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Nirmanakaya (category Key Terms)
Nirmanakaya (sprul sku), (sprul pa'i sku). 'Emanation body,' 'form of magical apparition.' The third of the Three Kayas. The aspect of enlightenment that

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Dharmakaya (category Key Terms)
Dharmakaya (chos sku). The first of the Three Kayas, which is devoid of constructs, and space-like as this nature of all things. The basic and all-pervasive

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Dharma (category Key Terms)
Dharma (chos). 'Dharma' (generally, and with a capitalized 'D') is the Buddha's teachings; 'dharma' (with a small 'd') refers to all phenomena including

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Buddha (category Key Terms)
Buddha (sangs rgyas): One who has eliminated the two veils - the veils of emotional obscuration and cognitive obscuration, which is the dualistic conceptual

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Devas (category Key Terms)
mkha' spyod pa - 1) the devas, gods. 2) epithet of Avalokitesvara. 3) sky-farer [RY] mkha' spyod pa - the devas, gods, Avalokitesvara, sky farer GD [IW]

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Bodhisattva (category Key Terms)
Bodhisattva (byang chub sems dpa') A spiritual trainee dedicated to the cultivation of an enlightened attitude (cittotpāda) or the altruistic enlightened

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Mahayoga (category Key Terms)
Mahayoga (rnal 'byor chen po). The first of the 'Three Inner Tantras.' Mahayoga as scripture is divided into two parts: Tantra Section and Sadhana Section

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Asura (category Key Terms)
lha min - demigods; demigod, asura; Asuras, Titans, {a su ra, bcud mi ldan} or {lha dman pa} [RY] a su ra - Skt. - Asura [RY]

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Vajra (category Key Terms)
27 coincidences in astrology, SA sbyor ba nyer bdun, 1 of 28 astrological terms for harmony of influence in the destiny of a person, prince of stones, infallible

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Sambhogakaya (category Key Terms)
Sambhogakaya (longs spyod rdzogs pa'i sku). The 'body of perfect enjoyment.' In the context of the 'Five Kayas of fruition,' sambhogakaya is the semi-manifest

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Sutra (category Key Terms)
Sutra (mdo): the words of Buddha Shakyamuni, which were transcribed by his disciples. [MR]

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Vajrayogini (category Key Terms)
Vajrayogini (rdo rje rnal 'byor ma). A semiwrathful yidam. She is red, with one face and two arms, young and beautiful but enraged and wearing ornaments

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Hindus (category Key Terms)
thun mong gi theg pa - common/ general vehicle [path common to mahayana and hinayana. sometimes considered as a path in common w Hindus] [IW] mu stegs

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Vajrasattva (category Key Terms)
This is the RYI Dictionary content as presented on the site http://rywiki.tsadra.org/, which is being changed fundamentally and will become hard to use

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Hinayana (category Key Terms)
Hīnayāna (theg pa dman pa). The vehicles focused on contemplation of the four noble truths and the 12 links of dependent origination, the practice of which

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Dzogchen Monastery (category Key Terms)
One of the Six Main Nyingma Monasteries and the historical seat of the Dzogchen Rinpoche and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche incarnation lines. Dzogchen monastery

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Sravakas (category Key Terms)
see also Arhat. Those who follow [Theravada] and eventually become Arhats as a result of listening to the Buddhas and following their teachings. Meaning

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Heruka (category Key Terms)
For Illustrations of these please see: [1] bka' brgyad - Herukas, eight classes of... (RY) che mchog. khrag 'thung lnga brgyad - According to the Tantra

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Emptiness (category Key Terms)
Emptiness (stong pa nyid): the ultimate nature of phenomena, namely their lack of inherent existence. The ultimate understanding of emptiness goes together

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Bonpo (category Key Terms)
'khro rgyud - literary cycle of Bonpo tradition [JV] dga' ba don sgrub - Bonpo deity connected with the blue light [JV] dge lha gar phyug - Bonpo deity

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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

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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

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Avalokiteshvara (category Key Terms)
Avalokiteshvara (spyan ras gzigs) The bodhisattva of compassion; an emanation of Buddha Amitabha. Avalokiteśvara (spyan ras gzigs) Avalokiteśvara is the

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Prajna (category Key Terms)
Prajna (shes rab). Prajna is knowledge or intelligence; in particular, the knowledge of realizing egolessness. Please expand

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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

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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

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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

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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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Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche (category Key Terms)
A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems

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All-ground consciousness (category Key Terms)
alayavijnana, all-ground consciousness [IW] See also: All-ground all-ground consciousness. Def. thun mong spyi'i mtshan nyid ni / ma bsgribs la lung du

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Trekcho (category Key Terms)
ka dag khregs chod kyi dgongs pa - trekcho realization of primordial purity [JV] khregs chod - trecho, trekcho, cutting through, clear-cut, single pointed

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Tantra (category Key Terms)
Just about all texts when discussing this subject quote the earliest known Buddhist definition of the word tantra, found in the Guhyasamāja Tantra: "Tantra

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Kangyur (category Key Terms)
Kangyur (bka' 'gyur). The "Translated Words" of Buddha Shakyamuni. The first part of the Tibetan Buddhist canon. Consists of more than one hundred volumes

