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The last of the Buddhist tantric systems to develop in India, regarded by new translation schools as the most advanced of Buddhist practices. It often is divided into ''father tantras'' (e.g., Guhyasamāja), which stress methods for generating the ''illusory body'', and ''mother tantras'' (e.g., Cakrasamvara), which emphasize attainment of the clear-light mind. Its practices are VNofolà ''generation stage'' and ''completion stage''. +
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Asaṅgas Compendium of Mahayana Sutras and Compendium of Abbidharma +
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''Ornament of Higher Realization, Ornament of Mahayana Sutras, Sublime Continuum, Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes, and Distinguishing Dharmas from the Dharma Realm''. +
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In general, the mode in which a ''buddha'' or ''meditational deity'' is properly encountered in tantric practice, whether deliberately evoked or unbidden. It also refers to a way of seeing beings and the world, as essentially pure. In Nyingma ''Dzokchen'' tradition, it is the name given to one of three major lineages. +
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Disciples of Tsongkhapa: Jampal Chösang, also known as Lama Jamkarwa the venerable Sangkyongwa; the venerable Rinchen Gyaltsen the venerable Jangsengwa Tokden Jampal Gyatso; Geshé Sherap Drak; Geshé Jampal Tashi and Geshé Palkyongwa. +
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A “hearer” or “disciple,” most often of ''Hinayana'' teachings. The term may refer cither to one who follows a Hinayana path or to an ''arhat'' who has reached the end of that path. As distinguished from the Hinayana ''pratyekabuddha'' vehicle, the śrāvaka vehicle refers to an approach to the path in which one receives teachings from others rather than proceeding independently. +
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Seven aspects of ritual offering that are crucial to meditation in Mahayana Buddhism prostration, offering, confession, rejoicing in the virtue of others, requesting the buddhas to turn the Dharma wheel, entreating them not to enter final nirvana, and dedication of merit. +
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In Kālacakra traditions: Sucandra (d. 877 b.c.e.), Sureśvara (r. 877-777 b.c.e.), Tejin (r. 777-677 b.c.e.), Somadatta (r. 677-577 b.c.e.), Sureśvara (r. 577-477 b.c.e.), Viśvamūrti (r. 477-377 b.c.e.), and Sureśāna (r. 377-277 b.c.e.). +
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At the time of monastic ordination, the officiating monk who actually confers the vows. In Tibetan tradition, it is the most common term for the abbot of a monastic community. +
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A being who has attained enlightenment without recourse to a teacher or who, having attained enlightenment, chooses not to teach but to remain solitary. Along with the ''śrāvaka'' vehicle, the vehicle of the pratyekabuddha is often treated as a ''Hinayana'' approach to ''liberation'', requiring a thorough realization of ''dependent arising''. +
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Literally “taking in hand.” These are instructions for practice conveyed by a guru to disciples, somewhat akin to ''guidelines'', and often included within ''instructions'' or ''special instructions''. +
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Vaibhāsika and Sautrāntika. +
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Literally, the “monk’s circuit,” a tour of monasteries in a given region undertaken by a monk so as to debate other monks on the classic topics of monastic education: ''abhidharma, vinaya, Madhyamaka, the perfection of wisdom'', and ''valid cognition''. +
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Early, middle, and later Shijé. +
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Eye medicine, speed walking, magic pills, penetration of matter, suppression of diseases, the magic sword, flying, invisibility. +
The third division of Ati Yoga, as arranged by Manjushrimitra. +
World age; cosmic cycle. A great kalpa corresponds to a cycle of formation and destruction of a universe and is divided into eighty intermediate kalpas. An intermediate kalpa is composed of one small kalpa during which life span, etc., increase and one small kalpa during which they decrease. +
A Chinese Buddhist master who was invited to Tibet by King Songtsen Gampo. Also mentioned as one of the Chinese yogis that Vairotsana received teachings from in China. +
Literally, "Ever-Excellent One." (1) Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, one of the eight close sons of the Buddha, renowned for his offerings emanated through the power of his concentration; (2) the primordial buddha who has never fallen into delusion and who is the symbol of awareness, the ever-present pure and luminous nature of the mind. +
Syllables or formulas that, when recited with appropriate visualizations, etc., protect the mind of the practitioner from ordinary perceptions. They are invocations and manifestations of the yidam deity in the form of sound. +
