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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 +
las rab rdzogs pa;ལས་རབ་རྫོགས་པ་;Layrab Dzogpa;layrab dzogpa;literally, "Utterly Perfect and Complete Activity";pure realm associated with the buddha Amoghasiddhi and the northern direction +
bya ba'i rgyud;བྱ་བའི་རྒྱུད་;kriyatantra;ja-wai gyud;ja-wai gyud;the first of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school;an approach employing ascetic practices and ritual purity +
dri za'i grong khyer;དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་;dri-zai drong-khyer;dri-zai drong-khyer;literally, "city of the gandharvas";a mirage occurring at sunset under certain atmospheric conditions, when the sky seems filled with ethereal shapes of palaces and great cities +
phyag na rdo rje;ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་;Vajrapāṇi;Khyagna Dorje;khyagna dorje;literally, "Vajra in Hand";the bodhisattva embodying the spiritual power of all buddhas and bodhisattvas +
dam tshig;དམ་ཚིག་;samaya;the principles to which a practitioner is personally committed in vajrayana practice +
klong chen pa dri med 'od zer;ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་དྲི་མེད་འོད་ཟེར་;Longchenpa Drimed Odzer;longchenpa drimed odzer;the greatest scholar of the Nyingma school, who lived from 1308 to 1364 +
E ka dza Ti,sngags srung ma;ཨེ་ཀ་ཛ་ཊི་,སྔགས་སྲུང་མ་;Ekajati;Ekajati,Ngagsrung-ma;ekajati,ngagsrung-ma;wrathful feminine protective deity;the main protector of the Great Perfection teachings +
gzung 'dzin;གཟུང་འཛིན་;zung-dzin;zung-dzin;the dualistic conception of object and subject +
byang chub kyi sems;བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་;bodhicitta;jang-chub-kyi sem;jang-chub-kyi sem;literally, "awakened mind";denotes the "refining away" (''jang'') of all flaws and distortions;consummate "mastery" (''chhub'') of all qualities of the kayas, pristine awareness, the path and the goal;and "mind" (''sem'') as the ground for the arising of everything in equal purity [heart of enlightened essence (DZP);thrust/intent toward pellucidity and consummation of the whole cognitive domain (FRC);inner potential for limpid clearness and consummate perspicacity (KB);mind of enlightenment (NGP);(primordial) state of pure and total presence (PE);Primordial State of the individual (SL)] +
ngo bo nyid;ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་;essential nature itself;essential nature itself;ngo-wo-nyid;ngo-wo-nyid;denotes the ground of being as the essential nature of all samsara and nirvana, and the one taste of everything in that nature +