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Realization (category Key Terms)
1) To comprehend completely or correctly. 2) To bring into reality; make real. grub pa gcig pu - single realization [JV] grub par gyur pa rtogs pa - accomplished

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Patrul Rinpoche (category Key Terms)
དཔལ་སྤྲུལ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ། dpal sprul 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po Paltrul Orgyen Jigme Chokyi Wangpo Dza Paltrül Rinpoche (1808-1887), was born

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Karma (category Key Terms)
Karma (las): A Sanskrit word meaning "action", which refer to the law of cause an effect related to our thoughts, words and behavior. According to the

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Three Jewels (category Key Terms)
See also Three Precious Jewels: དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།, (Tib. dkon mchog gsum; Skt. triratna): the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. (MR)

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Palyul Monastery (category Key Terms)
དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་གླིང་། dpal yul rnam rgyal byang chub gling One the six principal Nyingma monasteries in Tibet. dpal yul rnam rgyal byang chub

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Wisdom (category Key Terms)
Wisdom (shes rab, ye shes): 1) the ability to discern correctly, the understanding of Emptiness and 2) the primordial and non-dual knowing aspect of the

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Enlightenment (category Key Terms)
Enlightenment (sangs rgyas): synonymous of Buddhahood. The ultimate accomplishment of spiritual training. Consummate inner wisdom united with infinite

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Bodhichitta (category Key Terms)
buddhahood. [These 4 stages and] twenty-two types are taught using analogies in terms of their characteristics. Thus: 1) The bodhichitta of devoted engagement

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Samadhi (category Key Terms)
rgyun gyi ting nge 'dzin - continuous samadhi, a continuous meditative state [RY] rgyun mtha' rdo rje lta bu'i ting nge 'dzin - the vajra-like samadhi

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Guru (category Key Terms)
See gu ru A [Skt] term meaning: 1) guru, lama, teacher, master. 2) Guru Rinpoche, Guru Padmasambhava [most often]. 3) The Sanskrit literally means "heavy"

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Upaya (category Key Terms)
Upaya (thabs). See more details under:'means and knowledge.' [RY]

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Aeon (category Key Terms)
(bskal pa, Skt. Kalpa). Aeon (bskal pa) A period of cosmic or cyclical time (Skt. kalpa) comprising fourteen secondary cycles (Skt. manvantara), each of

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Nadis (category Key Terms)
nadis, pranas, and bindus (rtsa rlung thig le) - channels, winds, and essences. The channels are the 72,000 nadis and the 40 million minor nadis abiding

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Deity (category Key Terms)
sngags kyi ngo bo - identity of mantra. [detailed expl., The Light of Wisdom, Vol. 2, page 198] Moreover: In general, the identity of mantra is not regarded

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Tulku (category Key Terms)
Tulku (sprul sku; Nirmanakaya) - Emanated Form A reincarnate lama One of the Three Kayas, the way in which a Buddha manifests (in the case of the Nirmanakaya

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Dokham (category Key Terms)
Dokham (mdo khams) The eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. Ü (dbus) - 1) center, middle, midst, amidst, core, central. 2) Central Tibet, a district in

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Phenomena (category Key Terms)
Phenomena (snang ba): what appears to the mind, through sensory perceptions and mental events. [MR]

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Orgyen Tenzin Norbu (category Key Terms)
ཨོ་རྒྱན་བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་བུ།། o rgyan bstan 'dzin nor bu author of bde smon gyi spyi bshad byang chub sems dpa'i myur lam [RY] Orgyen Tendzin Norbu The nephew

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Siddhi (category Key Terms)
Siddhi -(bsgrub)- 1) lit. 'success, complete attainment'; there are eight 'common' siddhis developed by the practice of yoga. Among these are clairvoyance

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All-ground (category Key Terms)
All-ground (kun gzhi) alaya - all-ground. Literally, the 'foundation of all things.' The basis of mind and both pure and impure phenomena. This word has

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Sugata Essence (category Key Terms)
Sugata Essence (bde gshegs snying po) - 1) applies to the aspect of the mind essence present as the indivisibility of the Two Truths as itself the essence

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Dakini (category Key Terms)
Ḍākinī (mkha' 'gro ma) One of the three roots (rtsa ba gsum) of spiritual practice, along with the spiritual teacher and the meditational deity. The ḍākinī

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Kaya (category Key Terms)
body. sku The kayas: Various aspects or states of buddhahood. One recognizes two, three, four, or five kayas. Two Kayas: dharmakaya, the absolute body

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Dorje Drak Monastery (category Key Terms)
One the six principal Nyingma monasteries in Tibet. [[]] Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche Jangter [[]]

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Suchness (category Key Terms)
suchness, Skt. tattva. Synonym for emptiness or the 'nature of things,' dharmata, it can also be used to describe the unity of dependent origination and

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Superknowledges (category Key Terms)
Superknowledges (mngon shes). Divine sight, divine hearing, recollection of former lives, cognition of the minds of others, capacity for performing miracles

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Vajrapani (category Key Terms)
Vajrapani (phyag na rdo rje). 'Vajra Bearer.' One of the eight great bodhisattvas and the chief compiler of the Vajrayana teachings. Also known as 'Lord

