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lam 'bras;ལམ་འབྲས་;mārgaphala;Lamdré;lamdré;The “path-and-result” tradition of the Sakyapas, which is the definitive tantric transmission in that order. It is rooted in the Hevajra corpus and was introduced in Tibet in the eleventh century by Drokmi Lotsāwa on the basis of ''instructions'' from the Indian master Gayādhara and a root text composed by the great adept Virūpa. +
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rnam bdun gyi dpyad pa;རྣམ་བདུན་གྱི་དཔྱད་པ་;sevenfold analysis;sevenfold analysis;In Madhyamaka, the investigation whether an entity exists as separate from its components, as identical to its components, possessing its components, inherently dependent upon its components, as the basis upon which the components depend, as the collection of components, or the shape of its components. +
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dwangs ma lnga;དྭངས་མ་ལྔ་;five elemental essences;five elemental essences;The distilled forms of earth, water, fire, air, and space. +
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rgya nag gi nang pa'i brgyud lnga;རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ནང་པའི་བརྒྱུད་ལྔ་;five lineages of Chinese Buddhism;five lineages of chinese buddhism;According Tibetan analyses： vinaya (Lu), secret mantra (CKenycn), extensive practice (''school of Xuanzang''), profound view (Tiantai and Huayan), and essential meaning (Chan). +
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rgyal ba lnga;རྒྱལ་བ་ལྔ་;five conquerors;five conquerors;In tantric Buddhism: Aksobhya, Vairocana, Ratnasambhava, Amitābha, and Amoghasiddhi. +
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stong pa gsum;སྟོང་པ་གསུམ་;three empties;three empties;The empty, very empty, and greatly empty. Cf. ''four empties''. +
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dus gsum;དུས་གསུམ་;three times;three times;Past, present, and future. +
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sngags;སྔགས་;mantra;In virtually all Indic traditions, a potent syllable or phrase, most often in Sanskrit, which may or may not have denotative meaning. In Buddhist ''tantra'', a mantra evokes the ''buddha''-deity with whom one identifies, and is uttered as the speech of that deity, with the power to affect and effect events in the mind and in the world. +
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rtags yang dag gsum;རྟགས་ཡང་དག་གསུམ་;three aspects of a perfect logical reason;three aspects of a perfect logical reason;The reasons presence in the logical subject, pervasion by the predicate, and absence from all instances of the nonpredicate. +
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sgrub pa bka' brgyad;སྒྲུབ་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱད་;eight transmitted precepts;eight transmitted precepts;In the triad lineage of Nyingma the five transworldly classes— of Manjuśrī/Yamāntaka;lotus/ Hayagrīva purity/Heruka nectar/Vajrāmṛta;and dagger/Vajrakīla— and the three worldly classes— sending invitations to the mother goddesses, reciting the destructive wrathful mantra, and praising and making offerings to worldly deities. +
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rim lnga;རིམ་ལྔ་;five stages;five stages;The complction-stage phases described by the Guhyasamāja tantric tradition: isolated speech, isolated mind, illusory body, clear light, and union. +
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sems dben;སེམས་དབེན་;isolated mind;isolated mind;cittaviveka;The second of the five stages of ''completion stage'' practice in the Guhyasamāja tantra tradition. Following upon isolated speech, in which energies arc brought into the central channel of the ''subtle body'', this stage involves mimicry of the death process, in which energies are brought to the heart center, then the indestructible drop within it;there, conceptuality is stilled, or “isolated.” On the basis of isolated mind, one creates an impure ''illusory body'', attains ''clear-light'' realization of the nature of reality, and attains the final union of ''buddhahood''. +
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sprul pa brgyad;སྤྲུལ་པ་བརྒྱད་;eight emanations;eight emanations;In Sakya: Khöntön Künga Bar, Sönam Tsemo, Drakpa Gyaltsen, Chungpal Ö, Sakya Pandita, Sangtsa Sönam Gyaltsen, Phakpa (all emanations of Mañjughoṣa), and Chakna (an emanation of Vajrapāṇi). +
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rnying ma'i brgyud drug;རྙིང་མའི་བརྒྱུད་དྲུག་;six lineages of Nyingma;six lineages of nyingma;The meaning lineage of the conquerors, the symbol lineage of mantra adepts, the ear-whispered lineage of ordinary persons, the lineage of prophecies of the special oral tradition, the lineage of the karmically projected treasure, and the lineage of the mindseal prayer. +
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shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa;ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;perfection of wisdom;perfection of wisdom;prajñāpāramitā;One of the six or ten perfections that must be mastered by a ''bodhisattva'';also, a corpus of literature related to wisdom. The main subject matter of the corpus is the career of the ''bodhisattva'', with a special emphasis on the compassionate methods he or she must develop, and the wisdom realizing ''emptiness'' that he or she must attain. +
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shes bya tshig don dgu;ཤེས་བྱ་ཚིག་དོན་དགུ་;nine categories of knowledge objects;nine categories of knowledge objects;In Jainism: These are souls (''jīva''), the non-living (''ajīva'')，evil (''pāpa''), afflictions (''āsrava''), bondage (''bandha''), merit (''puṇya''), stopping affliction (''saṃvara''), destruction of bondage (''nirjarā''), and liberation (''mokṣa''). See also Hopkins, ''Maps of the Profound'', pp. 179-80. +
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khrid chen brgyad;ཁྲིད་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་;eight great guidelines;eight great guidelines;n Geluk, in the Mé tantra system： the direct instructions on the five stages of Guhyasamāja;the two guidelines on Cakrasamvara, by Lūipa and Ghantapa;the stages of the four yogas of Vajrabhairava;the six yogas of Kālacakra;the fourfold blessing of the Great Wheel Vajrapāni the six Dharmas of Nāropa;and the opening of the golden door to the guidelines on transference of consciousness. +
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kun gzhi rnam shes;ཀུན་གཞི་རྣམ་ཤེས་;mind-basis-of-all;mind-basis-of-all;ālayavijñāna;Among ''Cittamātrins'' following scripture, a foundational or “storehouse” consciousness that is the source of the other seven consciousnesses (six sense consciousnesses and a deluded consciousness) as well as their objects. It is the carrier of various cognitive and affective tendencies as well as of the seeds of ''karma'', and it will be transformed at ''enlightenment'' into the ''gnosis'' of a ''buddha''. +
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sku bzhi;སྐུ་བཞི་;four bodies;four bodies;A buddhas natural and gnostic dharmakāyas and the enjoyment and emanation bodies. +
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blo sbyong don bdun;བློ་སྦྱོང་དོན་བདུན་;seven-point mind training;seven-point mind training;In Kadam thinking through the basic Dharma, the preparatory practices;training in the awakening mind, which is the actual practice;changing adverse conditions into the path to enlightenment;the teaching condensed into practice for a single life;the criteria of mind training the pledges involved in mind training;and how one studies mind training. +
