According to Tibetan scholarly tradition, the school of ''Madhyamaka'' philosophy that (a) stresses the use of ''reductio ad absurdum'' (''prasaṅga'') rather than syllogistic reasoning in establishing ''emptiness'' as the nature of ''dharmas'' and (b) denies that dharmas possess inherent defining characteristics (''svalakṣaṇa'') even conventionally. The greatest Indian representative of the Prāsaṅgika is generally regarded to be Candrakīrti. +
In traditional Tibetan historiography, the period from approximately 650 to 850, during which Buddhism, under the sponsorship of numerous Dharma kings, first began to take hold in Tibet. Crucial events of the early spread included the foundation (ca. 775) of the first monastery, Samyé, and the beginning of the process of translating Indian Buddhist texts into Tibetan. The Nyingma tradition traces its roots back to the early spread. +
n Shijé: the ''Lamp of the Body Instruction, Lamp of the Speech Vehicle, Lamp of Secret Mind, Lamp of Pure View, Lamp of Precious Meditation, Lamp of Enlightened Conduct, Lamp of Basic Equanimity, Lamp of the Yoga Path, and Lamp of the Ultimate Result''. +
Like ''guidelines'', ''praxis'', and ''special instructions'', a specifically focused set of teachings imparted by a guru to a disciple or disciples. +
Miwo Sherap's birth, dissemination of teachings, pacification of beings, guidance of beings, marriage, emanation, conquest of demons, victory, knowledge, isolation, and liberation. +
In tantric theory, the network of channels that interpenetrates, and is more basic than, the gross physical body. Manipulation of the consciousnesses, breath-related energies, and hormonal drops that move through these channels is basic to advanced meditative practice on the ''completion stage of highest yoga tantra''. +
Euphemism for exploitative sex and murder as practiced by self-styled tantric teachers in Tibet, especially in the period between the ''early'' and ''later spreads of the teaching''. +
A term that can refer to an anchorite, ascetic, visionary, or silent sage in a range of Indian religious traditions. For Buddhists, the Buddha is ''the'' Muni, the ascetic par excellence. +
One of the three or four seals of practice in the higher tantras. In ''highest yoga tantra'') it most often is used to refer to a sexual partner whose embrace assists one in manipulating energies in the subtle body so as to hasten enlightenment. +