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Terminology
ཞིང་ཁམས།

Buddhafields

Buddhafields as described in Mahayana activity are displays of wisdom spontaneously created by buddhas. Texts offer detailed descriptions of the...
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Last updated on September 15, 2023
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Terminology
བར་དོ།

Bardo

Bardo is a Tibetan term that translates as “the period between two events”. The Tibetan syllable “bar” means “between” or...
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Last updated on September 12, 2023
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Terminology
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།

Vajrayāna

The Vajrayāna, the “Diamond” or “Thunderbolt” Path of Buddhism is also known as the Mantrayana. The ultimate fruition of Buddhahood...
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Last updated on August 11, 2023
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Auspicious Days, Ritual

Ullambana

Ullambana festival (yu lan pen) is celebrated on the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar. The...
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Last updated on August 4, 2023
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Practices, Chokling Tersar
འཁོར་བ་དོང་སྤྲུག།

Korwa Dongtruk

Korwa Dongtruk is a teaching given by Guru Rinpoche and revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa. The practice, “Shaker of Saṃsāra...
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Last updated on August 4, 2023
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Terminology
སྡུག་བསྔལ།

Suffering

Suffering exists. The Buddha revealed this fact based on his own empirical observation. He noted that every sentient being experiences...
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Last updated on July 24, 2023
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Bodhisattvas
ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།

Akashagarbha

Ākāśagarbha is a bodhisattva who features in the group known as the “eight close sons of the Buddha”. He is...
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Last updated on July 18, 2023
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Sacred Places, Symbols & Iconography
བདེ་བ་ཅན།

Sukhāvatī

Sukhāvatī or Dewachen is the western pure land of the buddha Amitābha. This land is said to be a paradise...
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Last updated on August 24, 2023
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Practices, Chokling Tersar
ཚེ་དཀར་སྒྲུབ་སྒྲུབ་ཆེན།

Tsekar Drubchen

The Tsekar (White Amitāyus) Drubchen is an extensive group practice from the Chokling Tersar tradition.
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Last updated on July 14, 2023
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Ritual
ཕྱིའི་མཆོད་པ།

Eight Outer Offerings

The eight outer offerings are a simple yet profound way to cultivate merit, respect for oneself and others, and a...
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Last updated on July 7, 2023
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Terminology, Deities
སངས་རྒྱས།

Buddha

Buddha, meaning “awakened one” is a title of great respect given to those who have completely accomplished the purification of...
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Last updated on October 16, 2023
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Terminology
རིགས་དྲུག།

Six Classes of Beings

Buddhism teaches that sentient beings cycle repeatedly through saṃsāra, taking rebirth in six main classes or realms. Each of these...
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Last updated on June 22, 2023
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Terminology
བླ་མའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ།

Ten Qualities of a Dharma Teacher

Buddhist texts stress the importance of following a good teacher as one proceeds along the path. Traditionally, students are advised...
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Last updated on October 2, 2023
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Terminology
བླ་མ།

Lama

Lama is the Tibetan title for a teacher of the Buddhadharma and is the translation of the Sanskrit word guru....
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Last updated on June 9, 2023
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Terminology, Ritual
དབང།

Empowerment

Empowerment is a translation of the Sanskrit abhiṣeka. The term contains several meanings. We can translate it as “pouring” or...
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Last updated on July 10, 2023
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Terminology
ཁམས་གསུམ།

Three Realms of Existence

The three realms, or spheres, of cyclic existence are the various states in which sentient beings take rebirth. According to...
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Last updated on April 7, 2023
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Terminology
སྐྱེ་གནས་བཞི།

Four Types of Birth

Buddhist texts describe four types of birth that apply to all sentient beings.
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Last updated on March 27, 2023
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Great Masters
སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན།

Kyapjé Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist master of both the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages. After leaving Tibet he settled...
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Last updated on March 20, 2023
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Terminology
མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ།

Ten Nonvirtues

The Ten Nonvirtues or Unwholesome Activities are actions of body, speech, and mind that are motivated by negative emotions and...
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Last updated on March 15, 2023
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Deities
སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ།

Medicine Buddha

Bhaiṣajya­guru­vaiḍūrya­prabha is the proper name of the buddha of healing, the Medicine Buddha. He is renowned for his 12 great...
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Last updated on October 6, 2023
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Practices
བླ་མ་ནོར་ལྷ།

Lama Norlha

The Lama Norlha (Guru’s Wealth Deity) practice from the Chokling Tersar is a wealth practice bringing spiritual and mundane abundance...
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Last updated on March 8, 2023
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Dakinis, Chokling Tersar
རྡོ་རྗེ་སྡེར་མོ།

Vajra-Claw Dakini

Vajra-Claw Dakini (Dorjé Dermo) is a wrathful activity ḍākinī whose dhāraṇī is recited to protect practitioners from obstacles and terrifying...
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Last updated on March 3, 2023
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Terminology
ལོ་གསར།

Losar

Losar literally means 'New Year' in Tibetan. Tibetans celebrated a New Year harvest festival prior to the introduction of Buddhism...
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Last updated on February 3, 2023
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Great Masters, Lineages
མི་ལ་རས་པ།

Milarepa

Jetsün Milarepa is one of the most famous yogis in the history of Tibet. His life story is an inspiration...
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Last updated on January 25, 2023
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Great Masters
ལྷ་བཙུན་ནམ་མཁའ་འཇིགས་མེད།

Lhatsün Namkha Jikmé

Lhatsün Chenpo Namkha Jikmé revealed a cycle known as The Life-Force Practice of the Vidyādharas (Rigdzin Sokdrup) received in a...
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Last updated on January 25, 2023
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Great Masters
སྒམ་པོ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན།

Gampopa Sonam Rinchen

Gampopa, the Great Doctor of Dagpo, is considered one of the forefathers of the Kagyu school. He was a direct...
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Last updated on January 25, 2023
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Terminology
རྣམ་ཐར་སྒོ་གསུམ།

Three Doors of Liberation

The three doors or gateways of liberation are taught in both foundational Buddhism and in the Mahayana. A practitioner is...
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Last updated on January 24, 2023
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Terminology
ས་བཅུ།

Ten Bhūmis

The ten bhūmis literally mean the “grounds” or levels of bodhisattvas in which the qualities of their training unfold. With...
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Last updated on January 23, 2023
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Terminology
ལམ་ལྔ།

Five Paths 

According to the Mahayana tradition, one aspiring to complete enlightenment progresses through practices according to five paths. These paths also...
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Last updated on January 23, 2023
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Ritual
རྔ་ཆེན།

Nga Chen

Nga chen are large, deeply resounding drums mounted on square frames and played usually with one or two short, straight...
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Last updated on January 13, 2023
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