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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. +
Located in Chinese Turkestan, Khotan was one of the greatest Buddhist centers during the first millennium A.D. +
A small mountain near Samye that is considered to be one of the four sacred mountains in Tibet. +
The first of the Eighteen Major Scriptures of the Mind Class taught by Shri Singha to Vairotsana and Tsang Lekdrub. +
Refers to the teachings of Maha Yoga, Anu Yoga, and Ati Yoga, respectively. Can also refer to the three categories of the fundamental scriptures of Dzogchen. +
The accumulations of merit and wisdom. +
The sage of the Shakyas; the Buddha of our time who lived around the fifth century B.C. +
Empowerment without any ritual or visual process; the complete and instantaneous transfer of enlightened realization from mind to mind, ''rgyal thabs'' refers to the means of the conqueror, and ''spyi lugs'' to the pouring of the transmission, like a king pouring sovereignty to his heir. +
King of Oddiyana who found, fostered, and for a time protected Padmasambhava. +
The main buddha of the Tathagata family, which corresponds to the aggregate of form. +
The means for traveling the path to enlightenment. +