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Bodhgaya (category Key Terms)
rdo rje gdan - Bodhgaya; Vajrasana, "the diamond throne of enlightenment", (the modern Bodh Gaya, site of the Buddha's enlightenment); Bodhgaya. diamond

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Dzachu (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

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Drichu (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

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Jambudvipa (category Key Terms)
ka shi ru - 1 of the 9 divisions of Jambudvipa, island in the Indian Ocean [IW] ko sha lA - Koshala (a mythical river the east of Jambudvipa) [RY] gling

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Tibetan Buddhism (category Key Terms)
Label created by Western scholars to distinguish the Buddhist traditions in Tibet from those of other countries. Tibetan masters use: nang pa sangs rgyas

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Six Paramitas (category Key Terms)
phar phyin drug - Six Paramitas. The six transcendent actions of Generosity, Discipline, Patience, Diligence, Concentration, and Discriminating Knowledge

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Bhumis (category Key Terms)
bodhisattva-bhumi Bodhisattva bhumis by Asanga [IW] Bodhisattva Levels; Bodhisattva Bhumi; by Asanga, 4th century [RY] Bodhisattva Bhumi; bodhisattva-bhumi

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Yeru (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

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Ngulchu (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

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Yönru (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

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Lharu (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

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Terton (category Key Terms)
Terton (gter ston) - Treasure Revealer A revealer of hidden treasures, concealed mainly by Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal. [RY] The term "terton" refers

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Zalmo 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

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Togal (category Key Terms)
Tögal (thod rgal) - 'Direct crossing.' Dzogchen has two main sections: Trekchö and Tögal. The former emphasizes primordial purity (ka dag) and the latter

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Mount Tisey (category Key Terms)
One of the Three Districts of Ngari in Upper Tibet - Mount Tisey surrounded by snow mountains, Gugey surrounded by slate mountains, and Purang surrounded

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Pandita (category Key Terms)
pandita (mkhas pa), master scholar. Please expand

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Mandala (category Key Terms)
dkyil 'khor - Mandala. 1) 'Center and surrounding.' Usually a deity along with its surrounding environment. A mandala is a symbolic, graphic representation

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Samantabhadri (category Key Terms)
kun tu bzang mo - 1) female of Samantabhadra; Samantabhadri, (p.n. of the Primordial Wisdom). 2) name of a sadhana [Caturanga Sadhana Samantabhadri Nama)

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Manchu (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

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Geru (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

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Tsawa 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

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Mardza 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

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Purang (category Key Terms)
One of the Three Districts of Ngari in Upper Tibet - Purang surrounded by water, Gugey surrounded by slate mountains and Mount Tisey surrounded by snow

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Gugey (category Key Terms)
One of the Three Districts of Ngari in Upper Tibet - Gugey surrounded by slate mountains, Mount Tisey surrounded by snow mountains and Purang surrounded

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Markham 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

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Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje (category Key Terms)
མདོ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ། mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje (mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje). (1800-April 7, 1866). A great

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Spontaneous Presence (category Key Terms)
Tib. - lhun grub 1) effortlessly naturally established; 2) spontaneous presence; 3) lhun grub dzong [IW] 1) spontaneous presence, One of the two main aspects

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Nalanda (category Key Terms)
Nalanda - First and most important of the Buddhist universities; the center of Mahayana studies for many centuries [RY] Nalanda (Skt.). The great monastic

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Chandrakirti (category Key Terms)
zla ba grags pa - Chandrakirti "Illustrious Moon" Madhyamika pandita of early 7th century AD [RY] rim lnga - the system of practical application of the

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Development and Completion (category Key Terms)
development and completion (bskyed rdzogs). The two main aspects, 'means and knowledge,' of Vajrayana practice. Briefly stated, development stage means

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Six Ridges and 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

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Four districts of Ü and Tsang (category Key Terms)
See also Ü and Tsang Ü (dbus) - 1) center, middle, midst, amidst, core, central. 2) Central Tibet, a district in Tibet; Ü One of the two central provinces

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Four Immeasurables (category Key Terms)
the four immeasurables; (tshad med bzhi) - 1) loving kindness {byams pa} Skt. maitri; 2) compassion {snying rje} Skt. karuna; 3) sympathetic joy {dga'

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Tangyur (category Key Terms)
The collection of translated commentaries by Indian masters on the Buddha's teachings; second part of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon in 213 volumes.

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Siddha (category Key Terms)
see also: grub thob Accomplished Master [GD] 'Accomplished one.' Someone who has attained siddhi; an accomplished master [RY] siddha/ accomplished master/

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Four Districts of Ü and Tsang (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

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Four noble truths (category Key Terms)
Four noble truths ('phags pa'i bden pa bzhi). The four truths are the truth of suffering, of origin, of the cessation, and of the path. The truth of suffering

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Dharmas (category Key Terms)
chos kun - (all) dharmas, this means simply, all phenomena, [informal:] all which exists. [RY]

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Buddhahood (category Key Terms)
Buddhahood (sangs rgyas nyid) The state of full enlightenment, which is totally free from conditioned existences, having totally overcome all the tendencies

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Yogachara (category Key Terms)
Yogachara (rnal 'byor spyod pa). The Mahayana school of philosophy established by Asanga; a philosophical school linked to the Mind Only and the Sutras

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Three Roots (category Key Terms)
bla sgrub - Guru Practices, guru sadhana. A development stage practice focusing on the guru aspect of the Three Roots [RY] rtsa ba gsum - Three Roots.

