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One of the New Translation schools, founded by Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Its head is the Throne Holder of Ganden Monastery, and its most illustrious member is His Holiness the Dalai Lama. +
A name given in the tantras to male Bodhisattvas; the male counterpart of a dakini. A worldly daka is a being endowed with certain preternatural powers, not necessarily beneficent. +
(1730-1798) One of the most important figures in the Nyingma lineage, an. incarnation of both the master Vimalamitra and the Dharma king Trisong Detsen. He was closely associated with Gyalwa·Longchenpa, whom he encountered in a series of important visions. His Dharma treasure, the Longchen Nyingthig, remains to this day one of the most important md widely practiced meditative systems in the N)ingma school. +
(1575-1635): A famous scholar and the most eminent master of the Jonang tradition. One of the leading exponents of the "extraneous emptiness" view (gzhan stong). +
(11th century) An Indian master and teacher of Atisha. +
The canonical collection of Indian commentaries on the Buddhist scriptures translated into Tibetan. +
One who hears the teachings of the Buddha, practices them, and transmits them to others with a view to his or her personal liberation from samsara. Shravakas are practitioners of the Root Vehicle, or Hinayana, which is often for that reason called the Shravakayana. +
or Ancient Translation School, rnying ma The original tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Its adherents study and practice the tantras, and their related teachings, translated in the first period between the introduction of the Buddha Dharma to Tibet in the eighth century and the period of the new translations inaugurated by Rinchen Zangpo (958-1051) after the persecution by Langdarma. +
A Mahayana sutra of the third turning of the Dharma wheel that belongs, according to Gyalwa Longchenpa, Karma Rangjung Dorje, and Kongtrul Lodrothaye and others, to the teachings of the ultimate meaning. Chandrakirti classified this sutra as being of expedient meaning, in line with the teaching of the Aksayamatinirdesha-sutra, which, however, does not mention or take into account the three turnings of the Dharma wheel. For an excellent discussion of this topic, see Susan K. Hookham, The Buddha Within: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine According to the Shentong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991 ). +
An Indian master and author of a commentary on the Lankavataru-sutra, the Alya-lankavatara-vritti, preserved in the Tengyur collection. +
A Mahayana sutra belonging to the third turning of the Dharma wheel. It expounds the doctrine of the tathagatagarbha. +
(1455-1529) An accomplished master and poet who adopted the lifestyle of a "mad yogi," belonging to the Drukpa Kagyu school. He was famous for his songs of realization and for his eccentric, picaresque lifestyle. +
lit. thus gone, an epithet of Buddha or buddhahood. +
Otherwise known as Lozang Drakpa and Je Rinpoche, the founder of the Gelugpa school. He founded the monastery of Ganden in 1410. A great scholar, revered as a manifestation of Manjushri. +
A disciple of Buddha Shakyamuni. He attained arhatship and committed to writing a part of the Abhidharma teachings. +
Also known as Dipamkarashrijnana (982-1054), abbot of the monastic university of Vikramashila, India. His visit to Tibet in 1042 at the invitation of the Lama king Yeshe Ö, provided the main inspiration for the restoration of Buddhism after a period of persecution inflicted by King Langdarma. Atisha introduced the mind-training teachings, which he received from his teacher Suvamadvipa Dharmakirti and which combine the two currents of bodhichitta teachings transmitted by Nagarjuna and Asanga. He was also a master of the tantras. His principal Tibetan disciple and successor was the upasaka Dromtön ('brom ston), the founder of the Kadampa school. Atisha remained in Tibet for twelve years and died there at Nyethang in 1054. +
A tantra taught by the historical Buddha Shakyamuni to Chandrabhadra (zla ba bzang po), king of Shambhala, who was an emanation of the Bodhisattva Vajrapani. It belongs to the nondual class of Anuttara tantras and presents a complete path to enlightenment, together with an elaborate system of cosmology. +
(1808-1887) A highly accomplished master of the Nyingma tradition, from eastern Tibet; the author of numerous works; of which The Words of My Perfect Teacher (kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung) is one of the most celebrated. He was famous for his nonsectarian approach and renowned for his compassion and the extraordinary simplicity of his lifestyle. +
Regarded as the greatest genius of the Nyingma tradition, an incomparable master and author of over 250 treatises. +
Lit. individual liberation. This term is used to refer to the eight kinds of Buddhist ordination (both monastic and lay), together with their connected vows and disciplines (including the temporary vow of upavasa, or twenty-four-hour discipline). +
