sku;སྐུ་;kāya;kaya;kaya;literally, "body";a dimension of enlightened being, functioning as a basis for positive qualities and aspects of pristine awareness [gestalt (FRC);founding stratum (KB);aspect/form of the unconceivable qualities of Buddhas (ws)] +
so sor rtogs pa'i shes rab;སོ་སོར་རྟོགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་;so-sor tog-pai shey-rab;so-sor tog-pai shey-rab;discriminating transcendent knowledge;knowledge gained through analytical investigation leading to the definitive conclusion that all phenomena are emptiness +
phyal ba;ཕྱལ་བ་;uniform pervasiveness;uniform pervasiveness;khyal-wa;khyal-wa;uniform pervasiveness;one of the four key points of samaya of the ''t'hreg-chhod'' approach of Great Perfection;the experience of samsara and nirvana as free of biased extremes [omnipresent (GL);continuous (KB);free (MD);openness (PT);all-pervasiveness (RP)] +
sangs rgyas;སངས་རྒྱས་;awakened mind,buddha(hood);awakened mind,buddha(hood);buddha;sang-gyay;sang-gyay;awakened mind, buddha(hood);also, one of the five buddha families, denoting the ground of being whereby the distortions of habitual patterns are cleared away in basic space and the context of pristine awareness and positive qualities unfolds +
zhi byed;ཞི་བྱེད་;Pacification school;pacification school;Zhijed;zhijed;the school of Tibetan Buddhism based upon the teachings of the Indian master known to Tibetans as P'hadampa Sang-gyay (ཕ་དམ་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་), who visited Tibet in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries;the focus is the pacification of suffering through realization of emptiness, and the main scriptural sources are the sutras of the Perfection of Transcendent Knowledge (Prajñāpāramitā) +
kun 'byung 'dren pa'i theg pa;ཀུན་འབྱུང་འདྲེན་པའི་ཐེག་པ་;kun-jung dren-pai t'heg-pa;kun-jung dren-pai t'heg-pa;a spiritual approach that leads one away from the origin of suffering—the shravaka, pratyekabuddha and bodhisattva paths +
rnam par snang mdzad;རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་;Vairocana;Nampar Nangdzad;nampar nangdzad;literally, "Distinct Manifestation";among the buddhas of the five families, the one associated with the central direction;the name denotes the positive qualities of the nature of mind becoming fully evident +
yid;ཡིད་;ideational consciousness;ideational consciousness;yid;yid;consciousness that perceives all apparent phenomena of the six senses—the five physical senses and the realm of mental constructs +
rnal 'byor gyi rgyud;རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་རྒྱུད་;yogatantra;nal-jor-gyi gyud;nal-jor-gyi gyud;the third of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school;the approach of calm abiding and penetrative insight to perceive basic space, devoid of defining characteristics +
dbang phyug chen po;དབང་ཕྱུག་ཆེན་པོ་;Maheśvara;Wangkhyug Chhenpo;wangkhyug chhenpo;the epithet of Shiva, regarded (especially in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism) as a protector of the Buddhadharma +
rdzogs chen;རྫོགས་ཆེན་;Dzogchen;dzogchen;the Great Perfection approach of Buddhist practice, so called because the modes of samsara, nirvana and the spiritual path are "perfect" (''dzog'') within this approach, which is "great" (''chhen'') because it functions as the common ground of all spiritual approaches;the third of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati [already self-perfected state (DZP);absolute completeness (KB);total completeness (PE)] +
chos;ཆོས་;dharma;dharma;broadly, any phenomenon or event in one's experience;in the context of dharmakaya, the term connotes the fact that all phenomena are inherently present as uncontrived, natural attributes [concepts and meanings (KB)] +
don dam byang chub kyi sems;དོན་དམ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་;don-dam jang-chub-kyi sem;don-dam jang-chub-kyi sem;literally, "ultimate awakening attitude";the second of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati (''see jang-chub-kyi sem'') +
mi bskyod rdo rje;མི་བསྐྱོད་རྡོ་རྗེ་;Akṣobhyavajra;Mikyod Dorje;mikyod dorje;literally, "Unshakable Vajra";among the buddhas of the five families, the one associated with the eastern direction;the name denotes the ground of being endowed with the seven vajra (''dor-je'') attributes and unwavering (''mi-kyod'') throughout the three times +
hUM chen kA ra;ཧཱུཾ་ཆེན་ཀཱ་ར་;Hungchhenkara;hungchhenkara;one of the eight great holders of intrinsic awareness of Buddhist India who taught Padmakara;Hungchhenkara was responsible for transmitting to him the lineage of the deity Yangdag Heruka +
las;ལས་;activity,action;activity,action;karma;lay;lay;one of the five buddha families, denoting the spontaneous accomplishment of all activities within the ground of being [evolutionary action (MW);actions and their effects (WPT)] +