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The greatness of direct manifestation of enlightenment; the greatness of enlightenment in the ultimate dimension of phenomena; the greatness of enlightenment in the dharmakaya; the greatness of enlightenment that proves its own nature; and the greatness of the absolute nonexistence of enlightenment. +
The direct introduction to the nature of mind that is given by the root guru and leads to the recognition of mind nature. +
Literally, "blood drinker." A wrathful deity, drinker of the blood of ego-clinging. +
Red Ornament. This queen was the senior consort of Trisong Deutsen and bore him three sons. According to some sources, she poisoned her son Mune Tsenpo when he came to power because he married his father's younger consort Phoyongza. She was in favor of the Bon tradition and openly hostile to Buddhist teachers. +
Literally means "abode of the gods." The capital of Tibet. +
A king of Oddiyana who was a direct disciple of Prahevajra and Manjushrimitra. He was the father of Princess Parani and Prince Rajahasti, and the teacher of Rajahasti. +
One of the Indian lineage masters of the Dzogchen teachings, who was a disciple of Manjushri Bhadra and the teacher of Buddhagupta. +
Cool Grove, a sacred charnel ground to the northeast of Bodhgaya, which is inhabited by many dakinis and savage beings. It has a great stupa, which contains many special tantras in caskets that were hidden by the dakinis. Padmasambhava practiced ascetics there for many years. Garab Dorje also spent many years there teaching the dakinis, and it was there that Manjushrimitra met him. +
Deity riding a white yak, oath-bound by Padmasambhava. Also refers to a mountain in the Yarlung Valley of central Tibet, where the first king of Tibet is said to have descended from the sky. +
A symbolic description of dharmakaya being like a single sphere because it is devoid of duality and limitation and defies all conceptual constructs that could be formed about it. +
Expert translator and disciple of Padmasambhava, Vimalamitra, Vairotsana, and Yudra Nyingpo. He worked closely with Vimalamitra in translating the Maha Yoga and Ati Yoga tantras. +
King of Dogs. He is so called because in the daytime he taught a thousand warriors and yoginis in the guise of a dog, and at night they would perform feast offerings and other practices in the charnel grounds. There were two Kukkurajas, the Elder and the Younger; the Younger is also called Dhahuna. +
A great bodhisattva, one of the eight close sons. He personifies the power and mind of all buddhas. +
A set of scriptures belonging to the Mind Class. +
Name of the mandala through which direct pointing out of the mind essence is given. +
A text written by Manjushrimitra as a confession to Prahevajra; one of the five major scriptures of the Mind Class that were translated by Vairotsana. +
The last of the three categories of the Mind Class tantras. +
Eight chief yidam deities of Maha Yoga and their corresponding tantras and sadhanas: Manjushri Body, Lotus Speech, Vishuddha Mind, Nectar Quality, Kilaya Activity, Liberating Sorcery of Mother Deities, Maledictory Fierce Mantra, and Mundane Worship. +
King Songtsen Gampo's son, who ruled Tibet for a few years but died at the age of nineteen. +
Place near Rajgir in Bihar, central India, where the Buddha taught. +
