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sngags kyi sdom pa;Tantric vows;tantric vows;mantra-saṃvara;set of twenty-two prohibitions that anyone receiving an empowerment of ''Yoga-tantra'' or ''Anuttara-yoga-tantra'' must undertake to observe. See Lessing & Wayman, 328-9. +
mi min;Ghosts;ghosts +
ye shes;Gnosis;gnosis;jñāna;Wisdom-knowledge +
Mandāra,mandarava;the coral tree, ''Erythrina indica'', one of the five trees of paradise, with brilliant scarlet flowers. +
ku ru kulle;Kurukullā;female deity considered a form of Tārā, whose particular function is subjugating, hence Her red colour. +
dus gsum;Times,the three;times,the three;past, present, future. +
'gro ba,sems can;Beings;beings;sattva;usually for 'migrating beings' ('''"`UNIQ--nowiki-0002FE17-QINU`"'gro ba'') or 'sentient beings' (''sattva, sems can'') — it excludes Enlightened Beings unless written with a capital B. +
theg pa bla na med pa;Anuttara Vehicle +
Saṃmatīya;prominent Hīnayānist school, to which in the seventh century more than a quarter of the Buddhist monks in India were counted as belonging. They were notorious for their heretical, 'Personalist' views and often their bigotry and moral depravity. +
'gying bag can,rol pa;Graceful;graceful;līlā,lalita;''lalitāsana'' is a name for Green Tārā's usual sitting posture (right leg lowered), but this meaning is not always applicable in the texts translated here. +
lha,lha mo;Deity;deity;deva,devī;Enlightened Being taken as an object of practice +
rje btsun ma;Venerable;venerable;bhaṭṭārikā;common title of Tārā. +
rig 'dzin,rig 'dzin ma;Knowledge-holder,Bearer of knowledge,see ''Vidyādhara''.;knowledge-holder,bearer of knowledge,see ''vidyādhara''.;vidyā-dhara,fem. vidyā-dharī +
'jam dpal;Mañjuśrī;n. of a Bodhisattva, who represents particularly Wisdom and is depicted flourishing a blazing wisdom sword in the right hand and holding a lotus that supports a book in the left. He is called 'the Youthful' (''kumāra(-bhūta), gzhon nu(r gyur pa)'') because of his everlastingly youthful appearance;the same title is sometimes taken to mean 'Crown Prince'. +
bying rgod;Agitation and fading;agitation and fading;ḷayauddhatya;faults of meditation +
Māmakī;second of the four Sublime Mothers (see Locanā). +
gzugs med khams;Formless Realm;formless realm;ārūpya-dhātu;the most subtle state of samsaric existence, without anything physical at all;lacking even mental pleasure, its beings dwell in unchanging equanimity. +
ting nge 'dzin;Samādhi;concentration of the mind on a single object. +
mnyam pa'i skyil mo krung;Sama-paryaṅka;'even cross-legged posture', according to Geshe Kayang 'the ordinary crosslegged posture';perhaps the same as ''sattva-paryaṇka''. +
dbang bskur ba;Empowerment;empowerment;abhiṣeka;the four empowerments, consecrations or initiations are the Flask, Secret, Wisdom-knowledge and Word Empowerments of ''Anuttara-yoga-tantra'' +
