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The original spiritual tradition of Tibet, existing before the advent of Buddhism in the Land of Snow. Modem Bönpos recognize three kinds of Bön : 1. Ancient Bön (''bon mying ma''), 2. Eternal Bön (''g.yung drung bon'') and 3. New Bön (''bon gsar''). What we are referring to Bön in this collection of works is the second kind of Bön. +
The Eternal Bön tradition diffused by Tönpa Shenrab and supplanted the ancient Bön beliefs in Zhangzhung and Tibet. What is officially termed “Bön” in Bön monasteries and circles essentially refers to Eternal Bön (and to New Bon, however to a lesser extent). +
The founder of the Eternal Bön tradition (''g.yung drung bon''). +
The abiding mode of the real nature of the mind. +
The 25th lineage holder of the ''Zhangzhung Nyengyü'' and master of Nangzher Löpo. He reached the Body of the Great Transfer (''‘pho ba chen po'i sku'') and is responsible, together with his disciple, for the codification of the ''Zhangzhung Nyengyü'' into written form. +
The Dynamism of the Natural State is the expression of one's real nature arising as sounds (sgra), lights (''‘od'') and rays (''zer''). +
The Great Perfection represents the natural state of the individual and the 9th Vehicle of Tönpa Shenrab's teachings. It is defined as a ''Perfection''(''rdzogs'') because there is no need to add anything to it since it is already entirely perfected since the beginning. It is furthermore styled as ''Great''(''chen'') because there is nothing that surpasses this state and Vehicle. +
The practice consisting in cultivating the experience of the natural state, without artifice. It involves, after an initiatory stage, the capacity of integrating everything to this experience. Simply indulging in this experience without integration is of no use (for instance at the time of death). +
Texts, objects or substances hidden by an enlightened master, to be revealed in future times by predestined individuals called Treasure Revealers (''gter ston''). +
The Pervader-with-Long-Hands, the nemesis of Tönpa Shenrab, he eventually converted to Bön. +
One of the three Sections or Series (''sde gsum'') of the Great Perfection. This system essentially characterizes the Dzogchen tradition of India and is not used in the texts originating from Zhangzhung. The main practices performed in this Precepts Section are the cultivation of the natural state (styled Trekchö in the Indian tradition) and the practice of Clear-Light (styled Thögel in the Indian tradition). +
One of the two modalities (with Wisdoms) expressing the true essence of the Natural State and the fruit of Buddhahood. +
The process of inner discursiveness. +
The spontaneous aspect (''lhun grub'') of one's Nature (''rang bzhin''), abiding in fivefold displays and multicolored manifestations. It is the first of the two Form Bodies (''gzugs sku gnyis''). +
The cycle of oral teachings that were eventually put into written form in the early 8th century by Tapihritsa and Nangzher Löpo. It is divided in four main sub-cycles. See Achard, ''La Structure du Zhangzhung Nyengyü'' for a complete description of this cycle. +
One of the two modalities (with Bodies) expressing the true essence of the Natural State and the fruit of Buddhahood. +
The nature of the mind. +
The primordial Enlightened One who is the source of the Dzogchen teachings. He is depicted as a blue naked Buddha, without ornaments. +
The Spontaneity refers to the Nature (''rang bzhin'') of the primordial state and to its luminous aspect. It thus concerns the arising mode of the state and its dynamism. It has nothing to do with the Conduct as some deluded people think. Spontaneity precisely refers to the luminous nature of our mind and to its potential expressed in the variety of its arising modes. +
The Primordial Purity refers to the Essence of the natural state which is defined as stainless from the beginning and empty. +
