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• able force, 5, 8, 206, 272, 364

• ablution, 214, 221

• abyss of meditation, 25, 88, 91–98, 101, 372

• Acala (Miyo/Miyowa), 178, 421n12

• ācārya, 88

• accomplishment(s), 42, 80, 82, 95, 125, 329

• of activities, 154, 319

• branch of, 254–55, 263

• charm of, 348, 354

of [[common siddhi]]s/[[common]], 6, 76, 84, 129, 212, 296

of [[Deity]]/[[yidam]], 4, 6, 80, 84, 133, 272

of [[existence-Vajrakīla]], 315

[[great]] ([[see]] [[great]] [[accomplishment]])

of [[kāya]]s and [[pure field]]s, 356

[[mandala]] for, 310

[[mantra]] ([[see]] [[accomplishment]] [[mantra]]/[[kaṭaṅkaṭe]])

of [[mantra]], 362

and [[mantra]] [[strand]], 224

[[measure]] of, 252

[[medicine]], 217

[[method]] of ([[sadhana]]), 4, 18, 26, 45, 54, 371

[[mind]], 3–4, 319

of [[Saṁbhogakāya]], 123 ([[Sambhogakaya]] or [[Sambhoga Kaya]])

[[secret obstacle]]s and, 96

[[sign]]s of, 6, 22, 80, 201, 354, 365

[[substance]](s), 130–31, 314, 354

[[support]]s of/[[accomplishment]]-[[support]], 291, 348

taking up, 209, 284, 317, 347–354

at [[time of death]], 57–58

of [[two]] [[purpose]]s/[[objective]]s, 84, 139, 330

of [[union]] of [[samsara]] and [[Nirvana]], 330

of [[Vajrakīla]], 209–10, 264

[[See]] also [[four]] [[branch]]es of [[approach]] and [[accomplishment]]; [[siddhi]](s)

[[accomplishment]] [[mantra]]/[[kaṭaṅkaṭe]], 238, 244, 247, 257, 264, 267

• visualization for, 239–50

[[accomplishment retreat]] ([[drubpa]]), 54–55, 70–74, 236

• afflictions during, 323–25

[[benefit]]s/[[qualities]] of, 73, 203, 229, 355–56

[[calm]] [[abiding]] and [[special]] insight in, 194–95

[[Garchen Rinpoche]]'s [[connection]] with, 15–17, 23

[[great]] ([[see]] [[great]] [[accomplishment retreat]] [drubchen])

[[hardship]]s of, 71–72

re[[collection]] of, 73–74

[[secret]] ([[see]] [[secret accomplishment retreat]] [sangdrub])

[[spontaneous]] [[understanding]] in, 45

[[accumulation]](s), 121, 154, 190, 309–10, 339

• through afflictions, 52, 77–78, 114

[[field]] of, 143, 146, 227

and [[Gaṇacakra]], 323, 327

of [[karma]]/[[karmic]], 44, 120, 153, 200, 241

of [[mantra]]s, 234, 252

of [[merit]], 98, 276–77, 373

of [[merit]] and [[wisdom]], 44, 249, 373

[[two]] ([[see]] [[two]] [[accumulation]]s/[[gathering]]s)

of [[wisdom]], 277, 343, 373

[[action]] [[Tantra]] ([[kriya]][[Tantra]]), 205, 213, 257

[[activities]], 11, 21, 75, 100–101, 296

• daily, 65, 92–93, 203, 345, 355–61

destructive ([[see]] destruction/destructive [[activity]])

of [[emanating]] and [[gathering]], 262–63, 329

of [[Enlightened action]], 5, 8, 272

enriching, 10

and [[form]] [[kāya]]s, 139, 148, 166

[[four]] ([[see]] [[Four Activities]]/[[Enlightened action]]s)

[[guardian]]s/[[protector]]s and, 319–22

[[lower]], 331, 335–36

magnetizing, 126, 294

and [[mantra]], 12, 81–83, 239, 243

and [[material]] [[kīla]], 125, 130, 291–92, 296

[[pacify]]ing/[[peaceful]], 10, 206

[[repelling]], 342

of [[three]] [[sattva]]s, 196–97

[[worldly]]/samsaric, 54–55, 111, 279, 356

[[affliction]]s/[[negative]] emotions, 33, 38–40, 132, 208, 259

• and abyss of meditation, 91, 93–97

[[accomplishment]] [[mantra]] and, 240, 243, 254

[[accomplishment retreat]]s and, 70–71, 323–25

[[adventitious]] [[stain]]s/[[confusion]] and, 5, 40, 51, 261, 269

[[antidote]] to/[[antidoting]], 10, 132, 362–65

and [[autonomy]], 19, 33, 39, 51–52, 68

[[bliss]] and, 135–36, 140, 250

[[Bodhicitta]] and, 90, 115, 132, 208, 235

close [[approach]] and, 252

[[conduct]] and, 100

destructive [[activities]] and, 265–66

and [[disclosure]], 159–60, 270

drawing in, 265, 321, 331–32

[[dualistic grasping]] and, 68, 330

[[Empowerment]] and, 38–39, 212

[[five]] ([[see]] [[five]] [[affliction]]s/[[afflict]]ive [[poison]]s)

as [[five]] [[wisdom]]s, 38, 112, 125, 212, 256, 333

[[four]] nails that pin [[life]] [[force]] and, 259, 261

[[great]] [[accomplishment]] and, 256

and [[hell]] [[realm]]s, 43, 78

horse dance and, 345

[[karma]] and, 44, 118, 199, 336, 338, 359

[[kīla]] of [[Bodhicitta]] and, 123, 125, 240, 243

[[kīla]] of primordial [[awareness]]-[[rigpa]] and, 104–14

[[Liberation]] of, 19, 127–28, 198, 333–41

[[mantra]] and, 82, 233, 235, 254, 357, 360

[[māra]] of ([[see]] under [[māra]])

[[māra]]s/[[demon]]s and, 134, 171–72, 233, 341–42

[[material]] [[kīla]] of [[sign]]s and, 126–28

[[mindful]] [[awareness]]/[[mindfulness]] and, 203, 235, 273, 294, 359–60

[[offering]]s and, 161–63, 215–17, 315–16

[[pacification]] of, 198, 265

as [[path]], 10

[[physical]] obscurations and, 231–32

primordial [[awareness]] and, 108, 115, 136, 140, 198, 261

[[purify]]ing, 54, 267

[[recognizing]]/perceiving, 70–71, 132, 273, 349

[[repelling]] and, 341–42

[[self]]-[[appearance]]s and, 78, 294

[[self-grasping]]/[[cherishing]] and, 140, 150, 199, 261, 341

[[single]] key [[point]] of [[three]] [[vow]]s and, 19

[[six]] ([[see]] [[six]] [[affliction]]s)

[[six]] [[realm]]s and, 282

[[six]] [[syllable]]s and, 304, 332

unmitigated, 91, 160, 243, 359, 418n1

and [[view]], 160

[[visualization]] of [[Deity]] and, 171–74, 179–80, 190, 200

[[wrath]] of [[awareness]]/[[wisdom]] and, 112, 198–99, 349–50

[[See]] also [[five]] [[affliction]]s/[[afflict]]ive [[poison]]s; [[five]] [[poison]]s; [[poison]]s; [[six]] [[affliction]]s; [[three]] [[poison]]s/[[poison]]ous [[affliction]]s

[[aggregate]](s) ([[skandha]]s), 114–16, 69, 136, 163, 341

• divine nature of, 60, 248, 261, 359

[[five]] ([[see]] [[five]] [[aggregate]]s)

and [[five]] [[families]], 211, 246–48

[[māra]] of ([[see]] under [[māra]])

[[purity]] of, 35, 39, 115, 158, 162, 315

[[ripening]] into [[Deity]]/[[illusory]] [[body]], 73, 122–23

aggression, 109, 130, 141, 172, 266

• and destructive activities/Liberation, 265, 336

[[See]] also [[anger]]; aversion; [[five]] [[poison]]s; [[hatred]]; [[three]] [[poison]]s/[[poison]]ous [[affliction]]s

ĀḤ [[syllable]], 163, 206, 304, 361

• and blessing, 80, 224, 227–28

Akaniṣṭha, 17, 196, 347

Akṣobhya, 177

ālaya, 96, 167

altruism, 148, 254, 272

• and self-grasping/self-cherishing, 93, 150–51, 157, 227

[[Amitābha]], 364

Amitāyus, 364

Amogha[[siddhi]], 153, 177, 206, 208

amṛita (dütsi), 161–62, 178, 216–17, 321

Amṛitakuṇḍali. [[See]] Dütsi Khyilpa

[[anger]], 52, 72, 90, 179, 339

• and awareness/rigpa, 108, 349

and [[Bodhisattva]]'s [[samaya]]/[[vow]], 6, 94, 325

[[See]] also aggression; aversion; [[five]] [[affliction]]s/[[afflict]]ive [[poison]]s; [[hatred]]; [[three]] [[poison]]s/[[poison]]ous [[affliction]]s

[[animal]] [[realm]], 38, 64, 128, 179, 282, 423n51

[[animal]]s, 72, 280–81, 306, 344, 360

• See also six classes of wayfarers/beings; three bad migrations/states; three lower realms

[[antidote]], 113, 121, 228, 329, 340, 363

• Bodhicitta as, 34, 132, 157, 270

[[Deity Yoga]] as, 35, 55

[[offering]] as, 75–76, 213, 281

[[Vajrakīla Practice]] as, 10, 94

[[appearance]]-[[emptiness]], 82, 124, 163, 274, 276

• all sights as, 98, 263

[[appearance]]-[[existence]], 158–59, 161, 163, 169, 283

• gathering in, 274

[[great]] [[accomplishment]] and, 255

as [[mandala]] of [[Deity]], 260, 333, 348

primordial [[purity]] and, 42

[[approach]], 130–31, 310

• branch of, 251–52, 257, 261

[[branch]] of close, 252–54, 257, 262

[[sudden]], 63

[[visualization]] during, 226

[[See]] also [[approach]] and [[accomplishment]]

[[approach]] and [[accomplishment]], 16, 83, 130, 224–50, 333

• accomplishment retreats and, 73

[[consecration]] of [[implement]]s and, 292, 294–95

[[Earlier]] [[System]] and, 44

and [[four]] nails, 259–263

[[mandala]]s of, 310–11

[[meaning]]/[[purpose]] of, 251–257, 317

[[See]] also [[four]] [[branch]]es of [[approach]]

and [[accomplishment]]

[[approach]] [[mantra]], 15, 95, 220, 222, 252, 262

• meaning of, 233

[[recitation]] of, 236–38

[[visualization]] for, 80, 224–30

Arig Tengye, [[Mahā]]siddha, 15

armor, 186, 298, 303

arrogant ones/arrogance, 127, 173, 294, 334

[[Ārya]]deva, 221

[[aspiration]](s), 15, 76–77, 79, 118, 312

• in accomplishment retreats, 229

of [[being]]s, 350

of [[Buddhas]], 10, 22–23

and [[dedication]], 277

and [[Gaṇa]][[pūja]], 327

of harmdoers, 127

and [[ten]] [[strength]]s, 181–82

and [[white]] [[torma]], 289–90

[[Aspiration]] for the [[Pure Field]] of [[Great Bliss]], 43, 139

[[Aspiration]] of [[Samantabhadra]], The, 40, 107, 176, 250, 353

• and five wisdoms, 117, 148, 174

and primordial [[purity]], 117, 268

[[aspiring]] [[faith]], 76, 146, 148–49, 151

[[auspiciousness]], [[prayer]] of, 277–283

[[autonomy]], 19, 32–35, 64, 68, 284

• awareness/rigpa and, 39, 100, 107, 108

[[Deity Yoga]] and, 199, 232

[[divine]] [[pride]] and, 46, 50–51, 202

[[love]] and [[compassion]] and, 51–52

Avalokita, 46, 52, 177, 280

avarice, 76–78, 162

• See also six afflictions

aversion, 10, 13–14, 157, 173, 240

• during accomplishment retreat, 323–24

bones as [[symbol]] of, 127, 320, 331, 350

as clarity-[[emptiness]], 254

de[[generation]] of [[seed]] [[essence]] and, 243

as [[depend]]ency, 33

[[Dharma practice]] based on, 43, 156

drawing in and, 320, 331

[[dualistic grasping]] and, 68, 158, 160, 162, 241, 349

[[eightfold]] [[group]] of [[consciousness]]

and, 167

[[Gaṇacakra]] [[offering]]s and, 343

harmdoers/[[enemies]]/obstructors and, 127–28, 141, 158

[[hell]] [[realm]]s and, 78, 282

[[inner]] [[offering]]s and, 161–62

[[karmic]]/[[afflict]]ive [[wind]]s and, 68

[[Liberation]] and, 337

[[mantra]] and, 232, 235, 360, 368

[[māra]]s and, 135, 171

[[material]] [[kīla]] of [[sign]]s and, 130

and [[meditation]]al [[abyss]], 93

[[mirror]]like [[wisdom]] and, 108, 325, 349

[[samaya]] and, 325, 366–67

[[self-grasping]] and, 33, 261

[[sound]]s and, 82, 232, 235, 368

as [[Vajra]][[sattva]], 208

versus [[wrath]], 199

[[See]] also aggression; [[anger]]; [[five]] [[affliction]]s/[[afflict]]ive [[poison]]s; [[hatred]]; [[six]] [[affliction]]s; [[three]] [[poison]]s/[[poison]]ous [[affliction]]s

[[awareness]], 55, 117, 198, 269, 306

• abyss of meditation and, 92–94

[[accomplishment]] [[mantra]] and, 243–44, 250

[[affliction]]s and, 171, 200, 294, 359, 362–63

[[approach]] [[mantra]] and, 226, 230, 234–36

in [[bardo]], 64

[[conduct]] and, 99–101

[[discriminating]], 98, 108, 122, 147, 181, 244

[[gathering]] in and, 66–67

HŪ/[[seed]] [[syllable]] and, 190, 225, 371

[[kīla]] of ([[see]] [[kīla]] of primordial [[awareness]]-[[rigpa]])

[[Liberation]] and, 339

[[Mantra recitation]] and, 361–62

[[māra]]s and, 132–40, 171

[[mindful]], 39, 70, 151, 203, 236

nail of [[change]]less [[intent]] and, 260

nondual, 30n, 213, 216, 250, 325, 352

[[ten]] [[strength]]s and, 181

[[thought]]s and, 71, 132, 115, 234, 260

[[visualization]] and, 175, 188, 190

[[See]] also [[awareness]]-[[wisdom]]/[[awareness]]-[[rigpa]]; primordial [[awareness]]; [[wisdom]](s)

[[awareness]]-consort, 314

[[awareness]]-[[emptiness]], 98, 254, 263

[[awareness]]-[[wisdom]]/[[awareness]]-[[rigpa]], 104, 112–13, 136, 244, 373

• disclosure and, 160

[[kīla]] of ([[see]] [[kīla]] of primordial [[awareness]]-[[rigpa]])

[[liberating]] [[concept]]s/[[thought]]s into, 108, 159, 338

[[lust]] and, 163, 243

and [[state]] of [[immortal]] [[knowledge]]

[[holder]], 268

[[transform]]ing [[consciousness]] into, 361

[[See]] also primordial [[awareness]]; [[wisdom]](s)

āyatanas. [[See]] sense [[field]]s

Ayurveda, 422n34

B

• bardo, 57, 61, 69, 80, 171

• consciousness, 68, 274

dream [[yoga]] and, 69–70

[[first]], 41, 57

and [[māra]] of [[lord]] of [[death]], 136–37

[[mental]] [[body]] in, 61, 133, 180

[[peaceful]] and [[wrathful]] [[Deities]] in, 180, 280

[[propensities]]/imprints and, 47, 231, 250

[[realizing]] [[Saṁbhogakāya]] in, 63, 123, 125, 134, 145, 359

[[second]], 57, 64, 74, 145

[[suffering]]s of, 47, 69, 111, 133, 135

Bhagavan [[Buddha]]

