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A great Kadam master of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. +
Literally, "translation of the commentaries." The ''Tengyur'' (over 200 volumes) consolidates the commentaries on the ''Kangyur'' written by Indian masters. Together the ''Kangyur'' and ''Tengyur'' constitute the canon of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. +
(1820-1892) Emanation of the omniscient Jigme Lingpa (1730-1793), one of the most eminent figures of the Nyingma tradition. He was a great Nyingmapa and Sakyapa master, inspirer and director of the Rimé movement. Afterward, he had different tulkus recognized in several schools, in particular:<br>Dilgo Khyentse Rabsel Dawa (1910-1991) who taught and founded centers in the West connected to the Nyingma school. He was friend, master, and disciple of Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche. Beri or Pelpung Khyentse Karma Khyentse Öser (1896-1945) whose tulku is Bero Khyentse Rinpoche (born in 1947), disciple of the sixteenth Karmapa. He has taught in the West and now resides in Bodhgaya. +
These are the six principal Indian Buddhist masters: Nāgārjuna (klu sgrub) and Asaṅga (thogs med), originators, respectively, of the lineages of the Profound View (zab mo lta rgyud) and Widespread Activities (rgya chen spyod rgyud); they are called the Two Supremes (mchog gnyis). The four others are: Āryadeva ('phags pa lha), Vasubandhu (dbyig gnyen), Dignāga (phyogs glang) and Dharmakīrti (chos grags). In some cases, the Two Supremes are not counted among the Six Ornaments, so two other masters having particular importance in the vinaya transmission are added: Śākyaprabha (shakya 'od) and Guṅaprabha (yon tan 'od). +
(ca. 685-763) One of the principal masters of the Madhyamaka-Prāsaṇgika school, following Buddhapālita (470-540) and Candrakīrti (ca. 600-650). Two of his works, ''Introduction to the Life of a Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra, spyod 'jug)'' and ''The Compendium of Instructions (Śikṣāsamuccaya, bslab pa kun btus pa)'', are among the Mahāyāna's most famous. +
An unbelieving and defiant monk-servant of Buddha Śākyamuni. +
Name of the charnel ground where Khyungpo Neljor met Niguma. +
"The old school." Originating from the first spread of Dharma in Tibet, it developed after Padmasambhava starting in the eighth century. +
The lineage of Situpas began with Situ Drogön Rechen (1088-1158) who received the Kamtshang-Kagyu lineage transmission from the first Karmapa Tusum Khyenpa. He was the master of Gydse Pomdrapa, who was, in turn, master of the second Karmapa Karma Pakshi. The lineage of Situpas passed from Drogön Rechen to two yogis, first to Neljor Yeshe Wangpo, and then to Rigowa Ratnabhadra. Next, it passed to Chöki Gyaltsen (1377-1448), a disciple of the fifth Karmapa Deshin Shekpa, and the first to hold the honorific title of Situ Tulku which he received from the emperor of China. The lineage continued without interruption, playing an essentid role between several Karmapas. The eighth Taī Situpa Chöli Jungne, also Chöki Nyingje or Tenpe Nyingje, was known in particular as Situ Penchen, the great scholar. He founded Pelpung monastery in 1727; this wodd become the largest Kagyu monastery in Tibet. The twelfth Tai Situpa, (fifteenth in the lineage since Drogön Rechen) Pema Nyingje Wangpo, was recognized by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa. He was born in 1954 and established his headquarters at Sherab Ling in India; he gives frequent teachings in the West. He has recognized the seventeenth reincarnation of the Karmapa, Ugyen Thrinley Dorje, whom he enthroned at Tsurphu monastery in September 1992. The Tai Situpas are emanations of Maitreya, the buddha of love, who is the next Buddha to come. +
A master of the Shangpa lineage. See Shangpa-Kagyu. +
Legendary country, domain of the ḍākinīs, kingdom of the king Indrabhūti, and Padmasambhava's birthplace. Some situate it between present-day Afghanistan and Kashmir. It is the origin of numerous Vajrayāna teachings. +
Introduced Dharma to Tibet under the reign of King Thrisong Detsen (790-858). He spread the teaching and hid numerous instructions in the form of treasures destined to be revealed at a later date. He is venerated as the second buddha, prophesied by the first, Buddha Śākyamuni. +
The Gelug school is one of four main Tibetan Buddhist schools, initiated by Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa (1357-1419), who founded Ganden monastery near Lhasa. At first the school was known as that of the Gandenpas and, later, of the Gelugpas. +
One of two primordial wisdom ḍākinīs, inspirers of Khyungpo Neljor. See Shangpa-Kagyu. +
The lineage of Dalai Lamas has continued without interruption up to the present fourteenth holder of the title, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, born in July 1935. +
(982-1054 C.E.) Dīpaṅkaraśrījñāna Atīśa (jo bo rje mar me mdzad) was a superior of Vikramaśīla University. He was invited to Tibet in 1042, where he taught for the remaining twelve years of his life. Recipient of two great transmission lineages of the Buddha's word — Widespread Activity (rgya chen spyod rgyu) from Maitreya-Asaṅga, and Profound View (zab mo'i lta rgyud) from Mañjuśrī-Nāgārjuna — he established the tradition of the graduated path teachings with his text ''Lamp on the Path to Enlightenment (Bodhipathapradīpa; byang chub lam sgron)'', which became the prototype of the lam-rim, whose treatises present from an instructional perspective the stages on the path to enlightenment. He composed over a hundred works included in the ''Tengyur'' and assisted in the translation into Tibetan of numerous others. He founded the Kadam lineage, which became a fundamental component in the second spread of Buddhism in Tibet and in the forms it took there in the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug schools. +
The son of Marpa and Damema. +
Name of a tantra and deity (yidam) of anuttarayogatantra. The teachings of the Kālacakra tantra (literally, "cycles of time") were requested by the king of Shambhala and played a fundamental role in the perspectives and practices of the Vajrayāna. +
One of the Six Ornaments. +
(ca. 350) One of the Six Ornaments, great scholar of the Vaibhāsika and Sautrāntika schools, author of the ''Abhidharmakośa''. Later on, he was converted to the Mahāyāna by his brother Asaṅga and became, along with him, one of the founders of the Yogācāra school; he was abbot of Nālanda. +
