sgrub brgyud;PRACTICE LINEAGE;practice lineage;The lineage of masters where the emphasis is one's personal experience of the teachings, as opposed to the scholastic lineage of expounding the scriptures (bshad brgyud). ''See'' Eight Practice Lineages. +
rten 'brel yan lag bcu gnyis;TWELVE LINKS OF INTERDEPENDENCE;twelve links of interdependence;Ignorance, formation, consciousness, name-andform, the six sense bases, contact, sensation, craving, grasping, becoming, rebirth, old age, and death. These twelve links are like an uninterrupted vicious circle, a wheel that spins all sentient beings around and around through the realms of samsara. +
gtong len;GIVING AND TAKING;giving and taking;A bodhicitta practice of giving one's virtue and happiness to others and taking their suffering and misdeeds upon oneself. +
bar do'i srid pa;BARDO STATE;bardo state;Usually this term refers to the intermediate state between death and the next rebirth, but in this context it means "gap" or "period" between two things. Sometimes it is translated as "intermediate state." +
dal ba brgyad;EIGHT FREEDOMS;eight freedoms;Not being in the three lower realms, not being a long-living god, not having wrong views, not a savage, not a mute, and not born in an age without buddhas. +
byang chub sems dpa';BODHISATTVA;bodhisattva;Someone who has developed bodhicitta, the aspiration to attain enlightenment in order to benefit all sentient beings. +