Man ngag le'u brgyad pa;Precepts in Eight Chapters;precepts in eight chapters;The root-text of the secret section (gsang ba) of the ''Zhangzhung Nyengyü'', mostly centered on the abiding mode of Buddhahood within oneself. This text actually contains the precise teachings used for the Initiation to the Dynamism of Awareness (''rig pa'i rtsal dbang''). +
sprul sku;Emanation Body;emanation body;The Body used by the Buddha Tönpa Shenrab and other Buddhas to manifest on this plane of existence. In the restricted context of Thögel meditation, this Body refers to all the visionary marvels that form the natural display of Awareness. +
gzhi;Base;base;The ground or foundation of the natural state expressed in the triple mode of a primordially pure Essence, a spontaneously accomplished Nature and an unceasing Compassion. +
rang rig ye shes;Wisdom of Self-Awareness;wisdom of self-awareness;The Wisdom of the Natural State abiding in the heart of all sentient beings. It is the totally pure Knowledge of the real nature of Mind. +
'tshogs ma,mtshogs ma;འཚོགས་མ,མཚོགས་མ་;bregma;The region of the skull where the frontal and the two parietal bones join;the sinciput;in infancy, before the sutures are closed, constituting the anterior fontanel. (OED) +
rnam par rig pa tsam du smra ba;རྣམ་པར་རིག་པ་ཙམ་དུ་སྨྲ་བ་;Proponents of Mere Cognition;proponents of mere cognition;Vijñaptimātravādin;Another name for the proponents of the Chittamātra system. See Kongtrul 2007a, 176 and 349n520. +
tshigs phran gyi 'khor lo drug cu;ཚིགས་ཕྲན་གྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་དྲུག་ཅུ་;sixty chakras in the minor joints;sixty chakras in the minor joints;The chakras in the three joints of each finger and toe. +
Byams chos sde lnga;བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་;five treatises of Maitreya;five treatises of maitreya;Ornament of Clear Realization (Abhisamayālaṃkāra, mNgon rtogs rgyan);Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras (Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, Theg pa chen po mdo sde rgyan);Differentiation of the Middle and the Extremes (Madhyāntavibhaṅga, dBus mtha' rnam 'byed);Differentiation of Phenomena and Their Nature (Dharmadharmatāvibhaṅga, Chos dang chos nyid rnam 'byed);and The Mahāyāna Treatise of the Highest Continuum (Mahāyānottaratantrashāstra, Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos). +
chandohas;Tibetan translators usually do not translate "chandoha" but transliterate it in Tibetan as ''tstshando ha'' or ''tshan do ha''. Dak Rampa (313) translates it as "deliberating on one's intention" ('dun rtog). Thubten Phuntsok (150) translates it as "commingling or intermingling" (bsdebs pa'am 'dres pa). In Revealing the Indestructible Vajra Secrets (381), Jamgön Kongtrul says: "There are the chandohas, where [yogins and yoginīs] bathe, and the nearby chandohas, where they sometimes bathe. That is the way the previous [masters] have explained [chandohas and nearby chandohas]. The lotsāwas, however, using the linguistic roots (byings don, dhātvartha) chanda, "intention" ('dun pa), and ūh "to conceive [or deliberate]" (rtogs pa), translated [chandoha] as "deliberating on one's intention." Thus they explain that [the chandohas] are where [yogins and yoginīs] always go to deliberate on their intentions regarding the dharma, and [the nearby chandohas] are where they sometimes go to deliberate." +
rta gdong gi me;རྟ་གདོང་གི་མེ་;horse-faces' fires;horse-faces' fires;The volcanic mountains that encircle the oceans and rock mountains of our world system are called "horse-faces' fires," or "maremouths'fires," according to ancient Indo-Buddhist cosmology. See Kongtrul 1995, 111. +