space of awareness (rig pa dbyings kyi sgron ma) as a ground for the arising of the external, a space of projection for the two following other lamps; (3) the lamp of empty vital nuclei (thig le stong pa'i sgron ma) as a support (the shape of colored vital nuclei that join together or form groups, and that comes forth inside the second lamp) that activates the arising; and (4) the lamp of naturally occurring insight (shes rab rang byung gi sgron ma), which is not actually "lighting up" but is the naturally occurring insight itself. +
(1) Earth, (2) water, (3) fire, (4) wind, and (5) ether. +
(1) Delight, (2) supreme delight, (3) special delight, and (4) innate delight, each of which has four subsidiary aspects; for example, the delight of delight and the delight of supreme delight. +
(1) Moon seat (zla gdan); (2) the seed-syllables of speech (gsung yig 'bru); (3) the symbolic implements of mind (thugs phyag mtshan); and (4) the perfect body of the deity (sku yongs rdzogs). +
(1) Shravakas (nyan thos); (2) pratyekabuddhas (rang rgyal); and (3) bodhisattvas (byang chub sems dpa' ). +
(1126–1216). Second abbot of Katok Dorje Den Monastery. Disciple of Dampa Deshek, helped build Katok Monastery. +
According to Mahayoga: (1) the single basis (rgyu gcig pa); (2) the manner of seed-syllables (yig 'bru'i tshul); (3) consecration (byin gyis rlabs); and (4) direct perception (mngon sum pa). +
(1292–1361). Sakya master, abbot of Jonang Monastery. Founder of the Jonang tradition, author of Shentong text, Ocean of Definitive Meaning. +
The three monastic robes comprise the lower robe, or undergarment (Skt. antaravasaka); the upper robe (Skt. uttarasanga); and the outer robe (Skt. sangati). From the first century c.e., these three monastic garments have been regularly used in representations of the Buddha, with the outer robe usually the most visible garment and the undergarment protruding at the bottom. The upper robe is barely visible within the folds of the outer robe. +
(1) Training in moral discipline (tshul khrims); (2) stability (ting nge 'dzin); and (3) insight (shes rab). +
The five aspects that comprise the physical and mental constituents of a sentient being: (1) form (gzugs); (2) feeling (tshor ba); (3) conception ('du shes); (4) formation ('du byed); and (5) consciousness (rnam shes). +
