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Name given to the great sages of Indian mythology, who were endowed with great longevity and magical powers and were instrumental in the creation, or reception, of the Vedas. In the Buddhist context, this word is usually translated as sage, hermit, or saint. +
The expedient meaning refers to conventional teachings on the Four Noble Truths, karma, path, and result, which are designed to lead the practitioner to the definitive meaning, the insight into emptiness, suchness, and buddha-nature. +
Steadfast Lion, the Muni of the animal realm. Also called Shravasimha. +
Vairotsana's birthplace near Uyuk in the Nyemo area. +
A sphere or dimension manifested by a buddha or great bodhisattva in which beings may abide and progress toward enlightenment without ever falling back into lower states of existence. Also, any place seen as the pure manifestation of spontaneous wisdom is a buddha-field. +
Vairotsana's father, though some sources claim he was Vairotsana's uncle who adopted his nephew after the father died. +
The perception of the world and its contents as a pure buddha-field or as the display of kayas and wisdoms. +
Abbreviation of the ''Scripture of the Embodiment of the Realization of All Buddhas''; the most important Anu Yoga scripture. +
Literally, "the Blissful,"; the name of the Western Paradise, the pure land of Buddha Amitabha. +
An exposition tantra of the All-Creating Monarch Tantra. +
One of the Tibetan translators who were predicted by Padmasambhava at the time of Trisong Deutsen. While Vairotsana and Namkhai Nyingpo were sent to India, Kawa Paltsek stayed at Samye and translated the sutras and mantra teachings. Later, he went to India to invite Vimalamitra to Tibet. He is considered the second greatest translator and was one of the twenty-five close disciples of Padmasambhava. +
Gold, silver, turquoise, coral, and pearl. +
Maha, Anu, and Ati. These three tantra classes are the special characteristics of the Nyingma school of the early translation. They are also known as "development, completion, and Great Perfection," or as "tantras, scriptures, and instructions." +
The best service to one's guru is the offering of one's practice, mediocre service is to serve one's guru with body and speech, and inferior service is the offering of material things. +
One of the four root tantras of Anu Yoga. +
Earth, water, fire, and wind or air, as principles of solidity, liquidity, heat, movement, and space. +
The potential for buddhahood, the luminous and empty nature of the mind. +
The highest teaching of the Nyingma. See Ati. +
The last and highest of the inner tantras; the summit of the system of nine vehicles according to the Nyingma classification; a synonym of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection. +
The levels or stages of the bodhisattvas. +
