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Faculties Fifty-eight wrathful deities Fifty-five mental states Fifty-one mental states Five actions similar to those with immediate retribution Five basic categories of knowable things Five branch winds Five buddha families Five certainties Five circumstantial advantages Five clear perceptions Five crimes with immediate retribution Five degenerations Five dharma kings Five elements Five ever-present mental states Five Excellent Ones of Sublime Nobility Five experiences Five eyes Five faults Five female buddhas Five first excellent disciples Five great dharanis Five inner enabling empowerments Five kayas Five kinds of self-infatuation Five kinds of sensory stimulant Five kingly sutras Five lay vows Five limbs Five major sciences Five major structural themes Five minor sciences Five object-determining mental states Five objects of knowledge Five offerings of the five kinds of sensory stimulant Five paths Five Patron Gods Five perfections Five personal advantages Five poisons Five powers Five practices of enlightenment without meditation Five precious substances Five principal considerations Five principal consorts of Guru Rinpoche Five pure abodes Five root winds
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Five Sakya patriarchs Five samadhis Five sciences Five sense faculties Five silken adornments Five Sisters of Long Life Five skandhas Five sovereign terma revealers Five stages of prenatal development Five strengths Five styles of wrong livelihood Five Treatises of Maitreya Five types of result Five vehicles Five winds Five wisdoms Five wrathful herukas and their five consorts Five wrong views Five wrong ways of remembering Five yogas Forty-two peaceful deities Four abodes of Brahma Four actions which generate the merit of Brahma in this lifetime Four activities Four ambitions Four applications of mindfulness Four aspects of wellbeing Four attributes of the four continents Four bardos Four bases of miraculous powers Four causes that prevent arhats from knowing certain things Four chokshyaks Four circumstances which destroy one's source of virtue Four classes of tantra Four clusters Four continents Four criteria of validity Four criteria used when applying a title to a text Four Dharmas of Gampopa Four dhyanas Four dignities Four doors Four empowerments Four empties Four endings Four essential characteristics of karma Four extremes Four fearlessnesses Four Female Demons Four female gatekeepers Four Final Testaments of the Vidyadharas Four forces Four formless absorptions Four gateways to liberation Four gatherings Four genuine masteries of specifics Four genuine restraints Four great canonical languages Four great disciples of Marpa Lotsawa Four great disciples of Zurchung Sherab Drakpa Four Great Kings Four great logical arguments of the Middle Way Four immeasurables Four Jikmes Four joys Four kayas F
Four kinds of blessing Four kinds of mindfulness Four kinds of teacher Four kinds of treatise Four lamps Four links Four major Buddhist holidays Four male gatekeepers Four maras Four Medical Tantras Four Menmo Four mental engagements Four Metaphors Four misapprehensions Four modes Four modes of birth Four mudras Four nails Four Noble Truths Four obscurations Four perfect knowledges Four points illustrating the dharmakaya Four points illustrating the instantaneous application Four powers Four prerequisites Four primary elements Four principles of reasoning Four reliances Four results of the Hinayana path Four schools Four seals Four Sections of Magical Illusion Four serious faults Four sessions of retreat Four stages of approach and accomplishment Four tenet systems Four thoughts Four times of breaking samadhi Four types of condition Four types of guest Four types of isolate Four types of object Four unwholesome dharmas Four vajras Four valid factors Four variables Four vidyadhara levels Four virtuous disciplines Four visions Four visualizations for mantra recitation Four ways of attracting disciples Four wholesome dharmas Four Yakshinis Four yogas Fourfold interrelated purpose Fourteen non-concurrent formations Fourteen root downfalls
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Guardians of the ten directions
H
Hundred buddha families Hundred peaceful and wrathful deities
K
Kadam Lha Shyi Kagyé
L
Lords of the three families
M
Miraculous displays of the four ways of training
