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• Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
  Rinpoche honed his English language skills and began to offer weekend teachings to the Western travelers. In 1980, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche and his father
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• F
  fundamental teachings of the Nyingma kahma and the main teachings for the practice of the Kagyu lineage; 4) the Precious Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings (rin
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• Mindfulness (category Teachings)
  antarabhava - bardo. 'Intermediate state.' Usually refers to the period between death and the next rebirth. For details of the four bardos, see Mirror of
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• I
  Ignorance of the ultimate truth is the main cause of samsaric existence. [Bardo Guide 91] [RY] Ignorance of single identity (bdag nyid gcig pa'i ma rig pa)
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• O
  disturbing emotions and dualistic knowledge that cover one's buddha nature. [Bardo Guide 91] [RY] Obscuration (sgrib pa). The two veils of disturbing emotions
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• Dewachen (category Teachings)
  land of Buddha Amitabha in which a practitioner can take rebirth during the bardo of becoming through a combination of pure faith, sufficient merit, and one-pointed
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• Skandhas (category Teachings)
  {gzugs} dissolved in the {dun gzhi} at death. The 1st four stages in the bardo of the after-death experience. ignorance, stirring of conscious patterning
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• D
  Nick Dudka's thangka artwork, here> [1]) Dakini Teachings (Shambhala Publications) [LW1] [RY] Dakini Teachings: Padmasambhava's Oral Instructions to Lady Tsogyal
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• Enlightened Beings (category Teachings)
  dag pa chos nyid kyi bar do - the pure bardo of dharmata [experienced by enlightened beings] [RY] gdung - beam, pedigree, spiritual descent, bones, remains
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• rdzogs chen rgyud bco brgyad
  intermediate state, the bardo, after passing away. It teaches how to resolve one’s master’s oral instructions during the bardo of this life, how to stabilize
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• Vidyadharas (category Teachings)
  Garbha, and Guhyachandra. dag pa rig 'dzin - Pure vidyadharas; appear in the bardo of dharmata [RY] rgya gar rig 'dzin brgyad - eight vidyadharas of India [RY]
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• V
  Vimalamitra, he was one of the three main masters to bring the Dzogchen teachings to Tibet. [Bardo Guide 91] [RY] Vairochana (Skt.). The great translator who lived
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• Vidyadhara
  sgrub pa sde dgu - Nine Sadhana Sections. The Eight Sadhana Teachings in addition to the teachings connected to Guru Vidyadhara. Sometimes the Assemblage of
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• Tantra of the Union of Sun and Moon (category Teachings)
  intermediate state, the bardo, after passing away. It teaches how to resolve one's master's oral instructions during the bardo of this life, how to stabilize
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• Blissful Realm (category Teachings)
  land of Buddha Amitabha in which a practitioner can take rebirth during the bardo of becoming through a combination of pure faith, sufficient merit, and one-pointed
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• C
  sequence or quality." [AL] [RY] Causal philosophical teachings (rgyu mtshan nyid kyi chos). The teachings of Hinayana and Mahayana which regard practices of
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• G
  children died in an epidemic. After having studied and practiced the Kadampa teachings, at the age of thirty-two he met and became the foremost disciple of Jetsun
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• Bardo Consciousness (category Teachings)
  awareness of the 'in-between', transitional impermanance of all relative states. [RWB]
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• P
  Theravadin Buddhism under Anoratha [RY] Painful bardo of dying ('chi kha sdug bsngal gyi bar do). See Bardo of dying. [RY] Pal Gyalkar (1992) speaks of twenty-five
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• A
  used especially in the teachings of the maha, anu and ati tantras demonstrating that all phenomena are inherently perfect. [Bardo Guide 91] RY All-ground
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• M
  established the teachings in Kashmir; sometimes regarded as an eight patriarch [RY] Madhyantika - A disciple of Ananda who established the teachings in Kashmir;
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• Sounds, Colors and Lights (category Teachings)
  sounds & lights & rays in bardo, sgra yis dngangs so, 'od kyis 'jigs so, zer gyis sgrag go [JV] sounds, [colored] lights, and [light] rays [IW] sounds
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• Dissolution (category Teachings)
  expanse (of being)* [RB] Whiteness (dkar lam) - An experience during the bardo of dying. The first stage of the subtle dissolution stages of appearance
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• Bodhisattva of Compassion (category Teachings)
  meditation on Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, can nourish the bardo consciousness as well as hungry ghosts [RY]
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• U
  T'ien-t'ai master and scholarvUisang - Korean master who introduced Hua-yen teachings to Korea [RY] Ujjaini - Early Buddhist center; later a center of literary