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Liberation (category Key Terms)
Liberation (thar pa): to be free from suffering and the cycle of existences. This is not yet the attainment of full Buddhahood. [MR] Liberation (grol ba/

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Tummo (category Key Terms)
gtum mo - 1) Tummo, practice of inner heat, Chandali, tummo, fierce, fiery, yogic inner heat; 2) fierce woman. Syn {gtum po} [RY]

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Khenchen Yonten Gyatso (category Key Terms)
མཁན་ཆེན་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ། mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho Khenpo Yonga མཁན་པོ་ཡོན་ག mkhan po yon ga Gemong Khenchen Yonten Gyatso was a personal student of

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Adzom Drukpa (category Key Terms)
ཨ་འཛོམ་འབྲུག་པ། a 'dzom 'brug pa (a 'dzom 'brug pa): 1842-1924 [MR] Known as 'The Wanderers Tamer' Adzom Drukpa (1842-1924) — Drodul Pawo Dorje ('gro 'dul

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Means and Knowledge (category Key Terms)
means and knowledge (thabs dang shes rab); Skt. prajna and upaya. Buddhahood is revealed by bringing to realization the unification of means and knowledge;

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Samsara (category Key Terms)
Samsara ('khor ba): the wheel or round of existence; the state of being unenlightened in which the mind, enslaved by the three poisons of desire, anger

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Vajra body (category Key Terms)
Vajra body (rdo rje'i lus), (rdo rje'i sku). The human body, the subtle channels of which resemble the structure of a vajra. (RY) Vajra body endowed with

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Sugatagarbha (category Key Terms)
bde bar gshegs pa'i snying po - Sugatagarbha. 'Sugata essence.' The most common Sanskrit term for what in the West is known as 'buddha nature.' [RY] bde

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Obscuration (category Key Terms)
Obscuration [RY] sgrib pa - Obscuration. The two veils of disturbing emotions and dualistic perception that cover one's buddha nature [RY] sgrib pa - Obscurations

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Amdo (category Key Terms)
a mdo mdo stod - 1) the Khams region, the Amdo region [RY] mdo stod - Khams[/ Amdo] region [nowadays Khams, formerly meant Amdo] [IW] mdo stod - Khams

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Aspiration (category Key Terms)
aspiration, supplication, wish, prayer *, good wishes, aspiration, prayed, vow [IW] smon pa'i byang chub kyi sems the bodhichitta of aspiration. one of

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Kalpa (category Key Terms)
Kalpa (bskal pa): A great kalpa, which corresponds to a cycle of formation and destruction of a universe, is divided into eighty intermediate kalpas. An

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Buddhafield (category Key Terms)
See rigs lnga'i zhing khams mkha' spyod - Khechara, the Buddhafield of Vajra Varahi [RY] mgon par dga' ba - Buddhafield of Manifest Joy [RY] mngon dga'

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Rigdzin Godem (category Key Terms)
Mount Trazang, at the three stone pillars of Dzengdrak Karpo, he found the keys to a cache with three greater Termas and one hundred minor. At that place

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Nyang Ral Nyima Ozer (category Key Terms)
ཉང་རལ་ཉི་མ་འོད་ཟེར། nyang ral nyi ma 'od zer Nyang Ral Nyima Özer (nyang ral nyi ma 'od zer). (1124-1192). In the district of Lhodrag situated to the south

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Nectar Quality (category Key Terms)
Nectar Quality (bdud rtsi yon tan). One of the Eight Sadhana Teachings. The heruka of the ratna family or the tantric teachings connected with that deity

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Nagi Gompa (category Key Terms)
Nagi Gompa (na gi dgon pa) (snang skyid dgon pa). Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's hermitage near Kathmandu.

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Nyingtik (category Key Terms)
སྙིང་ཐིག (snying thig) - Heart Essence In general identical with the Instruction Section (man ngag sde), the third of three division of Dzogchen. In particular

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Chatral Rinpoche (category Key Terms)
The name or rather the title Chatral/Chadrel Rinpoche is one you could say of respect or recognition, and has been given many time to a great many different

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Arhat (category Key Terms)
foe destroyer [thd] arhatship, hinayana saint, arhat (1 of lam bzhi) one who has subdued his enemy, Arhat who has overcome emotional conflicts, Foe Destroyer

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Development Stage (category Key Terms)
Nepal: Rangjung Yeshe Publications. Thinley Norbu. (1983). The Small Golden Key. Boston: Shambhala Publications. Tsele Natsok Rangdröl. (1987). The Mirror

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Awareness (category Key Terms)
Awareness (rig pa) The Tibetan term rig pa in its verbal sense means "to know", or "to be aware". When used as a noun, it has several distinct though not

