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(1016-1100) An Indian pandita and siddha, the disciple of Tilopa and teacher of Marpa the Translator +
Gampopa Sönam Rinchen (1079-1153), also known as Dagpo Rinpoche, was the most famous disciple of Milarepa and the founder of the Kagyupa monastic order +
A proponent of extreme philosophical views such as nihilism and eternalism. This term is often used to imply non-Buddhist religious traditions in India +
The mantra of Avalokiteshvara, om mani padme hum +
“one who listens”: a follower of the Basic Vehicle whose goal is to attain liberation for himself as an Arhat +
The Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha +
Two steps in practices involving the recitation of a mantra. In the first, practitioners approach the deity that they are visualizing by reciting the deity's mantra. In the second they are familiar enough to identify themselves with the deity. +
A person practicing a spiritual path +
“Dharma body”: the emptiness aspect of Buddhahood; also translated as “body of truth,” “absolute dimension.” +
A great Tibetan master and translator, disciple of Drogmi, Naropa, Maitripa, and other great siddhas. He brought many tantrasfrom India to Tibet and translated them. These teachings were passed down through Milarepa and his other disciples, and are the basis of the teachings of the Kagyu lineage +
One who has dispelled (Tib. sangs) the darkness of the two obscurations and developed (Tib. rgyas) the two kinds of omniscience (knowing the nature of phenomena and knowing the multiplicity of phenomena) +
The original state of the mind: fresh, vast, luminous, and beyond thought +
The obscurations of afflictive emotions and conceptual obscurations. +
The world of desire, the world of form and the world of formlessness. Alternatively (Tib. 'jig rten gsum, sa gsum, srid gsum): the world of gods above the earth, that of humans on the earth, and that of the nagas under the earth +
The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things +
The normal preoccupations of unrealized people without a clear spiritual perspective. They are: gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, fame and infamy +
The meditation associated with sadhana practice in which one purifies oneself of one's habitual clingings by meditating on forms, sounds, and thoughts as having the nature of deities, mantras, and wisdom. +
An important Sakyapa master (1182-1251), also known as Kunga Gyaltsen +
The founder of the Yogachara School and author of many important treatises, in particular the five teachings he received from Maitreya (fourth century) +
The demon of the aggregates, the demon of afflictive emotions, the demon of the Lord of Death, and the demon of the sons of the gods (or demon of distraction). +
