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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. +
Literally, "solitary buddha." One who attains the cessation of suffering without relying on a teacher by meditating on the twelve links of dependent arising. Though realizing the emptiness of perceived phenomena, they lack the complete realization of a buddha and so cannot benefit limitless beings. +
The ultimate nature of the mind and the true status of all phenomena; the state beyond all conceptual constructs, which can be known only by primordial wisdom and in a manner that transcends duality. +
In a Buddhist context, ignorance is not mere nescience; it is mistaken apprehension. It is the incorrect understanding of, or failure to recognize, the ultimate nature of beings and phenomena and falsely ascribing true existence to them. +
Nine subdivisions of the Space Class teachings of the Great Perfection. +
Second human master in the lineage of the Great Perfection and the chief disciple of Prahevajra. He divided the Dzogchen teachings into the Mind Class, the Space Class, and the Instruction Class. +
One of the Indian Dzogchen lineage masters who was a disciple of Princess Gomadevi and the teacher of Kukkuraja the Elder. +
Meditative absorption of different degrees. +
A commentary on the words of the Buddha. +
One of the two divisions of Maha Yoga. The Maha Yoga tantras appeared in this world when revealed to King Ja by Vajrasattva and the Lord of Secrets. +
A text written by Manjushrimitra as a confession to Prahevajra, which is one of the Eighteen Major Scriptures of the Mind Class. +
