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The three essential points in ''trekcho'' meditation, corresponding to the three categories of the Mind Class scriptures. +
After Garab Dorje established the six million four hundred thousand Dzogchen tantras in the human world, Manjushrimitra divided them into three categories: the Mind Class emphasizing luminosity; the Space Class emphasizing emptiness; and the Instruction Class emphasizing their inseparability. +
Literally, "one who has gone thus"; a synonym for fully enlightened buddha. +
A kind of bird, in both the Indian and Tibetan traditions. A creature of great size, immediately upon hatching it is able to fly. A symbol of primordial wisdom. +
The dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya as well as the svabhavikakaya, the kaya of the nature as it is, which represents the in separability of the first three +
A place or world manifested by a buddha or great bodhisattva through the spontaneous qualities of his realization. A place where beings can progress toward enlightenment without falling back into the lower realms of samsara. Also, any place whatsoever when it is perceived as a pure manifestation of spontaneous wisdom. +
Thought-free, not held in mind, free of all discursive activity. +
The Dzogchen Mind Class scriptures that were translated by Vairotsana. +
The four cardinal and intermediary directions, together with the zenith and nadir. +
''Essence of Secrets''. The chief Maha Yoga tantra of the Nyingma school. +
The hermitage of caves above Samye where Padmasambhava and many other great masters spent years in retreat. +
Female treasure revealer. She was an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal, the main consort of Padmasambhava, and was one of the wives of the great ''terton'' Guru Chowang (1212-70). She rediscovered one version of the ''Great Image''. +
One of the Indian Dzogchen lineage masters, a disciple of Shri Singha. +
A general term referring to the six samsaric realms; the first of the three worlds of existence. +
Another name for Vajrapani. +
Synonym for Vajrapani, an emanation of Vajrasattva and the compiler of the tantric teachings. +
The six great Indian masters Nagarjuna, Asanga, Dignaga, Aryadeva, Vasubandhu, and Dharmakirti. +
Tibetan term for a highly realized spiritual teacher. In colloquial language it is sometimes used as a polite way of addressing a monk. +
This lineage is transmitted through the awareness-holders by means of symbols or gestures; according to this text it goes from Manjushrimitra up to and including Vimalamitra. +
Resultant Vehicle of the Secret Mantra. The Secret Mantra system of taking the fruition as the path by regarding buddhahood as inherently present and the path as the act of uncovering one's basic state. This is different from the "causal philosophical vehicles" of Mahayana and Hinayana that regard the path as that which leads to and produces the state of buddhahood. Ultimately, these two approaches are not in conflict. +