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Nine actions of the three doors Nine demeanours of a wrathful deity Nine examples which illustrate how buddha nature is present in all beings
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Nine factors of practising virtue Nine factors that illustrate base-knowledge Nine heart children of Guru Rinpoche Nine levels of the three realms Nine orifices Nine principles of mantra Nine similes of illusion Nine spaces Nine ways of resting the mind Nine yanas Noble eightfold path
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Purification, perfection, and maturation
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Sal ten dak sum Seven aspects of kyerim Seven aspects of union Seven authoritative transmissions Seven branches Seven divine dharmas Seven elements for enlightenment Seven faults for all types of kyerim Seven golden mountain ranges Seven great qualities of the Mahayana Seven heroic buddhas Seven kinds of cognition Seven kinds of pride Seven men to be tested Seven mental processes Seven noble riches Seven patriarchs Seven Point Training in Cause and Effect Seven Points of Mind Training Seven precious emblems of royalty Seven Profound Cycles Seven qualities of birth in higher realms Seven riches of the absolute Seven Treasuries Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition Seven types of attachment Seven vajra points Seven vajra qualities Seven-point posture of Vairochana Sevenfold reasoning of the chariot Seventeen mothers and sons Seventeen Nalanda Masters Seventeen Tantras Seventy points Six "Mother" Nyingma Monasteries Six Akanishthas Six aspects of the deity Six bardos Six basic texts of the Kadampas Six Branch Practice of Vajrayoga Six classes of beings Six classes of tantra Six clear perceptions Six consciousnesses Six doors of negative action Six excellent substances Six fortunes Six greatnesses of the Early Translations Six heavens of the desire realm Six limits Six lineages Six methods of vocalization Six mother scriptures Six Munis Six Ornaments
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Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones Six paramitas Six powers Six primary elements Six recollections Six root destructive emotions Six special attributes Six Stains Six times Six types of cause Six types of object Six wealths Six Yogas Six Yogas of Naropa Sixfold satisfaction Sixteen Arhats Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths Sixteen bhumis Sixteen hells Sixteen joys Sixteen kinds of emptiness Sixteen lesser fears Sixteen moments Sixteen offering goddesses Sixteen pure human laws Sixteen serious faults Sixty aspects of the melodious speech of a buddha
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Ten advantages Ten bhumis Ten dharmic activities Ten directions Ten factors that illustrate omniscience Ten glorious ornaments Ten great aspirations of a bodhisattva Ten great disciples of the Buddha Ten great pillars of the study lineage Ten innermost riches Ten meanings of Dharma Ten outer benefiting empowerments Ten paramitas Ten periods of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings Ten positive actions Ten powers Ten qualifications of a spiritual teacher Ten sciences Ten stages according to Anuyoga Ten strengths Ten sutras that teach the sugatagarbha Ten topics of knowledge Ten topics of tantra Ten unwholesome actions Ten views of the self The eight stupas The Five Great Treasures The four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism Thirteen bhumis Thirteen Golden Dharmas Thirteen great texts Thirteen ornaments of the perfect sambhogakaya Thirteen points illustrating the progressive application Thirty-five buddhas of confession Thirty-nine qualities exclusive to a buddha Thirty-seven factors of enlightenment Thirty-seven Point Mandala Offering Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas Thirty-six abodes of the desire realm T
