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This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
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Pages in category "Key Terms"
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E
- E and VAM
- Early Translations
- Earth terma
- Effect
- Ego
- Ego Consciousness
- Ego-clinging
- Egolessness
- Eight Aspects of the Path of Noble Beings
- Eight Auspicious Substances
- Eight Black and White Deeds
- Eight Chariots of the Practice Lineage
- Eight Chariots of Transmission
- Eight Classes of Gods and Demons
- Eight Collections of Consciousness
- Eight Collections of Consciousnesses
- Eight collections of consciousnesses
- Eight conditions that cause one to drift away from the dharma
- Eight conditions that limit one's natural potential to attain freedom
- Eight Freedoms
- Eight Great Accomplishment
- Eight Great Bodhisattvas
- eight great charnel grounds
- Eight great vidyadharas
- Eight Sadhana Teachings
- eight unfree states
- Eight vehicles
- Eight worldly concerns
- Eighteen Distinct Doctrines of the Buddhas
- Eighteen Elements
- Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras
- Eighty Inherent Thought States
- Eighty Innate Thought States
- Eighty Minor Marks of Excellence
- Ekajati
- Elements
- Emanation
- Embodiment of the Precious Ones
- Emotional Obscuration
- Empowerment
- Empowerment of Longevity
- Emptiness
- Empty Luminosity
- Empty of Inherent Existence
- Enhancement
- Enlightened Beings
- Enlightenment
- Entrustment
- Envy
- Equanimity
- Essence kaya
- Essence Mantra
- Essence mantra
- Essence of the Sugatas
- Essence, nature, and capacity
- Essence, Nature, Capacity
- Eternalism
- Existence
- Experience and Realization
F
- Family
- Father Tantra
- Feast offering
- Fierce Mantras
- Five aggregates
- Five Aspects of Involvement
- Five Aspects of Mantra
- Five Awakenings
- Five Basic Mahayoga Tantras
- Five conflicting emotions
- Five Consorts
- Five Dakini Aspects
- Five Early Translations
- Five Elements
- Five elements
- Five eminent beings
- Five Families
- Five greatnesses
- Five Kayas
- Five kayas
- Five kayas of fruition
- Five kinds of wrong livelihood
- Five male Buddhas
- Five paths
- five paths
- Five poisons
- Five Powerful Ones
- Five precious things
- five riches from oneself are
- five riches from others are
- Five sciences
- Five Sense Consciousnesses
- Five Stages
- Five Treasuries
- Five Types of Speech
- Five Wisdoms
- Five wisdoms
- Fixation
- Fixation - continued
- Form Realm
- Formless Realm
- Formless realm
- Formless Realms
- Forty Thought States of Desire
- Four activities
- Four Applications of Mindfulness
- Four Aspects of Approach and Accomplishment
- Four Awakenings
- Four Bardos
- Four Basic Strayings
- Four Bodies of a Buddha
- Four Cycles of Guru Sadhana
- Four Dhyana States
- Four dhyana states of serenity
- Four districts of Ü and Tsang
- Four Districts of Ü and Tsang
- Four Doors of Birth
- Four empowerments
- Four formless states of serenity
- Four Great Kalpas
- Four Human Unfree States
- Four Immeasurables
- Four kayas
- Four Kayas
- Four Lamps
- Four Legs of Miraculous Action
- Four Major Sections of Yoga Tantra
- Four Maras
- Four Mind Changings
- Four modes
- Four Nails
- Four noble truths
- Four Nonhuman Unfree States
- Four Obscurations
- Four Ornaments
- Four philosophical schools
- Four Precepts
- Four Rivers
- Four Rivers of the Transmission
- Four root precepts
- Four Schools
- Four Sections of Tantra
- Four Sisters
- Four Special Qualities of the Transmitted Precepts
