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Also called the Diamond Vehicle or Adamantine Vehicle. +
The ultimate nature of the mind and the true status of phenomena, which can only be known by primal wisdom, beyond all conceptual constructs and duality +
The eight conditions in which sentient beings lack the opportunity to hear and practice the Buddha's teachings. These are: to be born (1) in the hells, (2) as a preta, (3) as an animal, or (4) as a long-lived god; or as human being but (5) in a world where no Buddha has appeared, or (6) in a barbaric region where the Buddha's doctrine is unknown, or (7) as someone holding wrong views, or (8) as someone mute or mentally deficient +
The consciousnesses related to vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mentation +
The three fundamental types of suffering to which beings in samsara are subject: the suffering of change, suffering upon suffering, and the suffering of everything composite (or all-pervading suffering in the making) +
The Lotus-born Teacher from Oddiyana, often known as Guru Rinpoche. During the reign of King Trisong Detsen, the great master subjugated the evil forces hostile to the propagation of Buddhism in Tibet, spread the Buddhist teaching of Vajrayana in that country, and hid innumerable spiritual treasures for the benefit of future generations. He is venerated as the Second Buddha, whose coming was predicted by the first one, Buddha Shakyamuni, to give the special teachings of Vajrayana +
A great Indian master who expounded the teachings of the Middle Way and composed numerous philosophical and medical treatises +
The Buddha who embodies the forty-two peaceful and fifty-eight wrathful deities. The practice of Vajrasattva and recitation of his mantra are particularly effective for purifying negative actions. In the lineage of the Great Perfection he is the Sambhogakaya Buddha +
One of the Four Great Kings (whose god realm is the first in the world of desire); guardian of the North and god of wealth +
The vehicle of the Bodhisattvas, referred to as “great” because it aims at full Buddhahood for the sake of all beings +
Also egolessness: the absence of independent or intrinsic existence, either of oneself (Tib. gang zag gi bdag med) or of external phenomena (Tib. chos kyi bdag med) +
The first of the schools of the New Tradition, which followed the teachings of Atisha. It stressed compassion, study, and pure discipline. Its teachings were continued by all the other schools, in particular the Gelugpa, which is also known as the New Kadampa School +
Tibet's great yogi and poet, whose biography and spiritual songs are among the best loved works in Tibetan Buddhism. One of the foremost disciples of Marpa, he is among the great masters at the origin of the Kagyupa School +
(1) “With characteristics” (Tib. mtshan bcas): meditation on the channels and energies of the body visualized as a vajra body; (2) “without characteristics” (Tib. mtshan med): the meditation phase during which the forms visualized in the generation phase are dissolved and one remains in the experience of emptiness +
Students of the same teacher, or with whom one has received teaching. It is considered vital to have harmonious relations with such people, particularly in the Vajrayana +
The things that appear to us, that we perceive +
“one who has gone to thusness”: an epithet of a Buddha +
Pearl-like relics found in the bodily remains or ashes of someone who has attained a high degree of realization during his or her lifetime +
The discoverer of the Longchen Nyingtik teachings, revealed to him in a vision he had of Longchenpa. He is considered to be a combined emanation of Vimalamitra and King Trisong Detsen. Patrul Rinpoche is often considered to be the emanation of Jigme Lingpa's speech (1729-1798) +
One of the Three Pitakas; the section of the Buddha's teaching that deals with discipline, and in particular with the vows of monastic ordination +
