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the Chinese name for communists. +
(1235-1280) — Sakya master and nephew of Sakya Pandita; ruled Tibet and was preceptor to the Mongolian Kublai Khan. +
(1682-?) — also known as Nuden Dorje or Samten Lingpa; tertön and emanation of Atsara Sale, Yeshe Tsogyal's Nepalese consort. +
(b. 1608) master of the Kagyu and Nyingma schools; reincarnation of Vairotsana; author of ''Mirror of Mindfulness'' and ''Lamp of Mahamudra''. +
one of the eight practice lineages; brought to Tibet by Kyungpo Naljor (1002-1064). +
(957-1055) — important translator at the time of Atisha; known as the first ''lotsawa'' of the New Schools. +
important female deity. +
disappearance of erroneous ideas and concepts; rather than saying that someone "attained realization" the phrase shows realization's the real nature — that something extraneous has vanished, just like when the sun is cleared from clouds. +
second of the three inner tantras corresponding to the eighth of the nine vehicles; emphasizes knowledge (''prajna'') rather than means (''upaya'') and the completion stage rather than the development stage. The view of Anu Yoga is that liberation is attained through growing accustomed to the insight into the nondual nature of space and wisdom. +
chanting of the mantra in hundred syllables; one of the preliminary practices. +
images, syllables, etc. The Himalayan region abounds with divine images that supposedly are not made by the human hand. +
body is deity, voice is mantra, and mind is samadhi. +
(8th cent.) — one of the twenty-five close disciples of the Lotus-Born master. +
the sacred mountain in west Tibet. +
a local spirit may challenge the yogi's stability in meditation by creating magical apparitions of varying degrees of intensity. +
(1055-1153) — great female master and incarnation of Yeshe Tsogyal who set down the Chö practice of cutting through ego-clinging. Machik Labdrön means 'Only Mother Lamp of Dharma.' +
Mount Abum; situated eight hours' drive on dirt roads from Sharda in Nangchen. +
see Wangchok Dorje, the second son of Chokgyur Lingpa. +
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoches paternal grandfather. +
vehicle of tantric teachings; training in seeing phenomena as the display of primordial purity. The six classes of Vajrayana tantras teach this in an increasingly direct and profound way. The gateway to the Vajrayana is the empowerment, which is given by the spiritual master. +
