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rigs lnga;རིགས་ལྔ་;five families;five families;The families of tantric tradition： tathāgata or buddha, vajra, jewel, lotus, and action. +
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sgrib gnyis;སྒྲིབ་གཉིས་;two obstacles;two obstacles;Delusion obstacles and obstacles to omniscience. +
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yul drug;ཡུལ་དྲུག་;six types of object;six types of object;Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, dharma. +
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dngos grub;དངོས་གྲུབ་;yogic achievements;yogic achievements;siddhi;Generally speaking, any powerful attainment that results from spiritual practice. Yogic achievements are generally divided into the transmundane—i.e., complete ''buddhahood''一 and the mundane, which includes such powers as invisibility, flying, walking through solids, curing disease, and prolonging life. +
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rtag par smra ba brgyad;རྟག་པར་སྨྲ་བ་བརྒྱད་;eight proponents of eternalism;eight proponents of eternalism;Sāṃkhyas, Brahmavādins, Vaiṣṇavas, Mīmāṃsakas, Śaivas, Vaiśeṣikas, Naiyāyikas, and Nirgranthas. +
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[bod kyi] khri skor bcu gsum;༼བོད་ཀྱི་༽ ཁྲི་སྐོར་བཅུ་གསུམ་;thirteen districts of Tibet;thirteen districts of tibet;Lho, Jang, Chu, Ja, Lha, Shang, Ya, Phak, Gyal, Tsai, Dri, Tak, and Yardrok. +
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lhan skyes ye shes;ལྷན་སྐྱེས་ཡེ་ཤེས་;innate gnosis;innate gnosis;sahajajñāna;n tantric contexts, the fundamental, luminous awareness that is intrinsic to all beings. Tantric practice aims at the actualization of this gnosis, which is roughly synonymous with ''buddha nature'' and ''clear light''. +
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sngon 'gro sbyor ba bzhi;སྔོན་འགྲོ་སྦྱོར་བ་བཞི་;four preparations;four preparations;The preliminary practices for tantra: prostration, Vajrasattva purification meditation, guru yoga, and mandala offerings. +
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skyes gnas bzhi;སྐྱེས་གནས་བཞི་;four kinds of birth;four kinds of birth;From a womb, egg, moisture, or miracle. +
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bsre ’pho dgu skor;བསྲེ་འཕོ་དགུ་སྐོར་;ninefold cycle on mixing and transference;ninefold cycle on mixing and transference;In Kagyü Mahāmudrā inner heat, which mixes desire with great bliss;illusory body， which mixes anger with lack of true existence;clear light, which mixes ignorance with nonconceptuality;the daytime meditation that mixes inner heat with illusory body;the nighttime meditation that mixes dream with clear light;the death-time meditation that mixes bardo with the transference of consciousness;inner-heat practice for energetic individuals;dream practice for lazy individuals;and mixing greater and lesser transference practices. +
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tshar lugs kyi lam ’bras gser chos bcu gsum;ཚར་ལུགས་ཀྱི་ལམ་འབྲས་གསེར་ཆོས་བཅུ་གསུམ་;thirteen golden Dharmas of the Tsar-system Lamdré;thirteen golden dharmas of the tsar-system lamdré;The three khecarīs: Nāro Khecarī, Indra Khecarī, Maitrī Khecarī;the three great red ones: Kurukulla, Gaṇapati, Ṭakkirāja;the three lesser red ones: Kurukulla with a Golden Heartdrop, Red Norgyünma, JTinuma;and Amāravajradevī, Red Jambala, Siṃhamukhā, and Black Mañjughoṣa. +
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['jig rten pa'i] chos brgyad;༼འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་༽ ཆོས་བརྒྱད་;eight worldly dharmas;eight worldly dharmas;Preoccupation with: pleasure and pain, praise and blame, fame and shame, loss and gain. +
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dge slong;དགེ་སློང་;bhikṣu;A fully-ordained Buddhist monk. In the Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition followed in Tibetan monasticism, a bhikṣu observes 2.53 vows, as opposed to the 227 of the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, and the 2.50 of the Dharmaguptaka tradition predominant in east Asia. +
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gtor ma;གཏོར་མ་;bali;torma;torma;In tantric Buddhist ritual practice, one of a variety of sculpted dough images that are offered to a range of deities, from worldly gods and demons to ''buddha''-deities in order to secure their noninterference in or blessings for the advancement of ones aims. +
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mngon rtogs;མངོན་རྟོགས་;abhidharma;Literally, “higher knowledge," the branch of Buddhist discourse and the section of the Buddhist canon concerned with categorizing and describing the basic constituents of existence, or ''dharmas''. In Tibetan tradition, the two most influential abhidharma texts are Vasubandhu’s ''Treasury of Higher Knowledge'' and Asaṅga's ''Compendium of Higher Knowledge''. +
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tshad ma sde bdun;ཚད་མ་སྡེ་བདུན་;seven treatises on valid cognition;seven treatises on valid cognition;Dharmakīrti's ''Thorough Exposition of Valid Cognition, Ascertainment of Valid Cognition, Drop of Reasoning, Proofof Other Minds, Analysis of Relations, Principles of Debate, and Drop of Reasons''. +
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'dzam gling rgyan drug;འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱན་དྲུག་;six ornaments of Jambudvīpa;six ornaments of jambudvīpa;Āryadeva, Vasubandhu, Nāgārjuna, Asaṅga, Dignāga, and Dharmakīrti. +
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nyon mongs;ཉོན་མོངས་;delusion;delusion;kleśa;Also translated as “affliction(s)” or “defilement(s)，” these are the fundamental negative factors that, along with ''karma'', serve to keep sentient beings in their samsaric condition and must be uprooted for ''liberation'' to occur. Lists of delusions are manifold, and range from the so-called three poisons (ignorance, desire, anger), to the twenty deluded mental factors specified in ''abhidharma'', to symbolically potent but nonspecific references to 84,000 delusions. +
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dbangpo bcu gcig;དབངཔོ་བཅུ་གཅིག་;eleven sense faculties;eleven sense faculties;In Sāṃkhyà thought: Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind, speech, hand, foot, generative organ, and excretory organs. +
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bka ’babs;བཀ་འབབས་;special oral tradition;special oral tradition;Literally, a “descent of the word,” a lineage of transmission related to highly specialized and esoteric practices, most often related to the ''tantras'', as for instance, the four special oral traditions received by Tilopa. +
