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The original temple at Sakya Monastery, founded in 1073 by Khön Könchok Gyalpo. On the Tromchu River in Tsang. +
(d. 1185). Kadampa logician and scholar of Sangpu Neutok Monastery. +
“the supreme mountain”: the four-sided mountain in the form of an inverted pyramid that is the center of our universe according to Buddhist cosmology +
The distinction is usually made, particularly in such practices as the incense offering (Tib. gsang) and burnt offerings (Tib. gsur), between offering to sublime beings “above,” such as the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and giving (as part of the practice of generosity) to ordinary beings “below,” including animals and spirits. +
One of the most famous Buddhist universities of India, destroyed in the twelfth century +
The result (and goal) of spiritual practice. Common accomplishments include supernatural powers, which a Bodhisattva may use to benefit beings. The principal goal, however, is the supreme accomplishment, which is enlightenment. +
Also diamond, adamantine thunderbolt: a symbol of unchanging and indestructible wisdom capable of penetrating through everything; a ritual instrument symbolizing compassion, skillful means, or awareness, and always associated with the bell, the symbol of wisdom or emptiness +
Not produced by anything, having no origin, that which has not come into existence. As Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche explains, “By ‘unborn' we mean that this absolute nature is not something that has come into existence at one point and may cease to exist at another. It is completely beyond coming into existence and ceasing to exist.” +
“grasping at” or “apprehending two”: the concept of “I” and “other.” +
(958-1055) The most famous translator of the second propagation of Buddhism in Tibet, when the New Tradition began +
The name by which Padmasambhava is most commonly known in Tibet +
The second of the six gods' realms in the world of desire. The abode of Indra and his thirty-two ministers +
A mythical bird symbolizing primal wisdom, of great size and able to fly as soon as it is hatched. The five colors in which it is sometimes represented symbolize the five wisdoms. It is the enemy of the nagas, and is depicted with a snake in its beak, symbolizing consuming the afflictive emotions +
“the three bodies”: the three aspects of Buddhahood: dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya +
Thoughts of hatred, attachment, and so on that prevent one from attaining liberation. +
A follower of the Basic Vehicle who attains liberation (the cessation of suffering) without the help of a spiritual teacher +
Exercises combining visualization, concentration, and physical movements, in which the flow of subtle energies through the subtle channels is controlled and directed. These practices should only be attempted with the proper transmission and guidance, after completing the preliminary practice and achieving some stability in the generation phase +
The view that denies the existence of past and future lives, the principle of cause and effect, and so on. One of the extreme views refuted by the proponents of the Middle Way +
Meditative absorption, a state of mind without any distraction, essential for all meditative practices, the result of which depends on the motivation and view of the meditator. Non-Buddhist meditative concentration leads to rebirth in the worlds of form and formlessness. The concentrations of the Shravakas result in their attaining the level of Arhat, while only those of the Bodhisattvas can result in Perfect Buddhahood +
The seven points of the ideal meditation posture: legs crossed in the vajra posture, back straight, hands in the gesture of meditation, eyes gazing along the nose, chin slightly tucked in, shoulders well apart “like a vulture's wings,” and the tip of the tongue touching the palate +
