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Literally, "great accomplished one." The term is used most frequently to refer to the famed group of eighty-four Indian Buddhist siddhas. Here, any greatly accomplished Buddhist tantric adept. +
The relics or bodily remains left after the cremation of an advanced tantric adept. They are usually described as small, hard, pearl-like particles of various colors and, as in the case of Sanggye Yeshe here, they sometimes form themselves into clumps or shapes of various organs, said to remain from the "arcane body" of the saint. +
Literally, "Conqueror." A common epithet for a Buddha. +
The channels or pathways in the arcane body generated by a tantric adept. The mind-bearing "winds" (''prāṇa'') are said to course through the ''nāḍī''. +
The feminine principle of ultimate insight. Often rendered "wisdom ḍākinī," the term is also a common epithet for Vajrayoginī. +
A semiwrathful [heruka] deity of the wisdom, or mother tantra, class of tantric practice. One of the three chief deities meditated upon in association with the Ganden Oral Tradition of Mahāmudrā. +
The renowned Indian Buddhist sage who founded the Madhyamaka school based upon his explication of the doctrine of ''śūnyatā'', especiallyas presented in his work the ''Mūlamadhyamakakārikā''. +
An honorific form meaning "glorious" and "resplendent." +
The "Goddess of Learning and Eloquence" in both the Hindu and Buddhist pantheons. She appears several times in these namtar and was the special tutelary deity of the First Panchen, Losang Chökyi Gyeltsen. +
Literally, "she who goes in the sky." A wrathful or semiwrathful feminine ''yidam'' symbolizing voidness and insight. She is the tricky and playful inspirer who instigates or occasions consummate insight. +
One who has destroyed (''hata'') the three great enemies (''ari'') of greed, hatred, and ignorance. The ideal saint of Theravādin Buddhism. +
The first of the "two stages" associated with the practices of highest yoga tantra. Called the "Generation Stage," it is preliminary and preparatory to the practices taken up during the "Completion Stage." +
Literally, "the Immovable." Name of the Saṃbhogakāya form of Buddha-nature, and a central deity in the ''Guhyasamāja Tantra''. +
Literally, a "warrior sky-goer." Specifically, a masculine semiwrathful or wrathful ''yidam'', who may also function as a messenger or as a protector. +
Literally, the "Great Gesture," or "Great Seal." Mahāmudrā refers both ro the ground of realiry and to those advanced tantric meditative methods relied upon by the ''siddhas'' of India and Tibet to lead them to the supreme attainment of enlightenment in one lifetime. Interpreting the term's philosophical position poetically and aesthetically, a contemporary author translates the term as the "Magnificent Stance." +
A patron or sponsor, especially of religious persons or undertakings. +
The second of the "rwo stages" of highest yoga tantric practice, called the "Completion Stage." That stage wherein, having attained identity with the deity, the tantric adept performs the yogic techniques of controlling the vital energies (''Skt. prāṇa'') and the mystic "drops" (''Skt. bindu'') until he or she is successful in uniting the "illusory body" and the "clear light" yogas so as to usher in the experience of "total integration" (''Tib. zuṅ 'jug''), enlightenment itself. +
Literally, the "three baskets" or "collections" of scriptute setting forth the Buddhist teachings. These include the collections of ''Sūtra'' [Buddha's discourses], ''Vinaya'' [stories and axioms related to monastic discipline], and ''Abhidharma'' [later commentarial works]. +
The Tibetan compound term literally means "center and periphery." Maṇḍalas are diagrams or models, of the universe and of realiry itself, that are used as aids to meditative/spiritual transformation. They are usually represented as a diagram with a central deiry sutrounded by other symbolic components. Though they are often painted, they may be made of colored sand as well. They are always conceived of as being three-dimensional, and the constructed form has the basic structute of a palace having a center with four doors, or gates, in the cardinal directions. +
The eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage who journeyed to Tibet in order to rejuvenate the Buddhist doctrine there. His teachings led to the creation of the Kadampa order of Buddhism in Tibet. +
