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From Buddha-Nature
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thub pa drug;Six Munis;six munis;In each of the six realms of beings, an emanation of the tathagatas acts on behalf of the beings of that realm. +
dur khrod brgyad;eight charnel grounds;eight charnel grounds;Frightening places where dakas and dakinis meet, which internally correspond to the eight consciousnesses. +
gtsang po;Brahmaputra;Tsangpo;tsangpo;The river flowing past Samye. +
klu'i rgyal po 'dga' bo;Naga King Nanda;naga king nanda;One of the Indian Dzogchen lineage masters, a disciple of Prahevajra, Prince Rajahasti, and Princess Parani, and the teacher of Yakshini Changchubma. +
dri za;gandharva;Literally, "scent eater," a member of a class of nonhumans who are said to be nourished on smells. They are also a type of celestial musician living on the rim of Mount Meru in cloudlike castles. The metaphor "city of gandharvas" is used to point out the illusoriness of phenomena. +
dga' rabs rdo rje;Prahevajra;Commonly known as Garab Dorje. The name literally means "indestructible joy." He received all the tantras, scriptures, and oral instructions of Dzogchen from Vajrasattva and Vajrapani in person and became the first human vidyadhara in the Dzogchen lineage. Manjushrimitra is regarded as his chief disciple. He passed away 540 years after the Buddha's nirvana. +
stong pa nyid;emptiness;emptiness;shunyata;The ultimate nature of phenomena. +
nyan thos;shravaka;A follower of Hinayana, whose goal is to be free of the sufferings of samsara. Unlike the followers of the Great Vehicle, shravakas do not aspire to full enlightenment for the sake of all beings. +
gsangs ba'i sku;guhyakaya;Esoteric form. +
gter ston;terton;terton;A revealer of hidden treasures. Tertons are said to be reincarnations of Padmasambhava's close disciples who made the aspiration to benefit beings in the future. +
yang le shod;Yangleshod;yangleshod;A cave in the southern part of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, where Padmasambhava attained accomplishment of Mahamudra through the practice of Vishuddha and Kilaya. +
'dul ba;Vinaya;The name of the Buddhist ethical teachings in general and of the code of monastic discipline in particular. +
khams gsum;three worlds;three worlds;The world of desire, the world of form, and the world of formlessness. +
gSang ba'i snying po;Essence of Secrets;essence of secrets;Guhyagarbha;The widely renowned tantra of the Early Translation, which is the chief of the Eighteen Maha Yoga Tantras. +
gnod sbyin;yaksha;A class of semi-divine beings, generally benevolent but sometimes wicked. Many are powerful local divinities;others live on Mount Sumeru, guarding the realm of the gods. +
sangs rgyas;Buddha;The Fully Awakened One, a being who has removed the emotional and cognitive veils and is endowed with all enlightened qualities of realization. +
sentient being;sentient being;Any living being in the six realms who has not attained liberation. +
bden gnyis;two truths;two truths;Relative truth and absolute truth. Relative truth describes the seeming, superficial, and apparent mode of all things. Absolute truth describes the real, true, and unmistaken mode. +
bka' ma;Kahma;kahma;The oral lineage of the Nyingma school, the teachings translated chiefly during the period of Padmasambhava's stay in Tibet and transmitted from master to student until the present day. +
skye ba med pa;nonarising;nonarising;In the aspect of ultimate truth, all phenomena are devoid of an independent, concrete identity, and therefore, they ultimately do not come into being, abide in time and place, or cease to exist. +