• causal and resultant vehicles and, 44

[[compassion]] and, 227

[[dedication]] and, 277

[[emanation]] as [[Guru Rinpoche]], 10, 145

[[path]] of [[individual]] [[Liberation]] and, 144

as [[person]]ification of [[Three Kāyas]], 273

on [[pride]], 334

on [[sentient one]]s' [[nature]], 38, 40, 277

on [[subduing]] [[mind]], 193

See also Prince Siddhartha; Śākyamuni

• bhikṣu, 18–19

• bhūmis. See ten bhūmis (grounds); thirteen bhūmis of a vajra holder

• bias, 41, 90, 118, 156, 216, 316

perverted [[view]]s as, 43

• birth(s)/rebirth, 33–34, 62–64, 68–70

** bardo of becoming and, 171

Buddha/mind's nature and, 136–37, 140, 270, 281

Deity Yoga and, 232

four modes of (see four modes of birth)

human, 34, 38, 63, 68, 251

immortal knowledge holder and, 268

Liberation and, 128, 295, 335

of Lord Buddha, 121

offering and, 77

Refuge and, 151–52

in samsara/cyclic existence, 33, 106, 155, 173, 176, 270

secret sun and, 352

self-grasping and, 106, 270

in three higher realms, 33–34, 36, 51, 84, 154

in three lower realms/bad

migrations, 33, 38, 64, 156

wisdom Deities and, 209, 269–70

• blessing(s), 25–26, 42, 84, 209, 374

• of accomplishment retreats, 16, 23, 73, 203, 355–57

[[approach]] [[mantra]] and, 224, 226–29

in [[bardo]], 61, 250

and [[benefiting beings]], 369–70

of [[Buddhas]], 84, 88, 172, 255, 290, 420n8

dance and, 314, 318

of [[Deity]], 48, 52–53, 255, 356, 365

[[emanating]] and [[gathering]] and, 262–63

[[Empowerment]] and, 206–8, 211, 307

of [[guru]], 90, 356

[[Lineage supplication]] and, 88, 90, 96–97

[[mantra]] as, 80

and [[mantra]] as [[siddhi]]s, 79–80

of [[mantra]]'s melody, 237–38

• samādhi of total appearance and, 172

• self-grasping and, 365

• symbolic kīla of, 103, 352

• taking up accomplishments and, 348, 350, 353–54

• of Tibetan language, 26–27

[[blessing]]-[[practice]] [[lineage]], 16–17, 23, 44, 92, 371

[[blessing]]-[[support]](s), 297–98

[[bliss]], 122–24, 136, 138–39, 328

[[accomplishment]] [[mantra]] and, 239–43, 248–50

• Bodhicitta and, 180

• conduct and, 100

• Deity's blessing and, 356

• dharmakāya and, 117, 138

• and emptiness (see bliss-emptiness)

• HŪ syllable and, 110

• kīla of Bodhicitta and, 130

• māra of afflictions and, 135–36, 140

• name of Khorlo Gyedebma and, 178

• offering the charm and, 267

• rakta offering and, 163

• recitation of charm and, 222–23

• of selflessness, 79, 251–52

• skillful means and, 283

• uncontaminated/inexhaustible, 135–36

[[bliss]]-[[emptiness]], 124, 135, 239, 242, 253–54

[[wisdom]] of, 122, 128, 140

[[blue]]-[[black]] tetrahedron, 166, 168, 184, 304

[[Bodhicitta]], 31, 37, 54, 76, 315

[[accomplishment retreat]]s and, 73

• accomplishment visualization and, 239–40, 242–43, 248

• as actual Refuge, 151

• afflictions and, 40, 90, 208

• approach and accomplishment and, 252, 254–55, 257

• approach mantra visualization and, 226–27

• assurance/certainty of, 6–7, 203, 254

• blessing-Empowerment and, 211

• body mandala and, 179–80

• Buddhahood/Enlightenment and, 14, 36, 39, 47

• Buddha nature and, 51

• dedication and, 277

• Deity as expression of, 5, 52, 60, 364, 367

• fabricated, 148–49

• facing generation and, 259

• Four Immeasurables and, 154–57, 364

• four nails and, 259–60

• ground/foundation of, 6, 194

• HŪ syllable and, 371

• individual Liberation and, 153

• kīla of, 121–25, 128, 130–31, 138

• kīla of immeasurable compassion

• and, 114–15

• Liberation and, 128, 332, 338

• mantra and, 75, 77, 80, 235, 360

• meaning of term, 282

• melody and, 238

• mind of Deity and, 51, 202–3

• offerings and, 215, 217, 289, 328, 342

• peaceful and wrathful Deities and, 280

• preliminary practices and, 154

• progressive Stages of the Path and, 53

• samaya and, 195, 325

• samsara and, 153, 315

• scope of, 9, 75

• self-appearances and, 79

• self-grasping/-cherishing and, 34–35, 132, 150, 270–71

• two types of (see two types of Bodhicitta)

• wisdom winds and, 68

[[Bodhisattva]](s), 90, 196, 279

[[ground]]s, 89, 138–40, 176–77, 353

[[Bodhisattva]] [[Vehicle]], 19, 29, 36, 53, 92, 229

and [[affliction]]s, 349–50

• distinction from Vajra Vehicle, 31–32

• and Four Kīlas, 103

• and six transcendent perfections, 43, 181

[[Bodhisattva Vow]]s, 5–7, 19, 100, 325, 419n5

easy [[restoration]] of, 93–94

[[body]]/[[form]], 43, 46, 116, 134–35, 151

[[accomplishment retreat]]s and, 72–73, 357

• approach mantra and, 224, 226–30

• and causal basis for Buddhahood, 5, 37

• cherishing/clinging/grasping at, 47, 56, 60, 133–34, 232

• clarity, purity, and stability and, 197, 200

• of complete enjoyment

• (Saṁbhogakāya), 278

• as composite/aggregate, 69, 73, 115–16, 136, 151

• death and, 68–69, 151, 231–32, 274

• Deity Yoga/development and, 46–50, 54–63, 139, 154

• and five nectars, 342

• four māras and, 132–39

• gross/ordinary, 46, 50, 56, 60, 133

• of guru/master, 11–14, 39, 145

• HŪ syllable and, 108–13, 172, 188, 362

• human, 5, 37–38, 43, 122, 239

• illusory, 123, 170

• and inner Vajraku[[māra, 325

• kīla of Bodhicitta and, 122–25

• as king of divine forms, 5, 284

• mandala (see body mandala)

• as mandala of development stages, 296

• Mantra recitation and, 223, 236

• maturation/ripening of, 39, 73

• mental, 61, 133, 180

• as microcosm of container/mandala, 59, 81, 167, 185, 204, 257

• microorganisms and, 69, 81, 179, 223

• and nail of samādhi, 261

• as Nirmāṇakāya, 125, 185, 228

• OṀ syllable and, 163, 304

• outer container as, 81, 167

• pervaded by Deities, 180, 248

• pervaded by mind, 113

• of practitioner, 12

• propensities/imprints/obscurations

• and, 35, 56, 134, 231, 336, 367

• rainbow, 122–23, 244

• self-grasping and, 56, 136, 164, 281

• seven dhātus/tissues and, 422n34

• six constituents and, 37, 239

• subtle, 115–16, 229, 243, 248

• threefold sattva and, 195–96

• three vajras and, 163, 304, 368

• and visualized Deity, 170–75

• of Wisdom Being, 186

• See also eightfold group of consciousness/eight consciousnesses; six sense faculties

[[body]] [[mandala]], 178–80, 183, 221

and [[bliss]]/[[pleasure]], 223, 248

• Deities of, 168, 186, 224, 229–30

b[[order]] areas, 350

breath/brea[[thing]], 179, 302, 361–62

bringing down [[blessings]], 309–18, 358

[[text]], 401–2

[[Buddha]] [[families]], 177

[[Buddha]] [[family]], 181

[[Buddha Field]](s), 75–77, 79, 139, 353

and [[five]] [[certain]]ties, 196

• guiding/leading beings to, 128, 332, 338

• See also pure field(s)/pure realm(s)

[[Buddha]]guhya, 18

[[Buddhahood]], 31–32, 56–58, 369–70

in [[bardo]], 41, 74

• Bodhicitta and, 29, 36–37, 91, 147

• Buddha nature and, 90, 256, 281

• cause/basis of, 37–38, 41, 47, 156, 256

• compassion/love and, 120–21

• existence-Vajrakīla as, 210

• Four Activities and, 256

• as fruition of destructive activities, 141

• Mantric methods and, 47

• nonduality and, 154, 312

• as one's own purpose, 53

• Saṁbhogakāya pure realm/fields and, 139, 250

• self-grasping and, 229

• in a single lifetime, 7, 32, 35, 44, 47, 251

• two accumulations and, 44, 277

• two purposes and, 35

[[Buddha nature]] ([[Tathāgata]][[garbha]]), 38, 41, 44, 52, 275, 315

and [[adventitious]] [[stain]]s, 54, 367

• all beings endowed with, 126, 145, 251, 256, 333

• as basis/cause of Buddhahood, 5, 90, 156, 281

• and Deity, 51, 57, 175, 198, 201, 269

• as emptiness, 145, 254, 259–60

• and Liberation, 127, 295, 331–32, 338–39

• as luminosity/clarity, 109, 278

• as mindful awareness/rigpa/mind, 21, 112, 172, 235

• and nature/essence/condition of

• mind, 14, 136, 138, 269, 352

• and primordial purity, 40, 94, 115, 117, 261, 278

• singularity of, 9, 120, 241, 270, 317

• See also Tathāgatagarbha

[[Buddha]]-[[word]] [[section]] (kama), 87, 89, 141

C

• cakra(s), 115, 143, 178, 223, 248, 311

[[Buddhas]]/[[Deities]] in, 116, 169, 183, 186, 230, 267

• four (see four cakras)

• four-spoked, 169–71, 181

• heart, 186

• navel, 225

• ten-spoked, 169, 171

• See also channel(s): wheels/hubs

[[Cakra]]saṁvara, 243, 246

[[calm]] [[abiding]] ([[śamatha]]), 34, 194–95, 230

candalī, 243, 302

canine maidens. [[See]] dog-faced/canine maids

[[causality]], 150, 267, 295, 372

incontrovertibility of, 99–100, 365

[[causal]] [[Vehicle]] of [[Characteristic]]s, 44

[[cause and effect]]/[[result]], 149, 254, 279, 282

[[belief]]/[[faith]]/[[trust]] in, 149, 150, 272, 281

• incontrovertibility of, 91, 93

• and Liberation, 128, 335

Chagme Rāga Asya, 24, 43, 97, 375

chamber of [[recitation]], opening, 219–22, 258

[[channel]](s), 94, 122–23, 125, 326, 362

and [[bliss]]/[[pleasure]], 178, 223, 267, 328

• central/main, 110, 245–46, 248

• and kīla of Bodhicitta, 128, 130, 332

• and mandala Deities, 223–24, 229–30, 246, 248–49

• of subtle body, 115–16, 229, 248

• wheels/hubs, 114–16, 170, 229–30, 249

• and wind energies, 239–40, 243–44, 332

[[charm]] (dzap)

of [[accomplishment]]s, 348, 354

• offering of, 266–67

• recitation of, 219–24, 248, 258

• See also japa (dzap)

Chim, 89

[[Chime]] [[Dorje]], [[Drubpön]]/[[Siddha]], 6, 15

chö, 131

Choggyur [[Lingpa]], 92

Chökyi Dragpa, [[Rigdzin]], 191

Chökyi Wangchug, 92

circumambulation, 72, 83, 309, 314, 318, 357

clairvoyance, 6, 82, 140

clarity, 55, 186, 190, 192

[[aspect]]/factor, 117, 193, 272, 352–53

• and awareness/Buddha nature/rigpa, 106, 250, 278

• and empty essence, 58, 112, 116, 166

• and Mantra recitation, 225, 236, 242

• See also clarity, purity, and stability

clarity, [[purity]], and st[[ability]], 197–203, 234, 280

clarity-[[emptiness]], 112, 165, 254, 274–76, 326

[[See]] also [[union]]/unity: of clarity and [[emptiness]]

[[clear]] [[appearance]], 54–55, 63, 65, 194, 262

in [[bardo]]/dream [[state]], 61, 133–35

• and mindfulness/mindful awareness, 92, 101, 218, 359

• and practice with a partner, 123, 249–50

• and purity, 232, 327, 355

• See also clarity, purity, and stability

[[clinging]], 167, 212–13, 343, 373

[[development stage]]s and, 59–61, 67

• māra of afflictions and, 135–36

• to pleasure, 99–100, 137–38

• to sexual pleasure, 240–41, 250

co-e[[merge]]nce (sahaja), 248

co-e[[merge]]nt [[ignorance]], 40

co-e[[merge]]nt [[joy]], 244

[[commitment]]. [[See]] [[samaya]]

