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A protector of the teachings. These normally nonhuman entities arc sometimes emanations of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and sometimes local spirits, gods, or demons who have been subjugated by a great spiritual master and bound under oath. The harness-ing of their energy in the service of the Doctrine is considered to have played a decisive role in the preservation of the teachings from its begin-nings in Tibet until the present time. In the form of oracles, such as that of Nechung, for example, the dharmapalas continue to exert a direct influ-ence on Tibetan life. +
A time sequence comprising the four phases of formation, duration, and dissolution of a universal system, together with the period of voidness preceding the formation of the subsequent system. +
Hungry ghosts, spirits tormented by lack of nourishment. The pretas constitute one of the six classes of beings in samsara. +
Lit., Lotus-Born. The Indian Master of the Mantras who is said to be been born miraculously, appearing in a lotus flower in the land of Orgyen. He was predicted by the Buddha Shakyamuni in several sutras and tantras. In the ninth century and at the invitation of King Trisong Detsen, he quelled the forces ob-structing the spread of Buddhism in Tibet and introduced and nurtured there the teachings of the Vajrayana. Some of his other names mentioned in this text are Lotus Guru, Guru Rinpoche or Precious Guru, Precious Master, Guru Drakpo, Guru or Lord of Orgyen, Master of Orgyen, Orgyen Sambha, Guru Senge Dradok, Dorje Drolo, Padma Thodrengtsel. For the detailed story of his life, see The Lotus-Bom: The Life Story oj Padmasambhava, by Yeshe Tsogyal (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 1993). +
A scholar, someone learned in the five traditional sciences. See five sciences +
Four experiences, totally transcending ordi-nary pleasure, that are in essence wisdom. They form an aspect of the practices associated with the third initiation. +
On the relative level, this is the wish to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings, together with the practice necessary to accomplish this. On the absolute level, it is nondual wisdom, the ultimate nature of the mind, and the true status of all phenomena. In certain tantric contexts, it refers to the essential physical substance that is the support of the mind. +
Synonymous with sugatagarbha. +
Synonymous with vajrayana or tantric teachings. "Guhya" means secret, both concealed and self-secret. "Mantra" in this context means eminent, excellent, or praiseworthy. Synonymous with secret mantra. +
The stage of approaching the recognition of the sugatagarbha and of applying that recognition in one's practice. +
One of the different types of conduct used as an enhancement practice. +
The first four of the five paths on which concepts of progress, training, and learning still remain. +
The all-ground consciousness, mind-consciousness, defiled mind-consciousness, and the five sense-consciousnesses. +
The abbot of Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling Monastery and the oldest son of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Author of Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen and Jewel of the Heart (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1986 and 1987). +
Thirty-three resulting from anger, forty from desire, and seven from delusion. First, the thirty-three thought states resulting from anger, according to the Spyod bsDus composed by Aryadeva: detachment, medium detachment, intense detachment, inner mental going and coming, sadness, medium sadness, intense sadness, quietude, conceptualization, fear, medium fear, intense fear, craving, medium craving, intense craving, grasping, non virtue, mental pain due to hunger or thirst, sensation, medium sensation, intense sensation, cognizing, cognizance, perception-basis, discrimination, conscience, compassion, love, medium love, intense love, apprehensiveness, attraction, and jealousy. Second, the forty thought states of desire, according to the sPyod bsDus: attachment, thorough lust, delight, medium delight, intense delight, rejoicing, strong joy, amazement, agitation, satisfaction, embracing, kissing, clasping, supporting, exertion, pride, engagement, infatuation, strength, joy, joining in bliss, medium joining in bliss, intense joining in bliss, grace- fulness, strong flirtation, hostility, virtue, lucidity, truth, nontruth, ascertainment, grasping, generosity, encouragement, bravery, shamelessness, perkiness, viciousness, unrulyness, and strong deceitfulness. The seven thought states of delusion, according to the sPyod bsDus: medium desire, forgetfulness, confusion, speechlessness, weariness, laziness, and doubt. +
An inherently existent and independent entity of the individual self or of phenomena. +
A great female Indian master and a teacher of Khyungpo Naljor. +
The wisdom which is the unity of bliss and emptiness of the third empowerment and which is used to introduce the true wisdom of the fourth empowerment. +
The samsaric realms of desire, form, and formlessness. See also Desire realm; Four Formless Realms; Realm of form. +
The abode of an unenlightened being who has practiced the four absorptions- the four unenlightened meditative states of dwelling on the thoughts: infinite space, infinite consciousness, nothing whatsoever, and neither presence nor absence [of conception]. +
