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 +
don yod grub pa;དོན་ཡོད་གྲུབ་པ་;Amoghasiddhi;Donyod Drubpa;donyod drubpa;literally, "Accomplishment of Meaning";among the buddhas of the five families, the green buddha associated with the northern direction;the name denotes the self-occurring nature of all aspects of reality +
bdud 'dul rdo rje;བདུད་འདུལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་;Duddul Dorje;duddul dorje;a famous teacher and revealer of hidden treasure teachings in the Nyingma school, who lived from 1615 to 1672;Dudjom Lingpa was a later incarnation in the succession of rebirths that included Duddul Dorje +
mkha' 'gro ma;མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་;ḍākinī;dakini;dakini;literally, "sky goer";sky dancer;the feminine embodiment of pristine awareness;in the ultimate sense, the term denotes emptiness as the space in which all phenomena manifest +
gzhon nu bum sku;གཞོན་ནུ་བུམ་སྐུ་;zhon-nu bum-ku;zhon-nu bum-ku;literally, "youthful vase body";the sphere of intrinsic awareness is "youthful" (''zhon-nu''), since it is free of all birth, death and decay;like a "vase" (''bum''), since there is no violation of its encompassing spontaneous presence;and referred to as "body," or "kaya" (''ku''), since it supports an amassing of all qualities of buddhahood;the seventh of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati +
sgom pa;སྒོམ་པ་;meditation;meditation;gom-pa;gom-pa;while the term may refer to any systematic means of developing one-pointed attention and insight, in the context of the Great Perfection it implies maintaining ongoing awareness of the primordial ground of being +
me long lta bu'i ye shes;མེ་ལོང་ལྟ་བུའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་;mirror-like pristine awareness;mirror-like pristine awareness;me-long ta-bui ye-shey;me-long ta-bui ye-shey;one of the five aspects of pristine awareness (''see ye-shey nga'');refers to the fact that emptiness is not an inert void, but is free of sullying factors, like a polished mirror in which anything can arise [mirror(-like) primordial wisdom (BM);Mirrorlike Awareness (MK);mirror-like timeless awareness (PPTC);mirror-like wisdom (RW, WPT);Mirror Wisdom (SGK)] +
'dzin pa;འཛིན་པ་;dzin-pa;dzin-pa;the subjective pole of experience;conceptual thought patterns that perpetuate perceptions of sensory objects [subject, that which apprehends (GL);reifying concepts (PT)] +
mi shigs pa;མི་ཤིགས་པ་;indestructibility;indestructibility;mi-shig-pa;mi-shig-pa;one of the seven vajra attributes of space and the true nature of being +