kun tu 'khyams pa bla gnas kyi rtsa;ཀུན་ཏུ་འཁྱམས་པ་བླ་གནས་ཀྱི་རྩ་;channels of the always wandering life-essence abodes;channels of the always wandering life-essence abodes +
lhag pa sems kyi bslab pa;ལྷག་པ་སེམས་ཀྱི་བསླབ་པ་;training in the higher concentrations;training in the higher concentrations;Another name for training in the higher samādhis (lhag pa ting nge 'dzin gyi bslab pa). +
'dod pa'i yon tan lnga;འདོད་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་ལྔ་;five sense pleasures;five sense pleasures;The five objects of the senses: forms, sounds, smells, tastes, and tangible objects. +
ming gzugs;མིང་གཟུགས་;names-and-forms;names-and-forms;nāmarūpa;The four mental skandhas—feelings, discriminations, formative forces, and consciousnesses—and the forms skandha. +
gzugs med pa'i srid pa bzhi;གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་སྲིད་པ་བཞི་;four formless states;four formless states;Also called the four spheres of the formless realms (gzugs med skye mched mu bzhi). The sphere of Limitless Space (Nam mkha' mtha' yas skye mched), the sphere of Limitless Consciousness (rNam shes mtha' yas skye mched), the sphere of Nothingness (Ci yang med pa'i mtha' yas skye mched), and the sphere of Neither Discrimination nor Nondiscrimination ('Du shes med min gyi skye mched). +
rang rig mngon sum;རང་རིག་མངོན་སུམ་;reflexively aware direct cognition;reflexively aware direct cognition;A nonconceptual, nonmistaken awareness that experiences itself. See Mind and Its World I Sourcebook 2007, 138–52. +
rgyud bzhi;རྒྱུད་བཞི་;Four [Medical] Tantras;four [medical] tantras;The full name of this foundational text of Tibetan medicine is ''Amṛita's Heart: The Tantras of the Secret Esoteric Instructions on the Eight Branches'' (''bDud rtsi snying po yan lag brgyad pa gsang ba man ngag gi rgyud''). The four tantras, or sections, are the Root Tantra, Explanatory Tantra, Instructional Tantra, and Final Tantra. There is debate about the origins and authorship of this text. Some regard it to be of Indian origin, translated into Tibetan by Vairochana;others say that it is an indigenous Tibetan work. For more on the history of this text, see Garrett 2008, 46–47;and Kilty 2010, 5–9. For a translation of the Root Tantra and Explanatory Tantra sections, see Clark 1995. +