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Generally described as a "tantric feast," the term refers to a communal ritual performed by tantric adepts. +
The indirect or "interpretable" meaning. An important term in Buddhist hermeneutics employed to characterize primarily the sūtras, which reveal their true meaning only after further elaboration and explication. +
Literally, "not praiseworthy." Anything shameful, disgraceful, or subject to blame. The term is used here with particular reference to Jampel Gyatso, who kept his monastic vows so well that he was completely above blame, having not even the slightest fault or transgression to conceal. +
The eighth-century Indian monk-scholar who journeyed to Tibet, taught the Buddhist Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna doctrines there, and ordained the first seven Tibetan monks. +
An accomplished master of the traditional subjects of study and meditation. Also, an official position in a given monastery. +
The fourth-century Buddhist philosopher who founded the famed Yogācāra school. +
The term used, especially in Buddhist philosophical contexts, to refer to any existent reality or phenomenon, however fleeting in terms of temporal duration. +
The Sanskrit name refers to the "heaven" of Tuṣita, whence all Buddhas issue, and which is now presided over by Lord Maitreya, the future Buddha. Here, ''dGa'-ldan'' [Ganden] refers to the great monastic institution near Lhasa founded by Tsongkapa himself in the year 1409. +
That type of transcendent or supramundane knowledge possessed by the Buddhas. +
Literally, a "place of meditation." The term is used to refer to a monastery. +
The Vajrayāna practitioner's personal or guardian deity. That special deity to whom one's mind is bound. +
The term used to characterize the ''summum bonum'' of Mahāyāna Buddhist practice. +
The eighth-century Indian ''siddha'' usually credited with having established Buddhism in Tibet. Together with the Indian monk-scholar Śāntirakṣita, he founded the earliest order of Buddhism in Tibet, the Nyingmapa. +
Known as the "Diamond Sow," Vajravātāhi is the female deity who, as insight incarnate, functions to destroy ignorance, symbolized by the pig's head. She is alternately referred to as "Vajrayogini." +
A superior teacher. See entry for "guru." +
The central channel, or vein, of the arcane body generated by the tantric adept. +
Oral instruction communicated directly from guru to disciple. An alternate Tibetan term is ''man ṅag''. +
Literally, "Diamond Yogic Practitioner," Vajrayoginī is the female deity who is the chief consort of Lord Cakrasaṃvara. The name "Vajravārāhī" is used to emphasize her ''function'', which is to destroy the ignorance of holding the view of an inherently existent "I," while the name "Vajrayogini" is used to indicate her ''essence'', which is the insight that cognizes the inseparability of bliss and voidness. +
Literally, "toward individual liberation." The term is used to designate that set of vows enjoined by the ''Vinaya'' upon Buddhist monks and nuns seeking liberation from ''saṃsāra''. +
