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blo sbyong thun brgyad;བློ་སྦྱོང་ཐུན་བརྒྱད་;eight sessions on mind training;eight sessions on mind training;In Kadam, special instructions on mind training based on food, mind training based on the breath, emanating as many bodies as there are sands in the Ganges, mind training based on flesh and blood, mind training based on tormas, mind training based on the elements, training the mind to emanate the body as a wish-granting jewel, and the time just before death. +
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’byung ba lnga;འབྱུང་བ་ལྔ་;five elements;five elements;In Indo-Tibetan tradition: earth, water, fire, air, and space. In Chinese tradition: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. +
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theg pa dgu;ཐེག་པ་དགུ་;nine vehicles;nine vehicles;In Nyingma śrāvaka, pratyekabuddha, bodhisattva, kriyā tantra, upa tantra, yoga tantra, mahāyoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga. +
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sgrub thabs;སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་;sādhana;Literally a “means of accomplishment,” it refers to the meditative procedures applied in tantric practice whereby one visualizes oneself as a deity at the center of a ''mandala''. It also may refer to a text that describes those procedures. +
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lnga ldan;ལྔ་ལྡན་;fivefold;fivefold;In Drigung Kagyü： the awakening mind, deity yoga, guru yoga, Mahāmudrā, and dedication of merit. +
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rjes dpag gsum;རྗེས་དཔག་གསུམ་;three types of inference;three types of inference;Inference based on: causation, identity, and nonapprehension. +
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chos kyi 'khor lo'i 'khor ba gsum;ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་འཁོར་བ་གསུམ་;three turnings of the Dharma wheel;three turnings of the dharma wheel;The Buddhas teaching of: dharma realism through Hinayana sutras at Sarnath;emptiness through the perfection of wisdom sutras on the Vulture Peak at Rājagrha;and mind-only and/or buddha nature through various sutras at Mount Malaya and/or Vaiśālī. +
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ro snyom skor drug;རོ་སྙོམ་སྐོར་དྲུག་;six about the taste of sameness;six about the taste of sameness;In Kagyü: using conceptual thoughts as the path, using delusions as the path, using illness as the path, using gods and ''dré'' demons as the path, using suffering as the path, and using death as the path. +
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dus bzhi;དུས་བཞི་;four ages;four ages;In Indie mythology: the ''kṛta, treta, dvapara'', and ''kali'' yugas. These are roughly equivalent to the gold, silver, bronze, and iron ages of Western mythology. +
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rigs pa'i tshogs drug;རིགས་པའི་ཚོགས་དྲུག་;six collections of reasoning;six collections of reasoning;Nāgārjunas six major texts: ''Fundamental Treatise on the Middle Way, Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness, Finely Woven Scripture, Refutation of Objections'', and ''Precious Garland''. +
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shing rta'i srol chen po gnyis;ཤིང་རྟའི་སྲོལ་ཆེན་པོ་གཉིས་;two great chariot-paths;two great chariot-paths;Madhyamaka and Cittamātra. +
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spros pa;སྤྲོས་པ་;elaboration;elaboration;prapañca;Mental activity that is prone to discursiveness, complication, and fantasy. Useful in everyday life, elaboration, like ''conceptual thought'', is an impediment to the direct realization of ''emptiness'' and so must be overcome on the path to ''liberation''. +
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sku mched gsum;སྐུ་མཆེད་གསུམ་;three brothers;three brothers;In Kadam tradition： Geshé Potowa, Geshé Chengawa, and Geshé Puchungwa. +
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bka’ ma;བཀའ་མ་;oral tradition;oral tradition;In Nyingma, one of the three major lineages, with the treasure and ''pure vision'' lineages. It consists of the triad of sutra, magical net, and mind class: the ''Sutra that Gathers Intentions'', the ''Net of Illusion'', and the mind-side teachings. +
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rgyud bzhi;རྒྱུད་བཞི་;four medical tantras;four medical tantras;These are the Root Tantra (''Rtsa bai rgyud''), ''Explanatory Tantra'' (''Bshad rgyud''), ''Tantra of Special Instruction'' (''Man ngag gi rgyud''), and the ''Supplementary Tantra'' (''Phyi mai rgyud''). +
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yan lag brgyad pa'i khrims;ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་;eight-limbed rule;eight-limbed rule;Abstention for twenty-four hours from killing, stealing, lying, sexual activity, intoxicants, eating after noon, sitting on high beds or thrones, and singing, dancing, or enjoying theatrical shows. +
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mdo;མདོ་;sūtra;sutra;sutra;A discourse of the Buddha, contained in the canonical collection of either a ''Hinayana'' or ''Mahayana'' school. There is significant disagreement between Hinayana and Mahayana schools over which sutras were actually taught by the Buddha, with the former having a narrower, and the latter a more expansive, understanding of “what the Buddha taught.” +
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lha bzhi;ལྷ་བཞི་;four deities;four deities;In Kadam： Śākyamuni Buddha, Avalokiteśvara, Tārā, Acala. +
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dbu ma rang rgyud kyi lugs gnyis;དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ལུགས་གཉིས་;two types of Svātantrika Mādhyamikas;two types of svātantrika mādhyamikas;Sautrāntika Svātantrikas and Yogācāra Svātantrikas. +
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shes sgrib;ཤེས་སྒྲིབ་;knowledge obstacles;knowledge obstacles;jñeyāvarana;In ''Mahayana'' soteriology, the obstacles to complete buddhahood that are removed by ''bodhisattvas'' on the final three stages of the ten-stage sequence. Knowledge obstacles are not ''delusions'' per se, but the subtle propensity to them that remains even when delusions have been removed. When the last knowledge obstacle is removed on the tenth bodhisattva stage, one is enlightened in the next instant. +