[[Commitment Being]] ([[samaya]][[sattva]]), x, 183, 204, 208, 230, 310

and [[three]][[fold]] [[sattva]], 195–97

• and wisdom Deities, 210, 212–13

• See also threefold sattva

[[compassion]], 55, 148, 154–56, 240, 342

[[affliction]]s and, 51–52, 198, 363–64

• approach mantra and, 224, 226–29

• autonomy and, 34, 51–52

• Bodhisattva's Vow and, 5, 7, 100

• bringing down blessings and, 312, 315–18

• conventional Bodhicitta and, 90, 150, 152, 235

• destructive activities/wrath and, 127, 130, 265–66, 333–39

• as Dharma, 151

• divine pride and, 202

• for enemies, 152

• Four Activities and, 264–66

• gathering in and, 272, 275

• guru and, 145, 366

• as HŪ syllable, 371

• invocation and, 207, 209, 211

• kīla of Bodhicitta and, 122–25

• kīla of immeasurable compassion

• and, 114–21, 128–31

• kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa

• and, 107–8, 232

• lack of, 29, 101

• as life force, 154, 192, 202, 254

• loving, 5, 150, 272

• mantra and, 78, 80, 240–41, 360

• māra of afflictions and, 135

• nail of changeless intent and, 259

• as Nirmāṇakāya, 166, 196, 303, 355

• Prayer of [Auspiciousness and, 278–79, 281–83

• samādhi of total appearance and, 172

• samaya/bond and, 75, 207, 223–24, 312, 366

• self-grasping and, 84, 211, 281, 364–65, 373

• selflessness and, 278

• Small Vehicle individual and, 30

• stage of accomplishment and, 254–55

• sudden approach and, 63

• taking up accomplishments and, 348, 351, 353–54

• two purposes and, 52–53

• ultimate/factual Bodhicitta and, 7

• vajra wing and, 174

• water dragon (makara) and, 126, 300

• white torma and, 288–89

• wrathful Deities and, 199

• See also Four Immeasurables

completion [[stage]]/phase, 60, 65–70, 124, 168, 205

[[death]] phase of [[becoming]] and, 62

• and gathering in, 271–76

• See also development and completion

[[concentration]] [[being]] (samādhi[[sattva]]), 60, 189, 220, 224–25

[[visualization]] of, 188, 190–93, 196

• See also threefold sattva

conch, 42, 178, 183

[[conduct]], 7, 19, 128, 182, 357, 366

as [[life]] [[force]], 97–101, 265, 372

• of six transcendent perfections, 31, 53

• See also ten strengths; view, meditation, and conduct

[[conduct]] [[Tantra]], 62, 65, 205, 257, 279

[[consciousness]], 59, 62, 96, 133, 361

in [[bardo]], 47, 68, 171, 274

• and Buddha nature, 269–70

• dualistic, 186, 345

• eightfold group of, see eightfold group of consciousness/eight consciousnesses

• and Liberation, 163, 295, 332–33, 338–39

• and methods for accomplishing

• mastery, 109–10

• as ordinary life force, 106, 111–12, 306, 330

• at time of death, 68–69

• unelaborated, 117, 125

• versus primordial awareness, 106, 112, 198

• See also five aggregates (skandhas); six constituents

[[consecration]], 287–88, 321, 344

• of material kīla, 291–307

• of material mandala, 309–10

• of offerings, 161–64

[[Consecration]] of the [[Material Kīla]] [[Mandala]], 25, 291, 295, 297

• text, 395–99

• consort(s), 123–24, 170, 177, 240

• body mandala and, 180

• five nectars and, 342

• gathering in and, 66, 275

• Khorlo Gyedebma, 178, 233

• kīla of Bodhicitta and, 130

• mandala Deities and, 222

• mantra strand and, 253

• of regents, 314

• visualization of, 193, 246

[[container]], 81, 165, 217, 228, 220, 257

• and five elements, 167, 256, 261

• as macrocosm of one's body, 59, 81, 167, 257

• world as, 38, 59, 163

• See also container/vessel and contents

[[container]]/[[vessel]] and [[content]]s, 62, 66, 163, 256–57, 261

• afflictions and, 161

• as divine in nature, 94, 220

• existence-Vajrakīla and, 315

• five elements and, 4, 94, 157–58

• and gathering in, 274

• grasping at, 64, 67, 161, 274, 368

• as illusory phenomena, 59

• as mandala of Vajrakīla/Deity, 130, 185, 210, 274

• nail/kīla of samādhi and, 261, 348

• purity/pure perception of, 97, 115, 126, 251, 369, 419n5

• as reflections of one's mind, 192, 260

• as samsara and Nirvana, 107

• skandhas, dhātus, āyatanas and, 115–16

• taking up accomplishments and, 353

contemplation, 118, 237, 307

[[content]]s, 59, 81, 168, 220, 257, 260

• blessing of, 228

• Buddha nature of, 38, 256, 261

• as torma, 217

• See also container/vessel and contents

[[conventional Bodhicitta]], 29–30, 42, 90, 93, 99

• as antidote to self-grasping/cherishing, 132, 150

• emanating and gathering and, 235

• fortress of view and, 90–91

• kīla of immeasurable compassion

• and, 114, 119–20

• seed essences and, 239–40

• Ultimate Bodhicitta and, 7, 90, 260

• white torma offering and, 289

• See also fictional Bodhicitta; two types of Bodhicitta

[[criticism]], 232

[[cyclic existence]] ([[samsara]]), 106, 147, 173, 241, 271, 330

• as basis of Vajrakīla accomplishment, 210

• birth(s) in, 33, 155, 176

• and dualism, 242

• faults of, 43

D

• daily/personal practice, 16, 219, 357–58

• ḍākiṇī(s), 12, 75, 122, 257, 284, 319

• accomplishment mantra

• visualization and, 244, 246

• and activities, 197, 296

• Gaṇacakra and, 342, 344

• as Guru's Mind, 12, 145

• See also Three Roots

[[Dalai Lama]], 13, 280

ḍamaru, 355

dance, 98, 222–23, 267, 312, 328

• in bringing down blessings, 314, 318

• horse, 345

• nine moods of (see nine moods of dance)

• and recitation of charm, 248

• while offering Gaṇacakra residual, 344

Darchar, 97

[[death]], 33, 52, 67, 136–37, 151

• birth and, 140, 173, 270, 281, 352, 356

• completion stage and, 62, 67

• Deity/development stage yogas and, 231–32

• discarding body at, 59, 137, 232

• fear of, 112

• and four mind-changing

• contemplations, 43

• immortal knowledge holder and, 268

• interruption of ignorance at, 41

• lord of (see māra: of lord of death)

• sufferings and, 68, 106, 132–33, 242

• time of, 31, 58–59, 72, 231–32

[[death]]lessness, 67, 112

[[dedication]], 276–77, 312, 372–74

defilement(s), 31, 120, 171, 260, 367

• adventitious, 40, 54, 120, 158

[[Deity Yoga]], 45–58, 283–85, 366

• clarity, purity, and stability in, 197, 199

• death and, 231–32

• friendship of yidam and, 11

• fruition of, 210

• grasping at body and, 60–61

• inscription ritual and, 221

• Jigten Sumgön on, 4–5

• māra of aggregates and, 135

• maturation of sādhaka and, 251

• meaning of yidam and, 8

• nine benefits of mantra and, 74, 78

• petition and, 319

• propensities/obscurations and, 35, 72–73

• purification of mind and, 185

• Saṁbhogakāya and, 145, 194

• three strengths and, 317

• two accumulations and, 249

• visualizing mantra strand and, 245–46

• See also development stages

[[delusion]](s), 33, 99, 156, 160, 357, 367

• awareness-emptiness as, 254

• destructive methods and, 295, 336

• dualistic grasping/views as, 194, 333

• inner offerings and, 217, 331

• Liberation offering and, 127–28

• mantra and, 360

• secret obstacles and, 94

• self-grasping and, 33, 261

• suffering of all beings and, 119

• torma/mahābaliṅta as, 161, 163

• See also five afflictions/afflictive poisons; ignorance; three poisons/poisonous afflictions

demigods, 306, 423n51

• See also six classes of wayfarers/beings; six realms; three higher realms

[[demon]](s)/[[demon]]ic [[force]](s), 47, 62, 288, 328, 330, 335

• as afflictions, 341–42, 366–67

• gods/Deities and, 180, 202–3, 320, 367

• harm from, 54

• inner and outer, 233

• Liberation of, 339

• māras and, 102, 131–32

• taking form of, 337

[[desire]](s), 76, 124, 135, 171, 250, 320

• as bliss-wisdom, 130, 163

• blood and, 162–63

• diminishing, 327

• human realm and, 282

• melody of mantra and, 238

• as primordial awareness, 350

• rebirth and, 68

• subtle, 343

• See also five afflictions/afflictive poisons; lust; passion; six afflictions; three poisons/poisonous afflictions

[[desire]] [[realm]], 162, 306

destruction/destructive [[activity]], 10, 20, 126–28, 311, 340

• Amoghasiddhi and, 177

• approach/accomplishment mandalas

• and, 310–11

• effigy yantra/liṅga and, 131

• individual like a sandalwood tree

• and, 130

• iron material and, 127

• kīla of, 293–95

• Liberation and, 336–39

• love and compassion and, 265–66

• Offering Praise and, 218–19

• ten grounds and, 333, 335

• See also Four Activities/Enlightened actions

Devanāgarī, 310n

[[development]] and completion, 65–66, 69–70, 336, 369

• and attainment of Buddhahood/three

• kāyas, 57, 122

• union of, 49, 63–64, 81, 124, 276

[[development stage]]s, 14, 60–67, 154, 192–94

• of body mandala, 178–80

• of concentration being, 188

• of Commitment Being, 170–74

• of Foremost Prince/material kīla, 298–303

• of Immeasurable Palace, 164–69, 184

• individuals suited to, 59–60

• and kīla of immeasurable

• compassion, 129–31

• and māra of aggregates, 133, 135

• and māra of lord of death, 137

• as mudrā kīla, 347

• and nail of samādhi, 261

• and practice in daily life, 357, 361

• and pure perception, 41–42, 232

• and purification of grasping/propensities, 49, 54, 57, 232

• of surrounding mandala, 181–85

• and visualization of approach

• mantra, 224–30

• of Wisdom Being, 185–87

• See also Deity Yoga

[[development]] through instantaneous surge, 62

devotion, 90, 251, 280, 312

• and taking up accomplishments, 348, 351, 353–54

Devotion, the [[Life]] [[Force]] Yantra, 14

[[Dharma Guardian]]s, 12, 319–22

• See also guardians/guards/guard maids/protectors

[[dharma]][[kāya]], 56, 124, 159, 174, 199, 268

• and afflictions, 125

• bliss of, 249

• and Bodhisattva grounds, 139

• and completion stage, 66

• and concentration being, 196

• and first bardo, 41, 57

• as five wisdoms, 147, 315

• and gathering in, 271–76

• and Great Bliss, 117, 138

• as HŪ syllable, 14, 175

• and Khorlo Gyedebma, 178

• and kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa, 104, 112

• and Liberation on arising, 158

• and mind of guru/Buddhas/Deity, 145, 347, 355

• and Prayer of [Auspiciousness, 277–78

• and two objectives, 96–97

• Vajrakīla as, 194

• and Wisdom Being, 186

• See also Three Kāyas

[[dharma]]sphere ([[dharma]]dhātu), 102–3, 112–13, 273, 318

• and blue-black tetrahedron, 166

• and gathering in, 274

• Khorlo Gyedebma as, 218

• and Liberation, 163

• planting kīla of primordial

• awareness-rigpa into, 129

• as source of Saṁbhogakāya/wisdom

• Deities, 209, 348

• wisdom, 148

• See also sphere of phenomena/dharmas

[[dharma]]tā, 18, 61, 82–83, 280

• and body of Deity, 172, 174

Dharme[[vajra]], 102

• See also Vajrapāṇi

dhātus. [[See]] [[element]]s

diligence, 34, 52, 71, 107, 147, 363

• See also six transcendent perfections

diligent, [[lust]]ful [[individual]], 130

Dīptacakrā. [[See]] Khorlo Gyedebma

discerning/[[discriminating]] [[intelligence]], 19, 32, 80, 188, 231, 365

• and afflictions, 132, 134, 141

• and attaining status of Buddhas, 34, 51–52

• and branch of accomplishment, 254

• and compassion, 150

• and Deity Yoga, 46, 185

• and emancipation from samsara, 147

• and exhaustion of self-grasping, 373

• as means of subduing mind, 193

• and name of Deity, 233

• and practice of Mantric methods, 350

• and special insight, 194

• and unfit vessels, 43

• and wisdom winds, 68

• See also six transcendent perfections

[[disclosure]]/disclosing [[wrong]]s, 51, 158–60, 243, 268–71

dissolution, 67–68, 275

[[divine]] [[kīla]]s, 130–31

[[divine]] [[pride]], 46, 50–51, 201–3, 226

• and wearing material kīlas, 302

• Yamāntaka liturgy on, 283

dog-faced/canine maids, 182–83, 321–22, 329

Dögyal (Ṭakkirāja), 179, 421n12

[[Dorje]] [[Chang]]. [[See]] [[Vajradhara]]

[[Dorje]] Namjom ([[Vajra]]vidarana), 102

[[doubt]](s), 22, 65, 108, 277, 369

• about Deities/Deity Yoga, 50–51, 185, 198, 269

• dispelling/allaying, 287, 309

• freedom from, 89–91, 317–18, 351

• about insubstantiality of container

• and contents, 58–59, 69

• and obliviousness to qualities of

• Nirmāṇakāyas, 280

• about pure appearances, 199–200

• about pure fields and wisdom Deities, 195–96

• and Refuge, 149–50, 152

• about Secret Mantra practice, 263–64

drawing in, 320, 331–32, 337

dream(s), 66, 74, 95, 133, 202, 362

• and daytime/waking appearances, 69–70, 231

• and luminosity, 101, 357

• and self-grasping, 111, 134

• yoga, 67, 70

[[Drigung]] [[Dharma]]rāja, 41

[[Drigung]] [[Dharma]]sūrya, 184

[[Drigung]] [[Kagyü]], 3, 15, 41, 184, 236

• arrangement of Vajrakīla termas, 316

• prayers of, 152, 277, 319

• songs, 41–42

Drime [[Dorje]], 92

drubchen. [[See]] [[great]] [[accomplishment]]; [[great]] [[accomplishment retreat]]

[[drubpa]]. [[See]] [[accomplishment retreat]]

Drugpa Künleg, 146

[[dualistic grasping]], 4, 19, 68, 158, 172

• and absence of luminosity, 279

• and accomplishment mantra

• visualization, 240–42, 244, 250, 254

• afflictions and, 266

• and approach mantra visualization, 228

• and Bodhicitta, 315

• clearing away, 56

• and consecrating the offerings, 161–63

• and Deity Yoga, 57

• destruction of, 259

• and disclosure, 160

• and diverse appearances, 82

• and fictional Bodhicitta, 29n

• freedom from, 91, 260, 277, 316, 325, 373

• and HŪ/seed syllable, 113, 172, 326

• as ignorance, 349

• and kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa, 129

• releasing, 276

• at samsara and Nirvana, 304

• at self and other, 3, 278, 333, 372

• and self-justifying compassion, 156

• at sounds, 235

• and three foes, 330

• understanding, 41

• and view, 216, 351

• visualizing Saṁbhogakāya mandala

• and, 204–5

• and wisdom Deities' compassion, 211

[[dualistic]] [[view]]s/[[perception]]s/[[concept]]s, 75, 101, 194, 213, 297, 345

• and arising of samsara, 253

• of clean and unclean, 343

• and great purity, 355

• and kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa, 103, 109, 111–14, 159

• liberating oneself from, 333

• of self and other, 41, 215, 244, 349

[[duality]]/[[dualism]], 99, 114, 158, 177, 270, 372

• and accomplishment mantra

• visualization, 241–42, 249, 253–54

• and primordial awareness, 283, 349, 373

• transcending/free of, 113, 219, 261, 312

Düdül [[Nüden]], 92

Dütsi Khyilpa (Amṛitakuṇḍali), 178, 421n12

Dzamling [[Dorje]] Tsal, 92

[[Dzogchen]], 14, 89, 105, 110, 269, 359

• and primordial purity, 40, 278

• and rigpa, 103, 138

• thögal, 200

• view of, 13, 113

E

• Earlier System (Nyingma), 42, 43–45, 89, 139, 418n11

• and four branches of approach-accomplishment, 44, 205, 257

• texts of, 58

• treasures (terma) of, 25, 44, 87, 251

• and view, meditation, and conduct, 25, 88

• See also Nyingma

[[earth]] goddesses, 287–88, 290

[[earth]]-owning maidens/se, 183, 321

effigy yantra (liṅga), 131

• See also liṅga

[[eight]] [[auspicious]] [[symbol]]s, 262

[[eight]] charnel [[ground]]s, 167–68

[[eight]] [[common]]/[[great]] [[siddhi]]s, 79, 140, 296, 329

[[eight consciousnesses]]. [[See]] [[eightfold]] [[group]] of [[consciousness]]

[[eight]] emancipations (aṣṭavimokṣa), 300, 423n2

[[eightfold]] charnel [[ground]] attire/charnel gear, 174, 322

[[eightfold]] [[group]] of [[consciousness]]/[[eight consciousnesses]], 167, 204, 215

[[eight]] [[great]]/[[common siddhi]]s, 79, 296, 329

• See also eight qualities

[[eight]] [[heruka]]s, 20, 174

[[eight]] [[knowledge]] holders (vidyādharas), 18, 20, 45, 88

[[eight]] [[mandala]]s of [[material]] [[kīla]], 296

[[eight]] [[name]]d "Glorious", 97

[[eight qualities]], 140

• See also eight great/common siddhis

[[Eight]] [[Sadhana]] [[Teaching]]s, 15, 18, 20, 45

• herukas of, 174

[[eighty-four thousand]] [[affliction]]s, 150

[[eighty-four thousand]] [[heap]]s of [[Dharma]], 29, 271, 282

ele[[mental]]s, 288, 333, 360

[[element]]s (dhātus), 35, 115–16, 246–48, 359

• and purity, 158, 162, 335

• See also five elements; three seats

[[emanating]]/radiating and [[gathering]], 35, 220, 242, 262–63, 329

• and accomplishment, 254–55

[[emanation]](s), 8, 14, 75, 300

• and five elements, 179, 256–57, 261, 369

• of heruka's body, 183, 230, 369

• manifestation of, 68, 123–25

• and mantra, 75, 78, 223, 242

• and offerings, 214, 217–18, 262

[[Empowerment]](s), 19, 32, 130, 208

• as antidote to self-grasping, 228

• and attainment of Buddhahood, 57–58

• and autonomy, 32, 35

• and blessings of Deity, 211–12

• of co-emergence (sahaja), 248

• extensive, 184

• five (see five Empowerments)

