spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug;སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་;Avalokiteśvara;Avalokiteshvara;avalokiteshvara;literally, "Powerful Lord with Eyes Gazing Down";the bodhisattva embodying the compassion of all buddhas and bodhisattvas;also referred to as the "Supremely Compassionate One" (Skt. Mahākaruṇika;Tib. T'hugje Chhenpo [ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་]) +
longs spyod rdzogs pa'i sku;ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ་;sambhogakāya;long-kyod dzog-pai ku;long-kyod dzog-pai ku;literally, "body of perfect enjoyment";the pure form manifestation of enlightened being perceptible only to beings of advanced realization [enjoyment dimension of awakening (MW);body of perfect rapture (NS);primordial contact with total richness and all its satisfactions (PE);immeasurable qualities of flawless, inconceivable, desireless exaltation form (ws)] +
'ug len;འུག་ལེན་;ug-len;ug-len;literally, "stealer of breath";a personification of the erroneous investment of one's body with true existence, since this misapprehension robs one of the breath of lasting happiness +
rgya mtsho'i gza' skar;རྒྱ་མཚོའི་གཟའ་སྐར་;planets and stars reflected in water;planets and stars reflected in water;gya-tsoi za-kar;gya-tsoi za-kar;planets and stars reflected in water;a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena +
yid kyi rnam shes;ཡིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཤེས་;ideational discursive consciousness;ideational discursive consciousness;yid-kyi nam-shey;yid-kyi nam-shey;the unceasing avenue for the six kinds of sensory objects, integrating this information into a coherent picture of the phenomenal world +
stug po bkod pa;སྟུག་པོ་བཀོད་པ་;Ghanavyūha;Tugpo Kodpa;tugpo kodpa;literally, "Dense Array";the pure realm associated with the buddha Vairocana and the central direction +
kun rdzob;ཀུན་རྫོབ་;relative reality;relative reality;kun-dzob;kun-dzob;relative reality;the level upon which all (''kun'') phenomena manifest in a "false" (''dzob'') manner, as though they truly existed [superficial reality (MW)] +
bar do;བར་དོ་;antarābhava;bardo;bardo;literally, "intermediate state";four, or sometimes six, bardo states are enumerated in Tibetan Buddhist teachings;commonly, the term denotes the interval between death and rebirth. +
lhun grub;ལྷུན་གྲུབ་;lhun-drub;lhun-drub;spontaneous presence or accomplishment;one of the four key points of samaya of the Great Perfection;refers to the fact that phenomena are self-manifesting and that the qualities of buddhahood are timelessly perfect without having to be cultivated [spontaneous perfection (RP);spontaneously self-perfected (SL)] +
sems sde;སེམས་སྡེ་;the category of mind;the category of mind;sem-dhe;sem-dhe;the first of the three categories of teachings in atiyoga, or Great Perfection +
gcig pu;གཅིག་པུ་;chig-pu;chig-pu;literally, "oneness";one of the four key points of samaya of the Great Perfection;reduction of all of samsara and nirvana to a single, self-occurring pristine awareness [single, unique (GL);sole (MD)] +
pad+ma ka ra;པདྨ་ཀ་ར་;Padmākara;Padmakara;padmakara;master of the Indian Buddhist tradition who was primarily responsible for bringing the vajrayana teachings to Tibet in the eighth century;also referred to as Padmasambhava or Guru Rinpoche +