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ku ma ra;Kumara;One of the swift-footed border guards in India who became Vairotsana's friend. +
ldil mgo mkhyen brtse rin po che;Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche;dilgo khyentse rinpoche;(1910-91) Treasure revealer who was regarded by followers of all the four schools as one of the greatest Tibetan masters of the last century. +
sbyin pa gsum;three types of generosity;three types of generosity;Generosity of material things, of protection from fear, and of the Dharma teachings. +
ri bo rtse lnga;Five-Peaked Mountain;five-peaked mountain;In Chinese, Wutaishan. A place in eastern China sacred to Manjushri, where Vimalamitra is supposed to reside. +
mdo,lung;scripture;scripture +
Vajradhara;Vajra-holder. Emanation of Samantabhadra. The dharmakaya buddha of the New Schools. Can also refer to one's personal teacher of Vajrayana or to the all-embracing buddha-nature. +
lcog ro klu'i rgyal mtshan;Chokro Lui Gyaltsen;chokro lui gyaltsen;Predicted by Padmasambhava and trained as a translator during the time of Trisong Deutsen, along with Kawa Paltsek he translated the sutras and tantras while Vairo went to India. Later, he and Kawa went to India to invite Vimalamitra to Tibet. He is considered the third greatest Tibetan translator and was also one of Padmasambhava's twenty-five disciples. Also referred to as Chok. +
yang dag;Vishuddha;The heruka of the Vajra family;alternatively, the tantric teachings connected to that wrathful deity. Also, one of the Eight Sadhana Teachings of the Nyingma school. +
bhu ta kug ta;One of the Indian lineage masters of Dzogchen;a disciple of Devaraja and the teacher of Shri Singha. +
las;karma;Action, the unerring law of cause and effect according to which all experiences are the result of previous actions and all actions are the seeds of future existential situations. Actions resulting in the experience of happiness are defined as virtuous;actions that give rise to suffering are described as nonvirtuous. +
lha;gods;gods;deva;According to the Buddhist tradition, a class of beings that is superior to humans, which although not immortal enjoy immense power, bliss, and longevity. The term is also used to refer to powerful spirits as well as to the deities visualized in tantric meditation, which are not to be understood as "gods" in the ordinary sense of the word. +
La bzla rgyal po'i skor;Resolving King's Cycle;resolving king's cycle;The second of the three categories of Mind Class tantras. +
go ma de byi;Gomadevi;A princess who was one of the Indian lineage masters of the Dzogchen teachings. She was a disciple of the scholar Maharaja and the teacher of Atsantra Aloke. +
sku lnga;five kayas;five kayas;panchakaya;In the Mahayana, the transcendent reality of perfect buddhahood is described in terms of two, three, four, or five bodies, or kayas. The two bodies, in the first case, are the dharmakaya, the Body of Truth, and the rupakaya, the Body of Form. The dharmakaya is the absolute or "emptiness" aspect of buddhahood. The rupakaya is subdivided into the sambhogakaya, the Body of Perfect Enjoyment, and the nirmanakaya, the Body of Manifestation. The sambhogakaya, or the spontaneous clarity aspect of buddhahood, is perceptible only to beings of extremely high realization. The nirmanakaya, the compassionate aspect, is perceptible to ordinary beings and appears in the world most often in human form. The system of four bodies consists of the three just referred to together with the svabhavikakaya, or Body of Suchness, which refers to the union of the previous three. +
spam mi pham mgon po;Pam Mipham Gonpo;pam mipham gonpo;A disciple of Vairotsana. He was one hundred years old when he met Vairotsana. After receiving the instructions from Vairotsana, he attained instant realization and became one of the lineage masters. It is said that all his disciples attained rainbow body. +
alak gzan dkar rin po che;Ala Zenkar Rinpoche;ala zenkar rinpoche;Great Nyingma scholar from eastern Tibet who is said to be an emanation of Do Khyentse and who at present lives in New York. +
klong sde;Space Class;space class;The second division of the Mind Class, which emphasizes emptiness. +
snod;pitaka;Literally, "basket." A collection of scriptures. +
sku gsum;three kayas;three kayas;Dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya. The three kayas as ground are "essence, nature, and expression," as path they are "bliss, clarity, and nonthought," and as fruition they are the "three kayas of buddhahood." See Jive kayas. +
rig 'dzin brda brgyud;mind lineage through,the Conquerors;mind lineage through,the conquerors;The transmission of the teachings from mind to mind, according to this text, from Samantabhadra up to and including Prahevajra. +
