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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. +
Cousin and personal assistant of Buddha Śākyamuni. He recited the sūtras at the Council of Vaiśali at the time of the first compilation of the Canon. +
One of the Six Ornaments. +
Meditational deity (yidam) and tantra of anuttarayogatantra. See Shangpa-Kagyu. +
(1012-1097) Tibetan initiator of the Marpa-Kagyu lineage. See Dagpo-Kagyu. +
The lineage of Dalai Lamas dates back to Gendun Drub (1391-1474), one of the closest disciples of Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), who initiated the Gelug school. Gendun Drub founded Tashi Lhunpo monastery at Shigatse. His work was continued by Gendun Drub, followed by Sönam Gyatso, who received from the Mongol emperor Altan Khan the title "Dde Lama" (ta la'i bla ma), or Dalai Lama, signifying "ocean" with reference to his wisdom. The title was applied retroactively to his two predecessors. A grandson of Altan Khan, Yönten Gyatso, was the fourth Dalai Lama. His successor, Lobsang Gyatso (1617-1682), known as the Great Fifth, relied on his Mongol allies to emerge victorious in power struggles between provinces and Tibetan schools. They established him as the supreme authority of all Tibet, of which he was in great part the unifier and organizer. It was he who had the Potala palace built at Lhasa. 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. The Dalai Lamas are emanations of Chenrezig, the buddha of compassion, who is the patron and protector of Tibet. +
Kadampa master of the eleventh century, he was the disciple of Gönpapa (aranyaka), abbot of Radreng monastery, and of Potowa (po to ba, 1031-1105), the famous yogi. He received the dzogchen teachings and attained the rainbow body. +
A collection, often in 108 volumes, that constitutes the base of the Buddhist canon in the Tibetan tradition. The ''Kangyur'' (literally, "translation of the words of Buddha") is divided into several sections, of which the main ones are the ''Tripiṭaka'', or Three Baskets, (sde snod gsum) and the tantras (rgyud). +
One of four principal schools of the Tibetan tradition founded by Könchok Gyelpo (1034-1102). His special teaching is the Lamdre, "the way and the fruit." +
The Kagyu school has two main branches: Shangpa-Kagyu (shangs pa bka' brgyud) and Marpa-Kagyu (mar pa bka' brgyud). The Marpa-Kagyu branch has continued in the Dagpo-Kagyu (dvags po bka' brgyud) transmission, which stems from Dagpo Lhaje, or Gampopa. The Dagpo-Kagyu lineage itself includes the four main branches founded by the four disciples of Gampopa. The two better-known branches are the Karma-Kagyu, or Kamtshang-Kagyu, founded by the first Karmapa Tusum Khyenpa (1110-1193) and the Drikung-Kagyu, founded by Kyobpa Jigten Sumgön (1143-1217). Gampopa's third disciple, Phagmo Drupa (1110-1170), founded the Phagdru-Kagyu lineage. He had eight principal disciples who originated the eight schools of the secondary branch. Among the eight, the best known is the Drukpa-Kagyu school, founded by Ling Repa (1128—1189). +
Meditational deity of the dharmakāya, the primordial awakening; inspirer of the revelations of numerous lineages. +
