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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 +
This is a metaphor derived from cakravartin, the universal sovereign who had a magic wheel. The early sutras often pair or compare cakravartin kings and buddhas. Thus, the Buddha has his own wheel, but of Dharma instead of secular power. In the Mahayana, there are said to be three "turnings," or more accurately "rollings," of the wheel of Dharma. See the following notes and cakravartin above +
Literally "new," this contrasts with the "old" or Nyingma (rnying ma) tradition, which has its origins in the first introduction of Buddhism to Tibet in the seventh and particularly eighth centuries. The Sarma traditions are based on teachings that were brought to Tibet from the eleventh century onward, beginning with the translations of Lotsāwa Rinchen Sangpo +
Although it is assigned the root form kṛ, "to do," and is cognate with the English "create," it does not mean activity or action in the general sense of the term as it is also the word used for "ritual." Thus it means an action that has an effect other than the visible present one, so that as well as magical rites, it means any action that has an effect upon one's next life +
The Sanskrit term is derived from a scent or smell left behind and therefore has the meaning of a trace or impression. The Tibetan has an emphasis on habitual action, or even the apparently instinctive, such as the first actions of a newborn animal. It can also have the meaning of a seed, a latent tendency to act in a certain way, or even, in the Mind Only school, that which causes one's apparently external experiences, as these are said to arise entirely from one's own mind +
The four regions surrounding Mount Meru in Abhidharma cosmology that together comprise the inhabited universe. The southern continent, Jambudvīpa, originally referred only to India but came to mean the entire known human world. The other continents or worlds, separated from ours by areas of darkness, are said to be inhabited by distinct races of beings +
Literally "the dwelling place of Brahmā," this is a pre-Buddhist meditation on love, compassion, rejoicing, and impartiality or equanimity; the contemplation and generation of them were said to lead to rebirth in the realm of Brahmā. This was also taught by the historical Buddha who emphasized that as a general teaching they did not lead to liberation. In Tibetan Buddhism they are more commonly known as the four immeasurables and are considered a basis for the development of bodhicitta. Drigungpa, in tune with his presentation of the Buddhas teachings as being unitary, with no anomalies, denies the mundane identity of the immeasurables and states that they are the essence of buddhahood. +
The teaching that nothing exists independently. It is often systematized in a teaching on twelve interdependent links, whereby all of samsara comes about in dependence on the first link, ignorance. Dergé. This kingdom in the east of the Tibetan plateau, in the region of Kham, had independence or at least autonomy for a considerable period. The Dergé monarchy were patrons of Buddhism and funded the Eighth Tai Situ, his building of Palpung Monastery within Dergé, and his edition of the canon, known as the Dergé Kangyur and Tengyur +
Or literally, "ear tantras." This is often misspelled snyan brgyud and therefore confused with "oral lineage " It is the specific name for the teachings received by Tilopa from a dākinī whose body had vanished so that he received the instructions as words emanating from the syllable hūṃ. Therefore these teachings are also known as the Dharma of the bodiless dākinī +
Literally, "Secret Assembly"; one of the higher tantric deity practices, and probably the earliest. In later classification it became one of the father tantras +
The circle or dot above the letter that nasalizes the vowel. Represented in diacritics as m, it is nowadays pronounced as m or ng +