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Namchö Mingyur Dorje (category Key Terms)
གནམ་ཆོས་མི་འགྱུར་རྡོ་རྗེ། gnam chos mi 'gyur rdo rje 1645-67 - Namchö Mingyur Dorje, tertön [RY] shud bu dpal gyi seng ge - Palgyi Senge of Shubu. One

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Five Wisdoms (category Key Terms)
ye shes lnga - five wisdoms [RY] ye shes lnga - the five wisdoms. {me long, lta bu} mirror [like] wisdom, {mnyam nyid} equality wisdom, {so sor rtog pa}

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Kriya (category Key Terms)
Three Outer Tantras (phyi rgyud sde gsum) See Kriya Yoga (bya rgyud)

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avadhuti (category Key Terms)
Central channel, (rtsa dbu ma), avadhuti. The central subtle channel within the body, running from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. (RY)

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Anuttara Yoga (category Key Terms)
anuttara yoga, highest yoga tantra, the unexcelled yoga [IW] anuttara yoga [IW] anuttarayoga. highest yoga tantra, the unexcelled yoga; Anuttara Yoga [RY]

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Dhyana (category Key Terms)
(Skt.) Dhyana; (Tib.) bsam gtan; (Pali) jhana. The state of concentrated mind and also the name for god realms produced through such mental concentration

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Amoghasiddhi (category Key Terms)
rgyal ba rigs lnga - Five male Buddhas. Vairochana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha and Amoghasiddhi [RY] don yod grub - Amoghasiddhi [JV] don yod grub

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Shechen Monastery (category Key Terms)
Shechen Monastery, one the six main Nyingma monasteries of Tibet, was destroyed in the late 1950’s during the Chinese occupation of Tibet. In exile, Dilgo

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Mipham Rinpoche (category Key Terms)
File:Mipham-1.jpg འཇུ་མི་ཕམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ 'ju mi pham rin po che Jamgon Mipham Namgyal Gyatso འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ 'jam mgon mi pham rnam rgyal

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Sautrantika (category Key Terms)
See Also: Svatantrika Sautrantika (mdo sde pa). A Hinayana school of philosophy and the second of the Four Major Buddhist Schools known for its reliance

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Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro (category Key terms)
File:Khyentse chokyi lodro.jpg Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro (rdzong gsar mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros 1893 - 1959) "The second in the line of Jamyang

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Khenpo Ngawang Palzang (category Key Terms)
མཁན་པོ་ངག་དབང་དཔལ་བཟང༌། mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang Khenpo Ngagi Wangpo མཁན་པོ་ངག་གི་དབང་པོ། mkhan po ngag gi dbang po Khenpo Ngakchung མཁན་པོ་ངག་ཆུང༌།

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Five Elements (category Key Terms)
The five elements ('byung ba lnga) Earth, water, fire, air and space. (sa chu me rlung nam mkha') [RY] khams drug ldan pa'i rdo rje'i lus - Vajra body

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Primordial Purity (category Key Terms)
ka dag - primordial purity, primordially pure; original purity; originally pure, pure from the beginningless beginning / 'first' [RY] ka dag - primordial

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Samsaric Existence (category Key Terms)
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche: "The only way to clear up the problem of samsaric existence is to dissolve ignorance into the primordial ground. This is done by

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Nine Vehicles (category Key Terms)
Nine vehicles (theg pa dgu). The nine gradual vehicles according to the Nyingma school: Shravaka, Pratyekabuddha, Bodhisattva, Kriya, Upa, Yoga, Mahayoga

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Generosity (category Key Terms)
kun gyi mchog - name of the past life of Shakyamuni in which he practiced the paramita of generosity [RY] dka' ba'i sbyin pa - 1) difficult generosity

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Stupa (category Key Terms)
mchod rten - Stupa. A dome-shaped monument housing relics of Buddha or an accomplished master. The shape of the stupa embodies an elaborate symbolism [RY]

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Equanimity (category Key Terms)
btang snyoms - 1) equanimity, impartiality, indifference, unconcern, evenmindedness, apathy [as one of the eleven virtuous mental states]. 2) to ignore

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Preliminary Practices (category Key Terms)
Preliminaries (sngon 'gro). The general outer preliminaries are the Four Mind Changings: reflections on precious human body, impermanence and death, cause

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Accumulation of Merit (category Key Terms)
Accumulation of merit (bsod nams kyi tshogs). Virtuous actions with concepts. [RY] kun rdzob rgya che ba'i lam gyi rim pa - the aspects of the path of

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Sentient Being (category Key Terms)
Sentient Being (sems can/ 'gro ba) In a Buddhist context, the expression 'sentient being' has a technical usage which contrasts with the concept of a buddha

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Mahasandhi (category Key Terms)
nang klong sde - the inner Space section [of mahasandhi, one of {rdzogs chen sde gsum} [IW] nor bu phra bkod - Jewel Studded [a mahasandhi tantra] [IW]

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Sukhavati (category Key Terms)
bde ldan zhing - Sukhavati, the Blissful Realm [RY] bde ba can - Blissful Realm, Sukhavati. The pure land of Buddha Amitabha in which a practitioner can

