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The second of the three inner tantras: +
The chief buddha of the fifty-eight wrathful deities. +
The period from catching a fatal sickness until the end of the three dissolution stages. +
Refers here to the pointing-out instruction for recognizing the nature of mind, repeated for a practitioner at the verge of death by a master or a close dharma friend. +
The four continents surrounding Mount Sumeru: Superior Body, Jambudvipa, Cow Enjoyment, and Unpleasant Sound. Human beings live on all four continents, but on Unpleasant Sound they are not suitable to practice the buddha dharma. +
The four or six sections of tantras. +
"Lotus-born." Same as Guru Rinpoche. +
A master in the Dzogchen lineage and root guru of Guru Rinpoche. Shri Singha attained complete realization of the Dzogchen teachings and, along with Guru Rinpoche, was one of the only two masters to fully attain the "empowerment of the display of awareness," through which they could transform the phenomenal world in any way they desired. +
The path of accumulation, joining, seeing, cultivation, and nonlearning. The five paths over the entire process from beginning dharma practice to complete enlightenment. +
Same as Guru Rinpoche. +
This is composed chiefly of the four immeasurables: compassion, love, sympathetic joy, and impartiality. +
The Dzogchen word for our enlightened essence in its naked state. +
The nature of mind. +
Eight types of mundane miraculous powers +
A process of physical and mental dissolution that all sentient beings go through at various times, as when falling asleep and even in the moment of a sneeze. Here these stages refer chiefly to the process of dying. +
Same as "precious realms of spontaneous presence." +
The extreme view that the individual self, objective phenomena, and a creator god exist as something independent, everlasting, and singular. +
Hinayana and mahayana. The emphasis of these teachings is to regard the path as the cause for attaining fruition: liberation from samsara or complete buddhahood. The resultant vehicles of vajrayana, on the other hand, regard the fruition of buddhahood as being inherently present within all beings, and the path is simply the act of removing the temporary obscurations that prevent us from receiving this correctly. +
Another word for buddha-nature, the enlightened essence inherent in all sentient beings. +
The New Schools are Kagyü, Sakya, and Gelug. The Old School refers to the Nyingma. +
