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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

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

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

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

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

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

gnyis med - advaya, freedom from duality, formal identity, non-duality, not two, unity, not different, union, matchless, identical, inseparability, indivisible

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'

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

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

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

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}

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

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

the absolute, corresponds to Absolute Truth, absolute, 'fully established'. consummate, established reality, established phenomena, full presence, ultimate

༄༅། །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

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

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