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bla med mal ’byor rgyud;བླ་མེད་མལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུད་;highest yoga tantra;highest yoga tantra;niruttarayogatantra;The last of the Buddhist tantric systems to develop in India, regarded by new translation schools as the most advanced of Buddhist practices. It often is divided into ''father tantras'' (e.g., Guhyasamāja), which stress methods for generating the ''illusory body'', and ''mother tantras'' (e.g., Cakrasamvara), which emphasize attainment of the clear-light mind. Its practices are VNofolà ''generation stage'' and ''completion stage''. +
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sdom mam gnyis;སྡོམ་མམ་གཉིས་;two compendiums;two compendiums;Asaṅgas Compendium of Mahayana Sutras and Compendium of Abbidharma +
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byams chos sde lnga;བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་;five treatises of Maitreya;five treatises of maitreya;''Ornament of Higher Realization, Ornament of Mahayana Sutras, Sublime Continuum, Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes, and Distinguishing Dharmas from the Dharma Realm''. +
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dag snang;དག་སྣང་;pure vision;pure vision;In general, the mode in which a ''buddha'' or ''meditational deity'' is properly encountered in tantric practice, whether deliberately evoked or unbidden. It also refers to a way of seeing beings and the world, as essentially pure. In Nyingma ''Dzokchen'' tradition, it is the name given to one of three major lineages. +
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dag pa rnam brgyad;དག་པ་རྣམ་བརྒྱད་;eight pure ones;eight pure ones;Disciples of Tsongkhapa: Jampal Chösang, also known as Lama Jamkarwa the venerable Sangkyongwa;the venerable Rinchen Gyaltsen the venerable Jangsengwa Tokden Jampal Gyatso;Geshé Sherap Drak;Geshé Jampal Tashi and Geshé Palkyongwa. +
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nyan thos;ཉན་ཐོས་;Śrāvaka;A “hearer” or “disciple,” most often of ''Hinayana'' teachings. The term may refer cither to one who follows a Hinayana path or to an ''arhat'' who has reached the end of that path. As distinguished from the Hinayana ''pratyekabuddha'' vehicle, the śrāvaka vehicle refers to an approach to the path in which one receives teachings from others rather than proceeding independently. +
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yan lag bdun;ཡན་ལག་བདུན་;seven limbs;seven limbs;Seven aspects of ritual offering that are crucial to meditation in Mahayana Buddhism prostration, offering, confession, rejoicing in the virtue of others, requesting the buddhas to turn the Dharma wheel, entreating them not to enter final nirvana, and dedication of merit. +
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chos rgyal bdun;ཆོས་རྒྱལ་བདུན་;seven Dharma kings;seven dharma kings;In Kālacakra traditions: Sucandra (d. 877 b.c.e.), Sureśvara (r. 877-777 b.c.e.), Tejin (r. 777-677 b.c.e.), Somadatta (r. 677-577 b.c.e.), Sureśvara (r. 577-477 b.c.e.), Viśvamūrti (r. 477-377 b.c.e.), and Sureśāna (r. 377-277 b.c.e.). +
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mkhan po;མཁན་པོ་;preceptor;preceptor;upadhyāya;At the time of monastic ordination, the officiating monk who actually confers the vows. In Tibetan tradition, it is the most common term for the abbot of a monastic community. +
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rang sangs rgyas;རང་སངས་རྒྱས་;pratyekabuddha;A being who has attained enlightenment without recourse to a teacher or who, having attained enlightenment, chooses not to teach but to remain solitary. Along with the ''śrāvaka'' vehicle, the vehicle of the pratyekabuddha is often treated as a ''Hinayana'' approach to ''liberation'', requiring a thorough realization of ''dependent arising''. +
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lag lan;ལག་ལན་;praxis;praxis;Literally “taking in hand.” These are instructions for practice conveyed by a guru to disciples, somewhat akin to ''guidelines'', and often included within ''instructions'' or ''special instructions''. +
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snyan thos lugs gnyis;སྙན་ཐོས་ལུགས་གཉིས་;two śrāvaka schools;two śrāvaka schools;Vaibhāsika and Sautrāntika. +
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grwa skor;གྲྭ་སྐོར་;debate circuit;debate circuit;Literally, the “monk’s circuit,” a tour of monasteries in a given region undertaken by a monk so as to debate other monks on the classic topics of monastic education: ''abhidharma, vinaya, Madhyamaka, the perfection of wisdom'', and ''valid cognition''. +
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zhi byed kyi rgyud gsum;ཞི་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད་གསུམ་;three lineages of Shijé;three lineages of shijé;Early, middle, and later Shijé. +
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dngos grub brgyad;དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྒྱད་;eight yogic achievements;eight yogic achievements;Eye medicine, speed walking, magic pills, penetration of matter, suppression of diseases, the magic sword, flying, invisibility. +
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zhi gnas;calm abiding;calm abiding;śamatha +
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pha rol tu phyin pa;perfection;perfection;pāramitā +
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rigs;lineage;lineage;gotra +
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dbang po;faculty;faculty;indriya +
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sems can;sentient being;sentient being;sattva +
