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nam mkha'i snying po;Namkhe Nyingpo (the bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha;namkhe nyingpo (the bodhisattva ākāśagarbha;ākāśagarbha;Literally, "the essence of space." He is one of the eight great bodhisattvas (nye ba'i sras chen brgyad). +
klu sgrub;Nāgārjuna;nāgārjuna;nāgārjuna;Indian master;one of the Two Supremes. He lived six hundred years and his activity places him mainly in the second and third centuries C.E. He was born to a Brahman family in the region of Vidarbha in southern India. As a youth, he studied and mastered all the traditional sciences, both ordinary and special, the ''Tripiṭaka'', and the four classes of tantra. At Nalanda, he took monastic ordination from the mahāsiddha Saraha and soon became abbot of the university. A physician of great talent, he healed Mucilinda, king of the nāgas, who, in gratitude gave him the texts of the ''Prajñāpāramitāsūtra'' in 100,000 verses. This text had been entrusted to him by Ananda, Buddha Śākyamuni's principal disciple, to be reveded in the future. This is how he was given the name Nāgārjuna. The Tibetan canon counts 180 works attributed to him. He composed numerous texts based on the ''Prajñāpāramitāsūtra'', but his main contribution was the Madhyamaka, with the ''Six Collections of Logic (dbu ma rigs tshogs drug)'', which became his fundamental texts. +
byin rlabs;blessing;spiritud influence;blessing;spiritud influence;adhiṣṭhāna +
'dod pa'i dad pa;yearning faith;yearning faith;abhilāṣa +
gzugs med khams;formless realm;formless realm;arūpyadhātu +
mi pham rgya mtsho);Mipham Rinpoche;mipham rinpoche;(1846-1912) Mipham Gyatso. One of the best-known masters of the Nyingma school, he was a major artisan in the Rimé movement, along with Kongtrul, Khyentse, and Dechen Chogyur Lingpa. +
rnam shes mtha' yas;infinite consciousness;infinite consciousness;vijñānānantya +
rin po che;Rinpoche;rinpoche;Literally, "very precious." Honorific term of address. +
'khor ba;cyclic existence;cyclic existence;saṃsāra +
rtog pa;thought;conceptudity;thought;conceptudity;kalpanā +
mdo;sutra;sutra;sūtra +
mi slob lam;Path of No More Learning;path of no more learning;asaikṣamārga +
sbyor lam;Path of Preparation;path of preparation;prayogamārga +
'ben;Ben (Geshe;ben (geshe;A great Kadam master of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. +
bstan 'gyur;Tengyur;tengyur;Literally, "translation of the commentaries." The ''Tengyur'' (over 200 volumes) consolidates the commentaries on the ''Kangyur'' written by Indian masters. Together the ''Kangyur'' and ''Tengyur'' constitute the canon of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. +
'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse dbang po;Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo;jamyang khyentse wangpo;(1820-1892) Emanation of the omniscient Jigme Lingpa (1730-1793), one of the most eminent figures of the Nyingma tradition. He was a great Nyingmapa and Sakyapa master, inspirer and director of the Rimé movement. Afterward, he had different tulkus recognized in several schools, in particular:<br>Dilgo Khyentse Rabsel Dawa (1910-1991) who taught and founded centers in the West connected to the Nyingma school. He was friend, master, and disciple of Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche. Beri or Pelpung Khyentse Karma Khyentse Öser (1896-1945) whose tulku is Bero Khyentse Rinpoche (born in 1947), disciple of the sixteenth Karmapa. He has taught in the West and now resides in Bodhgaya. +
bsam pa;to reflect;to reflect;cintā +
bsam gtan bar do;bardo of meditation;bardo of meditation +
man ngag;oral instruction;oral instruction;upadeśa +
'khor lo;cakra;cakra;cakra +
