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

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

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.

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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