Thirty-six impure substances Thirty-two major marks of a buddha Three actions of forsaking, joining and attaining Three activities of a pandita Three ancestral religious kings Three appearances Three authentics Three bases of clinging Three basic rituals of the Vinaya Three blazings Three Brothers Three Buddhist Councils Three categories Three causes of disturbing emotions Three characteristics of empowerment Three close-mindfulnesses Three clusters Three conceptual spheres Three defects of the vessel Three deities of long life Three deities of protection Three Deities of the Great Master Vajrapani Three Dharma robes Three disciplines of a bodhisattva Three doors Three experiences Three fears Three fierce mantras Three gateways to liberation Three gatherings Three great Gelugpa seats Three gunas Three higher realms Three higher trainings Three inner tantras Three Jewels Three kayas Three kinds of compassion Three kinds of faith Three kinds of ignorance Three kinds of laziness Three kinds of perception Three kinds of prostration Three kinds of ritual purification Three lay patriarchs of the Sakya tradition. Three levels of spiritual capacity Three lineages of transmission Three lower realms Three main provinces of Tibet Three major structural themes Three mandalas Three Mañjughoshas of Tibet Three Men from Kham Three modes Three modes of liberation Three most holy places of Tibet Three natures Three noble principles Three outer classes of tantra Three pitakas Three poisons Three pure factors Three purities when making offerings Three qualifications for composing a shastra
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Three realms Three Roots Three samadhis Three secret profound empowerments Three secrets Three sets of vows Three sources of the Dzogchen teachings Three spheres of dharmic activity Three stupas Three sweet foods Three tantras Three times Three Turnings Three types of human existence Three types of investigation Three types of miraculous ability Three types of suffering Three types of Words of the Buddha Three vajra resolutions Three vajras Three ways of pleasing or serving the teacher Three white foods Three wisdom tools Three yanas Three yanas leading from the origin Three yanas of powerful transformative methods Three yanas of vedic asceticism Threefold kindness Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease Trilogy of Natural Freedom Twelve ascetic practices Twelve ayatanas Twelve branches of the excellent teaching Twelve deeds Twelve emanations of Guru Rinpoche Twelve nidanas Twelve teachers Twelve Tenma Sisters Twenty defects of distraction Twenty kinds of emptiness Twenty subsidiary destructive emotions Twenty views of the transitory collection Twenty-eight constellations Twenty-eight ishvaris Twenty-five branch samayas Twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche Twenty-five holy places of Eastern Tibet Twenty-five ingredients of the pumba Twenty-five principles Twenty-four great sacred places Twenty-one bhumis Twenty-one Indian Commentaries Twenty-one sets of immaculate qualities Twenty-one Taras Twenty-seven root samayas Twenty-seven sources of mistaken conduct Twenty-two similes of bodhichitta Two accumulations Two aspects of bodhichitta Two aspects of omniscience Two aspects of the svabhavikakaya Two commentarial traditions Two divisions of Mahayoga
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Two extremes Two form kayas Two images of Buddha Shakyamuni Two Jamgöns Two kayas Two kinds of ignorance Two Marvellous Acharyas Two obscurations Two ordained patriarchs of the Sakya tradition Two reasons for applying a title to a text Two relative truths Two siddhis Two stages of the path Two Supreme Ones Two supreme sharavakas Two truths Two types of conventional valid cognition Two types of instant Two upper realms Two yanas Two-fold benefit Twofold certainty Twofold purity
V
Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones
ཁ
ཁ་དོག་གཉིས་
ག
གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་གཉིས་ གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་གཉིས་
ཐ
ཐ་སྙད་ཚད་མ་གཉིས་
ད
དངོས་པོ་གསུམ་ དབང་པོ་ལྔ་ དབྱིབས་བཅུ་ དོན་དམ་ཚད་མ་གཉིས་ དོན་ལྔ་ དྲིའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལྔ་
ཕ
ཕན་ཚུན་སྤང་འགལ་གཉིས་ ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ་
བ
བེམ་པོ་ལྔ་ བློ་རིགས་བཞི་
མ
མངོན་སུམ་བཞི་
ཚ
ཚད་མ་གཉིས་ ཚོར་བ་ལྔ་
འ
འགལ་བ་གཉིས་ འདུ་བྱེད་གཉིས་ འདུ་ཤེས་གཉིས་ འདུས་མ་བྱས་གསུམ་ འབྲས་གཟུགས་བཅུ་གཅིག་ འབྲས་བུ་གཉིས་ འབྲས་བུ་འབྱུང་གྱུར་གྱི་རེག་བྱ་བདུན་ འབྲེལ་བ་གཉིས་
ཡ
ཡན་ལག་གི་ཁ་དོག་བརྒྱད་ ཡུལ་བཞི་
ར
རེག་བྱའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་གཉིས་ རོའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་ རྐྱེན་བཞི་ རྒྱུ་གཉིས་ རྒྱུ་གཟུགས་བཞི་ རྒྱུ་དྲུག་ རྒྱུ་མཐུན་འབྲས་བུ་གཉིས་ རྒྱུ་འབྱུང་བའི་རེག་བྱ་བཞི་ རྣམ་ཤེས་དྲུག་ རྩ་བའི་ཁ་དོག་བཞི་
ལ
ལྷན་ཅིག་མི་གནས་འགལ་གཉིས་
ཤ
ཤེས་བྱ་གཉིས་
ས
སྒྲའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་གསུམ་