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Nyingtik Yabshi (category Key Terms)
"The import of the three classes, the nine-fold expanse, and all the other key instructions of the Great Perfection were condensed by the Kashmiri scholar

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Refuge (category Key Terms)
Refuge: (1) skyabs yul, the object in which one takes refuge, (2) skyabs 'gro, the practice of taking refuge. [MR]

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Early Translations (category Key Terms)
Early Translations (snga 'gyur) Short for: the Old School of the Early Translations (snga 'gyur rnying ma) See: Nyingma (rnying ma)

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Anuyoga (category Key Terms)
Anu Yoga, subsequent yoga. Syn a nu yo ga [RY] Anu Yoga [RY] Anuyoga [RY] anu yoga, the subsequent yoga [IW] anuyoga, Vehicle of the Anuyoga Tantra, Anuyoga

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Accumulation of Wisdom (category Key Terms)
Accumulation of wisdom (ye shes kyi tshogs). Virtuous actions embraced by discriminating knowledge (shes rab) of insight into emptiness. [RY] tshogs gnyis

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All-ground Wisdom (category Key Terms)
all-ground wisdom - (kun gzhi'i ye shes) [RY] khams drug ldan pa'i rdo rje'i lus - Vajra Body endowed with the six elements. The six outer elements are

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Pratyekabuddha (category Key Terms)
grub - to have done {ngas rang rgyal la phul grub} I offered it to a Pratyekabuddha [RY] rgyu'i theg pa gsum - Three Causal Vehicles. Those of the pious

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Ati (category Key Terms)
[Skt.] - Ati or Ati Yoga, [Tib.] - (shin tu rnal 'byor) — third of the three inner tantras; emphasizes, according to Jamgon Kongtrul the First, the view

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Yukhok Chatralwa (category Key Terms)
གཡུ་ཁོག་བྱ་བྲལ་བ། g.yu khog bya bral ba Chadrel Choying Rangdrol བྱ་བྲལ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རང་གྲོལ། bya bral chos dbyings rang grol 'Yukhok Chatralwa Lama Choying

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Yogi (category Key Terms)
rnal 'byor pa - Yogi / yogi. Tantric practitioner. Here, this word 'yogi' often holds the connotation of someone of who already has some level of realization

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Benchen monastery (category Key Terms)
The monastery of Benchen Phuntsok Dargyeling (ban chen dgon phun tshogs dar rgyas gling) was established by the 4th Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche and was recently

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Sadhana Practice (category Key Terms) (section Terms and Examples)
sgrub thabs - Sadhana. 'Means of accomplishment.' Tantric liturgy and procedure for practice usually emphasizing the development stage. The typical sadhana

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Dongak Tenpei Nyima (category Key Terms)
མདོ་སྔགས་བསྟན་པའི་ཉི་མ། mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma bod pa sprul sku mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma rin po che--(1907-1959); Bötrül Rinpoche was a important

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Development stage (category Key Terms)
Development stage (bskyed rim). See 'development and completion.' [RY]

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Bindu (category Key Terms)
kun rdzob rgyu'i thig le - relative substance bindus [RY] bkod pa thig le - arrayed bindus [RY] rkyang ma - kyangma nadi [white element etc. water element

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Namcho (category Key Terms)
གནམ་ཆོས་ gnam chos "The Namcho (Space Treasure) Dzogchen system is called "Buddha in the Palm of the Hand." The Namcho teachings were revealed in the 17th

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Concentration (category Key Terms)
sems 'dzin - focusing of the mind, fixing the mind / attention, concentration, focused attention; fixation of mind, Semdzin (a series of meditation exercises

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Upa Yoga (category Key Terms)
the vehicle whose action is Kriya Tantra and view is Yoga Tantra. [RY]

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Lotsawa (category Key Terms)
'jig rten mig gcig - Translator. The Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit word Locava [lotsawa] [RY] g.yu sgra snying po - Yudra Nyingpo. One of the twenty-five

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Svabhavikakaya (category Key Terms)
Four kayas (sku bzhi) - The three kayas plus svabhavikakaya [RY] four bodies of a Buddha (sku bzhi) - 1) {ngo bo nyid sku} Natural Truth Body. 2) {ye shes

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Lho Lungkar Monastery (category Key Terms)
ལྷོ་ལུང་དཀར་དགོན་ lho lung dkar dgon Full name: Ogmin Tubten Shedrub Ling, in Nangchen. མདོ་ཁམས་སྦས་ལུང་དཀར་གསལ་ས་ཡི་ཐིག ། དག་པ་འོག་མིན་ཞིང་གི་དཔལ་འཛིན་གནས།

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Kathog Situ Rinpoche (category Key Terms)
ཀཿཐོག་སི་ཏུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། (ka: thog si tu rin po che) 1st Kathok Situ Chokyi Senge 2nd Kathok Situ Chokyi Lodro 3rd Kathok Situ Chokyi Gyatso 4th Kathok Situ

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Kshitigarbha (category Key Terms)
the bodhisattva Kshitigarbha (sa yi snying po) - the Essence of Earth. In the bardo {zhi khro} his consort is {lAs-ye}; (white/southeast) [RY]

