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(1858?-1939?) — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's grandmother; daughter of Chokgyur Lingpa. Her name means Precious Lamp of Splendor. +
learned master, scholar, professor in Buddhist philosophy. +
prince of Nangchen during the time of Samten Gyatso. +
current head of a major monastery. +
city near Darjeeling in northern India, the old trading post between Calcutta and Lhasa. +
see under ''tishi''. +
(1836-1920) — master based in Raktrul Monastery in Sharda, Nangchen. Present incarnation (third) is Bardor Tulku Rinpoche, living in the USA. +
(1212-1270) — one of the five tertön kings and former life of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. For details, see Dudjom Rinpoche's ''The Nyingma Lineage, its History and Fundamentals'', pages 760-70. +
Tibetan-style zombie; walking dead or a re-animated corpse. This unbelievable type of resurrection is believed to be a goblin that occupies a dead body, rather than the deceased spirit coming back to life in his own body. +
revelation directly within the mind of a great master, without the need for a terma of material substance. The teachings revealed in this way were implanted within the 'indestructible sphere' at the time when the master in a former life was one of Padmasambhava's disciples. +
a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena +
literally, "secret mantra approach of vajrayana"; the first of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati +
transcendent knowledge as the element in spiritual development that corresponds to the level of ultimate reality; its initial phase, or "ground aspect," is understanding of the fundamental state of samsara and nirvana as supreme emptiness; its "path aspect" is the ongoing experience of that understanding, directly introducing one to the unceasing avenue of relaxed and open awareness [wisdom (BM, DZP, MW, WPT); discriminative awareness (in the context of the three trainings) (DZP); critical analytical acumen (FRC); knowledge (LM); appreciative discernment (MW); gnosis, transcendental wisdom (NGP); knowledge (NJ, PC); profound wisdom (PT); discriminating wisdom (SL); knowledge or intelligence; in particular, the knowledge that realizes egolessness (VH); discerning wisdom (WPT)] +
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literally, "emanation body"; the impermanent physical manifestation of enlightened being in response to the needs of ordinary beings [Manifested Body (BM); manifest dimension of awakening (MW); incarnate body (NGP); unobstructed miraculous emanation form (ws)] +
literally, "five poisons"; basic afflictive emotions—desire-attachment, aversion, ignorance, pride and jealousy-envy—that involve ordinary dualistic mind and so obscure the true nature of mind +
upheavals occurring as hallucinations due to outside forces, on an inner level as disease and physical pain or on a secret level as emotional and mental instability +
literally, "self-made buddha"; one who follows or has accomplished the hinayana path that leads to realization of the nonexistence of the self of the individual personality and partial realization that phenomena are interdependent and have no self-nature +
the objective pole of dualistic experience; the emergence of apparent phenomena as sensory objects for avenues of sensory consciousness (e.g., visual forms as objects of visual consciousness) [object (GL)] +
god, in the sense of a being reborn within the relatively highest realms of cyclic existence; in other contexts, the term refers to a meditation deity embodying a particular quality of pristine awareness +
