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• Mantra (category Key Terms)
  Mantra (sngags) - 1) A synonym for Vajrayana. 2) A particular combination of sounds symbolizing and communicating the nature of a deity and which lead
  2 KB (314 words) - 04:55, 29 May 2007
• Compassion (category Key Terms)
  bearing in mind that in Buddhism, compassion should not be understood in terms of pity, which may imply a feeling of superiority toward the object of compassion
  3 KB (525 words) - 03:43, 14 February 2018
• Naga (category Key Terms)
  klu - nagas, water-deities, gods of underworld, water spirits, serpent demons, serpents (enemies of khyung), kind of flower, demi-god with human head and
  1 KB (212 words) - 14:38, 28 January 2006
• Four Rivers (category Key Terms)
  Ü (dbus) - 1) center, middle, midst, amidst, core, central. 2) Central Tibet, a district in Tibet; Ü One of the two central provinces of Tibet, the other
  2 KB (242 words) - 03:09, 11 October 2007
• Pobor Ridge (category Key Terms)
  Ü (dbus) - 1) center, middle, midst, amidst, core, central. 2) Central Tibet, a district in Tibet; Ü One of the two central provinces of Tibet, the other
  2 KB (242 words) - 03:09, 11 October 2007
• Six Ridges (category Key Terms)
  Ü (dbus) - 1) center, middle, midst, amidst, core, central. 2) Central Tibet, a district in Tibet; Ü One of the two central provinces of Tibet, the other
  2 KB (242 words) - 03:29, 11 October 2007
• Shechen Rabjam (category Key Terms)
  ཞེ་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས། zhe chen rab 'byams 1st Shechen Rabjam Tenpe Gyaltsen (1650-1704) 2nd Shechen Rabjam Gyurme Kunzang Namgyal(1711/13-1769) 3rd Shechen
  1 KB (84 words) - 13:28, 9 December 2010
• Rainbow Body (category Key Terms)
  rainbow body ('ja' lus). At the time of death of a practitioner who has reached the exhaustion of all grasping and fixation through the Dzogchen practice
  2 KB (348 words) - 01:35, 16 March 2007
• Menyag-rab Ridge (category Key Terms)
  Ü (dbus) - 1) center, middle, midst, amidst, core, central. 2) Central Tibet, a district in Tibet; Ü One of the two central provinces of Tibet, the other
  2 KB (242 words) - 03:09, 11 October 2007
• Samaya (category Key Terms)
  thugs dam - 1) (h) for samaya. {thugs kyi dam bca'} spiritual pledge, vow, commitment. 2) (h) for experience and realization. 3) (h) for {yi dam} practice
  832 bytes (117 words) - 10:24, 4 October 2006
• Terdak Lingpa (category Key Terms)
  གཏེར་བདག་གླིང་པ་ gter bdag gling pa Minling Terdak Lingpa Gyurme Dorje སྨིན་གླིང་གཏེར་བདག་གླིང་པ་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་ smin gling gter bdag gling pa 'gyur
  3 KB (322 words) - 15:10, 5 January 2011
• Khenpo Shenga (category Key Terms)
  མཁན་པོ་གཞན་དགའ། mkhan po gzhan dga' Khenchen Zhenphen Chokyi Nangwa མཁན་ཆེན་གཞན་ཕན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ། mkhan chen gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba File:Shenga.jpg
  5 KB (455 words) - 22:04, 25 November 2019
• Cognition (category Key Terms)
  see sems see shes pa In it's utimate aspect cognition is limitless due to it's being synonymous with pure awareness, nonconceived and without particulars
  1 KB (150 words) - 13:35, 18 April 2007
• Klesha (category Key Terms)
  Klesha Skt. (nyon mongs pa). Disturbing emotions that agitate one's mind and obscure the buddha nature. nyon mongs pa These are the disturbing emotions
  405 bytes (51 words) - 05:10, 26 January 2006
• Mara (category Key Terms)
  Mara (bdud). Demon or demonic influence that creates obstacles for practice and enlightenment. Mythologically said be a powerful god who dwells in the
  725 bytes (103 words) - 05:00, 29 May 2007
• Ralung Monastery (category Key Terms)
  རྭ་ལུངདགོན་ rwa lung dgon Ralung Monastery was founded by Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje(1126-1216) in 1180. Until the 16th or 17th century Ralung was the principal
  7 KB (176 words) - 23:33, 4 December 2010
• Three Districts of Ngari (category Key Terms)
  Three Districts of Ngari in Upper Tibet are Purang surrounded by water, Gugey surrounded by slate mountains and Mount Tisey surrounded by snow mountains
  2 KB (267 words) - 03:24, 11 October 2007
• Empowerment (category Key Terms)
  Empowerment (dbang), (dbang bskur). The conferring of power or authorization to practice the Vajrayana teachings, the indispensable entrance door to tantric
  3 KB (403 words) - 11:40, 4 October 2006
• Nature of Mind (category Key Terms)
  nature of mind / Mind Essence (sems ngo), (sems nyid), (sems kyi chos nyid), (sems kyi rang bzhin). The nature of mind, synonym for 'buddha nature.' It
  668 bytes (72 words) - 15:37, 19 February 2006
• Lama (category Key Terms)
  Lama (Tib. bla ma, Skt. guru): (1) spiritual teacher, explained as the contraction of bla na med pa, "nothing superior", (2) often used loosely for Buddhist
  1 KB (184 words) - 20:57, 29 July 2007

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