• of five wisdoms, 307, 316

• four (see four Empowerments)

• and guru, 11–13

• of immortality/immortal life, 137

• invocation/invitation for, 208–11

• and purity of three seats, 117

• and reflexive awareness, 107, 129

• ripening/maturing, 37–39, 251

• and seeds of Three Kāyas, 122

• and strength of dharmasphere, 318

• and supplication, 329, 354

• supports for, 298, 303

• and taking up accomplishments, 347, 353

• Vajrakīla, 15, 18–19, 23

[[Empowerment]]-[[blessing]], 206–8, 211, 307

[[emptiness]], 51, 172, 186, 193, 265, 277

• and afflictions, 108, 135, 140

• appearance(s)/sights and, 98, 263, 274, 276

• awareness and, 98, 263

• Buddha nature as, 254, 318

• and conventional Bodhicitta, 7, 29

• and development stages, 164–66, 169

• and duality/dualistic grasping, 241, 254

• and five elements, 256–57, 261

• and form/appearance of Deity, 58, 164, 171–72, 174, 355

• and HŪ/seed syllable, 110, 171, 188, 326

• and kīla of Bodhicitta, 121–25, 128

• and life force of Deity, 8, 13, 15, 192, 201–2

• and mantra, 82, 98, 223, 232–33, 245

• and mind of guru, 12–13, 145

• and name of Deity, 175–78

• and nature/condition of mind, 104–6, 112, 254, 269, 317

• as nonduality, 279

• and offerings, 163–64, 217

• and purity, 82, 115, 261, 368

• and skillful means, 283

• union of bliss and, 239, 242, 250, 253

• union of clarity and, 116, 198, 274–76, 352–53

• union of compassion and, 78, 119, 156, 202, 279, 297

• as view, 65–66, 269, 317

• and visualization, 66, 193, 263

[[empty]] [[essence]], 194–96, 278, 303, 352

[[enemy]] in whom [[ten]] [[ground]]s are [[complete]], 174, 294, 333, 335–38

enrichment/enriching [[activity]], 10, 20–21, 265, 311, 340

• and gold material, 127, 181

• kīla of, 292–94

• See also Four Activities/Enlightened actions

[[equanimity]], 14, 95, 205, 343

• immeasurable, 121, 156, 265, 316, 321

• See also Four Immeasurables

equilibrium, 67

equipoise/[[meditative]] equipoise, 110

[[essence]] of [[dependent]] [[relation]]s, 267, 271, 423n42

[[Essence]] of Display, 143

• text, 381–91

[[Essence]] of the Play of Concerned [[Activity]], The, 24

eternalism/[[permanence]], 166, 269

[[ethical]] [[discipline]], 31, 34, 51

• See also six transcendent perfections

[[existence]] as [[vajra]], 330, 348

[[existence-Vajrakīla]]/[[existence]]-[[kīla]], 129, 209–10, 315, 327, 348

[[Exposition]] on the [[Great]] [[Accomplishment]] of [[Karuṇā]] [[Guhyasamaja]], The, 237

[[Exposition]] on the [[Great]] [[Accomplishment]] of [[Vajrakīla]], The, 56

[[eye]] potion, 140

F

• facing generation, 219–21, 230, 258–59, 315

• See also three mandalas

[[factual]] [[Bodhicitta]], 7, 29, 90, 103, 114

• See also two types of Bodhicitta; Ultimate Bodhicitta

faculties (of [[practitioner]]s), 9, 32, 36, 57, 340

• highest, 63, 109, 184, 229, 311

• lesser, 99

• See also six sense faculties

[[faith]], 76, 157, 207, 216, 255, 420n8

• in Bodhicitta, 51

• and bringing down blessings, 314

• in cause and effect, 272

• in Deity, 15–16, 155

• and development stage training, 60, 63

• in five elements, 257

• and magnetizing activities, 294

• and purification of self-grasping, 84

• and Refuge, 144

• and samaya, 224

• and strength of one's intentions, 317–18

• and taking up accomplishments, 348

• in Three Jewels, 36, 254

• See also three types of faith

[[falcon]] [[type]]s/hosts ([[zasö]]), 102, 182, 218, 300, 329

[[feast]] [[offering]], 323–28, 332–45

• See also Gaṇacakra/Gaṇapūja

[[fiction]]al [[Bodhicitta]], 7, 29, 90–91, 114

• See also conventional Bodhicitta; two types of Bodhicitta

[[fifty]]-[[one]] [[mental]] [[arising]]s, 200

[[fire]] [[pūja]], 81

[[five]] [[affliction]]s/[[afflict]]ive [[poison]]s, 34, 108, 116, 204, 265, 341

• as five father-Buddhas, 208

• and five wisdoms, 39, 112, 208, 212, 418n1

• and wrathful Deities, 198

• See also five poisons

[[five]] [[aggregate]]s ([[skandha]]s), 116, 341

[[five]] [[certain]]ties, 184, 196, 204, 222

[[five]] desirables, 137–38, 167, 213, 218

• and Gaṇacakra, 326–27, 343, 345

[[five element]]s, 116, 161–63, 235, 287

• dissolution of, 67–68

• as divine emanations/ Nirmāṇakāyas, 38, 94, 179, 221, 281, 369

• as five mother-Buddhas, 208, 212, 256, 261

• pervaded by five families/Deities, 4, 369

• and protective spheres of Yamāntaka, 256–57

• and rainbow light rays, 80, 165

[[five]] [[Empowerment]]s, 39

[[five]] [[families]], 117, 173, 179, 211, 298, 318

• aggregates and elements as, 246–48, 261

• Buddhas/Tathāgatas of, 116, 211, 274

• and crown ornament, 173, 200, 208, 211

• and Empowerment, 207–8, 211, 307

• and five elements, 369

• and five fleshes/nectars, 342

• and five prongs of vajra, 175

• mother-consorts of, 157, 163, 212, 261

• in upper knot of kīla, 299–300

• of victorious ones, 102, 206, 261

[[five]] [[family]] lines, 173

[[five]] [[flesh]]es, 342–43

[[five]] [[kāya]]s, 174–75

[[five]] [[nectar]]s, 342–43

[[five]] [[poison]]s, 333

• See also five afflictions/afflictive poisons

[[five skandhas]]. [[See]] [[five]] [[aggregate]]s

[[five]]-[[step]] [[development]] of [[manifest]] [[Enlightenment]], 62

[[five]] [[wisdom]]s, 117, 163, 204, 230, 259, 300

• afflictions as, 34, 38–40, 112, 212, 256

• and dharmakāya, 125, 315

• Empowerment of, 307, 316

• and five kāyas, 174

• and five poisons, 333

• natural radiance/forms of, 254, 274

• and vase nectar, 221

• See also wisdom(s)

[[Foremost]] [[Prince]], 219, 291, 295–302, 305, 306

• mandala of, 221, 230

• three perceptions of (see three perceptions of Foremost Prince/material kīla)

• See also three mandalas

forsaking [[sentient one]]s, 93, 126

[[fortress]] of the [[view]], 88–91, 101, 103, 164, 372

[[Four Activities]]/[[Enlightened action]]s, 12, 18, 127, 140, 329–30

• and Bodhicitta/compassion, 11, 264–65

• through emanating/radiating and

• gathering, 255, 369

• and great accomplishment, 256

• kīlas of the, 293

• and Mantra recitation, 12, 264

• and material kīla(s), 127, 131, 181, 291–96

• and material mandala, 310–11

• and rainbow light, 158, 258

• sadhanas of, 9

• siddhi(s) of, 20, 81, 348

• and syllables JAḤ HŪ VA HOḤ, 233

[[four]] [[attribute]]s of [[Deity]], 5–8

[[four]] [[branch]]es of [[approach]] and

• accomplishment, 44, 121, 205, 251–52, 257

• and four nails that pin life force, 259–63

• See also approach and accomplishment

[[four]] [[cakra]]s, 25, 244, 246, 248

[[four]] [[class]]es of [[Tantra]], 44, 62, 205, 257

[[four]] continents, 351

[[four]] [[dharma]]s of Gampopa, 370

[[four]] [[direction]]s, 168–69, 181, 208, 300

[[four]] [[Empowerment]]s, 18–19

[[four]] [[extreme]]s, 295

[[four]] [[families]]/[[family]] lines, 18, 181–82

[[four]] gatekeeping maids/[[female]] gatekeepers, 300, 301

[[Four Immeasurables]], 121, 154–57, 172, 228

• and Bodhicitta/altruistic intent, 29, 129, 152, 370

• and development stages, 194

• and four female gatekeepers, 218–19, 300, 329

• free of subject and object, 118–19, 265

• and lower activities, 336

• and syllables JAḤ HŪ VA HOḤ, 210, 233, 321

• and wrathful Deities, 199

[[four]] [[joy]]s, 244

[[four]]-[[kāya]] [[guru]] [[yoga]], 14

[[Four Kīla]]s, 12, 103–31, 372

[[four]] [[māra]]s, 102–3, 131–40, 178, 330

• and Four Kīlas, 103

• and seat of Deity, 171–72

[[four]] [[mind]]-[[changing]] contemplations, 42–43, 118

[[four]] [[mode]]s of [[birth]], 62

[[four]] nails that pin [[life]] [[force]], 259–63

[[four]] [[place]]s, 18, 353–54

[[four]] [[prince]]s, 169–70, 181, 184, 311

[[four]] quarters/[[direction]]s, 169, 181, 208, 300

[[four]] [[root]] downfalls, 93

[[four]]-[[spoked]] [[cakra]]/[[wheel]], 169–71, 181, 184

[[four]]-[[step]] [[vajra]] [[development]], 62

[[four]]teen [[Mantric]] downfalls, 324

[[four]] [[tenet]] [[system]]s, 43

[[four]] [[type]]s of [[development stage]] [[yoga]]s, 62

[[four]] [[type]]s of [[knowledge]] holders, 139

[[four]] [[type]]s of [[siddhi]], 19–20

[[four]] [[type]]s of [[transmission]] [[lineage]]s, 18

[[four]] [[yoga]]s of [[mahā]][[mudrā]], 122

frankincense, 298, 331

G

• Gampopa, 87, 138, 370

[[Gaṇacakra]]/[[Gaṇa]][[pūja]] ([[feast]] [[offering]]), 323–28, 331–32, 343, 345

• Liberation during, 128, 163, 296

• and offerings, 325, 342–45

• perceiving food and drink as, 81, 357

Ganges, The, 99, 137

[[Garchen]]/[[Gar Monastery]], 6, 15, 336

[[Garchen]] Trinle Yongkhyab, 15

gar[[land]] of [[human]] heads, 174, 200

[[gathering]] and ree[[merge]]nce (dudang), 276

[[gathering]] in, 67, 271–76, 312

[[Gathering]] of Sugatas of the [[Eight]] [[Sadhana]] [[Teaching]]s, [[Tantra]] of the, 45, 236

[[Gelug]], 331

generosity, 31, 34, 51, 75–78

• and Gaṇacakra, 325, 344

• of white torma and smoke offerings, 287

• See also six transcendent perfections

[[gods]], 62, 173, 239, 306, 359

• and demons, 179–80, 367

• and offering clouds of Samantabhadra, 214, 262

• and visualization of accomplishment mantra, 244, 249

• and visualization of approach mantra, 224, 229

• See also six classes of wayfarers/beings; three higher realms

[[golden]] libation, 288–90

Gongchig: The [[Single]] [[Intent]], the Sacred [[Dharma]], 63, 184

[[gradual]] [[type]]s, 35–36

[[great]] [[accomplishment]], 9, 81, 83, 263, 360

• branch of, 255–57

• See also four branches of approach and accomplishment

[[great]] [[accomplishment retreat]]

• (drubchen), 15, 296, 314, 336, 347

• Mantra recitation in, 236–37, 422n29

• opening chamber of recitation in, 219–21

• physical mandala in, 309–11

• See also accomplishment retreat (drubpa)

[[Great Bliss]], [[Supreme]] [[Means]], 284

[[Great]] [[Treasury]] of [[Precious]] [[Terma]]s, The, 25

[[Great Vehicle]], 30, 93–94, 128, 196, 340

[[greed]], 76–78

[[ground]](s), 138–40, 176, 275, 295, 369

• of Buddhas, 147, 244, 338–39, 351–53

• and paths, 89, 139, 177

• ten (see enemy in whom ten grounds are complete)

[[guardian]]s/[[guard]]s/[[guard]] maids/[[protector]]s, 22, 102, 218, 300–301, 345

• and activities, 197

• of mandala, 182–84, 310, 328–29

• petition and, 319–22

• worldly, 149

[[guru]](s), 11–15, 137, 201, 312

• and blessing, 48, 90, 356

• body, speech, and mind of, 145

• as born Nirmāṇakāyas, 279

• and concentration being, 196

• and disciple(s), 19, 53, 93, 364–66

• and Empowerment, 211–12

• of Garchen Rinpoche, 15–16, 60, 74, 134

• inner, 99–100, 260

• perverted views of/problems with, 43, 95

• prayers for longevity of, 364

• and Refuge, 143–45, 319

• and samaya, 227

• See also Three Roots

[[Guru Padma]]. [[See]] [[Padmasambhava]]

[[Guru Rinpoche]], 10, 42, 100, 203, 237, 314

• on accomplishment retreats, 73, 229

• on approach and accomplishment, 252–54, 256

• on Deity Yoga/development stages, 46, 50, 52, 192

• and Earlier System, 44–45, 87

• on mantra, 74, 84, 231

• mind accomplishment sadhana of, 3–4, 319

• on samaya taint in group retreat, 323

• and Vajrakīla transmission, 18–23, 88

• See also Lotus Born; Padmasambhava; Padma Thötreng Tsal; Śākyamitra; Vajra Thötreng Tsal

[[guru]] [[yoga]], 11, 14

Gya Zhangtrom, 331

H

• hatred, 43, 265–66, 302, 335, 339

• and inner offerings, 217, 315

• as mirror-like wisdom, 212

• See also aggression; anger; aversion; five afflictions/afflictive poisons; three poisons/poisonous afflictions

Hayagrīva (Tamdrin), 178, 345, 421n12

[[hearing]]

• intelligence arisen from, 237

• Liberation through, 233

[[hearing]] [[lineage]], 18, 122

[[Heart Sutra]], 82

[[hell]] denizens, 128, 136, 306

• See also six classes of wayfarers/beings; three lower realms

[[hell]] [[realm]]s, 43, 78–79, 162, 282, 423n51

• See also three bad migrations/states; three lower realms

[[heruka]](s), 66, 89, 140–41, 175, 183

• charnel ground attire of, 174

• eight (see eight herukas)

• Karma (see Karma heruka)

• as sole hero, 295–96

• visualizing/imagining, 204, 248, 369

He[[vajra]] [[Root]] [[Tantra]], 31

Hinayāna. [[See]] [[Smaller]] [[Vehicle]]

homa ([[fire]] [[pūja]]), 81

[[homage]], 151, 212–13, 233, 268, 357

horse dance. [[See]] under dance

[[human]](s), 62–63, 251, 282, 306, 360

• beings, 30, 268, 287, 317, 320

• births and ethical discipline, 34

• body and microorganisms, 81, 179

• body and seeds of Three Kāyas, 122

• body and six constituents, 239–40

• body/form, 5, 31, 37–38, 43, 47

• connection/bond between Deities

• and, 318, 327–29

• flesh, 342

• life, 71

• realm, 68, 70–71, 75, 148, 423n51

• See also six classes of wayfarers/beings; three higher realms

humility, 334

Hūkāra, 300, 301, 421n12

HŪ [[syllable]]/[[letter]], 108–13, 143, 330, 358, 362

• causal samādhi and, 171–72

• and concentration being, 196

• as dharmakāya, 175

• as emptiness-rigpa, 164

• exclaiming, 235

• and gathering and reemergence, 275–76

• and kīla consecration, 299

• as life force, 225

• meaning of, 233

• as nature of Bodhicitta, 371

• and selflessness, 327

• of varja mind, 304

• and vajra recitation, 361–62

• visualization of, 188–91, 193, 326, 371

• visualization with accomplishment mantra, 245

• visualization with approach mantra, 225–26

[[hundred]] [[families]] of [[peaceful]] and [[wrathful]] [[Deities]], 102, 116–17, 180, 230, 280

