Khenpo Bodhisattva;khenpo bodhisattva;Usually known under the name Shantarakshita. The Indian pandita and abbot of Vikramashila in India and of Samye who ordained the first Tibetan monks. +
Kyungpo region;kyungpo region;presently situated in Tenchen county, south of Nangchen one the road between Chamdo and Lhasa. Kyungpo is the name of a district in Kham and means garuda. +
Ngawang Trinley;ngawang trinley;contemporary of the eleventh Karmapa, Yeshe Dorje (1675-1702);former life of Samten Gyatso;first of the Ngaktrin incarnations who built Lachab monastery +
Orgyen Tobgyal;orgyen tobgyal;(b.1952) — oldest son of the third Neten Chokling. Lives in Bir, Himachal Pradesh in Northern India, where he has rebuilt Neten monastery. +
mandala offering;mandala offering;an offering visualized as the entire universe, as well as the arrangement of offerings in tantric ritual, often placed as a circular, ornate plate. To present a teaching "as a maṇḍala offering" shows the utmost respect for the recipient. +
Jamdrak;jamdrak;(1883?-1945?) — Dru Jamyang Drakpa. A close disciple of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and a very learned master, one of the destined disciples predicted in the root text ''Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo''. +
development and completion;development and completion;two main aspects of Vajrayana practice;development stage means positive mental fabrication while completion stage means resting in the unfabricated nature of mind. +
Karsey Kongtrul;karsey kongtrul;(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. +
Khunu Rinpoche;khunu rinpoche;(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''. +
Ati or Ati Yoga;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. +