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two main aspects of Vajrayana practice; development stage means positive mental fabrication while completion stage means resting in the unfabricated nature of mind. +
two days east from Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan. +
''see'' tummo yoga +
clear visualization of the deity. +
(1904-1953) — alias Jamgön Palden Khyentse Özer, the immediate reincarnation of Old Kongtrul, reborn as the son of the 15th Karmapa. One of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's root gurus. +
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's youngest brother; supposedly an incarnation of Neten Chokling. +
(1885-1977) — Khunu Lama Tendzin Gyaltsen; lama from India who traveled all over Tibet and Kham and became a teacher of the Dalai Lama. For more details, see his book on bodhichitta in English: ''Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea''. +
third of the three inner tantras; emphasizes, according to Jamgön Kongtrul the First, the view that liberation is attained through growing accustomed to insight into the nature of primordial enlightenment, free from accepting and rejecting, hope and fear. The more common word for Ati Yoga nowadays is 'Dzogchen' the Great Perfection. +
location of the Great Stupa in the Kathmandu valley. +
(1887/9-1955/7) — ''see'' Uncle Tersey. +
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's sister. +
measurement for land in Nepal; eight ropanis are approximately one acre, sixteen one hectare. +
one of the three major Gelukpa monasteries around Lhasa. +
a shrine room, often small for the Dharma protectors. +
at the time of death of a practitioner who has reached the exhaustion of all dualistic clinging through the Dzogchen practice of Tögal, the five gross elements which form the physical body, dissolve back into their essences, five-colored light. Sometimes the only remainder is the hair and the nails are left behind. In the chapter on Accomplishment, ''Rainbow Painting'', Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche gives a fascinating account of an old nun attaining rainbow body in the shed of a benefactors house, [epk] +
(Zhigatse), Tibet's second largest town, location of Tashi Lhunpo, seat of the Panchen Lamas. +
Dabzang Rinpoche's monastery in Nangchen, founded by the first Dabzang Rinpoche. +
a particular manifestation of Jambhala, the god of wealth. +
''(Path and Fruit)'' vital teachings of the Sakya tradition that come from the India master Virupa. +
'cyclic existence,' 'Vicious circle' or 'round' of birth and death and rebirth within the six realms; characterized by suffering, impermanence, and ignorance; the state of ordinary sentient beings fettered by ignorance and dualistic perception, karma and disturbing emotions. It also means ordinary reality, an endless cycle of frustration and suffering generated as the result of karma. +
