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mkhyen gnyis;མཁྱེན་གཉིས་;two knowledges;two knowledges;Ultimate knowledge of the nature of reality and conventional knowledge of particulars. +
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slob dpon;སློབ་དཔོན་;master;master;ācārya;At the time of monastic ordination, the officiating monk who will serve as one’s primary teacher. More generally it denotes an especially learned and accomplished member of the community. +
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khams gsum;ཁམས་གསུམ་;three worlds;three worlds;The worlds, or realms, of desire, form, and formlessness, which together constitute the Buddhist samsaric cosmos. +
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lung lnga;ལུང་ལྔ་;five winds;five winds;The breath-related energies of the subtle body: the vitalizing, pervasive, upward-moving, downward-moving, and equalizing winds. +
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rdzogs chen;རྫོགས་ཆེན་;mahāsandhi;Dzokchen;dzokchen;In the Nyingma as well as Bön traditions, the “great perfection” is an advanced tantric perspective and practice in which one opens oneself to the primordial perfection that is the intrinsic nature of oneself and ail beings. It is regarded by Nyingmapas as the supreme attainment, functioning for them much like ''Mahāmudrā'' (to which it bears certain similarities) does for Kagyüpas. +
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stong pa bzhi;སྟོང་པ་བཞི་;four empties;four empties;On the completion stage of highest yoga tantra, four experiences induced by the absorption of consciousness into the heart cakra: the empty, the very empty, the greatly empty, and the all empty. +
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theg chen gyi theg pa gnyis;ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་ཐེག་པ་གཉིས་;two vehicles of Mahayana;two vehicles of mahayana;Sutra/perfection/definition and tantra/secret mantra/vajra. +
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rnal ’byor rgyud kyi dkyil 'khor chen po gnyis;རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ཆེན་པོ་གཉིས་;two great mandalas of yoga tantra;two great mandalas of yoga tantra;Vajradhātu and Garbhadhātu. +
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dka' bzhi;དཀའ་བཞི་;four difficult subjects;four difficult subjects;In Tibetan monastic education, the subject matters of： Madhyamaka (or valid cognition), the perfection of wisdom, vinaya, and abhidharma, as well as the basic texts for each course of study： Candraklrti’s ''Entering the Middle Way'' (or Dharmakīrti's ''Thorough Exposition of Valid Cognition''), Maitreyas ''Ornament of Higher Realization'', Guṇaprabhas ''Vinaya Sutra'', and Vasubandhu's ''Treasury of Higher Knowledge''. +
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lta ba bkar btags kyi phyag rgya bzhi;ལྟ་བ་བཀར་བཏགས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་བཞི་;four authenticating seals of the Buddhist view;four authenticating seals of the buddhist view;ll compounded phenomena are impermanent;all contaminated phenomena are suffering;all dharmas are without self;nirvana is peace. Cf. four seals. +
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sdom gsum;སྡོམ་གསུམ་;three vows;three vows;The 253 prātimokṣa vows, the eighteen root and fortysix auxiliary bodhisattva vows, and the fourteen root and eight auxiliary tantric vows. +
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sgo gsum;སྒོ་གསུམ་;three doors;three doors;Body, speech, and mind. +
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sbyor lam gyi sa bzhi;སྦྱོར་ལམ་གྱི་ས་བཞི་;four stages of the path of preparation;four stages of the path of preparation;Heat, peak, patience, and supreme mundane achievement. +
