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chos sku'i dbye ba gnyis;ཆོས་སྐུའི་དབྱེ་བ་གཉིས་;two divisions of dharmakāya;two divisions of dharmakāya;Gnostic dharmakāya and natural dharmakāya. +
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tshad ma drug;ཚད་མ་དྲུག་;six sources of valid cognition;six sources of valid cognition;In Mīmāṃsā: perception, inference, testimony, comparison, implication, and cognition of nonexistence. +
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sbyor grol;སྦྱོར་གྲོལ་;uniting and freeing;uniting and freeing;Euphemism for exploitative sex and murder as practiced by self-styled tantric teachers in Tibet, especially in the period between the ''early'' and ''later spreads of the teaching''. +
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dgongs gcig;དགོངས་གཅིག་;single intention;single intention;A set of vajra sayings in the Drigung Kagyü traditions that explicates basic features of the Drigung understanding of Buddhist tradition. +
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thub pa;ཐུབ་པ་;muni;A term that can refer to an anchorite, ascetic, visionary, or silent sage in a range of Indian religious traditions. For Buddhists, the Buddha is ''the'' Muni, the ascetic par excellence. +
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chu klang chen po bzhi;ཆུ་ཀླང་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་;four great rivers;four great rivers;In China: Yangtze (in the south), Huanghe (in the north), Huai (in the center), and Ji (in the east). +
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lam gyi gtso bo'i gsum;ལམ་གྱི་གཙོ་བོའི་གསུམ་;three principal aspects of the path;three principal aspects of the path;In the Geluk tradition: renunciation, the awakening mind, and right view. +
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bde mchog lha lnga;བདེ་མཆོག་ལྷ་ལྔ་;five deities of Cakrasaṃvara;five deities of cakrasaṃvara;Buddha Heruka, Vajra Heruka, Ratna Heruka, Padma Heruka, and Karma Heruka. +
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las kyi phyag rgya;ལས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་;action seal;action seal;karmamudrā;One of the three or four seals of practice in the higher tantras. In ''highest yoga tantra'') it most often is used to refer to a sexual partner whose embrace assists one in manipulating energies in the subtle body so as to hasten enlightenment. +
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rgyud kyi sde bzhi;རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་སྡེ་བཞི་;four classes of tantra;four classes of tantra;Action tantra, performance tantra, yoga tantra, and highest yoga tantra. +
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bye brag smra ba'i gyes pa bco brgyad;བྱེ་བྲག་སྨྲ་བའི་གྱེས་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་;eighteen sects of the Vaibhāṣika;eighteen sects of the vaibhāṣika;Pūrvaśaila, Aparaśaila, Haimavata, Lokottaravāda, Prajñāptivāda (all Mahāsāṃghika), Sarvāstivāda, Kāśyapīya, Mahlśāsaka, Dharmaguptaka, Bahuśrutīya, Tāmraśāṭīya, Vibhajyavāda (all Sarvāstivāda), Jaitavanīya, Abhayagirīvāsīya, Mahāvihāravāsīya (all Sthavira), Kurukullaka, Āvantika, Vātsīputrīya (all Saṃmatīya). +
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grub pa siddha;གྲུབ་པ་སིདདྷ་;adept;adept;A ''bodhisattva'' who has, through tantric practice, gained both worldly and transmundane ''. The great adepts of medieval India, whose lifestories are both colorful and inspirational, were instrumental in transmitting the tantras and are at the source of many Tibetan practice lineages. +
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gnas brtan bcu drug;གནས་བརྟན་བཅུ་དྲུག་;sixteen arhats;sixteen arhats;Piṇḍola Bharadvaja, Ajita, Subinda, Kalika, Vajraputra, BKadra, Kanakavatsa, Kanakabhadra, Nakula (Vakula), Rāhula, Chuḍapaṇṭhaka, Aṅgaja, Paṇṭhaka, Nāgascna, Jīvaka, Vanavasin. +
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''rang yod''/''rang grub'';རང་ཡོད། རང་གྲུབ;inherent existence/establishment;inherent existence/establishment;svabhāva/svasiddha;A quality of ''dharmas'' that, if they possessed it, would define them as permanent, partless, and independent. The notion of inherent existence (generally synonymous with true existence) is the primary object of refutation in ''Madhyamaka'' philosophy, and realization of dharmas’ ''emptiness'' of inherent existence is the necessary condition for the elimination of ''delusions'' and the attainment of ''liberation''. +
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lta ngan drug bcu re gnyis;ལྟ་ངན་དྲུག་བཅུ་རེ་གཉིས་;sixty-two debased views;sixty-two debased views;In, e.g., the ''Brahmajala Sutta'' of the ''Dīgha Nikāya'': four grounds for asserting the eternity of the self and world； four grounds for asserting the partial eternity and partial noneternity of the self and world;four grounds for asserting the finitude and infinitude of the self and world;four grounds for avoiding assertion altogether;two grounds for asserting origination through chance;sixteen assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and conscious and either material, immaterial, both material and immaterial, neither material nor immaterial, finite, infinite, both, neither, of uniform perception, of varied perception, of limited perception, of unlimited perception, wholly happy wholly miserable, both, or neither； eight assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and unconscious and either material, immaterial, both, neither, finite, infinite, both, or neither;eight assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and unconscious and either material, immaterial, both, neither, finite, infinite, both, or neither;seven grounds for asserting the annihilation of the self after death;and five grounds for wrongly asserting the attainment of nirvana here and now. +
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lha chos bdun ldan;ལྷ་ཆོས་བདུན་ལྡན་;sevenfold deities and Dharmas;sevenfold deities and dharmas;In Kadam tradition： four deities— the Buddha, Avalokitcśvara, Tārā, and Acala— and the triple Dharma of the three sections of the Tripiṭaka. +
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’byung ba chen po bzhi;འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་;four great elements;four great elements;Earth, water, fire, and air. +
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be'u bum brgyad;བེའུ་བུམ་བརྒྱད་;eight manuals;eight manuals;In Shijé the ''Manual of the Profound InitiaManual ofthe Root Identification, Manual ofthe Guidelines of the EarWhispered Lineage，Manual of the Vital Points of the Four Doors, Manual of tbe Vańous Magical Powers, Manual of the Profound Mantra) Manual of Dākiṇī Doctrine-Protector, and Manual of the Three-Part Royal Special Instruction''. +
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bye brag pa'i rtsa ba sde bzhi;བྱེ་བྲག་པའི་རྩ་བ་སྡེ་བཞི་;four basic schools of Vaibhāṣika;four basic schools of vaibhāṣika;Mahāsāṃghika, Sarvāstivāda, Sthavira, and Saṃmatīya. +
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dbang bskur;དབང་བསྐུར་;initiation;initiation;abhiṣeka;A tantric ritual anointment, coronation, or empowerment, in which a guru confers upon disciples the blessings of the practice lineage of a particular deity and allows them to undertake practices related to that deity. There are different types and categorizations of initiations, but all of them require that the disciple visualize the lama as the deity, make offerings, and undertake vows. +
