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One of Jigme Lingpa's four principal disciples, and the root teacher of Patrul Rinpoche +
An important Indian master who held an important place in the lineages of the Great Perfection. He went to Tibet in the eighth century, where he taught extensively, and composed and translated numerous Sanskrit texts. The quintessence of his teaching is known as the Vima Nyingtik +
Habitual patterns of thought, speech, or action created by one's attitudes and deeds in past lives +
Also translated as “renunciation”: the deeply felt wish to achieve liberation from samsara +
Also harmful action, unwholesome act, evil: an action—physical, verbal, or mental—that produces suffering +
The Buddha of our time, who lived around the fifth century b.c +
The absolute or ultimate nature; the empty nature of all phenomena +
A term used to describe the practice of a Bodhisattva, which combines skillful means and wisdom, the compassionate motivation of attaining enlightenment for the sake of all beings and the view of emptiness. +
A positive or virtuous act that serves as a cause propelling one towards happy states +
The threefold training in discipline, concentration, and wisdom +
The southern continent according to Buddhist cosmology, the world in which we live +
The philosophical doctrine propounded by Nagarjuna and his followers, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence +
The hells, the preta realm, and the animal realm +
One of the eighty-four mahasiddhas of India; teacher of Naropa +
A unit of time (of inconceivable length) used in Buddhist cosmology to describe the cycles of formation and destruction of a universe, and the ages of increase and decrease within them +
Chenrezi, the Bodhisattva of Compassion and essence of the speech of all the Buddhas +
A scholar, someone learned in the five traditional sciences (crafts, medicine, philology, logic, and philosophy). The term is particularly used to refer to Indian scholars +
Obscurations created by negative actions. +
A general epithet for a Buddha +
Six modes of existence caused and dominated by particular mental poisons: the hells(anger), and the realms of the pretas(miserliness), animals (bewilderment or ignorance), humans (desire), asuras (jealousy), and gods(pride). These correspond to deluded perceptions produced by beings' karma and apprehended as real +
