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• Completion Stage (category Key Terms)
  Completion Stage (rdzogs rim) - One of the two aspects of Vajrayana Practice. The meaning and depth of this principle changes while ascending through the
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• The Rangjung Yeshe Gilded Palace of Dharmic Activity (category Key Terms)
  ལས། ~~ ~~ A Glossary of Buddhist People, Places, and Things...~~ ~~ The Terms by which These Are Defined ~~ --Alphabetical Listing: A - B - C - D - E -
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• Eight Sadhana Teachings (category Key Terms)
  Eight Sadhana Teachings (sgrub pa bka' brgyad). Eight chief yidam deities of Mahayoga and their corresponding tantras and sadhanas that were transmitted
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• Dzogchen (category Key Terms)
  Dzogchen (File:Rdzogs pa chen po.JPG) - (rdzogs pa chen po), Skt. mahasandhi. Also known as Great Perfection and Ati Yoga. The highest teachings of the
  3 KB (354 words) - 04:17, 24 September 2009
• Three Kayas (category Key Terms)
  Dharmakaya Sambhogakaya Nirmanakaya
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• Nondual Wisdom (category Key Terms)
  gnyis stong ye shes - nondual wisdom [RY] gnyis med kyi ye shes - wisdom of nonduality, nondual wisdom [RY] gnyis med zung 'jug - nondual wisdom [RY] gnyis
  2 KB (288 words) - 03:34, 1 April 2006
• Avalokiteshvara (category Key Terms)
  Avalokiteshvara (spyan ras gzigs) The bodhisattva of compassion; an emanation of Buddha Amitabha. Avalokiteśvara (spyan ras gzigs) Avalokiteśvara is the
  5 KB (855 words) - 04:01, 6 May 2013
• Luminosity (category Key Terms)
  luminosity - 'od gsal - Literally 'free from the darkness of unknowing and endowed with the ability to cognize.' The two aspects are 'empty luminosity
  516 bytes (63 words) - 21:50, 28 January 2007
• Nirvana (category Key Terms)
  Nirvana (myang 'das): "Beyond suffering," expresses several levels of enlightenment, depending on whether our viewpoints is from the Basic Vehicle or the
  2 KB (267 words) - 09:48, 7 October 2006
• Mahayana (category Key Terms)
  Mahāyāna (theg pa chen po). 'Greater vehicle.' When using the term 'greater and lesser vehicles,' Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna, Mahāyāna includes the tantric
  2 KB (224 words) - 00:34, 2 March 2009
• Tsang (category Key Terms)
  Tsang province in Central Tibet. RWB Ü (dbus) - 1) center, middle, midst, amidst, core, central. 2) Central Tibet, a district in Tibet; Ü One of the two
  2 KB (248 words) - 03:25, 11 October 2007
• Shri Singha (category Key Terms)
  ཤྲི་སིང་ཧ། shri sing ha Shri Singha was the chief disciple and successor of Manjushrimitra in the lineage of the Dzogchen teachings. He was born in the
  5 KB (578 words) - 09:20, 5 March 2012
• Abhidharma (category Key Terms)
  Abhidharma (chos mngon pa) One of the three parts of the Tripitaka (Vinaya, Sutras, and Abhidharma), the Words of the Buddha. Systematic teachings on metaphysics
  1 KB (126 words) - 14:08, 12 August 2008
• Prajna (category Key Terms)
  Prajna (shes rab). Prajna is knowledge or intelligence; in particular, the knowledge of realizing egolessness. Please expand
  162 bytes (17 words) - 01:28, 12 July 2006
• Body, Speech and Mind (category Key Terms)
  kun dga' ra ba - pleasure grove; the place in a temple hall, where the representations of body, speech and mind (sku gsung thugs rten gyi bzhugs sa) are
  3 KB (441 words) - 14:02, 18 February 2006
• Gandharvas (category Key Terms)
  ka bu lo - prince of gandharvas [IW] mkha' spyod - abbr. of {mkha' la spyod pa} 1) celestial, heavenly. 2) 'dwelling in the sky,' celestial realm, pure
  3 KB (525 words) - 03:28, 1 April 2006
• Chronicles of Padma (category Key Terms)
  Padma Kathang, Chronicles of Padma. Life-story of Guru Padmasambhava, revealed by Orgyen Lingpa [RY] in the 5th shing bya lo la o rgyan gling pas bsam
  436 bytes (58 words) - 11:19, 30 May 2006
• Khenpo Kunpal (category Key Terms)
  མཁན་པོ་ཀུན་དཔལ། mkhan po kun dpal Khenchen Kunzang Palden མཁན་ཆེན་ཀུན་བཟང་དཔལ་ལྡན་ mkhan chen kun bzang dpal ldan File:Kunpal.jpeg Khenpo Kunzang Palden
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• Longchenpa (category Key Terms)
  ཀློང་ཆེན་པ། klong chen pa Longchen Rabjam Drime Ozer' (1308-1364), was the reincarnation of Princess Pemasal, the daughter of King Trisong Deutsen and
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• Samye Chimpu (category Key Terms)
  Samye Chimphu (bsam yas chims phu). The sacred place of Padmasambhava's speech. A mountain retreat situated four hours walk above Samye. During the last
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