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)] +
bya ba grub pa'i ye shes;བྱ་བ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་;ja-wa drub-pai ye-shey;ja-wa drub-pai ye-shey;all-accomplishing pristine awareness;one of the five aspects of pristine awareness (''see ye-shey nga'');awareness of the natural accomplishment of activities in the purity and freedom of all phenomena [primordial wisdom of accomplishment of actions (BM);All-accomplishing Awareness (MK);Pristine Wisdom of accomplishing aims (MW);timeless awareness of spontaneous accomplishment (PPTC);wisdom that accomplishes all actions (RW);all-accomplishing wisdom (SGK, WPT)] +
nyan thos;ཉན་ཐོས་;śrāvaka;shravaka,nyan-thö;shravaka,nyan-thö;literally, "one who hears or listens";a practitioner of the hinayana path who realizes the nonexistence of the self of the individual personality but still holds phenomena to have ultimate self-nature;the shravaka path leads to the realization of an arhat, one who has "conquered the inner foe" of afflictive emotions and no longer accumulates karma or experiences suffering as a result +
za 'dre;ཟ་འདྲེ་;consuming demon;consuming demon;za-dre;za-dre;literally, "consuming demon";a personification of the erroneous investment of one's body with true existence, since efforts made for the sake of the body eat away at, or undermine, the fruit of omniscience that results from spiritual attainment +
གྲུབ་ཐོབ་;གྲུབ་ཐོབ་;siddhā;drub-t'hob;drub-t'hob;one who has gained siddhi, or spiritual accomplishment;a term for a realized saint of the vajrayana path +
srog gcod;སྲོག་གཅོད་;srog-chod;srog-chod;literally, "cutter of life force";a personification of the erroneous investment of one's body with true existence, since one is driven to seek happiness for the sake of the body, thus severing the lifeline of liberation by fixation upon attachment and aversion +
zhing khams;ཞིང་ཁམས་;pure realm;pure realm;zhing-kham;zhing-kham;denotes the "field" (''zhing'') of basic space as the "fundamental constituent" (''kham'') of being from which there is no wavering +
rdo rje 'chang;རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་;Vajradhara;Dorje Chhang;dorje chhang;literally, "Bearer of the Vajra";the dharmakaya buddha embodying the ultimate nature of mind;the form manifested by Shakyamuni when teaching tantra +