Chapter 8 - Additional Vocabulary

Question 1

ལྷ་འི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་

Answer 1

deity yoga

hle nen-jor

Question 2

སྲས་ཀྱི་

Answer 2

of the child, child’s

se>gyi

Question 3

སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་

Answer 3

by Buddha

sang-gye.-gyi

Question 4

གྲུབ་བཐའ་

Answer 4

Four tenet systems

dRup-tha

Question 5

ཆོས་ལུགས་

Answer 5

four orders of Tibetan Buddhism (literally systems of religion)

Question 6

དབུ་མ་པ་

Answer 6

Middle Way School (Skt: Madhyamika)

u-ma-ba

Question 7

སེམས་ཙམ་པ་

Answer 7

Mind Only School (Skt Cittamatra)

Question 8

མདོ་སྡེ་པ་

Answer 8

Sutra School (Skt: Sautrantika)

Question 9

བྱེ་བརྒ་སྨྲ་བ་

Answer 9

Great Exposition School (Skt: Vaibhashika)

Question 10

རྙིང་མ་

Answer 10

Nyingma [Ancient (Tralslations)]

Question 11

བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

Answer 11

Gagyu [Transmission of the Word]

Question 12

ས་སྐྱ་

Answer 12

Sagya [Grey Earth]

Named for the seat of their order, which is at a place named Grey Earth.

Question 13

དགེ་ལུགས་

Answer 13

Geluk [Way of Virtue]

Question 14

གསར་མ་པ་

Answer 14

‘New Ones’

Tenet schools (3) that follow the “new” or later translations of the tantras.

Question 15

བཀའ་

Answer 15

Buddha’s Word

Question 16

མཁེན་ཆེན་ཞི་བ་འཚོ་

Answer 16

Shantarakshita
(khen-chen shi-wa-tsho)

The Great Abbot Shantaraksita came from India during the time of Padmasambhava but a scholarly defender of Buddhism.

Question 17

དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་དི་ཤ་

Answer 17

Atisha
(bel-den a-di-sha)

Atisa came to Tibet in 1042. He founded the བཀའ་གདམས་་ (Instruction of the Word) lineage, a predecessor of the Geluk and Gagyu orders.

Question 18

དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་

Answer 18

The glorious Atisha.

Question 19

སློབ་དམོན་མཏྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་

Answer 19

Acharya (སློབ་དམོན་) Padmasmbhava is considered the founder of Nyingma lineage.

Question 20

པཏྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་

Answer 20

Lotus Born (literally he whose origin (འབྱུང་གནས) is a lotus (པཏྨ་). པཏྨ་is a transliteration of the Sanskrit padma, with the d and m written as if the མ་ were subscribed to the ད་

Note: Tibetans pronounce this as ‘be-ma’

Question 21

གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་

Answer 21

Padmasambhava - The words Precious Guru.

Question 22

ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་

Answer 22

Foremost Lord - refers to Atisha.

Question 23

གྲུབ་ཐོབ་

Answer 23

Siddhas (adepts, accomplished ones)

tRup-thop

Question 24

འདུལ་

Answer 24

tame

dül

Question 25

གདུལ་བྱ་

Answer 25

disciples (literally: those to be tamed)

dül-ja

Question 26

བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Answer 26

Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, was born in 1935.

Question 27

རྒྱལ་དབང་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

རྒྱལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རགཡ་མཚོ་

Answer 27

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Question 28

བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་སྒྲོན་

Answer 28

Lamp for the Path to Awakening by Atisha.

Later became the foundation for Tsong-kha-pa’s Lamrim Chenmo.

Question 29

ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་

Answer 29

Longchenpa

(ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ - great expanse)

Longchenpa (1308-1364) is considered one of the most brilliant Nyingma teachers. He systemized the Nyingma teachings with his Seven Treasuries and wrote extensively on Dzogchen.

Question 30

ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་དྲི་མེད་འོད་ཟེར།

Answer 30

Longchenpa Drime Wozer

ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ Longchenpa (ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ - great expanse) (དྲི་མེད་ - stainless, འོད་ཟེར - light rays)

Longchenpa (1308-1364) is considered one of the most brilliant Nyingma teachers. He systemized the Nyingma teachings with his Seven Treasuries and wrote extensively on Dzogchen.

Question 31

ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་

Answer 31

Longchen-ram-cham

(ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ - great expanse, རབ་འབྱམས་ - countless or infinite)

Longchenpa (1308-1364) is considered one of the most brilliant Nyingma teachers. He systemized the Nyingma teachings with his Seven Treasuries and wrote extensively on Dzogchen.

Question 32

བདུད་འཇོམས་གླིང་པ་

Answer 32

Dudjom Lingpa

Lived from 1835 to 1904 and was a Nyingma master and prolific revealer of terma (spiritual treasures hidden by Guru Rinpoche). His reincarnation, born before he died, was Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987), a Tibetan master and one of the most important figures in the Nyingma school.

Question 33

ལྕགས་སྐོང་གཏེར་སྟོན་

Answer 33

Chakong Tertön

བདུད་འཇོམས་གླིང་པ་ Dudjom Lingpa lived from 1835 to 1904 and was a Nyingma master and prolific revealer of terma (spiritual treasures hidden by Guru Rinpoche). His reincarnation, born before he died, was Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987), a Tibetan master and one of the most important figures in the Nyingma school.

Question 34

ཙོང་ཁ་པ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་

Answer 34

Tsong-kha-pa Lobzang Drakpa, Tshon-kha-pa, also known as Je Rinpoche

Tsong-kha-pa was founder of the Gelug order, in which scholarship and monastic discipline are emphasized. The Gelug order became the most politically powerful of the four orders. Tsong-kha-pa lived from 1357 to 1419. The name ཙོང་ཁ་པ་ alludes to his birth in the ཙོང་ཁ་ region of northeastern Tibet. Tsong-kha-pa wrote extensively on both sutra and tantra. His Lamrim Chenmo (ལམ་རིམ་ཆེན་མོ་), or The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path, is one of his most well known and important works. He also wrote a work on tantra titled སྔགས་རིམ་ཆེན་མོ་, or The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra.