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dha he na;The place where Shri Singha lived when he taught Vairotsana and Lekdrub. It has not been determined whether this is situated in Oddiyana or in central India. +
gsang ba'i dbang;secret empowerment;secret empowerment;The second empowerment, which purifies the defilements of speech, enables one to meditate on the channels and energies and to recite mantras and plants the seed for obtaining the vajra speech and the sambhogakaya. +
tshogs 'khor;feast offering;feast offering;ganachakra;A ritual offering in tantric Buddhism in which oblations of food and drink are blessed as the elixir of wisdom and offered to the yidam deity as well as to the mandala of one's own body in order to purify breaches of one's sacred commitments. +
o rgyan;Oddiyana;Also called Orgyen or Urgyen, a region in ancient India corresponding, according to some authorities, to the valley of Swat between Afghanistan and Kashmir. Oddiyana was the birthplace of Padmasambhava and Garab Dorje. +
ye shes snying po;Jnanagarbha;A master of Nalanda University and the ordaining abbot of Shantarakshita. He was an exponent of the "upper school" of Svatantrika Madhyamaka and the author of the celebrated ''Two Truths of the Middle Way''. +
rig pa;awareness;awareness;vidya;When referring to the view of the Great Perfection, awareness means consciousness devoid of ignorance and dualistic fixation. +
pu tra;putra;Spirits dwelling in charnel grounds. +
bde bar gshegs pa;sugata;Literally, "one who has gone to and proceeds in bliss," an epithet of the buddhas. +
sprul sku;nirmanakaya;Manifested body. The third of the three kayas. The aspect of enlightenment that can be perceived by ordinary beings. +
ri rab;The mythological mountain at the center of our worldsystem surrounded by the four continents where the two lowest classes of gods of the world of desire live. It is encircled by chains of lesser mountains, lakes, continents, and oceans and is said to have an altitude of eighty-four thousand leagues above sea level. +
stong gsum;three-thousandfold world;three-thousandfold world;A billionfold cosmic system of worlds, each of which comprises a Mount Meru and four cosmic continents. +
theg pa chen po;The Great Vehicle. The characteristic of Mahayana is the profound view of the emptiness of the ego and of all phenomena coupled with universal compassion and the desire to deliver all beings from suffering and its causes. +
khri srong de'u btsan;Trisong Deutsen;trisong deutsen;The third Dharma king of Tibet and an emanation of Manjushri. He appeared in the fifth reign after Songtsen Gampo and was thirteen years old when he started ruling the kingdom. He invited many masters to Tibet to propagate the true doctrine, built Samye, and established Buddhism as the state religion of Tibet. There are many different opinions about his birth and death dates. +
'khon klu'i dbang po;Khon Lui Wangpo;khon lui wangpo;One the seven men to be tested, the first seven monks ordained by Shantarakshita. Another of the twenty-five close disciples of Padmasambhava. According to the ''Chronicles'', Kawa Paltsek was sent to India with Chokro Lui Gyaltsen, not Khon Lui Wangpo, to invite Vimalamitra to Tibet. +
sems dpa'i rnal 'byor;sattvayoga;Encompasses the contents of the three outer tantras, in particular Yoga Tantra. +
tsha ba rong;Tsawarong;tsawarong;The river valley of Gyalmo Tsawarong in the far east of Kham. +
snga 'gyur;Early Translation;early translation;Refers to the Nyingma school. +
yi dvags;Famished spirits or hungry ghosts, one of the six classes of beings in samsara. +
mu stegs pa;heretic;heretic;Non-Buddhist. Refers to teachers of non-Buddhist philosophies who adhere to the extreme views of eternalism or nihilism. +
na lan dra;Nalanda;The famous monastic university built at the birthplace of Shariputra some distance north of Bodhgaya in Bihar. Nalanda had a long and illustrious history, and many of the greatest masters of the Mahayana lived, studied, and taught there. It was destroyed in 1200 C.E. +
