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A class of semi-divine beings, generally benevolent but sometimes wicked. Many are powerful local divinities; others live on Mount Sumeru, guarding the realm of the gods. +
The Fully Awakened One, a being who has removed the emotional and cognitive veils and is endowed with all enlightened qualities of realization. +
Any living being in the six realms who has not attained liberation. +
Relative truth and absolute truth. Relative truth describes the seeming, superficial, and apparent mode of all things. Absolute truth describes the real, true, and unmistaken mode. +
The oral lineage of the Nyingma school, the teachings translated chiefly during the period of Padmasambhava's stay in Tibet and transmitted from master to student until the present day. +
In the aspect of ultimate truth, all phenomena are devoid of an independent, concrete identity, and therefore, they ultimately do not come into being, abide in time and place, or cease to exist. +
A verbal formula, often quite long, blessed by a buddha or a bodhisattva, similar to the mantras of the Vajrayana but found in the sutra tradition. The term is also used to refer to the siddhi of unfailing memory. +
The innate nature of phenomena and mind; emptiness. +
Tantric deities that represent different aspects of enlightenment. Yidams may be peaceful or wrathful, male or female, and are meditated upon according to the nature and needs of the individual practitioner. +
A city in India on the Ganges, a main place of pilgrimage for Hindus. At nearby Sarnath, the Buddha Shakyamuni turned the first wheel of the Dharma with his teachings on the Four Noble Truths. +
One of the four classes of the ancient Indian social system, the warrior or royal caste. +
The five aggregates are the basic component elements of form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors, and consciousness. When they appear together, the illusion of a self is produced in the ignorant mind. +
Instructions explaining the most profound points of practice in a condensed and direct way. +
The primordial and nondual knowing aspect of the nature of the mind. +
The transference of wisdom power from the master to disciples that authorizes and enables them to engage in a practice and reap its fruit. There are four levels of tantric empowerment. The first is the vase empowerment, which purifies the defilements and obscurations associated with the body, grants the blessings of the vajra body, authorizes the disciples to practice the yogas of the development stage, and enables them to attain the nirmanakaya. The second is the secret empowerment. This purifies the defilements and obscurations of the speech faculty, grants the blessings of vajra speech, authorizes disciples to practice the yogas of the perfection stage, and enables them to attain the sambhogakaya. The third is the wisdom empowerment, which purifies the defilements and obscurations associated with the mind, grants the blessings of the vajra mind, authorizes disciples to practice the yogas of the skillful path, and enables them to attain the dharmakaya. The final empowerment, which is often simply referred to as the fourth initiation, is the word empowerment. This purifies the defilements of body, speech, and mind and all karmic and cognitive obscurations; it grants the blessings of primordial wisdom, authorizes disciples to engage in the practice of Dzogchen, and enables them to attain the svabhavikakaya. +
King Dhahena Talo's daughter, who was one of the Indian Dzogchen lineage masters. She was a direct disciple of Prahevajra and Rajahasti and was the teacher of Naga King Nanda. +
Literally, "lotus born." Padmasambhava was predicted by the Buddha Shakyamuni as the one who would propagate the teachings of the Vajrayana. Invited to Tibet by King Trisong Deutsen in the ninth century, he subjugated the evil forces hostile to the propagation of the Buddhist doctrine there, spread the Secret Mantra teachings, and hid innumerable spiritual treasures for the sake of future generations. +
One of the eight main bodhisattvas who personifies the perfection of transcendent knowledge. +
Can refer to a gesture, a spiritual consort, or the bodily form of a deity. +
The true nature of phenomena. +
