dkyil 'khor;དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་;mandala,kyil-khor;mandala,kyil-khor;literally, in Tibetan, "center and circumference";the symbolic configuration depicting a pure realm with deities dwelling therein, expressing the totality of the enlightened state of being [immeasurable existence and wisdom energy (ws)] +
rigs;རིགས་;literally, "family";a schema for describing deities in terms that correspond to the fixation of living beings on their species;five such families are usually enumerated (''see dor-je, lay, pad-ma, rin-chhen'' and ''sang-gyay'') +
kun gzhi;ཀུན་གཞི་;the ground of all ordinary experience;the ground of all ordinary experience;ālaya;kun-zhi;kun-zhi;a karmically neutral state resulting from a nonrecognition of intrinsic awareness and functioning as the ground (''zhi'') of all (''kun'') cyclic existence [all ground (cs);stratum of all things (KB);basis of all (NJ);fundamental structuring of all experience (PE);basis of samsara and nirvana, which is not unobscured (ws)] +
'khor 'das 'ub chub;འཁོར་འདས་འུབ་ཆུབ་;khor-day ub-chhub;khor-day ub-chhub;literally, "all-embracing consummation of samsara and nirvana," since all phenomena of samsara and nirvana (''khor-day'') are subsumed within the embrace (''ub'') of the sphere of buddha nature and are in a state of consummation (''chhub'') therein;the sixth of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati +
gsang ba;གསང་བ་;secret,secrecy;secret,secrecy;sang-wa;sang-wa;there are two aspects of this secrecy: "concealment" (Tib. ''bay-pai sang-wa'' [སྦས་པའི་གསང་བ་], in that vajrayana teachings are kept very private and imparted only under certain conditions, and "self-secrecy" (Tib. ''gab-pai sang-wa'' [གབ་པའི་གསང་བ་]), in that such teachings cannot be comprehended without preparation and personal instruction +
de bzhin gshegs pa;དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་;tathāgata;de-zhin sheg-pa,tathagata;de-zhin sheg-pa,tathagata;literally, "(one) gone to suchness";an epithet for a buddha, often Shakyamuni Buddha +
thugs rje;ཐུགས་རྗེ་;innate compassionate responsiveness;innate compassionate responsiveness;t'hug-je;t'hug-je;the union of the essential emptiness of the nature of mind and its inherent lucidity [compassion (BM, DZP, NJ, PC, VH, WPT);energy (DZP, MW, SL);resonance (of Being) (FRC);responsiveness (KB);greatness of mind (PT);capacity (RP)] +
spyod pa;སྤྱོད་པ་;kyod-pa;kyod-pa;conduct, in the sense of how one's view and meditation carry over into and influence daily activities [behavior, action (GL)] +
mngon par dga' ba;མངོན་པར་དགའ་བ་;Abhirati;Ngonpar Gawa;ngonpar gawa;literally, "Manifest Joy";the pure realm associated with the buddha Akshobhya and the eastern direction +
thig le nyag gcig;ཐིག་ལེ་ཉག་གཅིག་;t'hig-le nyag-chig;t'hig-le nyag-chig;literally, "unique bindu, or sphere (of being)," unique in the sense that samsara and nirvana are of one taste in bodhicitta;the fourth of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati [single circle (cs)] +
rang bzhin;རང་བཞིན་;inherent nature;inherent nature;svabhāva;rang-zhin;rang-zhin;the lucidity of mind that accounts for the realization and manifestation of sambhogakaya [nature (BM, DZP, GL, PT, SL, VH);actuality (of Being) (FRC, KB);natural (NJ, PC);natural expression (NS, WPT);actuality, essence (PE)] +
gzhal med khang;གཞལ་མེད་ཁང་;zhal-med-khang;zhal-med-khang;immeasurable mansion (of a deity);denotes the fact that the positive qualities of the ground of being cannot be measured and completely fill the whole of samsara and nirvana +