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Tushita (category Key Terms)
1) joyful; 2) Ganden Monastery; 3) Tushita Heaven [IW] Tushita [IW] 1) happy, joyful. 2) Tushita Heaven, the Joyous Land, the fourth heaven in the realm

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Discriminating Knowledge (category Key Terms)
see details under Prajna kun rtogs ye shes - discriminating wisdom, discriminating knowledge [RY] nges pa'i tshig so so yang dag par rig pa - discriminating

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Kilaya Activity (category Key Terms)
Kilaya Activity (phur pa phrin las). The heruka of the karma family or the tantric teachings connected to this deity among the Eight Sadhana Teachings

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Mantrayana (category Key Terms)
dkyil 'khor yongs dag - 1) the complete purity of the mandala. 2) One of the four special qualities of Mantrayana. {gsang sngags kyi thabs mkhas khyad

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Dordrak Rigdzin Chenpo (category Key Terms)
རྡོར་བྲག་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོ། rdor brag rig 'dzin chen po rdo rje brag rig 'dzin chen po - Vidyadhara of Dorje Drak [RY] 1st Terchen Rigdzin Gokyi Demtrul Chen

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Adzom Gyalse Gyurme Dorje (category Key Terms)
ཨ་འཛོམ་རྒྱལ་སྲས་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ། a 'dzom rgyal sras 'gyur med rdo rje Accourding to Tulku Thondup b.1895?-d.1959? Agyur Rinpoche was the son of Adzom

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Geshe (category Key Terms)
Geshe (dge bshes). 1) A spiritual teacher according to the Mahayana teachings. 2) A learned teacher according to the Kadam and Gelug traditions. In the

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Cognitive Obscuration (category Key Terms)
cognitive obscuration (shes sgrib), (shes bya'i sgrib pa) - The subtle obscuration of holding on to the concepts of subject, object and action. [RY]

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Khenchen Thupten Ozer (category Key Terms)
མཁན་ཆེན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་འོད་ཟེར། mkhan chen thub bstan 'od zer Mewa Khenpo Thupten རྨེ་བ་མཁན་པོ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་། rme ba mkhan po thub bstan Growing up under the guidance

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Chittamatra (category Key Terms)
sems tsam - Mind Only school, Chittamatra; the doctrine of Mind-Only; founded by Maitreya and Asanga, idealist-mentalist, just displays of mind. Def. by

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Rakshasa (category Key Terms)
kun 'joms - 1) all-conquering; 2) great rakshasa, All-conqueror: Indra, yoga [IW] kun tu 'tshe ba - 1) to give constant trouble. 2) rakshasa [RY] kun gsod

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Akashagarbha (category Key Terms)
nam mkha'i snying po - Akashagarbha (yellow/ southwest); Essence of Space, n. of bodhisattva, n. of one of the 25 Disciples of Padmasambhava in Tibet.

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Khenpo Ngakchung (category Key Terms)
This is the RYI Dictionary content as presented on the site http://rywiki.tsadra.org/, which is being changed fundamentally and will become hard to use

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Ganachakra (category Key Terms)
Gaṇachakra,(Skt. gaṇacakra, Tib. tshogs kyi 'khor lo), feast offering. A feast assembly performed by Vajrayāna practitioners to accumulate merit and purify

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Lotus Speech (category Key Terms)
Lotus Speech (padma gsung). The heruka of the padma family or the tantric teachings connected to this deity among the Eight Sadhana Teachings. [RY]

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Rupakaya (category Key Terms)
sku - kayas. 'Body' in the sense of a body or embodiment of numerous qualities. When speaking of two kayas: Dharmakaya and Rupakaya. The Three Kayas are

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Dzogchen Desum (category Key Terms)
Dzogchen Desum (rdzogs chen sde gsum). Three Sections of Dzogchen. After Garab Dorje established the six million four hundred thousand tantras of Dzogchen

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five paths (category Key Terms)
five paths (lam lnga). The five paths or stages on the way to enlightenment: the path of accumulation, joining, seeing, cultivation, and consummation or

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Ekajati (category Key Terms)
bka' srung sngags srung ma - Ekajati [RY] sngags srung ma - Ekajati [RY] sngags srung ye ka dza ti' - Ekajati, Guardian of Mantrayana [RY] rdo rje spyan

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Chemchok Heruka (category Key Terms)
che mchog - Most Supreme. Chemchok Heruka. Usually identical with Nectar Quality, the chief heruka of the Ratna Family. Sometimes, in the case of Assemblage

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Prana (category Key Terms)
the breath of life , breath , respiration spirit vitality

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Manjushri Body (category Key Terms)
Manjushri Body ('jam dpal sku). The heruka of the Tathagata Body family or the tantric teachings connected to this deity among the Eight Sadhana Teachings

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Twenty-five Tantras of the Great Perfection (category Key Terms)
Twenty-five Tantras of the Great Perfection ༺རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་ལྔ།༻ - (rdzogs chen kyi rgyud nyi shu rtsa lnga) - twenty-five tantras, belonging

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Ratnasambhava (category Key Terms)
rin chen 'byung - Ratnasambhava [JV] rin chen 'byung dan - Ratnasambhava [RY] rin chen 'byung ldan - The Jewel-born, {rin chen 'byung gnas} Ratnasambhava

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Chowang Tulku (category Key Terms)
ཆོས་དབང་སྤྲུ་སྐུ་ chos dbang sprul sku 1st Guru Chowang (#?) Chowang Tulku Karma Urgyen (#?) Chowang Tulku Urgyen Jigme Rabsel Choktrul Chowang Rinpoche

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Middle Way (category Key Terms) (section Key Texts and Commentaries)
Middle Way (dbu ma); Skt. Madhyamaka. The highest of the Four Buddhist Schools of Philosophy. The Middle Way means not holding any extreme views, especially

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Four Cycles of Guru Sadhana (category Key Terms)
Four Cycles of Guru Sadhana (bla sgrub skor bzhi).