[[hundred]]-[[syllable]] [[mantra]] of [[Vajra]][[sattva]], 266–67, 271, 331, 422n41

[[Hundred]] [[Thousand]] [[Song]]s of [[Milarepa]], The, 119, 250, 357

I

• ignorance, 38, 40–41, 44, 71, 99

• and afflictions, 159, 270

• and arrogant ones, 333–35

• and beings' harmful conduct, 6–7

• and disclosure, 160

• and dualistic grasping, 349

• as flesh, 177, 320, 350

• and kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa, 107

• and name of Deity, 175–77

• and seed syllable, 188

• and self-grasping/self-cherishing, 140, 151

• and Vajraku[[māra, 171, 173

• and yawning, 235

• See also delusion(s); five afflictions/afflictive poisons; six afflictions; three poisons/poisonous afflictions

[[illness]], 7, 33, 71, 100, 122, 242

• and development stages, 50

• and imprints/propensities, 133, 231–32

• and inner obstacles, 94–97

• and mantra, 81–82, 236, 264

• pacification of, 265, 311

• rumination on, 193

[[illusory]] [[body]]/[[form]], 123, 133, 170, 196

[[immeasurable]] [[equanimity]], 156, 316, 321

• See also Four Immeasurables

[[immeasurable]] [[joy]], 156, 233

• See also Four Immeasurables

[[immeasurable]] [[love]]/[[loving kindness]], 121, 155–56, 202, 227–28

• and Great Vehicle individual, 30

• and purpose of all sentient ones, 373

• See also Four Immeasurables

[[immeasurable]]/[[measure]]less

• compassion, 119–20, 156, 227, 255, 272

• kīla of (see kīla of immeasurable/measureless compassion)

• and Liberation, 336

• material kīlas as manifestation of, 131

• and selflessness, 278

• See also Four Immeasurables

[[Immeasurable Palace]], 58, 158, 301, 311, 337

• Foremost Prince as, 302–3

• and outer container, 220, 256–57

• visualizing, 164–69, 183–84

im[[permanence]], 43, 138, 168

[[implement]](s), 131, 255, 301

• as attributes of Deity's Mind, 174, 200

• Foremost Prince as, 230

• and kīla consecration, 291–304

• and symbols, meanings, and signs, 123–24, 172

• See also kīla(s); material kīla(s) (Phurba)

incarceration pit, 127

indeterminate [[thought]]s, 98–99

[[individual]] [[Liberation]], 29, 92, 96, 100, 128, 153

• path, 31–32, 36, 53, 90, 144, 279

• vows/precepts, 19, 93, 324, 419n5

• and wrath of primordial awareness, 349–50

[[individual]] like sandalwood [[tree]], 130

in[[script]]ion [[ritual]], 221

[[instruction]](s), 14, 23, 221, 324, 367

• on conduct, 97, 357

• on Deity Yoga/development and completion, 60, 69

• on Dzogchen, 359

• on Gaṇacakra, 81, 345

• of hearing lineage, 122

• liberating, 39, 251

• pith, 19, 129, 250, 285

• to subdue mind, 157, 225

• on Vajrakīla, 16, 19, 23

inter[[dependent arising]]/inter[[dependence]], 125, 127, 324, 339

J

• Jambhala, 364

Jambudvīpa, 148, 165, 325

[[Jamgön Kongtrül]] [[Lodrö]] [[Thaye]], 24–25, 320, 375

• and kīla consecration, 291

• and Lineage supplication, 87

• and restoration, 328

japa (dzab), 219n

jealousy, 34, 116, 162, 265, 366–67

• during accomplishment retreats, 323–24

• and harmdoers/māras, 127, 171, 179

• and sexual partners, 240–41, 243

• See also five afflictions/afflictive poisons; five poisons; six afflictions

[[jewel]] wing, 174

Jigme [[Lingpa]], 19, 100–101, 284–85

Jigme Phüntsog, Khenpo, 357, 425n2

[[Jigten Sumgön]], 6, 14, 19, 273, 280, 282

• on Deity Yoga/development stages, 4–5, 165, 284

• on Empowerment, 32

• on extensive sādhanas, 184

• guru yoga of, 11–12

• on indeterminate thoughts, 99

• on preliminaries, 154

• on sudden types, 36

[[jñāna]][[sattva]]. [[See]] [[Wisdom Being]]

Jowo Atiśa, 280

Jowo statue, 146

[[joy]](s), 8, 41, 77, 215, 354

• four (see four joys)

• immeasurable, 121, 156, 233, 265, 321

• See also Four Immeasurables

K

• Kagyü, 24, 87, 175, 331, 352

• Drigung, 15, 152, 236, 277

• Karma, 418n28

• See also Drigung Kagyü

kalantaka bird, 130

kapāla, 131, 178

[[karma]], 71, 176, 199, 260, 359, 365

• and afflictions, 33, 44, 118, 132, 200, 336

• and afflictive winds, 68

• and aspirations, 15

• and autonomy, 51–52

• belief in, 90, 149

• and Bodhicitta, 185

• and disclosure, 159, 270

• individual, 120, 260

• and Liberation, 338–39

• and propensities/habits/imprints, 5, 64, 66, 133, 231, 281

• and repelling, 341–42

• and samsara/samsaric appearances, 153, 241

[[Karma]] Chagme. [[See]] Chagme Rāga Asya

[[Karma]] [[family]]/[[family]] of [[Enlightened activities]], 153, 177, 181

[[Karma]] Gyurme [[Rinpoche]], 418n28

[[Karma]] [[heruka]], 154

[[Karma]][[kīla]], 152–53, 181

[[karmic]] [[causality]], 150, 267, 295

• incontrovertibility of, 99–100, 365

[[karmic]] imprints/[[habit]]s/[[propensities]], 10, 36, 47, 111, 165, 345

• and bardo, 47, 180

• body created by, 47, 336

• destruction of, 110

• and development stages, 54

• and mantra, 232

• purification of, 78, 326

• and seed syllable, 190

• and self-grasping, 152, 318

[[kaṭaṅkaṭe]]. [[See]] [[accomplishment]] [[mantra]]

[[kāya]]s, 124, 199

• five (see five kāyas)

• form (see rūpakāya form bodies/kāyas])

• and pure fields, 35, 56, 138, 353, 356

• three (see Three Kāyas)

• and wisdoms, 123–24, 200, 242

Khamsum/Khamsum [[Namgyal]] (Trailokyavijaya), 179, 421n12

[[khaṭvāṅga]], 123, 173

Khön, 89

Khorlo Gyedebma (Dīptacakrā), 102, 178, 218, 233

• and secret offering, 222–23, 246, 248

[[kīla]](s), 301

• of blessing, 103, 352

• of compassionate emanation, 129

• destructive, 294–95

• divine, 130–31

• enriching, 292–94

• of the expanse, 104

• four (see Four Kīlas)

• of Four Activities, 291–92, 293

• magnetizing, 294

• natural, self-arisen, 347–48

• of nonduality, 104

• one hundred and eight (see one hundred and eight Kīlas)

• pacifying, 292

• of samādhi, 347–48

• of wisdom, 104

• See also implement(s); material kīla(s) (Phurba)

[[Kīla]] [[Activity]], 45, 88, 236

[[kīla]] of [[Bodhicitta]], 121–25, 130–31, 242

• as conduct, 128

• and Liberation, 332

• and māra of son of gods, 138

• See also Four Kīlas

[[kīla]] of [[immeasurable]]/[[measure]]less

• compassion, 114–21, 129, 131

• and māra of afflictions, 138

• as meditation, 128

• See also Four Kīlas

[[kīla]] of primordial [[awareness]]-[[rigpa]]/unfurled and [[pervasive]] primordial [[awareness]], 21, 103–14, 130, 232, 304

• afflictions and, 136, 159, 233, 273, 349

• HŪ syllable and, 109–13

• kīla of Bodhicitta and, 123

• māra of lord of death and, 112, 137, 330

• name of Deity and, 177

• sky-like individual and, 129

• as ultimate truth, 121

• as view, 96, 128, 352

• as wrathful wisdom, 350

• See also Four Kīlas

kiṁkāra [[being]]s/[[men]], 183, 295–96, 301, 321–22

[[kindness]], 90, 295

[[King]] of [[Aspiration]]s for the [[Conduct]] of [[Samantabhadra]], The, 53, 118, 248

[[King]] of Samādhis [[Sūtra]], The, 307

[[knowledge]] holders (vidyādharas), 18, 143, 264, 312, 348

• eight (see eight knowledge holders)

• four types (see four types of knowledge holders)

• with mastery of life/immortal, 20, 268

[[Könchog]] Tengye, 15

Kongpo, 22

Küntuzangpo ([[Samantabhadra]]), 89

• See also Samantabhadra

L

• landholders/landholding spirits, 287–89

Lang, 97

Langlab Jangdor, 97

latencies, 71, 96, 336

[[Latter]] [[System]] (Sarma), 75, 87, 131, 166, 248, 418n11

• and four classes of Tantra, 44, 205, 257

• mahāmudrā of, 89

Lekyi Wangmo, 89

Lharig Sigtrül Tülku. [[See]] [[Karma]] Gyurme [[Rinpoche]]

Lhasa, 146

[[Lho]] [[Nüden]] [[Dorje]]. [[See]] [[Nüden]] [[Dorje]]

[[Liberation]], 19, 36, 115, 163, 332–41

• on arising, 110, 158, 242

• and disclosure from view, 159–60

• through hearing, 233

• individual (see individual Liberation)

• and kīla of immeasurable

• compassion, 119

• and malign tormas, 296, 337

• and material kīla, 128

• means/method(s) of, 39, 44, 128, 240, 257

• story (namthar), 4, 20, 88

• from suffering, 134

[[life]] [[force]], 103, 109, 131, 147, 226, 306

• as Bodhicitta/love/compassion, 52, 154, 254, 283

• four nails that pin (see four nails that pin life force)

• as HŪ/seed syllable, 188–90, 224–25, 245

• as self-grasping consciousness, 106, 111–12, 304, 306, 330

• as union of emptiness and

• compassion, 8, 13, 15, 192, 201–2

[[life]] [[force]] that is [[conduct]], 88, 97–101, 265, 372

[[light]]ning, 109

[[lineage]], 16, 18, 25, 122, 200, 242

• of blessing-practice, 16–17, 23, 44, 92, 371

• Buddha-word, 87, 89, 141

• master(s), 88

• supplication, 24–26, 87–141, 358

• treasure, 22, 87, 92, 141

• Vajrakīla, 17–20, 97, 264

liṅga, 131, 331

• See also effigy yantra

[[liturgy]]/[[liturgical]] [[text]], 15, 44, 184, 203

• of Mañjuśrī Yamāntaka, 119, 283

local [[Deities]]/[[gods]], 287–89

[[Longchen]] [[Rabjam]], 83, 96, 367

longevity/long [[life]], 80, 122, 229, 311, 364

lotsawa, 284

[[Lotus]] [[Born]], 19, 96

• See also Guru Rinpoche; Padmasambhava; Padma Thötreng Tsal; Śākyamitra; Vajra Thötreng Tsal

[[Lotus]] [[King]] [[Tantra]], 46

[[Lotus]] Melody of [[Eighteen]] [[Perfection]]s, 41

[[love]], 5–7, 9, 30, 76, 152

• and afflictions, 198, 240–41, 356, 363–64

• and approach and accomplishment, 251–55

• and Bodhisattva's Vow, 93–94, 100

• and Buddha nature, 5, 120, 275

• and conduct, 265

• for Deity, 47–49, 57, 64, 202, 364

• and Deity Yoga/development stages, 78, 154, 164, 201, 282–84

• and destructive activities/Liberation, 266, 338–39

• and emanating and gathering, 262

• and Four Immeasurables, 154–56

• of guru, 13–14, 144–45, 366

• and kīla of immeasurable

• compassion, 119

• and offering(s), 76, 216

• and purification/destruction of self-grasping, 55, 84, 120, 228, 281, 365

• and purification of obscurations, 78

• and purposes/objectives of self and

• others, 52–53, 227

• and samaya, 207, 223–24, 312–14, 317

• and samaya among sādhakas, 325, 366

• and Sangha, 151

• and seed essence, 122, 240–43

• and selflessness, 251, 278

• as sign of accomplishment, 79–80, 354

• and six transcendent perfections, 34, 51–52

• and white torma, 289

• and wrath, 130

[[loving kindness]], 5, 29, 52–53, 240, 282

• blessings of, 353

• and dedication, 277, 372–73

• as Deity's life force, 202

• and destructive/liberating activities, 333, 336, 339

• Dharma as cultivation of, 151

• and emanating and gathering, 235

• and HŪ syllable, 371

• immeasurable (see immeasurable loving kindness)

• and samaya, 223–24, 325

• and six transcendent perfections, 34

• See also Four Immeasurables

lucid [[faith]], 76, 146, 148, 150

luminosity, 109, 278–79, 351, 357

• of deep sleep, 67, 101

luminosity-[[emptiness]], 186, 188

[[lust]], 108, 130, 173, 240, 243–44

• as inner offering, 127, 161–63, 217, 315, 331

• nature of, 240, 254

• and practices of channels and winds, 122, 125

• See also desire; five afflictions/afflictive poisons; passion; three poisons/poisonous afflictions

M

• Ma, 97

[[Madhyamaka]], 89, 113

magnetization/magnetizing [[activity]], 20–21, 126, 233, 265, 340

• and copper material kīla, 127, 181, 293–94

• and kīla consecration, 306

• torma of, 311

• See also Four Activities/Enlightened actions

[[Mahā]]bala (Tobchen), 300, 301, 421n12

• See also Tobchen

[[mahā]][[mudrā]], 19–20, 89, 159, 192, 216

• four yogas of (see four yogas of mahāmudrā)

• and guru, 13–14

• and kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa, 96, 103–6, 112–13

• method for seeing, 235

• and nail of changeless intent, 259

• and nail of essence mantra, 262

• and secret obstacles, 94, 96

• and two objectives, 96–97

[[Mahā]]yāna. [[See]] [[Great Vehicle]]

[[mahā]]yoga, 45, 87

makara. [[See]] [[water]] [[dragon]]

[[māla]], 12, 252, 262, 297–98

• and strand/cord, 120, 151, 270

• used as blessing-support, 297, 347, 353

malign [[torma]], 296, 336–37

[[mandala]](s), 58, 72, 81, 169, 203–5

• appearance-existence as, 210, 260, 333, 348

• and bliss, 223, 248, 267

• Bodhicitta and, 122, 124

• body, 178–81, 186

• and completion stage/gathering in, 66–67, 273–75

• confidence in presence of, 170

• container and contents as, 130, 210

• Deities, 102–3

• eight (see eight mandalas of material kīla)

• and Eight Sadhana Teachings, 45

• elaborate/extensive, 24n, 166, 169

• of Enlightened activities, 45

• established through Four Kīlas, 128–29

• facing, 258–59

• and implement, 296–302

• and mantra, 224, 229–30, 356

• material/physical, 299, 309–12, 314, 318, 358

• offerings to, 81, 161, 325–26, 328, 342

• and opening chamber of recitation, 219–22, 258

• outer, 168, 421n12

• planet Earth as, 66, 185, 204

• as reflection of mind, 190, 192

• of Self-Generation, 203–5, 219

• sentient ones as divine hosts of, 255, 257

• surrounding, 181–84

• as tetrahedron, 166

• three (see three mandalas)

