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 +
bag chags;བག་ཆགས་;vāsanā;bag-chhag;bag-chhag;habitual patterns;patterns established by physical, verbal or mental actions carrying over from lifetime to lifetime [habitual tendencies (cs);unconscious propensities (GL);ingrained tendencies, sedimented (KB);instinct (MW);habitual propensities (NJ);karmic traces (SL)] +
atiyoga;ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག་;the sixth of six levels of tantra in the Nyingma school, also known as the Great Perfection approach (''see'' Dzogchen), within which are subsumed the meanings of the eight lower approaches (''see t'heg-pa rim-pa gu''). The great perfection is the nature of reality—the ground of being and its manifest aspect—spontaneously present and self-arising [yoga of the innermost essence (MW)] +
mtshan ma med pa;མཚན་མ་མེད་པ་;tsan-ma med-pa;tsan-ma med-pa;literally, "absence of ultimate defining characteristics";one of the three "doorways to liberation" (''see t'har-pai go'');refers to the fact that buddha nature is free of characterization, comparison or demonstration [absence of characteristics (NJ, PC);attributelessness (NS);signlessness (HTV)] +
man ngag sde;མན་ངག་སྡེ་;man-ngag-dhe;man-ngag-dhe;the category of direct transmission instructions;the third of three categories of teachings in atiyoga, or Great Perfection +
so sor rtogs pa'i ye shes;སོ་སོར་རྟོགས་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་;so-sor tog-pai ye-shey;so-sor tog-pai ye-shey;discriminating pristine awareness;one of the five aspects of pristine awareness (''see ye-shey nga'');the unceasing avenue for the expression of the lucidity of mind that knows the inherent nature of things and perceives them in their variety [discriminative primordial wisdom (BM);All-encompassing Investigating Awareness (MK);pristine wisdom of discernment (MW);discerning timeless awareness (PPTC);discriminating awareness-wisdom (RW);discerning wisdom (SGK);discriminating wisdom (WPT)] +
thabs;ཐབས་;upāya;t'hab;t'hab;skillful means as the element in spiritual development that corresponds to the level of relative reality, associated with the gaining of merit +