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'khro bo lnga bcu lnga brgyad;'khro bo lnga bcu lnga brgyad;fifty-eight wrathful deities;fifty-eight wrathful deities;Buddha Krodheśvarī, Buddha Heruka, Vajra Krodheśvarī, Vajra Heruka, Ratna Krodhcśvarī, Ratna Heruka, Padma Krodhdvarī, Padma Heruka, Karma Krodheśvarī, Karma Heruka, Kerima (or Gaurī), Pukkaśī, Caurimā (Chaurā), Ghasmarī, Pramohā, Caṇḍalī, Vetall (Vaitalī, Petalī), Śmaśalī (Śmaśanī), Siṃhamukhl, Grdhṛamukhī, Vyāghramukhī, Kańkamukhī, Sṛgalamukhī, Kākamukhī, Śvamukhī, Úlumukhī, Ankuśā, Paśadhāri, Vajraśṛńkhalā, Ghaṇṭā, yakheaded Rākṣasī, Brahmaṇī (Brahmī), Mahādevī, Vaisnavī (Lobhā), Kumārī, Indranī, cuckoo-headed Vajrā, sow-headed Vajri, Śānti, Amṛtā, Candrā, Daṇḍā, tiger-headed Rāksasl, antelope-headed Vajrā, Bhaksinī, Ratī, Mahāball, dog-headed Rākṣasī, Abhilāsī, Vasurakṣā, lion-headed Vajrā, Vajudevī, Nārī, sow-headed Varāhī, crow-headed Vajrī, Mahāhastini, Varunl, serpentheaded Vajrā. +
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bka' babs bzhi;བཀའ་བབས་བཞི་;four special oral traditions;four special oral traditions;Four transmissions received by Tilopa, regarding, respectively, Guhyasamāja, the ''Four Seats Tantra'', the illusory body, and transference of consciousness;Mahāmāyā and dreams;Cakrasaṃvara and clear light;and Hevajra and inner heat. +
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ma gsum;མ་གསུམ་;three mothers;three mothers;See ''three perfection of wisdom sutras''. +
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rigs ldan nyer lnga;རིགས་ལྡན་ཉེར་ལྔ་;twenty-five kalkins;twenty-five kalkins;In Kālacakra tradition: [Mańjughoṣa] Yaśas (r. 277-177 b .c .e .), Puṇḍarīka (r. 177-77 B.C .E .), Bhadra (r. 77 b .c .e .-24 c.E.), Vijaya (r. 24-124), Sumitrabhadra (r. 124- 224), Ratnapāni (r. 224-324), Viṣṇugupta (r. 324-424), Sūryakīrti (r. 424-524), Subhadra (r. 524-614), Samudravijaya (r. 614-806), Aja (r. 806-1027), Sūrya (r. 1027-1127), Viśvarūpa (r. 1127-1227), Śasiprabha (r. 12.27-1317), Ananta (r. 1327-1417), Mahīpala (r. 1427-1527), Śrlpala (r. 1527-162.7), Siṃha (r. 1627-1717), Vikrama (r. 1727-1827), Mahábala (r. 1827-1927), Aniruddha (r. 1927-2.027), Narasimha ( r .1027-2127), Maheśvara (r. 2117-2227), Ananatavijaya (r. 2.227-2327), Yaśas or Raudracakrin (r. 2327-2427). +
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sprulsku;སྤྲུལསྐུ་;emanation body;emanation body;nirmāṇakāya;ithin the compass of the ''form body'', the aspect of a buddha that appears for the sake of ordinary sentient beings. A single buddha may manifest multiple emanation bodies, which may be in human, animal, or inanimate form. The “historical Buddha” Śākyamuni is generally regarded as an emanation body. The Tibetan term for emanation body, ''trulku'', is used to designate a deliberately reincarnated lama. +
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gzhan stong;གཞན་སྟོང་;extrinsic emptiness;extrinsic emptiness;paraśūnyatā;A controversial view of ''emptiness'', implicit in some Indian Buddhist sutras and tantras, and explicit to various degrees in thejonang, Nyingma, Kagyü, and Sakya traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, which asserts that all samsaric ''dharmas'' are empty of intrinsic existence, while a ''buddhas dharmakāya'' is empty of everything extrinsic to it, namely all samsaric dharmas, but is itself eternally replete with all buddha qualities. +
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las;ལས་;karma;karma;Actions of body, speech, and mind, as well as their effects. Karma is, with ''delusion'', one of the two basic forces that drive sentient beings from rebirth to unsatisfactory rebirth. +