• of wisdom Deities, 203–5

Maṇi Kabum, 65

[[Mañjuśrī]], 112

[[Mañjuśrī]] [[Yamāntaka]], 24–26, 42, 256

• destructive activities of, 265

• Garchen Rinpoche and, 16

• Gya Zhangtrom and, 331

• liturgy/Practice Manual of, 54, 119, 283–84, 306, 352

• and Master Yangga, 365

• as method for realizing mahāmudrā, 112

• Sign-Based Praise of Mañjuśrī Yamāntaka, 218

• three samādhis and, 171

• See also Yamāntaka

[[mantra]](s), 37, 81, 95, 140, 362, 368

• accomplishment (see accomplishment mantra)

• approach (see approach mantra)

• as blessing, 80

• and branches of approach and

• accomplishment, 251–57

• and charm, 219n

• and close approach, 262

• in daily life, 356–65

• as Deity, 12, 74–75

• and destructive/lower activities, 265, 336

• as dharmatā, 82–83

• as dispelling obscurations, 78–79

• as Enlightened activities, 81–82

• for kīla consecration, 292, 298

• and Liberation, 332, 337–38

• and melody, 236–38, 355–56, 359

• nine benefits of (see nine benefits of

• mantra)

• as offering, 75–78, 248, 297, 345

• purifying imprints/propensities/obscurations, 57, 232, 367

• quintessence, 190–91, 196, 245, 361

• and radiating/emanating and gathering, 220, 242, 262–63

• recollection of, 356–57

• retaining, 292

• secret (see Secret Mantra)

• and self-resounding nāda, 245

• self-resounding/self-arisen sound of, 248–49, 253, 256, 368

• as siddhis, 79–80

• when sleeping, 73–74

• sounds as, 98, 234–35, 256, 263, 368

• strand (see mantra strand/garland)

• at time of death, 232

• transforming sounds/speech into, 55, 115, 360

• as wish-fulfilling jewel, 83

[[Mantra recitation]](s), 48, 55, 151, 222, 234–38

• at all times, 361

• approach and accomplishment and, 252–56

• audio recording of, 359–60

• benefits of, 74–84

• for consecrating Four Kīlas, 292–94

• and ḍākiṇī, 12

• during daily activities, 203, 361–62

• meditation methods during, 230–32

• as meditation on misery, 363

• and nail of essence mantra, 261–62

• numbers of, 234–35, 252

• as offering, 297, 345

• and offering the charm, 266–67

• prayer wheel as substitute for, 83

• and purifying propensities/obscurations of speech, 54, 57, 232, 367

• with samādhi/Ultimate Bodhicitta, 223, 240

• signs of accomplishment from, 264

[[mantra]] [[strand]]/gar[[land]], 77, 79, 83–84, 258–59

• and accomplishment mantra, 239–48

• and approach mantra, 224–27, 231

• and nail of essence mantra, 261–63

• and stages of approach and

• accomplishment, 252–55

[[māra]](s), 103, 131–40, 161–62, 341

• of afflictions, 125

• of aggregates, 26, 125, 338

• four (see four māras)

• of lord of death, 112, 330

• of son of the gods, 71

[[māra]]-[[subduing]] [[queen]]. [[See]] [[Yeshe Tsogyal]]

[[Māra]]-[[Subduing]] [[Secret Mantra]] [[Sanctuary]], 25, 328

• text, 406–8

Marpa, 87

Mase Sengge, 15

[[master]]y, 105–14, 140, 241–42, 268, 332

[[material]] [[kīla]](s) ([[Phurba]]), 130–31, 230, 295–302, 305

• as accomplishment-support, 291, 347

• eight mandalas of (see eight mandalas of material kīla)

• and mandala of Foremost Prince, 221

• and mandala of ten wrathful ones, 168

• in material mandala, 181, 310

• See also implement(s); kīla(s); material kīla of signs

[[material]] [[kīla]] of [[sign]]s, 125–30, 133, 168, 221, 230

• and Liberation, 332, 338

• See also Four Kīlas; material kīla(s) (Phurba)

[[material]]/[[physical]] [[mandala]], 204, 299, 309–12, 358

• and Four Activities' material kīlas, 181

• as meditation support, 309, 347

[[meaning]](s). [[See]] [[symbol]]s, [[meaning]]s, and [[sign]]s

[[medicine]](s), 16, 126, 162, 238, 243, 342

• of accomplishment (mendrub), 217

[[meditation]], 67, 69, 110, 156, 171, 216

• abyss of, 91–97

• in accomplishment retreat, 70, 73, 355

• and certainty, 318

• diligence in, 107

• and heart visualization, 185–88

• on HŪ/seed syllable, 175, 188–94, 225, 326, 371

• and mandala of samādhi, 128

• and mantra, 234–39, 257–58, 360–63

• methods during approach mantra, 230–32

• and nail of intent, 263

• and nail of samādhi, 261

• and purification of afflictions, 267

• support(s), 168, 297, 309, 338, 348, 358

• Ultimate Bodhicitta as, 132

• and victorious ones' blessings, 206

• See also view, meditation, and conduct

[[meditative]] absorption, 31, 34, 67, 156, 423n2

• See also six transcendent perfections

Melodious, [[Māra]]-[[Destroy]]ing [[Vajra]] [[Song]], 87

• text, 377–80

melody, 25, 223, 348

• and mantra, 234, 236–38, 356, 359–60

[[merit]], 98, 200, 310–11, 350, 369

• accumulation/reaping of, 249, 360

• and Bodhicitta, 31, 148, 180

• and Buddhahood, 44, 215

• dedication of, 276–77, 372–74

• enrichment of, 292–94, 311

• and Gaṇacakra, 323, 327, 342

• and group retreats, 73, 324

• and offerings, 76–78

• See also two accumulations/gatherings

messenger-[[guardian]]s/messengers, 321

microorganisms, 69, 81, 179

[[Milarepa]], 4, 57, 81, 95, 170, 419n10

• appearance inside yak horn, 191

• and compassion, 119

• and daily conduct, 357

• and hearing lineage, 122

• and māra of lord of death, 136

• and preciousness of human body, 239

• on view/awareness/rigpa, 107–8, 112, 114, 250, 259, 352

• on view, meditation, and conduct, 101

[[mindful]] [[awareness]], 83, 137, 151, 172, 203, 362

• and abyss of meditation, 92–94

• and conduct, 100–1

• and kīla of Bodhicitta, 243

• and kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa, 104–5, 107–8

• and Mantra recitation, 234–36

• and transformation of afflictions, 39, 70, 198, 243, 294, 359

[[mind]] [[lineage]] of [[victor]]ious ones, 18

miracles, 20, 22, 82, 140

[[Miyowa]]/[[Miyo]] ([[Acala]]), 178, 421n12

[[mountain]]-like [[individual]], 129

Mount Meru, 61, 163, 173, 207, 228, 345

[[mudrā]](s), 207–8, 307, 310, 312, 348

• as Deities, 329

• and offerings, 214, 288

• and system that is conduct, 97–98

[[mudrā]] [[kīla]], 347

Münsel, Khenpo, 74, 134–35

N

• nāda, 223, 245

[[Nāgārjuna]], 159

nail of [[activities]] of [[emanating]] and [[gathering]], 262–63, 329

nail of [[change]]less [[intent]]/of [[view]], 259–61, 263

nail of [[essence]] [[mantra]], 261–62

nail of samādhi, 261

[[Namgyal]] (Vijaya), 178, 421n12

Nanam, 89

[[Nāropa]], 87, 107

• Six Yogas of, 122

navel, 110, 178, 193, 225, 302, 361–62

[[Neck]]lace of Sapphires, The, 15

[[Neck]]-Pouch [[Kīla]] [[Cycle]], The, 425n2

[[nectar]] pills, 217

[[New Treasure]] [[Tradition]]s ([[Tersar]]), 3, 177

Ngülchu/Gyalse Thogme Zangpo, 33, 266

Niguma, 107

nihilism, 166, 269

Nīldaṇḍa. [[See]] Yug-ngön

[[nine]] [[benefit]]s of [[mantra]], 74–84

[[nine]] moods of dance, 186

[[nine]] [[sadhana]] [[section]]s, 45

[[nine]] [[successive]] [[vehicle]]s, 45, 173

[[Nirmāṇakāya]](s), 79, 125, 242, 268, 297, 319

• all sentient ones as, 279

• and bardo, 57, 68

• born and created, 279–81

• and compassion, 166, 303, 355

• and Deity's form, 173–74, 185, 196

• emergence of, 73, 97, 123–25, 139, 272

• and Enlightened activities, 8, 148, 166

• as five elements, 38, 179, 281

• and guru, 12, 14, 145

• seed of, 122, 228

• See also Three Kāyas

[[nonduality]], 104, 177, 244, 325, 355, 374

• of bliss and emptiness, 128

• of Deity and sādhaka, 83, 193

• meaning of, 275

• and offerings, 217–218

• as primordial awareness/view/emptiness, 91, 113, 135, 279

• realization of, 177, 211, 242, 250

• of samsara and Nirvana, 156, 315

• of self and other, 100, 113, 154, 192, 194

non[[human]]s, 53, 287, 344, 360

Nub, 97

[[Nüden]] [[Dorje]], 3, 319

Nuru, Ācārya, 97

Nyag, 97

Nyangral Nyima Özer, 236

[[Nyingma]], 25, 44, 418n28

• See also Earlier System

O

• obscuration(s), 79, 185, 231–32, 315–16

• of afflictions, 259, 270

• cleared away by practice, 54, 72–73, 225, 336, 354

• of harmdoers, 127–28

• and illness, 82

• to knowable things, 259

• of laziness, 71

• mental, 65, 76, 231–32, 354

• and misdeeds, 294

• physical, 50, 231

• purification of/dispelling, 36, 78, 84

• of sentient ones/six classes, 53, 84, 172, 176, 255

[[observe]]r, 359

[[obstacle]]s, 6, 76, 94–96, 320

• as abyss of meditation, 92, 94, 96–98

• dispelling/eliminating/repelling, 177, 229, 287, 311

• Guru Rinpoche and, 20, 96

obstructors/obstructive forces, 140, 152, 303–4, 321, 329

• afflictions/obscurations of, 127, 140–41, 338

• arisen from grasping/afflictions, 132

• destructive/lower activities for, 130–31, 296, 335–37

• drawing in, 331

• harm from, 54

• inner, 234

• Liberation of, 295, 338–39

• proffering of, 340–41

• ultimate nonexistence of, 158

• See also māra(s)

Odren, 97

[[offering]](s), 53, 81, 128, 172, 213–18

• of charm, 222, 266–67

• clouds of Samantabhadra, 214, 262

• consecrating, 161–64

• and freedom from self-grasping, 281

• and Gaṇacakra, 134, 325–27, 342–45

• through Mantra recitation, 223, 297

• and material mandala, 309–10

• perception of mantra as, 75–78

• in petition, 321

• and radiating/emanating of light rays, 226, 254–55

• and restoration, 328–29

• to Sangha, 229

• secret, 222, 248–49, 345

• to torma, 337–38

• torma, 320

• and turning prayer wheel, 83–84

• vastness of, 315–16

• white torma, 287–90

OṀ [[syllable]], 163, 304, 321, 361–62

• in invocation, 205–6, and kīla consecration, 304, 306

• and visualization of approach mantra, 80, 224, 227–28

[[one hundred]] and [[eight]] [[Kīla]]s, 295

[[oral]] [[instruction]]s of [[hearing]] [[lineage]], 122

[[oral]]/[[reading]] [[transmission]] ([[lung]]), 15, 23, 27

[[ornament]]s, 50, 58, 123–24, 172–74, 200

Ösal [[Dorje]], 366

[[outflow]]s/leakage, 138, 240, 242–43

• pacification/pacifying activity, 21, 198, 265, 292, 293, 311

• and silver material, 127, 181

• See also Four Activities/Enlightened actions

• Padma Family, 181

• Padmakīla, 181

[[Padma]] [[Lingpa]], 92

[[Padmasambhava]], 19–20, 145, 375

• See also Guru Rinpoche; Lotus Born; Padma Thötreng Tsal; Śākyamitra; Vajra Thötreng Tsal

[[Padma]] Thötreng Tsal, 321

• See also Guru Rinpoche; Lotus Born; Padmasambhava; Śākyamitra; Vajra Thötreng Tsal

[[pain]], 50, 71, 153, 156, 241, 365

• and mantra, 81–82

• and self-cherishing imprints/propensities, 47, 111, 133

• and view, 92, 100

Paltrül [[Rinpoche]], 420n8

Palyül, 24

paṇḍita, 221, 285

[[passion]], 93, 176, 243, 248, 359–60

• and autonomy, 33–34

• difficulty of liberating, 135

• and freedom from grasping, 343

• See also desire; five afflictions/afflictive poisons; lust; three poisons/poisonous afflictions

[[patience]], 14, 52, 80, 151, 156, 282

• and assurance of Bodhicitta, 7

• for enemies, 90

• See also six transcendent perfections

[[peaceful]] [[Deities]], 198–99, 280, 292, 334

• See also hundred families of peaceful and wrathful Deities

[[peaceful]] [[means]]/[[method]](s), 126, 295, 334–35, 338

[[permanence]], 269

[[personal Deity]], 15

perverted [[view]](s)/[[attitude]]s/[[understanding]], 14, 43, 199, 280, 334

[[petition]], 212, 319–22

• text, 403–4

PHAṬ [[syllable]], 110, 233

[[phenomena]], 64–66, 82, 99, 166, 176

• composite/compounded, 138, 165, 167–68

• grasping at/fixation on, 260–61, 356

• of hell realm, 43, 162

• illusory, transient nature of, 59, 70, 134, 274–75, 325

• purity of, 39, 164, 257, 278, 368–69

• and samādhi of suchness, 172

• and self-appearances, 78–79

• sphere of (dharmadhātu), 57, 114

• See also six outer sense objects

phowa, 338

planet [[Earth]], 69, 168

• as mandala, 66, 185, 204

[[pleasure]], 33, 123, 239–44, 248–50

• clinging to, 99–100

• and māra of afflictions, 135

• and māra of son of the gods, 71, 132, 137–40

• perceived as Gaṇacakra, 326, 343, 345

• and secret offering, 222–23, 328

• and view, 92, 100

[[poison]](s), 162, 338

• five (see five poisons)

• three (see three poisons/poisonous afflictions)

• See also afflictions/negative emotions

[[poison]] hat of Zhangtrom, 331

post-[[attainment]], 110, 112

Prabhahasti, 18, 88–89

[[Practice Manual]]/[[liturgy]]/[[sadhana]], 87n, 169, 184, 358

• concise, 23–24, 167

• extensive, 109, 143, 153, 172, 183, 326

• of Mañjuśrī Yamāntaka, 54, 171, 283–84, 306, 352

• of Ratna Lingpa, 23–24

• recitation of, 236, 422n29

• See also liturgy/liturgical text

[[praise]](s), 153, 197, 201, 267, 322, 333

• attachment to, 232, 368

• of mandala Deities, 212, 218–19

• of Mañjuśrī Yamāntaka, 284

• in subsequent Rites, 268, 357

[[Prajñāpāramitā]] [[literature]], 107

[[Prayer of [Auspiciousness]], 277–83

[[prayer]] [[wheel]], 83–84, 190

[[Precious]] [[Gar]][[land]] of the [[Supreme]] [[Path]], 138

[[Precious]] [[Treasure]] of [[Sakya]] Paṇḍita's Fine [[Explanation]]s, The, 46

[[preliminaries]]/[[preliminary]] [[practice]]s (ngöndro), 42–43, 154

pretas, 62, 78, 138, 162, 306, 423n51

• bulbous ones, 288

• See also six classes of wayfarers/beings; three lower realms

[[pride]], 157, 171, 294, 333–34

• See also divine pride; five afflictions/afflictive poisons; five poisons; six afflictions

primordial [[awareness]], 174, 257, 268, 317, 370

• accomplishment mantra and, 239–44, 248

• afflictions as, 19, 108, 115, 171, 261, 418n1

• consciousness and, 106, 112, 198

• disclosure and, 159–60

• divine pride and, 283–84

• Empowerment and, 208, 212

• as essence of mind/Buddha nature, 37, 107, 112, 269–70

• gathering in and, 275

• kīla of (see kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa/unfurled and pervasive primordial awareness)

