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(1608-?) Also known as Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, he was a disciple of the famous tertön Jatsön Nyingpo. A highly accomplished meditator and outstanding scholar in both the teachings of the Kagyu and Nyingma schools, he received the name of Gotsangpa (dweller in the vulture's nest) because of his long retreats in the mountain caves and hermitages of the great Drukpa Kagyu master Gotsang Gonpo Dorje. His discipline was immaculate, and it is said that he never tasted a single drop of alcohol. +
(1110-1170) A disciple of Gampopa and founder of the Phagdru tradition of the Kagyu school. Many of his disciples attained high realization. +
Mantras are generally said to be of three kinds: vidya mantras, dharani mantras, and secret mantras. These categories refer respectively to the skillful means of compassion, the wisdom of emptiness, and their nondual union. +
An anthology of texts taken from important Mahayana sutras, compiled by Shantideva. +
One of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism, founded by Marpa the Translator (1012-1099). This school subsequently divided into many subschools, the most well known nowadays being the Karma (or Dhakpo) Kagyu, Drikung Kagyu, Drukpa Kagyu, and Shangpa Kagyu. +
A very extensive commentary on the Kalachakra-tantra, and the basic textual source for the entire Kalachakra system. It was composed by Kalkia Pundarika, one of the Dharma kings of Shambhala, and still exists in Sanskrit. +
The new translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism (namely, Kagyupa, Sakyapa, and Gelugpa) founded in the period following the persecution by Langdarma. +
The representation in female form of wisdom. There are several levels of dakinis: fully enlightened wisdom dakinis and worldly dakinis, who possess various preternatural powers, not necessarily beneficent. +
A tantric feast offering performed within the framework of a sadhana practice. +
(1142-1210), a disciple of Phagmo Drupa and founder of the Taklung Kagyu school. He was known for his realization of Mahamudra attained through devotion. +
lit. naked ascetics. An important Indian rdigious system founded in the sixth century B.C.E. by ]ina (whence Jaina or Jain), also known as Vardhamana. The Jainas or Jains advocate a very pure ethical system involving, in particular, an extreme form of ahimsa, or nonviolence. +
King of Tibet and member of the Chögyal dynasty. He assumed the kingship in Ngari, western Tibet, with the name of Tsenpo Khore. Later he abdicated in order to become a monk and was subsequently known as Lha Lama Yeshe Ö. In a bid to revive Buddhism in his country, he sent a party of twenty-one young men to Kashmir to learn Sanskrit and to study the teachings. It was in response to his generous offerings that Atisha accepted his invitation to visit Tibet. +
A class of dangerous, flesh-devouring nonhuman beings figuring in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. +
beings of the form of women, of many types from witches and fiends, through various grades of guardians of the Doctrine, to fully Enlightened deities +
one who rules over the four continents of human beings. He bears the thirty-two Marks of a Great Being, and is assisted in his rule by the Seven precious Things (''sapta-ratna''), listed in Sarvajña-mitra's verse 24, the precious wheel etc. These have remarkable magical properties, and are also interpreted as symbolic of the seven Enlightenment factors (''bodhyaṅga, byang chub kyi yan lag''), mindfulness etc. +
a Tantric chopping knife with an almost semicircular blade slightly hooked at one end and a ''vajra'' handle in the middle. +
e.g. space, temporary absence of defilements, final cessation of obscurations, Emptiness, ''Nirvāṇa''. +
in the set Loving-kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity — the Four Immeasurables — it is Skt. ''muditā'' and implies joy in the virtues and happiness of others +
a Noble Being, or Saint — one who has realized the Path of direct Insight into Ultimate Reality. Āryā feminine of ''Ārya'' +
the 'Great Vehicle' — the way of a Bodhisattva, and the schools that emphasize it in their teaching. +