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• Three Dissolution Stages (category Teachings)
  experience during the bardo of dying. The first stage of the subtle dissolution stages of appearance, increase, and attainment [RY] Bardo of dying ('chi kha'i
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• J
  R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z - Ja O Kyilbar. [RY] Jahabira - The teachings on prana of the Indian mahasiddha Jahabira are instructions on the vital
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• Subtle Dissolution Stage (category Teachings)
  during the bardo of dying. The first stage of the subtle dissolution stages of appearance, increase and attainment [RY] 'chi kha'i bar do - Bardo of dying
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• bka' babs bzhi
  these teachings from Dingkipa. 2) Father Tantra, from Bodhisattva Ratnamati, Nagarjuna, andMatangi. Tilopa taught that he received these teachings from
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• bardo of this life (category Teachings)
  [RB] bardo of the present life/ [place/process] of birth [IW] bardo of the present life, * intermediate state of the condition of birth [IW] bardo of the
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• Birth by Transformation (category Teachings)
  hell beings (dmyal ba rnams) or (dmyal ba pa); devas, and beings in the bardo; some dragons ('brug), garudas (khyung), and hungry ghosts (yi dvags); and
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• T continued
  grva) [RY] Teachings of Maitreya (byams chos). [EMP] [RY] Teachings of the Kadampas, Father and Son; (bka' gdams pha chos bu chos), the teachings on mind
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• Wrathful Deities (category Teachings)
  wrathful deities [IW] khro bo'i bar do - the bardo of the wrathful deities [IW] khro bo'i bar do - the bardo of the wrathful deities [part of {chos nyid
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• Three Lower Realms (category Teachings)
  lower realms [RY] 'jig rten bdun - the seven worlds [the six lokas and the bardo, OR the three lower realms, plus gods and human beings, the five kinds of
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  introduced the gCod teachings. His disciple, sKyo ston bSod nams bla ma, founded the Father lineage of gCod which followed the Sutrayana teachings according to
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  Nyingma teachings, and precedes the oral lineage of the individuals, described in note 51. In the Mahayoga, this is the transmission of teachings from the
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• Ground Luminosity (category Teachings)
  dang po - First bardo. Usually the moment of "ground luminosity." [RY] bar do dang po gzhi'i 'od gsal - ground luminosity of the 1st bardo [IW] ma'i 'od
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• Development Stage (category Teachings)
  a similar but slightly different categorization found in the Dzogchen teachings. These four correlate with the four types of birth: egg birth, womb birth
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  happiness since even the highest realms of the gods are still within samsara. [Bardo Guide 91] [RY] Three Hundred and Sixty Sacred Incantations (gzungs sum brgya
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• Illusory Body
  these teachings from dingkipa. 2) father tantra, from Bodhisattva ratnamati, nagarjuna, and matangi tilo taught that he received these teachings from matangi
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• Dream
  six bardos, {gnas lugs gzhi'i bar do} the ground bardo of the natural condition, {'od gsal ting nge 'dzin gyi bar do} the bardo the samadhi bardo of luminosity
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• Omniscience (category Teachings)
  Aggregates; disease, famine and warfare; and the dread of rebirth, death, and the bardo. The inner are obstacles for the channels, energies and essences (nadi, prana
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• Path of Means (category Teachings)
  bka' brgyud - Kagyü. The lineage of teachings brought to Tibet by Lord Marpa, received from the dharmakaya buddha Vajradhara by the Indian siddha Tilopa
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  based on the Madhyamaka teachings brought by Kumarajiva. [Tarthang] San-lun - Chinese Buddhist school based on the Madhyamaka teachings brought by Kumarajiva
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• brda' don rtags gsum
  བརྡའ་དོན་རྟགས་གསུམ Symbol, meaning, and sign. Three aspects of Vajrayana teachings. For example, the peaceful and wrathful deities depicted are the symbol
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  the esoteric, tantric teachings. [AL] [RY] Sutra (mdo). Discourse or teaching by the Buddha. Also refers to all the causal teachings that regard the path
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• Namchak Tsasum Lingpa
  Padmasambhava. If you receive teachings from him it will help reawaken these memories." The next day he was on his way to the teachings when he was enticed into
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• Primordially Pure (category Teachings)
  purity [RY] ka dag chos sku'i bar do - bardo of primordially pure dharmakaya [RY] ka dag chos sku'i bar do - the bardo of primordially pure dharmakaya [IW]
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• shri sing ha
  disciple and successor of Manjushrimitra in the lineage of the Dzogchen teachings. He was born in the city of Shokyam in Khotan and studied with the masters
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• Vidyadhara level (category Teachings)
  - Vidyadhara level of spontaneous presence. One of the stages during the bardo of dharmata [RY]
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