- Four Tantras
- Four Times Hundred Thousand Practices
- Four types of right discrimination
- Four Wrathful Gate Keepers
- Fourfold Fearlessness
- Freedoms and riches
- Fruition
- Fruitional Vehicle
G
- g.yu khog bya bral ba
- Ganachakra
- Gandharvas
- Gangteng Monastery
- garbha
- Garuda
- Garwang Drodul Lingpa
- Gektor
- general outer preliminaries
- Generation Process
- Generosity
- Geru
- Geshe
- Getse Jigme Ngotsar
- Ghanavyuha
- gnam chos
- gnam chos mi 'gyur rdo rje
- Gochen Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche
- Gongdu
- Gonpo Tseten Rinpoche
- Good Aeon
- Gowo Rabjampa Sonam Senge
- Grasping and Fixation
- Great Accomplishment
- Great Aeon
- Great Dharma king of India
- Great Primordial Purity
- Great Wrathful One
- Ground
- Ground Luminosity
- Ground, Path, And Fruition
- gter bdag gling pa
- gter chen 'gyur med rdor rje
- gter chen gter bdag gling pa
- Guardians of the Teaching
- Gugey
- Guhya Mantra
- Guhyagarbha
- guhyamantra
- Guru
- Guru Chowang
- Guru Jober
- Guru's Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles
- Gutrul Sangwa Nyingpo
- Gyalpo spirits
- Gyalse Orgyen Tendzin
- Gyalse Sonam Detsen
- Gyalse Tulku Drakpa Ozer
- Gyalwa Phukhang Monastery
- Gyangkhang Rigdizn Jigme Rangdrol
- Gyangkhang Tulku
- Gyarong Tendzin Drakpa
- Gyu Sangwa Nyingpo
H
- Habitual Obscuration
- Habitual tendencies
- Habitual Tendencies
- Hearing Lineage
- hearing lineage
- Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse
- Heart Sutra
- Heat and Summit
- Heat of samadhi
- Heretic
- Heruka
- Hidden Treasures
- Higher Abhidharma
- Higher perceptions
- Highest Limit of Reality
- Hinayana
- Hinayana Path
- Hindus
- Hope and Fear
- hridaya
- Hundred syllable mantra
- Hundred Syllables of Vajrasattva
- Hungry Ghosts
I
- Ignorance
- Ignorance of the Imaginary
- Ignorant All-Ground
- Ignorant all-ground
- ignorant aspect of the all-ground
- Illumination
- Illusion
- Impermanence
- Increase
- Individual Liberation
- Individual Self
- Indivisibility
- Inherently Present
- Innate Nature
- Innate nature
- Innate Wakefulness
- Inner Tantras
- Innermost Unexcelled Cycle of the Great Perfection
- Insight
- Interdependence
- Intrinsic Awareness
- Investigation of Act and Actor
- Investigation of Actions and Fruits
- Investigation of Anguish
- Investigation of Birth, Abiding and Perishing
- Investigation of Bondage and Freedom
- Investigation of Combination
- Investigation of Coming and Going
- Investigation of Conditions
- Investigation of Connections
- Investigation of Desire and the Desirous One
- Investigation of Error
- Investigation of Essences
- Investigation of Extremes of Before and After
- Investigation of Fire and Firewood
- Investigation of Nirvana
- Investigation of Rising and Passing
- Investigation of Samskaras
- Investigation of Self and Things
- Investigation of the Aggregates
- Investigation of the Elements
- Investigation of the Ennobling Truths
- Investigation of the Presence of Something Prior
- Investigation of the Sense Organs
- Investigation of the Tathagata
- Investigation of Time
- Investigation of Views
- Ishvara
J
K
- Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery
- Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery
- Kagye Desheg Dupa
- Kalpa
- Kalsang Monastery
- Kangyur
- Kapala
- kar ma chags med r'a ga a syas
- Karma
- Karma Chagme Raga Asey
- Karma Chagmey
- Karma Kuchen Dongak Chokyi Nyima
- Karma Kuchen Karma Chopal Zangpo
- Karma Kuchen Karma Gyurme
- Karma Kuchen Karma Thegchog Nyingpo
- Karma Lhawang
- Karma Lingpa
