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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. +
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zhi lha zhe gnyis;ཞི་ལྷ་ཞེ་གཉིས་;forty-two peaceful deities;forty-two peaceful deities;Samantabhadra (buddha), Samatabhadri, Vairocana, Akṣobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitābha, Amoghasiddhi, Ākāśadhātvīśvarī, Buddhalocanā, Māmakī, Paṇḍaravāsinī, Samayatārā, Kṣitigarbha, Vajrapāṇi, Ākāśagarbha, Avalokiteśvara, Lāsyā, Mālyā, Gītā, Nartl, Maitreya, Nivaraṇaviskambhin, Samantabhadra (bodhisattva), Mañjuśrī, Dhūpā, Puṣpā, Ālokā, Gandhā, Amṛtakuṇḍalin, Hayagriva, Mahābala, Yamāntaka, Ańkuśā, Pāśã, Sphoṭā, Ghaṇṭā, Munīndra, Vemacitra, Śākyamuni, Siṃha, Jvālamukha, Yamarāja. +
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tshad ma bcu gcig;ཚད་མ་བཅུ་གཅིག་;eleven sources of valid cognition;eleven sources of valid cognition;Among Cārakīya Jaiminlyas: perception, inference, testimony, comparison, implication, cognition of nonexistence, reasoning, nonapprehension, renown, occurrence, and thinking. +
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zhen pa bzhi;ཞེན་པ་བཞི་;four attachments;four attachments;This life, samsaric existence, ones own aims, and the self. +
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'jam dbyangs bdun;འཇམ་དབྱངས་བདུན་;seven Mañjughoṣas;seven mañjughoṣas;In Sakya: Khöntön Künga Bar, Sönam Tsemo, Drakpa Gyaltsen, Chungpal Ö, Sakya Pandita, Sangtsa Sönam Gyaltsen, and Phakpa. +
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sde snod gsum;སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ་;three pitakas;three pitakas;The Buddhist canon, or Tripiṭaka, consisting of the Sūtra, Vinaya, and Abhidharma ''piṭakas''. +
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gzhung lnga;གཞུང་ལྔ་;five classics;five classics;Ch. ''wujing'';In Chinese, especially Confucian, tradition: the ''Yijing'' (''Classic of Changes''), the ''Shijing'' (''Classic of Odes''), the ''Shujing'' (''Classic of Records''), the ''Lijing'' (''The Classic of Rites''), and the ''Chun Qiu'' (''Spring and Autumn Annals''). +
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nang ba'i rnal 'byor gsum;ནང་བའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གསུམ་;three inner tantric yogas;three inner tantric yogas;In Nyingma： mahāyoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga. +
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mtha gnyis;མཐ་གཉིས་;two extremes;two extremes;Eternalism and nihilism. +
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bka' gdams gzhung drug;བཀའ་གདམས་གཞུང་དྲུག་;six Kadam texts;six kadam texts;Asaṅgas ''Bodhisattva Stages'', Maitreyas ''Ornament of Mahayana Sutras'', Śāntidevas ''Compendium of Training'' and ''Way of the Bodhisattva'', Āryaśūras ''Garland of Birth Stories'', and the ''Collection of Uplifting Verses''. +
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gcod;གཅོད་;Chö;chö;Literally, “severance,” or “cutting through,” a meditative practice, probably stemming from India, introduced to Tibet within the Shijé school by Machik Lapdrön. Chö aims to sever attachment to self through a variety of contemplations, the most dramatic of which involves, the visualized offering of ones cut-up body to various gods, titans, and animals. Chö practices are found to this day in most Tibetan traditions. +
