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rlung;WIND;wind;prana. +
gtum mo;TUMMO;tummo;chandali;One of the Six Doctrines of Naropa. +
rjes dran drug;SIX RECOLLECTIONS;six recollections;There are different lists, of which the most appropriate is as follows: recollection of the yidam deity, the path, the place of rebirth, the meditative state, the oral instructions of the teacher, and the view. +
yi dam;YIDAM;yidam;A personal deity and the root of accomplishment among the three roots. +
sgrub brgyud shing rta brgyad;EIGHT PRACTICE LINEAGES;eight practice lineages;The eight independent schools of Buddhism that flourished in Tibet: Nyingma, Kadampa, Marpa Kagyü, Shangpa Kagyü, Sakya, Jordruk, Shije, and Chöd. +
mtsho rgyal;TSOGYAL;tsogyal;Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal, the close disciple of Guru Rinpoche who compiled the major part of his teachings. +
longs spyod rdzogs pa'i sku;SAMBHOGAKAYA;sambhogakaya;The "body of perfect enjoyment." One of the three, four, or five kayas. The sambhogakaya should be understood in terms of ground, path, and fruition. The sambhogakaya of ground is the mind's innate capacity for knowing. The sambhogakaya of path is that as well as the luminous nature of bliss, clarity, and non thought. The sambhogakaya of fruition is defined as the five perfections: The perfect teacher is the fully enlightened buddha in a rainbow body adorned with the thirty-two major and eighty minor marks of excellence. The perfect retinue is the bodhisattvas on the ten bhumis. The perfect place is the pure realms of the five families. The perfect teaching is Mahayana and Vajrayana. The perfect time is the "perpetual circle of continuity." +
'pho ba;PHOWA;phowa;Ejection of consciousness to a buddha-field at the moment of death. +
gnas ris drug;SIX REALMS;six realms;The realms of the six classes of beings. +
na ro pa;NAROPA;naropa;The chief disciple of Tilopa and the guru of Marpa in the Kagyü Lineage. +
nyan thos;SHRAVAKA;shravaka;A hinayana follower of the Buddha. +
dbang bzhi;FOUR EMPOWERMENTS;four empowerments;The empowerments of vase, secret, wisdom-knowledge, and precious word according to Anuttara Tantra of the Sarma schools or the Three Inner Tantras of the Nyingma system. The purpose of receiving these empowerments is to be "ripened" so as to be authorized to practice the following four aspects of the vajrayana paths:<br> By receiving the vase empowerment, one is authorized to practice the development stage, the union of appearance and emptiness, according to the teachings of Mahayoga Tantra.<br> By receiving the secret empowerment, one is authorized to practice the completion stage with concepts, the profound path, which is the unity of clarity and emptiness connected with the "higher gate" of Anuyoga Tantra.<br> By receiving the wisdom-knowledge empowerment, one is authorized to practice the completion stage with concepts, the phony a path, which is the union of bliss and emptiness connected to the "lower gate" of Anuyoga Tantra. By receiving the precious word empowerment, one is authorized to practice the Great Perfection, which is the union of awareness and emptiness connected to Ati Yoga Tantra.<br> Guru Rinpoche said in his Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo: The vase empowerment, which purifies the body and the nadis,<br> Is the seed of the vajra body and nirmanakaya.<br> The secret empowerment, which purifies speech and the pranas,<br> Is the seed of the vajra speech and samboghyakaya.<br> The phonya empowerment, which purifies the mind and the bindus,<br> Is the seed of the vajra mind and dharmakaya.<br> The ultimate empowerment, which purifies habitual patterns and the all-ground,<br> Is the seed of the vajra wisdom and the svabhavikakaya. +
mdod ma'i mgon po;PRIMORDIAL PROTECTOR;primordial protector;The originally enlightened one, Adibuddha, Samantabhadra. +
dngos grub;SIDDHIS;siddhis;The supreme and common accomplishments. The supreme siddhi is the attainment of complete enlightenment. The common siddhis are usually eight types of miraculous powers. +
nye brgyud gter ma;SHORT LINEAGE Of TERMA;short lineage of terma;The Dharma treasures concealed chiefly by Guru Rinpoche to be discoyered in the future by a tertön, a treasure revealer. +
rnam byang lnga;FIVE TYPES OF NAMJANG;five types of namjang;The natural lights of the buddha nature, the basic state of all beings. Depending upon whether the practitioner recognizes that these lights are the expression of his innate essence or grasps them as being phenomena external to himself, he will proceed toward liberation or further entanglement in samsaric existence. +
brda' don rtags gsum;SYMBOL,MEANING,AND SIGN;symbol,meaning,and sign;Three aspects of vajrayana teachings. For example, the ''symbol'' is the peaceful and wrathful deities depicted on painted scrolls, made by human beings;the ''meaning'' they symbolize is the enlightened qualities inherent within our buddha nature;the ''sign'' is that they naturally manifest to the dead person during the bardo of dharmata. +
lung rtogs;STATEMENTS AND REALIZATION;statements and realization;The authoritative scriptures and the realization of the dharma in the minds of noble beings. They are the two qualities of the Precious Dharma. +
lha rna yin);DEMIGOD;demigod;One of the six classes of beings. +
tshogs gnyis;TWO ACCUMULATIONS;two accumulations;The accumulation of merit and of wisdom. +