• kīla of Bodhicitta and, 122–24

• Liberation and, 338

• māra of afflictions and, 140

• nail of samādhi and, 261

• as nonduality, 113

• rakta offering and, 162–63

• recollection of purity and, 198, 200, 261

• secret sun of, 284, 317, 350–53

• ten transcendent perfections and, 181–82

• two accumulations and, 277, 373

• view and, 103, 136, 284

• Wisdom Being and, 186

• wrathful, 348–50

• See also awareness; awareness-wisdom/awareness-rigpa; wisdom

primordial [[purity]], 40–41, 117, 138, 278, 368

[[prince]]s, 169–70, 184, 248, 311, 329

• of four families, 181–82

[[Prince]] Siddhartha, 121

• See also Bhagavan Buddha; Śākyamuni

[[prison]], 134, 332

pr[[offering]], 332, 340

[[propensities]]/imprints, of embodiment, [[prostration]](s), 83, 213

[[protective]] sphere(s), 158, 168, 184, 256

[[pure field]](s)/[[pure]] [[realm]](s), 79, 139, 195–96, 223

• accomplishing Deity and mantra in, 74

• attainment of Buddhahood in, 250

• and Bodhicitta/compassion, 279, 282, 325

• causes for birth in, 310

• human realm/this world as, 148, 165

• kāyas and, 35, 56, 138, 356

• and Liberation, 332, 339

• and mandala of wisdom Deities, 358

• mastery of, 140, 241

• offerings and, 215, 262

• Saṁbhogakāyas and, 274, 278

• See also Buddha Field(s)

[[pure perception]], 39–43, 115, 232, 367–69

• and conduct, 97

• and development stages/Deity's

• appearance, 62, 125, 253, 348, 359

• and fortress of view, 91

• of guru, 145

• and Mantric vows, 419n5

• material mandala as support for, 309–10

• sealing with view, 175

• as secret autonomy, 35

[[purity]], 39–41, 82, 117, 162, 309

• and Buddha nature, 40, 327, 367

• of container and contents, 39, 107, 115, 157, 261, 348

• and development stages, 41, 215, 261

• and dreamlike nature of phenomena, 325

• and eightfold group of consciousness, 167

• as emptiness, 115, 261

• establishing mind in, 355

• of Gaṇacakra offerings, 343

• and kīla consecration, 297

• and kīla of samādhi, 348

• and love and compassion, 115

• and Mantra recitation, 238

• of phenomena, 39, 164, 368–69

• primordial, 117, 138, 159, 278, 368–69

• recollection of, 50, 198, 201

• as rigpa, 138

• threefold (see threefold purity)

• See also clarity, purity, and stability

Q

• Queen of Great Bliss. See Yeshe Tsogyal

R

• Rāga Asya. See Chagme Rāga Asya

rainbow(s)/[[five]]-colored [[light]]s, 58, 82, 91, 148, 196, 248

• body, 122–23, 244

• and completion, 168, 273

• Deities appearing/vanishing like, 48–49, 59, 66, 197–98

• and emanating and gathering, 254–55, 262

• and form/body of Deity, 133, 137, 185, 194–95, 232

• and illusory body, 170

• and Immeasurable Palace, 158, 165, 169, 257

• and Mantra recitation, 223

• reflections, 138, 147–48, 168, 170, 200

• and Saṁbhogakāya, 73, 75, 194, 202, 272–74

• spheres/bubbles, 198–99, 248

rakta/blood, 163, 174, 298, 422n34

• and inner offerings, 161–62, 216–17, 321

Ratna [[family]], 181, 207, 292

Ratna[[kīla]], 181

Ratna [[Lingpa]], 15, 22–24, 153, 316, 375

Ratna[[sambhava]], 10

Ratön, 92

receptacle girls, 288

[[recitation of the charm]], 219–24, 248, 258

[[Refuge]](s), 43, 118, 280, 317–19

• and Bodhicitta, 39, 143–57

• object(s)/source(s) of, 12, 143–46, 326

• vow of, 8, 52, 350

regent(s), 11, 17, 314, 347

[[rejoicing]], 156

[[renunciation]], 128

• of worldly activities, 55

[[repelling]], 341–42

• text, 410–12

• tormas, 296, 336

[[request]] to remain, 271

[[restoration]], 267, 328–30

• text, 406–8

• of vows, 93–94

retinue(s), 182, 297, 341

• beings/sentient ones appearing as, 205, 256

• certain, 196

• as self-radiance of principal Deity, 170, 183

[[Rigdzin]] Gödem, 92

[[rigpa]], 104–14, 136, 138, 166, 303

• being beyond birth and death, 137, 268

• and development stages, 172

• and disclosure, 159–60

• and kīla of nonduality, 104

• mastery of, 103, 105–9, 111–14, 268

• reflexive, 107

• and seed syllable, 164, 175, 196

• and vajra mind, 368

• See also kīla of primordial awareness-rigpa/unfurled and pervasive primordial awareness

Rinchen Palzang, 92

Rinchen Phüntsog, 236

Rinchen Zangpo, 418n11

Rinzang, 97

[[ritual]], 25, 32, 97–98, 184, 296

Rogchal, 97

Rongzom, 89

rūpa[[kāya]] ([[form]] [[bodies]]/[[kāya]]s) 97, 124–25, 148

S

• sadhana(s), 3–4, 9, 26, 54, 184

• abbreviated, 8–9, 24, 184

• and blessing-practice lineage, 371–72

• of Earlier System, 44, 251

• and four nails, 259

• for individuals of varying faculties, 186

• mind accomplishment, 3–4, 206, 319

• practice where Dharma has not been heard, 287

• sections, nine (see nine sadhana sections)

• Teachings, Eight (see Eight Sadhana Teachings)

• of Vajrakīla (see Vajrakīla sādhanas/Practice Manuals)

• wrathful, 130

• See also accomplishment(s): method of (sadhana)

[[sadhana]] [[class]] of [[mahā]]yoga, 87

[[Sakya]], 18, 166

Śākyamitra, 18

• See also Guru Rinpoche; Lotus Born; Padmasambhava; Padma Thötreng Tsal; Vajra Thötreng Tsal

[[Śākyamuni]], 10, 56, 146, 423n51

• See also Bhagavan Buddha; Prince Siddhartha

[[Sakya]] Paṇḍita, 31, 46, 334

samādhi, 84, 124, 128, 131, 190, 357

• kīla of, 347–48

• and Mantra recitation, 80, 223, 231, 238, 261

• nail of, 261

• and nail of essence mantra, 262

• three (see three samādhis)

• three-step (see three-step samādhi development)

• of total appearance, 172

[[Samantabhadra]], 136, 139, 175, 250, 352

• offering clouds of, 213–15, 262

• See also Küntuzangpo

[[samaya]] (damtsig; [[commitment]]), 8, 19, 216, 227, 321, 329

• and Bodhicitta/loving kindness, 95, 195, 223–24

• and bringing down blessings, 312, 314, 316–18

• and Gaṇacakra remainder, 344

• and invocation, 207, 210

• maintaining/preserving, 366–67

• restoring/repairing, 324–25, 327–28

• taint, 323–25

• of three vajras, 368

[[samaya]][[sattva]]. [[See]] [[Commitment Being]]

[[Samaya]][[tārā]], 178, 208

[[Saṁbhogakāya]](s), 39, 123–24, 199, 204–5

• in bardo, 57, 63, 125, 134, 145, 359

• and bringing down blessings, 309–15

• Buddha Fields/pure realms, 139, 165, 250, 358

• as clarity factor/nature of clarity, 196, 272, 278, 303, 355

• and dharmakāya/dharmasphere/space, 194, 209, 272–74

• of five certainties, 184, 196, 204, 222

• and guru, 12, 14, 145

• and mantra/speech/wind energies, 74–75, 122, 228

• symbols of, 166, 174

• See also Three Kāyas

[[samsara]], 41, 100, 153, 253, 315, 367

• impure appearances of, 167

• karmic habits/propensities of, 56, 152

• and liberating activities, 332–33

• Liberation/freedom/emancipation

• from, 126, 147, 153, 241, 296, 300

• overcoming/undermining, 233, 244, 254

[[samsara]] and [[Nirvana]], 59, 91, 259, 304, 353, 372

• dividing line between, 52, 106, 244

• and existence-Vajrakīla/existence as

• vajra, 210, 315, 330

• inseparability/nonduality/union of, 113, 156, 158, 276, 332

• mind as root/creator of, 11, 176, 260

• purity of, 107, 277–78

• single ground/basis of, 259–60, 278

sangdrub. [[See]] [[secret accomplishment retreat]]

Sanggye [[Lingpa]], 22, 24, 92, 375

Sanggye Tendzin, [[Lama]], 15

[[Sangha]], 151, 203, 229, 319, 326

• guru/virtuous friend as, 11, 14, 144

Śāntideva, 266

Sarma. [[See]] [[Latter]] [[System]]

[[scripture]] and [[reasoning]], 89, 101, 113

Se, Chag, and Dung, 182–83, 218

seat(s), 20, 39, 181, 256, 284–85

• awareness capturing/holding its own, 138, 359

• of/for Deity/Deities, 171, 210, 311

• of É, 303–4, 307

• lotus, 165, 171, 311

• offering, 210, 288, 321

• three (see three seats)

[[secret accomplishment retreat]] (sangdrub), 15–16, 71, 268, 353, 356

• dance in, 314

• focused on Self-Generation, 204, 219, 258–59

• fulfillment of, 185

• kīla consecration in, 297

• texts for, 23, 169, 375–416

• three isolations in, 55

• three perceptions in, 303–4

• use of mantra recording in, 359–60

• visualizing elaborate/other mandalas

• in, 169, 220–21

[[secret]] [[accomplishment]] [[text]](s), 169, 296, 375–416

[[Secret Mantra]], 91, 145, 202, 287, 349

• abyss of meditation and, 94–97

• approach and accomplishment, 251–57

• approach mantra and, 233

• autonomy and, 34–35

• and basis of mind, 284–85

• and body mandala, 179–80

• calm abiding with support in, 194

• continuous cultivation of Deity Yoga

• in, 361

• Deities visualized with consorts in, 177–78

• diversity of methods in, 193, 362

• Earlier System of (see Earlier System)

• Empowerment and, 31–32, 37–39, 57, 122

• equanimity according to, 156

• Gaṇacakra, 323–28, 332–41, 342–45

• guru and, 11, 13, 145

• and increase of Bodhicitta, 53, 239

• intent/perspective of, 250, 281

• Latter System of (see Latter System)

• life force of conduct and, 100

• pure perception and, 278, 325, 348, 367–69

• purity of container and contents in, 115, 261

• qualities and results of practice of, 263–64

• samaya(s)/vows, 19, 94, 325

• secrecy of, 39–43

• sudden types and, 35–36

• suitable vessels for, 37

• teachings as daybreak of Vajrarākṣasa, 350

• ten transcendent perfections and, 181–82

• Three Roots and, 145

• unfit vessels for, 42–43

• visualization of mantra strand in, 239–49

• yogic practices of, 239–40

• See also Vajra Vehicle (Vajrayāna)

[[seed]] [[essence]](s), 121–25, 239–48

[[seed]] [[syllable]](s), 66, 188–91, 195, 261–63

• of five families, 207

• gathering awareness into, 225

• mandala of, 296

• and material kīla, 299

• properties of, 188

• rainfall of, 227

• of six realms, 306

• visualization methods, 175, 194, 225–26, 362, 371

• as weapon, 108–11, 172

[[self]], 33, 60, 109, 115, 202, 251

• apprehending/belief in a, 111, 240

• and co-emergent ignorance, 40

• exhaustion of, 373

• fabricating a, 270, 318

• freedom from/lack of, 79, 111–12, 188, 270, 373

• notion/sense of a, 33, 57, 325

• as root of all suffering, 373

[[self]]-[[appearance]]s, 78–79, 168–69, 294

[[self-cherishing]], 5, 133, 150–51, 153, 282

[[self]]-[[Empowerment]], 211

[[Self-Generation]], 180, 203–5, 219–20, 230

• See also three mandalas

[[self-grasping]], 13, 51–52, 93, 269–72

• adventitious/circumstantial, 120, 153, 259, 261, 269, 315

• and afflictions, 140–41, 150, 256, 362–65

• antidote to, 34–35, 281

• as cause of cyclic existence, 33

• and Empowerment, 211, 228

• exhaustion of, 204

• and HŪ syllable, 108–10

• and impure perception, 42, 117, 199

• and Liberation, 127–28

• as life force, 111–12, 330

• and love and compassion/Bodhicitta, 120, 201–2, 281, 373

• and mantra, 80

• and māra of the lord of death, 136

• and maturation, 251

• and offering, 281, 326–27

• purification/Liberation of, 84, 275

• and recollection of Deity, 57, 61, 74, 164, 326

• and repelling, 341

• and torma offering, 217

[[selflessness]], 7, 79, 81–82, 108–9

• and compassion/love, 251–52, 264, 278

sense [[field]]s (āyatanas), 35, 60, 158, 315, 359, 423n2

• and kīla of immeasurable

• compassion, 114–17

• and offerings, 162

• ripening through Liberation, 335

[[sentient one]](s)/[[being]](s)

• adventitious defilement/temporary

• ignorance of, 38, 45, 259, 261, 281

• difference between Buddhas and, 9, 201

• as divine hosts/inhabitants of mandala, 210, 255, 257, 274

• downfall of forsaking, 93, 126

• drawing in afflictions of, 331–32

• harm from, 6, 80, 331

• methods that suit dispositions of, 340

• offering afflictions of, 161–64, 217, 315–16, 320

• as principal of mandala, 185

• and Refuge in field of accumulation, 146

• as retinue of principal Deity, 256

• respect for, 151

• and seed syllables of six classes, 304, 306, 332

• transformation into Buddhas (emergence from), 39–40, 56–57, 146

[[Seven]]-Line [[Supplication]], 134, 314

[[seven]] [[outer]]/[[daily]] [[offering]]s, 214, 321

[[seven]] tissues (dhātus), 422n34

Shübu, 89

[[Siddha]], 4, 88, 191, 284

[[siddhi]](s), 20–21, 209, 307, 327, 329

• of body, speech, and mind, 262

• common, 6, 65, 81–82, 140, 212

• of Deity, 80, 155

• eight common (see eight common siddhis)

• and emanating and gathering, 263

• of Four Activities, 20, 81, 348

• four types of (see four types of siddhi)

