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A Mahayoga scripture, found in the Nyingma Gyiibum, vol. PHA. +
Five actions with the most severe karmic effect: killing one's mother, one's father, or an arhat, causing schism in the sangha of monks, and drawing blood from a tathagata with evil intent. These actions can also be called "immediates" because their karmic effect will ripen immediately after death without leaving time to go through a bardo state. +
The pure land of Avalokiteshvara. +
Tantra belonging to the Sadhana Section of Mahayoga. Found in the Nyingma Gyŭbum, vol. A. +
Four areas in Central Tibet flanking the rivers Kyichu and Tsangpo. +
The Vajrayana teachings given by the Buddha in his sambhogakaya form. The real sense of tantra is "continuity," the innate buddha nature, which is known as the "tantra of the expressed meaning." The general sense of tantra is the extraordinary tantric scriptures also known as the "tantra of the expressing words." Can also refer to all the resultant teachings of Vajrayana as a whole. +
(i) One of the five families; the chief buddha of the tathagata family. (2) The great and unequalled translator who lived during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen. Vairochana (also pronounced bey-ro-tsa-na in Tibetan) was recognized by Padmakara as a reincarnation of an Indian pandita. He was among the first seven Tibetan monks and was sent to India to study with Shri Singha. Shri Singha in turn entrusted Vairochana with the task of propagating the Mind Section and Space Section of Dzogchen in Tibet. He is one of the three main masters to bring the Dzogchen teachings to Tibet, the two others being Padmakara and Vimalamitra. Vairochana's chief disciples were Yudra Nyingpo, Sangtŏn Yeshe Lama, Pang Gen Sangye Gŏnpo, Jnana Kumara of Ny ag, and Lady Yeshe Drőnma. An especially renowned disciple was the old Pang Gen Mipham Gőnpo, whose disciples attained the rainbow body for seven generations by means of the oral instructions entitled Dorje Zampa, the "Vajra Bridge." Tsele Natsok Rangdről, Terdag Lingpa Gyurmey Dorje, and Jarngőn Kongtrűl Lodrŏ Thaye are regarded as reincarnations of Vairochana. Vajra (rdo rje) "Diamond," "king of stones." As an adjective it means "indestructible," "invincible," or "firm." The ultimate vajra is emptiness; the conventional vajra is the ritual implement of material substance. +
Listed in chapter 12. The first five are found in the most common list of the Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras. +
Spirits, ghosts, or demons. +
A tantra with a similar title is found in the Nyingma Gyűbum, vol. KA. +
The king of the country of Uddiyana during the appearance of Padmasambhava in this world. Sometimes his name is spelled Indrabhuti. +
Tantra belonging to the Sadhana Section of Mahayoga; focused on Nectar Quality. A tantra with a similar title is found in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. LA. Possibly identical with the Scripture in Eight Chapters. See also Scripture in Eight Chapters. +
Sutra refers to the teachings of both Hinayana and Mahayana. Mantra refers to Vajrayana. Sutra means taking the cause as path. Tantra means taking the result as path. +
The "Ever-Excellent One." (i) The primordial dharmakaya buddha. (2) The bodhisattva Samantabhadra, who is used as the example for the perfection of increasing an offering infinitely. +
A class of sentient beings who live on scents. Gandharvas are also a type of celestial musicians living on the rim of Mount Sumeru in cloudlike castles. Often a "city of the gandharvas" is used as an analogy for illusory phenomena, like a fairy castle in the clouds. +
A protector of the Dharma teachings bound under oath by Padmasambhava. She was formerly a Bőnpo warrior spirit (dgra lha). +
One of the Eight Sadhana Teachings. Female divinities manifested out of dharmadhatu but appearing in ways that correspond to mundane appearances through the interrelationship between the mundane world and the channels, winds, and essences within the human body. They have both an ultimate and a relative aspect. The chief figure in this mandala is Chemchok Heruka, the wrathful form of Buddha Samantabhadra in the form known as Ngŏndzok Gyalpo, the King of True Perfection. +
In the context of this book, mahamudra refers to the "supreme attainment of mahamudra," which is synonymous with complete enlightenment or the vidyadhara level of mahamudra, the third of the four vidyadhara levels. +
The first of the Three Inner Tantras. Mahayoga as scripture is divided into two parts: Tantra Section and Sadhana Section. The Tantra Section consists of the Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras, while the Sadhana Section is comprised of the Eight Sadhana Teachings. Jamgőn Kongtrŭl says in his Treasury of Knowledge: "Mahayoga emphasizes means (Skt. upaya), the development stage, and the view that liberation is attained through growing accustomed to insight into the nature of the indivisibility of the superior two truths." The superior two truths in Mahayoga are purity and equality: The pure natures of the aggregates, elements, and sense factors are the male and female buddhas and bodhisattvas. At the same time, everything that appears and exists is of the equal nature of emptiness. +
A practice to purify outer, inner, and secret or innermost breaches and violations of a practitioner's Hinayana precepts, Mahayana vows, or Vajrayana commitments. +
