Although there were no new or old schools in India, these names refer to the early and later spread of the teachings in Tibet. Translations up to and including King Triral are called the Old School of Early Translations (snga 'gyur snying rna), and later ones are known as the New Schools of Later Translations (phyi 'gyur gsar rna). The Old School is the Nyingma tradition. Lochen Rinchen Sang po (10 chen rin chen bzang po) is regarded as the first translator of the New Mantra School. The New Schools are the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gclug. +
The seven qualities of a sambhogakaya buddha: complete enjoyment, union, great bliss, absence of a self-nature, presence of compassion, being uninterrupted, and being unceasing. +
The aspects of phenomena as set forth by the Chittamatra and Yogachara schools; the imagined, the dependent, and the absolute. The imagined (kun brtags) is the two kinds of selfentity. +
At the time of death of a practitioner who has reached the exhaustion of all grasping and fixation, the five gross elements that form the physical body dissolve back into their essences, five-colored light. Sometimes the hair and the nails alone are left behind. +
The state of not holding on to an object meditated upon nor a subject who meditates. Also refers to the fourth stage of mahamudra in which nothing further needs to be meditated upon or cultivated. +
"Calm abiding" or "remaining in quiescence" after the subsiding of thought activity or the medita- tive practice of calming the mind in order to rest free from the disturbance of thought. +