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The corpus of the teachings on ethical discipline given by the Buddha. +
(1143-1217) The founder of Drikung Monastery and of the Drikung Kagyu school. +
A cousin of Shakyamuni Buddha whose extreme jealousy prevented him from receiving any benefit from the Buddha's teachings. +
Atisha's renowned Tibetan lay disciple (1004-1064). He built the monastery of Reting (rwa greng). which became the center of the Kadampa tradition. +
(4th century C.E.) A disciple of Vasubandhu and great authority on the Vinaya, he composed the celebrated Vinaya-sutra ('dul ba'i mdo rtsa). +
The expanse of ultimate reality. +
(1726-1803) An important Gelug scholar of Ragya Monastery, who ordained Shabkar in 1801. +
(1385-1438) One of the two most important disciples (the other being Gyaltsap Je) of Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Gelugpa school. +
A Buddha who appeared in remote antiquity. During his lifetime the ascetic Sumedha (who was reborn many kalpas later as Shakyamuni Buddha) resolved to attain enlightenment. +
A "solitary Buddha," one who, without relying on a teacher, attains the cessation of suffering by meditating on the twelve links of dependent arising. Pratyekabuddhas realize the no-self of the person and go halfway to realizing the no-self of phenomena. In other words, they realize the no-self of perceived phenomena but not that of the perceiving mind. +
(1759-1816) The second throne holder and abbot of the monastery of Reting, founded by Atisha's great disciple Dromtönpa. +
Lit. superior, sublime, or noble one. One who has transcended samsaric existence. There are four classes of sublime beings: Arhats, Pratyekabuddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Buddhas. +
Name of the ancient Indian philosophical school professing materialistic nihilism. The Charvakas denied the law of karma and the existence of past and future lives. +
(1816-1872) A celebrated master from Nyarong in the east of Tibet, who accomplished the rainbow body. +
Inspired by Atisha and founded by his disdple Dromtön, this school placed great emphasis on the mindtraining teaching of bodhichitta and pure observance of ethical discipline. It exerted a decisive influence on the entire Tibetan tradition. +
The name by which Guru Padmasambhava, the Lotus-Born, is commonly known in Tibet. He was predicted by Shakyamuni Buddha as the one who would propagate the teachings of the Secret Mantra. Invited to Tibet by King Trisong Detsen in the eighth century, he succeeded in definitively establishing there the Buddhist teachings of sutra and tantra. +
A Mahayana sutra of the ultimate meaning belonging to the third turning of the Dharma wheel and expounding the doctrine of the tathagatagarbha. +
(1079-1153) Also known as Dhakpo Lharje, Gampopa trained as a doctor before becoming a monk in the Kadampa tradition. He eventually met his root teacher, Milarepa, whose principal disciple he was to become and from whom he received the transmission of the Six Yogas of Naropa. Unifying the monastic and yogic paths, Gampopa exerted a decisive influence over the Kagyu tradition. +
One of the new translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Khön Könchog Gyalpo and associated with the great monastery of Sakya. The Sakya Lamas were, for a time, the rulers of Tibet. +
The canonical collection of sutras and tantras translated into Tibetan. +
