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Generally speaking, a “virtuous friend” who assists one on the spiritual path. The Tibetan term is used most commonly to refer to great masters of the Kadam tradition and, since the seventeenth century, to Geluk monks with a high level of scholastic achievement. +
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A highly concentrated state of mind in which one is focused effortlessly on a particular object of meditation. Like ''concentration'', meditative equipoise presupposes ''tranquil abiding'' and has a range of possible objects that are its focal point, including ''emptiness'' itself. +
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Eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. +
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A fundamental term in Buddhist ''tantra'', indicating the indestructibility of the state of ''enlightenment''. In Hindu mythology, the vajra is the thunderbolt wielded by Indra； in a Buddhist context, it sometimes is translated as diamond” or “adamantine.” It also refers to a scepter-like ritual object utilized by tantric practioners. +
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In the Yoginī tantras: Jālandhara, Uḍḍiyāna, Paurṅagiri, Kāmarūpa, Mālava, Sindhu, Nagara, Munmuni, Kārunyapātaka, Devīkota, Karmārapātaka, Kulatā, Arbuda, Godavari, Himādri, Harikela, Lampāka, Kañci, Sauraṣṭra, Kaliṅga, Kokaṇa, Caritra, Kośala, Vindhyākumārapaurikā. +
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Kurukullaka, Āvantika, and vātsīputrīya. +
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s taught in the ''Ornament of Higher Realization'', by Maitreya: realization of all aspects, realization of the path, realization of everything, perfectly manifest realization of all aspects, reaching the summit of existence, final realization, instantaneous realization, and dharmakāya. +
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Teaching, debating, and writing or, more properly, composing. +
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Gnostic dharmakāya and the two subdivisions of the natural body: natural emptiness and natural lack of any obstacles. +
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Linguistics, logic, medicine, arts and technology, and “inner meaning” (i.e., Buddhism). +
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The perfection-vehicle system and the mantra-vchicle system. +
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The general term for the worlds inhabited by sentient beings. It is marked by suffering, impermanence, and absence of self, and entails for those beings repeated rebirth in one or another unsatisfactory realm due to the force of ''delusions'' and ''karma''. +
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Signlessness, wishlessness, and emptiness. +
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Aciṅta, Ajogi, Anaṅga, Āryadeva, Babhaha, Bhadrapa, Bhandepa, Bhiksanapa, Bhusuku (Śāntideva), Cāmāripa, Campaka, Carbaripa, Catrapa, Caurańgipa, Celukapa, Dārikapa, Ḍeńgipa, Dhahulipa, Dharmapa, Dhilipa, Dhobīpa, Dhokaripa, Ḍombipa, Dukhandhi, Ghaṇṭāpa, Gharbari, Godhuripa, Gorakhnāth, Indrabhūti, Jālandhara, Jayānanda, Jogipa, Kālapa, Kambala, Kamparipa, Kanakhalā, Kāṇhapa, Kaṅkaṇa, Kaṅkaripa, Kantalipa, Kapālapa (Àryadeva), Khadgapa, Kilakilapa, Kirapālapa, Kokilipa, Kotalipa, Kucipa, Kukkuripa, Kumbharipa, Lakṣmīṅkarā, Līlapa, Lucikapa, Lūipa, Mahipa, Maṇibhadrā, Medhini, Mekhalā, Mekopa, Mīnapa, Nāgabodhi, Nāgārjuna, Nalinapa, Nāropa, Nirguṇapa, Pacaripa, Pańkajapa, Putalipa, Rāhula, Ratnākaraśānti (Śāntipa), Samudra, Saraha, Saroruha, Sarvabhakṣa, Śavaripa, Śyalipa, Taṅtepa, Tantipa, Thaganapa, Tilopa, UdKilipa, Upanaha, Viṇāpa, Virūpa, Vyālipa. +
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In Geluk: Tsongkhapa's ''Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path, Small Treatise on the Stages of the Path'', and ''Song of Experience Related to the Stages of the Path''; the Third Dalai Lama’s ''Essence of Refined Gold'' (a commentary on the preceding), the Fifth Dalai Lamas ''Sacred Words of Mañjuśrī'' (a commentary on the preceding), the First Panchen Lama Losang Chökyi Gyaltsens ''Path to Bliss'', the Third Panchen Palden Yeshé's ''Swift Path'' (a commentary on the preceding), and Dakpo Ngawang Drakpas ''Essence of Well-Spoken Advice''. +
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In later Indian and in Tibetan categorizations, one of two traditions within Mahayana, along with the ''secret-mantra vehicle''. The perfection vehicle (also called the ''sutra'' vehicle or the ''definition vehicle'') draws primarily from ''Mahayana'' sutras and their commentaries and focuses on the development of the six or ten perfections by a ''bodhisattva'' exclusive of tantric methods. +
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In Kagyü: the guidelines on the lama as the three buddha bodies, the guidelines on love and compassion, the guidelines on cause and effect and dependent arising, the guidelines on the fivefold nectar drip, the guidelines on the yoga of the coemergent, the guidelines on the six Dharmas of Nāropa, the guidelines on equalizing the eight worldly dharmas, and the guidelines meditation to reverse ill fortune through secret conduct. +
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In tranquilabiding meditation faith, determination, perseverance, confidence (all of which counter laziness), mindfulness (which counters lack of mindfulness), introspection (which counters sinking and distraction), investigation (which counters further association with sinking and scattering), and equanimity (which counters unnecessary prolongation of countermeasures). +
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The branch of Buddhist discourse and the section of the Buddhist canon concerned with monastic discipline. In Tibetan tradition, the most influential vinaya text is the ''Vinaya Sutra'' of Vasumitra. +
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Amoghadārśin, Anantaujas, Aśokaśrī, Bhadraṛṣi, Brahman, Brahmadatta, Brahmajyotis, Candanaśrī, Dhānaśri, Indraketudhvaj a, Kusumaśrī, Nageśvarāja, Nārāyaṇa, Padmajyotis, Pariklrtitanāmaśrī, Prabhāsari, Ratnacandra, Ratnacandraprabhā, Ratnāgni, Ratnārcis, Ratnapadma, Śailendrarāja, Samantavabhāsa, Śākyamuni, Smṛtiśrī, Suradatta, Suvikranta, Vajragarbha, Varuṇa, Varuṇadeva, Vikranta, Vimala, Virānanda, Virasena, Yuddhajaya. +