- Karmamudra
- Karmic Obscurations
- Kartor
- Kashyapa
- Kathog Situ Rinpoche
- Kathok Dampa Deshek Sherab Senge
- Kathok Gyaltsap Rinpoche
- Kathok Moktsa Rinpoche
- Kathok Sonam Gyaltsen
- Kaya
- Kayas and Wisdoms
- Key Points of Instruction
- Khandro Nyingtik
- khang sar bstan pa'i dbang phyug
- Khangsar Tenpe Wangchug
- Khenchen Jampal Dewai Nyima
- Khenchen Khyabdal Lhundrub
- Khenchen Thupten Ozer
- Khenchen Yonten Gyatso
- Khenchen Zhenphen Chokyi Nangwa
- Khenpo
- Khenpo Chökhyab
- Khenpo Kunpal
- Khenpo Kunzang Palden
- Khenpo Lekshe Jorden
- Khenpo Ngaga
- Khenpo Ngagi Wangpo
- Khenpo Ngakchung
- Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
- Khenpo Palden Sherab
- Khenpo Shenga
- khyung lung ras pa dam tshig rdo rje
- Khyunglung Repa Damtsig Dorje
- Khyungtrul Pema Wangchen
- Kilaya Activity
- King Songtsen Gampo
- Klesha
- klong chen snying thig
- Knowledge
- Konchok Chidu
- Kriya
- Kriya Tantra
- Kriya Yoga
- Kriya, Ubhaya and Yoga
- Kshatriya
- Kshitigarbha
- Kyoton Shakya Yeshe
- Kün-zang La-may Zhal-lung
L
- Lachen Gongpa Rabsal
- Lachen Yonten Zung
- Lagla Sonam Chodrub
- Lake of Splendor
- Lake-born Guru
- Lake-born Vajra
- Lake-born Vajra Holder
- Lalitavistara
- Lama
- Lama Gönpo Tseten
- Lamps
- Large Perfection of Wisdom
- las rab gling pa gter ston bsod rgyal
- Layman
- Learning, reflection and meditation
- lha btsun nam mkha' 'jigs med
- Lhalung Monastery
- Lharje Cheton Gyanak
- Lharu
- Lhasa
- Lhatsun Namkha Jigme
- Lho Bongtrul Tendzin Nyima
- lho lung dkar dgon
- Lho Lungkar Monastery
- Lho Ontul Rinpoche
- Liberating Sorcery of Mother Deities
- Liberation
- Liberation Offering
- Longchen Nyingtik
- Longchenpa
- Lord of Death
- Lords of the Three Families
- Lotsawa
- Lotus Family
- Lotus Speech
- Lower Abhidharma
- Lower realms
- Lower sections of Secret Mantra
- Luminosity
- Luminous Vajra Essence
- Lung Anu Yoga
- Lungtrul Shedrub Tenpe Nyima
M
- Madhyamaka
- Magical Net
- Maha Yoga
- Mahakala
- Mahamudra
- Mahasandhi
- Mahayana
- Mahayoga
- Mahayoga Tantra
- Major and Minor Marks
- Major and minor marks of a Buddha
- Maledictory Fierce Mantra
- Mamaki
- Manchu
- Mandala
- Mandarava Flower
- Manifest Luminosity
- Manjugosha
- Manjushri Body
- Manjusri
- Mantra
- Mantra vehicle
- Mantrayana
- Mantrika
- Mara
- Mardza Ridge
- Markham Ridge
- Master
- Materiality
- mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje
- mdo sngags bstan pa'i nyi ma
- me long rdo rje
- Meadow of Mönkha
- Means
- Means and Knowledge
- Means and knowledge
- Measureless Light
- Meditation
- Meditative absorption
- Melong Dorje
- Mending-purification
- Mental Constructs
- Menyag-rab Ridge
- Merit
- Mewa Khenchen Sonam Chodrub
- Mewa Khenpo Thupten
- Middle Way
- Mind
- Mind Consciousness
- Mind Essence
- Mind Only School
- Mind terma
- Mind-Only
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness and Introspection
- Mindrolling Monastery
- Minling Khenchen Orgyen Tendzin Dorje
- Minling Terchen Terdak Lingpa
- Minyak Kunzang Sonam
- Mipham
- Mipham Rinpoche
- Mirror-like Wisdom
- mkha' 'gro snying thig
- mkhan chen khyab brdal lhun grub
- mkhan chen thub bstan 'od zer
- mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho
- mkhan po chos khyab
- mkhan po ngag chung
- mkhan po ngag dbang dpal bzang
- mkhan po ngag ga
- mkhan po ngag gi dbang po
- mkhan po yon ga
- Mother Luminosity
- Mother of All Buddhas
- Mother Tantra
- Mount Kailash
- Mount Sumeru
- Mount Sumeru and the four continents
- Mount Tisey
- Mt. Kailash
- Mt. Meru
- Multiplicity
- Mundane Worship