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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. +
One of the greatest masters and panditas of Indian Buddhism who brought the Dzogchen teachings to Tibet. +
A powerful, wrathful spirit. +
An intermediary state. This term most often refers to the state separating death and subsequent rebirth. +
One of the principal disciples of Shantarakshita, continu-ing his master's synthesis of the Madhyamika and Yogachara (ninth century). +
Tibetan deformation of the Sanskrit word acharya, teacher. By extension, the Tibetan word indicates any Indian. +
An important pairing in Mahayana Buddhism. It refers to the wisdom (shes rah) of emptiness, and the voidness aspect of phenomena, together with the skillful means (thabs) of compas-sion, and the appearance aspect of phenomena. Skillful means and wisdom are indissociable. +
A fully ordained monk. +
A wrathful manifestation of Guru Padmasambhava. +
Practitioners linked together by tantric samaya. +
The principal yidam of the Nyingma school. Vajrakila or Vajrakilaya is a wrathful manifcstion of Vajrasattva. +