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Thubten Chokyi Dawa (category Key Terms)
ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཟླ་བ། thub bstan chos kyi zla ba དཔལ་ཡུལ་མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་འཇམ་དཔལ་དགྱེས་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ། Palyul Choktrul Jampel Gyepai Dorje dpal yul mchog sprul

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Guru Chowang (category Key Terms)
གུ་རུ་ཆོས་དབང༌། gu ru chos dbang Guru Chokyi Wangchuk གུ་རུ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག gu ru chos kyi dbang phyug Terchen Guru Chowang (1212-1270) The speech emanation

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Jigme Trinley Ozer (category Key Terms)
འཇིགས་མེད་འཕྲིན་ལས་འོད་ཟེར། 'jigs med 'phrin las 'od zer The First Dodrupchen Rinpoche Jigme Trinley Ozer (1745-1821), was born in the Do valley of Golok

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Alaya (category Key Terms)
1) collecting place, begging bowl; 2) continuum of mind, one's nature; 3) alaya [one of the 8 consciousnesses all-ground, basis/ ground/ fundamental structuring

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Buddhas of the Three Times (category Key Terms)
kun tu bzang mo - Ever-Excellent Lady, Skt. Samantabhadri. The All-good, the mother of all the buddhas of the three times; the female counterpart / consort

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Mind-Only (category Key Terms)
Mind-Only (sems tsam pa), Chittamatra. A Mahayana school of Buddhist philosophy propagated by the great master Asanga and his followers. Founded on the

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Nanam Dorje Dudjom (category Key Terms)
སྣ་ནམ་རྡོ་རྗེ་བདུད་འཇོམས། sna nam rdo rje bdud 'joms Dorje Dudjom of Nanam (sna nam pa rdo rje bdud 'joms). One of King Trisong Deutsen's ministers, sent

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Non-duality (category Key Terms)
gnyis med - advaya, freedom from duality, formal identity, non-duality, not two, unity, not different, union, matchless, identical, inseparability, indivisible

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Dharma protector (category Key Terms)
chos skyong - Dharma protector. Nonhumans who vow to protect and guard the teachings of the Buddha and its followers. Dharma protectors can be either 'mundane'

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Dharmapalas (category Key Terms)
bstan srung - 1) guardians of the teachings/ religion; 2) dharmapalas [wrathful deities who protect the teachings] [IW] bstan srung - 1) guardians of the

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Resultant Vehicle (category Key Terms)
resultant vehicle ('bras bu'i theg pa) - The Vajrayana system of taking fruition as the path by regarding buddhahood as inherently present and regarding

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Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje (category Key Terms)
A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems

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Akanishtha (category Key Terms)
Akanishtha ('og min). The 'highest;' the realm of Vajradhara, the enlightened sphere the dharmakaya buddha. Often used as a synonym for 'dharmadhatu.'

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Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery (category Key Terms)
Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery A monastery located in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal. Built by the late Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in 1976 and now overseen by

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Kriya Tantra (category Key Terms)
kun rdzob dag pa'i lha rigs gsum - three relative families of pure deities [in Kriya Tantra). {de bzhin gshegs pa'i rigs, pad ma'i rigs, rdo rje'i rigs}

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Khenpo (category Key Terms)
Khenpo (mkhan po). A title for one who has completed the major course of studies of about ten years' duration of the traditional branches of Buddhist philosophy

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Amitayus (category Key Terms)
mgon po tshe dpag med - Protector Amitayus Boundless Life [RY] sgyu 'phrul tshe dkar - Gyutrül Tsekar. One of the termas revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa which

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Absolute (category Key Terms)
the absolute, corresponds to Absolute Truth, absolute, 'fully established'. consummate, established reality, established phenomena, full presence, ultimate

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Mindrolling Monastery (category Key Terms)
༄༅། །འོག་མིན་ཨོ་རྒྱན་སྨིན་གྲོལ་གླིང་དགོན། ། Ogmin Orgyen Mindrolling Monastery ('og min o rgyan smin grol gling dgon) --- See inside ground floor of the

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Longchen Nyingtik (category Key Terms)
ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག klong chen snying thig Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse Visions (dag snang) of 'jigs med gling pa; Longchen Nyingtig. the Heart Essence

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Yoga (category Key Terms)
Yoga (rnal 'byor). ) The actual integration of learning into personal experience. ) The third of the three outer tantras: Kriya, Upa and Yoga. It emphasizes

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