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A sutra of the third turning of the wheel of the dharma. Used as basis for Yogachara and Chittamatra. +
In the context of mahamudra practice, meditation is "the act of growing accustomed" or "sustaining the continuity." +
The type of person who does not need to go through progressive stages on the path. +
Non-Buddhist teachers of philosophy adhering to the extreme views of etemalism or nihilism. +
The second abode in the formless realm dwelling on the thought, "Consciousness is infinite!" +
The first three of the "four sections of tantra. " General Vehicles (thun mong gi theg pa) Hinayana and mahayana. Synonymous with common vehicles. +
The Buddha's teachings; sometimes dharma can mean phenomena or mental objects as well as attributes or qualities. +
A person belonging to the priestly caste. +
(Fifth century B.C.E.: 566-476 or 558-468 B.C.E.) The fourth Buddha of our era (skal pa) who, like his predecessors, manifested himself in the twelve works. He initiated the Buddhist teachings transmitted up until the present. +
One of the principal meditational buddhas or deities (yidams) of the anuttarayogatantra. He is especially popular in the Kagyu lineage practices. +
The Kadam school was founded by Atīśa (982-1054). His disciple Dromtön (1004-1064) founded Radreng monastery in North Lhasa in 1056. This became the source of his teachings. The school did not survive independently mostly because the majority of Kadampas, being hermits, did not construct monasteries, but the Kadam school did profoundly influence the other schools. In particular, the Gelugpas call themselves the new Kadampas, and the Dagpo-Kagyupas say that their transmission is the confluence of the mahāmudrā and Kadam teaching traditions. +
Realm of Amitābha and Chenrezig. The practices and wishes associated with them direct the mind at the time of death to be reborn there, liberated from saṃsāra. +
Mahākāla Chadrupa's partner. +
One of two primordial wisdom ḍākinīs, inspirer of Khyungpo Neljor. See Shangpa-Kagyu. +
Name of the six-armed aspect of Mahākāla, who is the Dharma protector (dharmapāla) mainly in the Shangpa-Kagyu and Gelug lineages. "The six-armed protector of primordial wisdom" is a wrathful emanation of Chenrezig, the buddha of compassion, who manifests himself in a dynamic and powerful form in order to subjugate illusions and obstacles. +
Name that King Śuddhodana gave his son, the future Buddha Śākyamuni. +
Kagyu monastery located in Bhutan. Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche became its director at the invitation of the royal family and at the instigation of the Karmapa. Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche remained there several years, developing the monastery and having two retreat centers constructed. Afterward, he left for India, where he founded Sonada monastery. +
(ca. 600-660) One of the Six Ornaments. Logician who elucidated and expanded the work of Dignāga. He is the author of the works on logic called ''Seven Treatises (tshad ma sde bdun)''. +
(1007-1078) Mahāsiddha and great scholar of Vikramaśīla university; contemporary of Atīśa, he was one of Marpa's and Khyungpo Neljor's principal masters. +
Without a doubt the best known of the Indian mahāsiddhas; an arrow maker, he lived in the seventh century and composed three cycles of songs which remain famous: the dohas of the king, of the queen, and of the people. He is the originator of the distant lineage of mahāmudrā. +
