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mun pa'i snang ba;མུན་པའི་སྣང་བ་;darkened illumination;darkened illumination +
gnas gyur ba;གནས་གྱུར་བ་;fundamental change;fundamental change;āshrayaparivṛitti +
sgo mtshams ma brgyad;སྒོ་མཚམས་མ་བརྒྱད་;eight female gatekeepers;eight female gatekeepers;Kākāsyā (Khva gdong ma);Ulūkāsyā ('Ug gdong ma);Shvānāsyā (Khyi gdong ma);Shūkarāsyā (Phag gdong ma);Yamadāhī (gShin rje brtan ma);Yamadūtī (gShin rje pho nya ma);Yamadaṁṣhṭrinī (gShin rje mche ba ma);and Yamamathanī (gShin rje 'joms ma). +
stong pa chen po;སྟོང་པ་ཆེན་པོ་;great emptiness;great emptiness;mahāshūnya +
ska ba;སྐ་བ་;solids;solids +
sems nyid;སེམས་ཉིད་;mind-itself;mind-itself;The nature of mind. Note that "mind itself " (sems rang) refers to the mind in its impure, deluded state. +
brjod du med pa'i bdag;བརྗོད་དུ་མེད་པའི་བདག་;inexplicable self;inexplicable self;Vātsīputrīyas maintain that although the person cannot be described as being the same as or separate from the aggregates, or as permanent or impermanent, and so forth, it is substantially existent in the sense of being self-sufficient. For more information on the Vātsīputrīyas' views of an inexplicable self, see the ninth chapter of Vasubandhu's Treasury of Abhidharma;Pruden 1988–90, 1314–42. For an in-depth study of that chapter and the views of the Vātsīputrīyas, see Duerlinger 2003. As for the term "inexplicable self [or person]," note that the Tibetan term brjod du med pa'i bdag is "inexplicable self," whereas the likely Sanskrit equivalent *avaktavya pudgala is "inexplicable person." +
dbang po lnga;དབང་པོ་ལྔ་;five faculties;five faculties;The visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and bodily faculties. +
nying lag;ཉིང་ལག་;secondary limbs;secondary limbs;The fingers, toes, nose, ears, and so forth. +
bdag;བདག་;self,self-entity;self,self-entity;ātman +
khro ma;ཁྲོ་མ་;wrathful females;wrathful females;krodhi +
bdag 'bras,bdag po'i 'bras bu;བདག་འབྲས་,བདག་པོའི་འབྲས་བུ་;dominant result;dominant result;That which is produced by its specific causes by their own power;that is, the results of karma that mature environmentally. Also translated as "dominated result," "environmental result," "resulting influence," or "general result of the force." For more related to the definition, see Mind and Its World III Sourcebook 2007, 33–34. For specific instances, see chapter 6 of Gampopa's Ornament of Liberation. Gyaltsen 1998, 113–16;and Holmes 1994, 75–81. +
rtse,rtse'u chung;རྩེ་,རྩེའུ་ཆུང་;"minor extremities";"minor extremities";See Parfionovitch, Dorje, and Meyer 1992, paintings 9, 12, and 47, and 189, 195, and 265, where these are identified as "[two bloodletting branches of the jugular vein called] ‘Small Extremities.'" +
rnam shes tshogs drug;རྣམ་ཤེས་ཚོགས་དྲུག་;six modes of consciousness;six modes of consciousness;The visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, bodily, and mental consciousnesses. +
phyag rgya bzhi;ཕྱག་རྒྱ་བཞི་;four mudrās;four mudrās;Mahāmudrā (phyag rgya chen po), jñānamudrā (ye shes kyi phyag rgya), karmamudrā (las kyi phyag rgya), and dharmamudrā (chos kyi phyag rgya). Sometimes samayamudrā (dam tshig gi phyag rgya) is the fourth, replacing karmamudrā or jñānamudrā. +
yid bzang ma;ཡིད་བཟང་མ་;"excellent mind";"excellent mind";sumanā;Name for the madhyamā above the navel. +
'jig pa;འཇིག་པ་;disintegrate;disintegrate +
gShin rje gshed;གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་;Yamāri +
gnad bcings pa;གནད་བཅིངས་པ་;bind the vital points;bind the vital points;This and the related expression "penetrate the vital points" (gnad du bsnun pa) refer to the yogic methods of the Vajrayāna used to purify the stains of delusion. See Kongtrul 2007b, 162–72, where the latter term is translated as "target the vital points." +
man ngag;མན་ངག་;key instruction;key instruction;upadesha +