• of mahāmudrā, 20, 96

• mantra as, 79–80, 83

• and material mandala, 310

• obstacles and, 95–96

• and offerings, 213

• supreme and common, 11, 129, 310, 320–21, 355

• supreme/uncommon, 65, 79, 83, 229, 321

• and taking up accomplishments, 347

• See also accomplishment(s)

sights, 234

• as appearance-emptiness, 98, 263

[[sign]](s), 3, 48–49, 145, 203, 334

• of accomplishment, 80, 96, 264, 330, 354, 365

• of Bodhicitta, 209

• of boredom, 237

• of civility, 287

• of conjoining mind and winds, 362

• of Deity accomplishment, 202

• of Deity's blessings, 354, 356

• of Deity's body/appearance 123, 172–73

• of dualistic grasping, 212

• of Empowerment, 209

• of good fortune, 37

• of great love, 344

• of ignorance, 297

• of mind's inner accomplishment, 124

• of siddhi of Deity, 80

• See also symbols, meanings, and signs

[[Sign]]-Based [[Praise]] of [[Mañjuśrī]] [[Yamāntaka]], 218

[[sign]] [[lineage]] of [[knowledge]] holders, 18

Śī[[lama]]ñju, 88–89

[[single]] [[form]] of [[Deity]]/sole hero, 177, 295–96

[[single]] key [[point]] of [[three]] [[vow]]s, 19

[[single]] taste, 113

[[six]] [[affliction]]s, 162, 270, 304–6, 330, 363

• self-grasping and, 52

[[six]] [[cause]]s, 161–62, 345

[[six classes]] of [[wayfarer]]s/[[being]]s, 128, 148, 162

• birth in, 62, 68, 270

• kīla of immeasurable compassion

• and, 118–20

• mantra as dispelling obscurations

• and, 78–79

• and six afflictions, 270

• syllables of, 304

• teachers of, 75

• See also six realms

[[six]] constituents, 37, 239

[[six]] munis, 279, 423n51

[[six]] [[outer]] sense [[object]]s, 116

[[six]] [[realm]]s, 110–11, 173, 176, 270, 282

• and afflictions, 162–63, 304, 332, 345, 363

• blocking birth in, 62, 270

• emanations/Nirmāṇakāyas in, 8, 75, 223, 279

• See also six classes of wayfarers/beings

[[six]] [[seed]]s, 304

[[six]] sense faculties, 116

[[six]] [[suffering]]s, 363

[[six]] [[transcend]]ent [[perfection]]s, 31, 121, 181–82, 329, 363

• and altruism/Bodhisattva Vehicle, 34, 51–53

• signs of, 172, 200, 302

[[Six Yogas]] of [[Nāropa]], 122

[[skandha]]s. [[See]] [[aggregate]]s

[[skillful means]], 77, 249–50, 299, 309

• and altruistic mind/compassion, 150, 174, 283

• of development stages, 194, 336, 369

[[Sky]] [[Dharma]] ([[Namchö]]) [[Treasure]], 207, 421n23

[[sky]]-like [[individual]], 129

[[sleep]], 66–69, 71–74, 357, 362

• luminosity of (see under luminosity)

• waking from, 57, 64, 69–70, 74

[[Smaller]] [[Vehicle]] (Hinayāna), 30, 67, 340

smoke, 287, 298

sneezing, 236

So, 97

sole hero [[Kīla]], 295–96

[[Song]] on [[Realizing]] [[Fivefold Mahāmudrā]], The, 4–5, 284

Songtsen Gampo, 65, 418n11

sorcery, 140, 336

Sosaling Charnel [[Ground]], 18

[[sound]](s), 55, 82–83, 111, 232

• attachment to/grasping at, 213–14, 235, 368

• imprints/propensities related to, 35, 54, 367

• as mantra, 98, 234–35, 253, 256, 263

• of mantra, 74, 223, 245, 249, 356, 360

• of melody, 237–38

[[sovereign]]s/[[sovereign]] maidens, 182–83, 321–22

[[special]] insight (vipaśyanā), 34, 194–95, 230

[[speech]], 35, 83, 101, 151, 296, 353

• blessings of, 80, 224, 227–28, 255

• and consecrating the offerings, 163–64

• divisive, 99

• of guru, 11–14, 144–45

• and mantra, 54–55, 115, 223, 232, 234

• and Saṁbhogakāya, 97, 124, 145, 228

• transformation into Deity's speech, 39, 57, 73, 357

• vajra, 304, 368

sphere of [[phenomena]]/[[dharma]]s, 57, 114, 175, 195, 208, 251

• strength of, 277, 317–18

• See also dharmasphere (dharmadhātu)

[[spirit]]s, 341, 287–88

• evil/harmful/harmdoing, 100, 311, 321, 345

• opportunistic, 265, 320, 331

st[[ability]], 197–203, 234, 280

• of mind, 190, 253–54

• and shape of wrathful tormas, 166

• See also clarity, purity, and stability

statue(s), 48, 146, 271

• as created Nirmāṇakāyas, 280–81

[[subsequent Rite]]s, 51, 268–71, 357

[[substance]]s, 130–31, 243, 297, 337–38

• offering, 161–63, 214, 217, 328

• smeared (see three smeared substances)

[[subtle]] [[body]], 115–16, 229, 243, 248

[[sudden]] [[approach]]/[[method]], 60, 63, 80–81, 257–58, 276

• and entire mandala/visualization, 169, 183, 193

• and opening chamber of recitation, 220–21

[[sudden]] [[type]]s, 35–36

Śuddhodana, 56

[[suffering]](s), 78, 82, 99–100, 332

• and afflictions, 33, 68, 114, 179, 270, 304

• antidote to/antidoting, 121, 365

• in bardo, 47, 69, 111, 133, 135

• body and, 46–47

• causes of, 10, 30, 106

• and compassion, 118–19, 156

• and four māras, 131–39, 171, 330

• grasping at, 363, 365

• illusory nature of, 5, 118, 365

• liberating beings from, 37, 39, 143, 151

• and Refuge, 143–44, 148

• ripening through lower activities, 336–39

• and self-cherishing/self-grasping, 33, 78, 117, 150, 157, 281

• of three lower realms, 40, 53, 367

[[Sukha]][[cakra]], 18–19

Sukhāvatī, 207, 339

[[supplication]], 206, 252, 307, 330, 332, 351

• to achieve a particular purpose, 364

• to receive Empowerment, 353–54

[[Supplication]] in [[Seven]] Chapters, The, 96

[[Supplication]] to [[Guru Rinpoche]] That [[Spontaneous]]ly [[Fulfill]]s All [[Wishes]], The, 150

[[Sutra]] of the [[Three]] [[Heap]]s, The, 277

[[Sutra]] on Emancipation, The, 30, 67

[[Sutra]] [[System]], 102, 144

[[swift]]-footedness, 140

[[symbol]](s), 123–24, 166, 201, 303

• See also eight auspicious symbols; symbols, meanings, and signs

[[symbolic]] [[kīla]] of [[blessing]], 103, 352

[[symbol]]s, [[meaning]]s, and [[sign]]s, 123, 172, 200, 242, 302, 369

T

• taking up accomplishments, 209, 284, 317, 347–354

• text, 415–16

Ṭakkirāja. [[See]] Dögyal

Tamdrin. [[See]] Hayagrīva

[[Tārā]], 48, 52, 56, 95, 363–64

[[Tathāgata]][[garbha]], 21, 123, 137, 151, 176, 211

• See also Buddha nature

taxes, 76–77

[[ten]] accoutrements, 174

[[ten]] bhūmis ([[ground]]s), 182, 196

[[ten]] [[characteristic]]s of [[spontaneous]]ly produced [[Great Bliss]], 138

[[ten directions]], 173, 205–7, 224–25, 268, 357

• and offering clouds, 214, 262

• of outer mandala, 168

• and radiating and gathering, 220, 255

[[ten]]-[[spoked]] [[cakra]]/[[wheel]]/sphere, 169, 180–81, 184

[[ten]] [[strength]]s, 102, 181–82, 218, 329

[[ten]] [[transcend]]ent [[perfection]]s, 50, 181–82, 218, 328–29

[[ten]] [[virtue]]s, 328–29

[[ten]] [[wrathful]] couples/pairs, 102, 230, 328–29, 341, 421n12

• and bliss, 180

• in material kīla, 300

• as self-radiance of principal, 170

• in ten-spoked cakra/sphere, 169, 181, 184

[[Tenzin]] Chökyi [[Gyaltsen]], 316

Terdag [[Lingpa]], 97

[[terma]], 21–22, 24, 44, 87

• See also treasures

thangka, 27, 58, 208, 218, 271, 280

thirteen [[aspect]]s of [[peaceful]] attire, 198

thirteen bhūmis of a [[vajra]] [[holder]], 198

[[Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas]], 31, 59, 100, 105, 216, 266

• and abyss of meditation, 93

• and accomplishment retreats, 54–56

• and Liberation, 332

• and patience, 7, 14

• and self-grasping, 33–34, 132

[[thirty]]-[[six]] [[section]]s of [[Vajrakīla]] [[Tantra]]s, 21

thögal, 200

Thorough [[Explanation]] of the [[Eight]] Sādhana [[Teaching]]s, The, 56

[[thought]]s, 55, 112, 132, 249, 338, 357

• as awareness, 98, 235, 263

• and dualistic grasping, 241

• Jigten Sumgön on, 98–99, 282

• mantra and, 82, 262–63, 233–34, 360

• mindful awareness/rigpa and, 101, 104, 114, 159, 198, 273

• as Nirmāṇakāya, 242

• recognition/Liberation on arising, 68, 70, 108, 158, 260, 367

• secret obstacles of, 94–95

• and seed syllable, 109–11, 164, 188, 326

• and stages of development, 59, 65

[[three]] [[bad]] migrations/[[state]]s, 38, 176, 179

• See also three lower realms

[[three]] [[door]]s, 35, 144, 146, 151, 234, 251

[[three]] features of [[ultimate]] [[fruit]]ion, 196

[[three]] [[foe]]s, 330

[[three]][[fold]] perceptual sphere, 164

[[three]][[fold]] [[purity]], 374

[[three]][[fold]] [[sattva]], 195–97

• See also three sattvas

[[three]] freshly flayed garments, 174

[[three]] [[higher]] [[realm]]s, 31, 51–52, 128, 154, 176

• and autonomy, 33–34

[[three]] incessant [[thing]]s, 84

[[three]] [[inner]] [[offering]]s, 216–17

[[three]] isolations, 55

[[Three Jewel]]s, 8, 12, 77, 144–45, 326

• faith in, 36, 146–152, 254, 319

[[three]] junctures (at [[time of death]]), 67

[[Three Kāyas]], 39, 124, 273, 319, 331, 355

• arising from and dissolving into one

• another, 272

• as fruition, 144

• and guru, 12

• innate presence in body, 122

• qualities of, 147, 353

• in sentient ones, 228, 278

• subsumed in dharmakāya, 175

• symbolized by Deity's three faces, 172–73

• symbolized by tetrahedron, 166, 169

• and three blades of kīla, 302

• and twofold purpose, 35

• and Vajrakīla Practice, 125

• See also dharmakāya; Nirmāṇakāya(s); Saṁbhogakāya(s)

[[three]] [[limitless]] [[kalpa]]s, 44, 215

[[three]] [[lower]] [[realm]]s, 33, 40, 52, 111, 128, 367

• See also three bad migrations/states

[[three]] [[mandala]]s, 230, 299, 304, 306, 353

[[three]] [[perception]]s of [[Foremost]] [[Prince]]/[[material]] [[kīla]], 299, 303–4

[[three]] [[period]]s of the day, 101

[[three]] [[place]]s, 80, 206, 227–28, 304, 306

[[three]] planes, 206, 210, 212, 300, 304, 330

[[three]] [[poison]]s/[[poison]]ous [[affliction]]s, 40, 126, 163, 217, 331–32

• and inner meaning of outer signs, 123, 173, 303

[[Three Realm]]s, 41, 43, 67, 75, 304, 331

[[Three]] [[Root]]s, 144, 224, 227, 319–20, 331

• blessings of, 88, 365

• faith in, 146

• guru as embodiment of, 11–12, 145

• offering to, 326

[[three]] samādhis, 171

[[three]] [[sattva]]s, 195–97

• See also threefold sattva

[[three]] seats, 114–16, 315

[[three]] [[secret]]s, 251

[[three]] smeared [[substance]]s, 174

[[three]] spheres, 12, 217, 332

[[three]]-[[step]] samādhi [[development]], 62

[[three]] [[strength]]s, 277, 317–18

[[three]] [[successive path]]s, 19, 31–32, 143, 350

[[three]] [[time]]s, 153, 268, 276–77, 357, 372

[[three]] [[type]]s of [[faith]], 146–151, 206

[[three]] [[vajra]]s, 163, 304, 368

[[Three Vehicles]], 92, 239

[[three]] [[vow]]s, 19

throwing star, 169, 331

[[Tibet]], 3–4, 20, 44–45, 87

• accomplishment retreats in, 236–37, 354, 422n29

• Garchen Rinpoche and, 16–17, 72

[[Tibetan]] [[language]], 21

• reciting in, 26–27, 269, 287

[[Tibetan]] [[medicine]], 422n34

Tilopa, 87, 137

[[time]]/[[age]] of [[dregs]], 10, 42, 83, 145

Tobchen ([[Mahā]]bala), 178, 421n12

• See also Mahābala

[[torma]], 163, 166, 217, 320, 344–45

• drawing harmdoers/afflictions into, 265, 320–21, 331–32

• inner offering of, 161, 216, 321

• and Liberation, 163, 338–39

• main, 302, 311, 313

• and material mandala, 311

• of Vajrakīla, 313

• weaponized/malign, 127, 296, 336–38

• white, 287–90

Trailokyavijaya. [[See]] Khamsum/Khamsum [[Namgyal]]

[[transcend]]ent [[perfection]]s

• six (see six transcendent perfections)

• ten (see ten transcendent perfections)

transparency, 104, 106

[[treasure]] ([[terma]]) [[section]], 87

[[treasure revealer]](s), 3, 22, 87, 236, 319, 331

[[treasure]]s, 18, 21–22, 42, 44

• of Earlier System, 25, 87, 251, 288

• lineage of, 92, 141

• See also New Treasure Traditions (Tersar); terma

[[Treasury]] of [[Experiential]] [[Pith Instruction]]s, The, 96, 367

Trinle Yongkhyab, 15

Tri Ralpachen, 418n11

Trisong Detsen, 418n11

[[trust]]ing [[faith]], 146, 150

Tsangnyön [[Heruka]], 419n10

[[twelve]] [[kīla]] [[guard]] maids/[[protect]]resses, 183, 218, 300, 301

[[twenty]]-[[four]] [[wrathful]]s, 181–82

[[twenty]]-[[one]] [[cross]]es of É, 310–11

[[two]] [[accumulation]]s/[[gathering]]s, 276–77, 343, 372–73

[[two]] [[Kīla]] [[family]] lines, 295

[[two]] kinds of [[ignorance]], 40–41

[[two]] [[purpose]]s/[[objective]]s of [[self]] and

• others, 12, 53, 129, 153, 256, 263

• accomplished together, 84, 139–40, 147, 227, 373

• Buddhahood/Enlightenment and, 35, 330

• and mantra, 83, 227, 243

• and Three Kāyas, 96–97

[[two]] [[truth]]s, 121

[[two]] [[type]]s of [[Bodhicitta]], 12, 29, 90, 98, 147, 239

• and Deity Yoga, 235

• Vajraku[[māra couple as, 124

U

• Ultimate Bodhicitta, 29, 37, 132, 235, 240, 260

• See also factual Bodhicitta; two types of Bodhicitta

[[understanding]], [[experience]], and [[realization]], 70–71

Unelaborate [[Liturgical]] [[Arrange]]ment of the [[Method]] for [[Accomplishing]] [[Vajrakīla]], An, 23–24, 87n

[[Union]] of Sun and Moon [[Tantra]], The, 46

[[union]]/unity

• of appearance and emptiness, 82, 124, 274, 276

• of awareness and emptiness, 254

• of bliss and emptiness, 124, 254

• of calm abiding and special insight, 230

• of clarity and emptiness, 104, 106, 116, 254, 352–53

• of compassion and emptiness/rigpa, 78, 124–25, 192, 232, 265

• connate, 213, 215

• of development and completion, 49, 63–64, 81, 124, 276

• of dharmakāya and Saṁbhogakāya, 196

• of father-mother couple/consorts/Deities, 66, 123–24, 214, 241

• of kāyas and wisdoms, 123–24, 200, 242

• of method and wisdom, 174

• pleasures of, 223, 248

• of samsara and Nirvana, 210, 276, 330

• of sound and emptiness, 232

• of ultimate and conventional, 168

• See also nonduality