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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 +
'khor ba;འཁོར་བ་;cyclic existence;cyclic existence;saṃsara;khor-wa;khor-wa;the unenlightened state of a sentient being +
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)] +
dka' thub rig byed kyi thegs;དཀའ་ཐུབ་རིག་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་;ka-t'hub rig-jed-kyi t'heg-pa;ka-t'hub rig-jed-kyi t'heg-pa;spiritual approaches that evoke intrinsic awareness through ascetic practices—the kriyatantra, upayatantra, and yoga-tantra +
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)] +
u pa ya'i rgyud;ཨུ་པ་ཡའི་རྒྱུད་;upayātantra;upayatantra,u-pa-yai gyud;upayatantra,u-pa-yai gyud;the second of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school;the approach of gaining accomplishment, especially through mantra repetition and meditative absorption +
chos skyong;ཆོས་སྐྱོང་;dharmapāla;dharmapala;dharmapala;a protective deity guarding Buddhist teachings and practitioners against obstacles +
kun tu bzang po;ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་;Samantabhadra,Kuntuzangpo;samantabhadra,kuntuzangpo;literally, "wholly positive";the dharmakaya buddha embodying the primordial nature of mind +
lung;ལུང་;an explanatory commentary that extracts the essential meanings of the tantras;the scriptural basis of anuyoga +
rin chen;རིན་ཆེན་;jewel;jewel;ratna;rin-chhen;rin-chhen;also, one of the five buddha families, denoting the ground of being functioning as the source all kayas and aspects of pristine awareness +
man ngag;མན་ངག་;direct transmission (instructions) [instruction (cs);experiential instruction (DZP);pith instructions (LS, WPT);oral pith instructions (NJ);intimate advice (PT);secret oral instructions (SL);pith of teachings (ws)] +
pha rgyud;ཕ་རྒྱུད་;father tantra;father tantra;scriptural sources that are the basis of the mahayoga teachings (''see'' mahayoga) +
gzhi;གཞི་;ground (of being);ground (of being);zhi;zhi;the fundamentally uncontrived nature of being;the Great Perfection teachings state that this ground is already endowed with all positive qualities of enlightened being, perfect and complete without having to be sought or brought into being deliberately;the process of the spiritual path is one of making the ground evident as the fruition, rather than fundamentally altering it in any way [basis (BM);Being (FRC);ground-basis (NJ, PC);base, foundation (SL)] +
rtsal;dynamic energy;dynamic energy;tzal;tzal +
gzugs brnyan;གཟུགས་བརྙན་;reflection;reflection;zug-nyan;zug-nyan;a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena +
