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Intrinsic nondual awareness. +
Spirits that are the local guardians of a country or general area, such as Tibet or Bhutan. +
The main yidam of the Kagyu lineage. She appears as a red ḍākinī in the charnel ground, wielding a hooked knife and wearing a garland of fresh human heads. She has a human head and a sow's head. Also called Vārahī or Vajrayoginī. +
Literally "action," karma is the action and reaction of causes and conditions, both physical and psychological, in creating new situations. Karma is said to be meritorious (beneficial) or negative (detrimental). +
An Indian teacher from the city of Kapilavastu, one of the teachers of Dampa Sangye. +
A central concept of all schools of Buddhism, the teaching that all things arise on the basis of causes and conditions. The twelve links of interdependent origination, also known as the twelve ''nidānas'' (Skt.), are a particular pedagogical tool for seeing the forces of karma in action in creating future rebirth. +
The "followers of the sutras," an Indian Buddhist tradition that rejected the canonical status of the Abhidharma. This tradition, like the Vaibhāsikas, was within the Sarvastivāda school and continued developing through the first millennium +
A class of demons who can influence people into doing wrong or becoming obsessed with wealth, power, and so on. +
An intermediate state of being that primarily refers to the period between death and rebirth but can also in certain specific contexts be applied more widely +
The bodhisattva in Tusita paradise who will be the next Buddha in a time when the human lifespan has increased to twenty thousand years +
The principal practice of the six Dharmas of Nāropa, sometimes rendered as "inner heat" based on the physiological results of the practice. See extended discussion of this term in the introduction +
This is a traditional Indian title denoting a person of authority because of superior knowledge, spiritual training, or position. In the Buddhist context, it is most often used for a scholar of great renown. Within the context of the tantric empowerment, it refers to the one giving the empowerment +
The earliest of the higher tantras, principally Guhyasamāja and Yamāntaka. They received this name retrospectively to differentiate them from the later yoginī or mother tantras, in which the role of female deities was more pronounced +
A general term for any work by a Buddhist author, in contrast to the sutras and tantras attributed to the Buddha himself +
Literally "nonperception." This is also translated as "nonreferentiality." It is in effect a synonym for emptiness +
A buddha has the following ten strengths:(1) the knowledge of what is appropriate and inappropriate, (2) the knowledge of the results of karma, (3) the knowledge of the variety of aspirations, (4) the knowledge of various natures, (5) the knowledge of various capabilities, (6) the knowledge of all paths, (7) the knowledge of the different kinds of meditation, (8) the knowledge of previous lives, (9) the knowledge of deaths and rebirths, (10) the knowledge of the cessation of impurity. +
This mountain is the center of the flat disc of the world according to classical Buddhist cosmology +
also known as Mañjugosa ('jam dbyangs). The bodhisattva of wisdom, and in the early tantras the head of one of the three buddha families. Mañjuśrīkīrti. Son of the seventh Dharma king of Shambhala, he was an emanation of Mañjuśrī +
A "worthy one," who has attained nirvana, or liberation from all the afflictions. The Tibetan translation, which technically should have been rendered os pa, instead reads it as a combination of ari, "enemy," and han, "kill," producing a literal meaning of "enemy destroyer" Arihan was the term used in the Jain tradition that was founded just before Buddhism. Though earlier traditions used the title arhant for the Buddha and his enlightened disciples, in the Mahayana tradition it came to mean those who were enlightened only through the non-Mahayana traditions. The Lotus Sutra, which coined the term Mahayana, declared that arhants would be awakened from their nirvanic bliss by the Buddha after a period of time in order to continue on the Mahayana path of freeing all beings +
The main passageway for the winds within the body's subtle physiology, which is manipulated in tantric practice. It runs parallel to the spine +
