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(1016-1100) He was chancellor of Nālanda University when he left in search of true realization with Tilopa, who subjected him to twelve major tests before his enlightenment. He was a mahāsiddha and the Indian master of Marpa the Translator, who initiated the Marpa-Kagyu lineage. +
Tibetan translator who, from 810 C.E. on, worked at Samye, the first monastery founded in Tibet by the king Thrisong Detsen (790-858). He was one of Padmasambhava's principal disciples and played a very important role in the Nyingma transmissions. +
A master of the Shangpa lineage. +
(1829-1870) Great tertön (revealer of teachings stemming from Guru Rinpoche), he was, along with Kongtrul, Khyentse, and Mipham Rinpoche, one of the main creators of the Rime movement. +
The buddha of compassion. He is the patron and protector of Tibet and also a meditational deity, whose practice is very widespread. See Amitābha. +
The pure realm of Amitābha and Chenrezig. +
"Discipline." Collection of instructions and precepts of the discipline taught by Buddha Śākyamuni. The vinaya is one of the Three Baskets of the ''Kangyur''. +
(Late twelfth, early thirteenth centuries) Lama of the Shangpa lineage. See Shangpa-Kagyu. +
One of the three collections of Buddha's teachings which comprise the ''Tripiṭaka'', or the Three Baskets, contained in the ''Kangyur''. The two other collections are the vinaya and the sūtras. +
(988-1069) Mahāsiddha who originated the "close" mahāmudrā transmission of the Karma-Kagyu lineage. His successor was Nāropa. +
The Third Karmapa was a remarkable scholar and adept who gathered together the teachings on mahāmudrā and dzogchen. He was an important link in the Kamtshang-Kagyu and Nyingma lineages; he was Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen's master and taught Longchenpa, one of the dzogchen tradition's most important masters. +
Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche's lifelong assistant and father of his reincarnation. +
A famous work by Śāntideva whose title literally means "the introduction to the life of a bodhisattva." A long poem in ten chapters which explains the bodhisattva path, the different aspects of bodhicitta, and the six pāramitās. +
The Tibetan Book of the Dead. +
Meditational deity (yidam) and tantra of anuttarayogatantra. +
Among the five victorious ones ruling the five buddha families, he belongs to the ''padma'' or lotus family. In particular, he is the master of Chenrezig (Skt. Avalokiteśvara) and resides in Dewa Chen (Skt. Sukhāvatī). +
(1083-1161) He was, with Gampopa, one of Milarepa's principal disciples. +
The Victorious One of the buddha family. +
One of Khyungpo Neljor's masters. +
Śāriputra and Maudgdyāyana were initially disciples of one of the six great religious masters during the time of Buddha Śākyamuni. They left him to follow the Buddha and became his principal listeners, Śariputra being the most distinguished in transcendent wisdom and Maudgalyāyana in working wonders. They both died shortly before Buddha Śākyamuni's passing. +
