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The twenty-four countries, thirty-two lo-cations, and eight charnel grounds inhabited by dakas and dakinis. They have a psychophysical significance and are correlated with certain points of the subtle body. +
A female wisdom protector of the tantric teachings, an emanation of Samantabhadri. See dharmapala +
The collection of 108 volumes containing the canon of Buddhist scriptures embodying the teachings of the Buddha Shakyamuni. +
A class of dangerous, flesh-devouring nonhuman beings figuring in the Hindu and Buddhist worldview. +
See Great Perfection +
An essential instruction for the practice of tantra. +
The Bodhisattva who personifies the Mind of all the Buddhas. +
Lit., Source of Jewels. The Buddha of the Jewel Family, corresponding to the wisdom of equality, which is the pure nature of the aggregate of feeling and affliction of pride, and is linked with the enlightened activity of increase. +
The king of mountains and world-axis, ac-cording to the cosmology of ancient India. Around it are located the four continents and eight subcontinents, of which one universe is composed. All universes, of which there are an infinite number, are arranged in the same way. +
See ores, ogres, and cannibals +
The first Buddhist king of Tibet, who flourished in the seventh century and is said to have been a manifesta-tion of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig. Four reigns separate him from Trisong Detsen (eighth and ninth centuries). +
The expanse of ultimate reality, emptiness. +
Body, speech, and mind. +
A minister of the king Songtsen Gampo. After studying in India, he composed the grammar of the Tibetan language and devised the alphabet. +
According to Buddhist tradition, the first king of Tibet. He was of Indian origin and is credited with the construction of the first stone edifice in Tibet, the tower of Yumbulakhar. +
Thirty-two major marks and eighty minor physical marks character-istic of a Buddha. These include the wheels that mark his palms and soles, golden hue of his body, copper-colored fingernails, among others. +
