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One of the six classes of beings. +
The accumulation of merit and of wisdom. +
Short for Vimalamitra. +
A contemporary master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages, who lives at Nagi Gompa in Nepal. +
One of the four mudras. +
The first of the four visions in Dzogchen practice. +
The great female master who set down the Chöd practice. +
Another name for Jetsun Taranatha) +
Synonymous with mother luminosity. +
The fourth of the four divisions of the Instruction Section of Dzogchen according to the arrangement of Shri Singha. ''See'' Appendix. +
Seven sets of vows for ordained monks and nuns, novices, and lay people. +
The teachings translated into Tibetan before the great translator Rinchen Sangpo, during the reigns of the Tibetan kings Trisong Deutsen and Ralpachen in the ninth and tenth centuries. +
One of the two aspects of vajrayana practice, which involves mentally creating pure images in order to purify habitual tendencies. See stages of development and completion. +
An experience of utter blackness, the third stage of appearance, increase, and attainment. +
(1) The freedoms and riches that are so difficult to find. (2) Impermanence and death. (3) Karma, the law of cause and effect. (4) The defects of samsara. Reflecting on these four topics of the facts of life causes one's mind to change and be directed toward dharma practice. +
In this context, the wrathful or semi wrathful male deities appearing to one in the bardo of dharmata. +
The view propagated in Tibet by Chinese Buddhist masters. When used in a negative sense it means to simply pursue a meditative state devoid of conceptual thinking, that is, lacking the clarity of discriminating knowledge. +
One of the last experiences in the bardo of dharmata. +
Complete enlightenment or buddhahood. +
The three higher realms. +
