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 +
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 +
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 +
dpal dang ldan pa;དཔལ་དང་ལྡན་པ་;Paldang Danpa;paldang danpa;literally, "Endowed with Glory";the pure realm associated with the buddha Ratnasambhava and the southern direction +
snying po;སྙིང་པོ་;essence;essence;garbha;nying-po;nying-po;specifically the sphere of intrinsic awareness abiding as the distilled essence of all phenomena [the heart of (BM);evolutionary dynamics, thrust toward it(self), the total system's energy (FRC);embryo (GL);nucleus (NS);energy pulse, core (PE);heart essence (PT);heart/essence (VH)] +
ngo bo;ངོ་བོ་;essential nature;essential nature;ngo-wo;ngo-wo;emptiness as the dharmakaya aspect of the nature of mind [essence (BM, DZP, GL, PC, PT, VH);(open-ended) facticity (of Being) (KB, FRC);nature (MW);what it comes down to, at bottom, in fact (PE)] +
thogs pa med pa;ཐོགས་པ་མེད་པ་;unobstructedness;unobstructedness;t'hog-pa med-pa;t'hog-pa med-pa;one of the seven vajra attributes of space and the true nature of being +
ma hA yo ga;མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་ག་;mahayoga;the fourth of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school;the approach in which all phenomena are viewed as the inseparability of the two levels of truth, pure from the very beginning in supreme dharmakaya +
klong sde;ཀློང་སྡེ་;long-dhe;long-dhe;the category of vast expanse of being;the second of the three categories of teachings in atiyoga, or Great Perfection [category of expanse (PT)] +
kun gzhi rnam shes;ཀུན་གཞི་རྣམ་ཤེས་;consciousness as the ground of all ordinary experience;consciousness as the ground of all ordinary experience;ālaya-vijñāna;kun-zhii nam-shey;kun-zhii nam-shey;rudimentary consciousness caused by the subtle energy of karma being aroused due to the nonrecognition of intrinsic awareness [all-ground consciousness (cs);store consciousness (GL);stratum-bound perceptivity (KB);fundamental consciousness (MW);consciousness of the all-pervasive ground (NJ, PC);consciousness of the ground of all (NS)] +