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Tsadra Foundation

Tsadra Foundation is a privately funded nonprofit trust established in New York City in 2000. We provide vital funding for the combined study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism in the west.

Our Vision
Tsadra Foundation envisions a flourishing community of Western scholar-practitioners who are fully trained in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Grounded in wisdom and compassion, these individuals actively enrich the world through their openness and excellence.

Our Mission

Contributing to the ongoing development of wisdom and compassion in Western minds by advancing the combined study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Translations Published with Support from Tsadra Foundation

Note that most of these publications included funding for the entire project including translation and publication, but some only the publication (or printing) and some only the translation.

170 Publications supported by Tsadra Foundation since 2001

2026

	Santideva's Words of Wisdom DRL 333 Gems for Life and Liberation Bhutan · Loden Foundation · 2026 · ISBN 9789998083165 A collection of inspirational quotations from Santideva's writings most of which are from The Way of the Bodhisattva. The quotations are arranged thematically in eleven categories symbolizing the eleven sublime levels of enlightenment in Mahāyāna Buddhism.
	The Bodhisattva Ideal: Library of Tibetan Classics 11 DRL Selected Key Texts Translated by Thupten Jinpa and Julia Stenzel New York · Wisdom · 2026 · ISBN 9780861714506 A selection of key texts on the "Bodhisattva Ideal", collected, edited, and arranged by Thupten Jinpa.
	The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 19 and 20 DRL The Ground and View of Great Perfection Atiyoga. Translated by Heidi Nevin Boulder · Snow Lion · 2026 · ISBN 9781645474432 Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 19 and 20, is a comprehensive exploration of Atiyoga, the most advanced set of practices within the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
	The Early Tibetan Practice of Buddhist Philosophy DRL Metaphysics, Argumentation, and Identity in Rongzom's Dzokchen By Dominic Di Zinno Sur Charlottesville, VA · University of Virginia Press · 2026 · ISBN 9780813954318 A study of Rongzongpa's (Rong zom chos kyi bzang po, 1042-1136) Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle, introduced by Dominic Di Zinno Sur, Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of History at Utah State University and the translator of Rongzom’s “Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle”: Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahāyāna (Shambhala/Snow Lion Publications, 2017).
	The Written Works of Śāntideva DRL Thimphu, Bhutan · Loden Foundation · 2026 · ISBN 9789998083141 Collected in one book in Tibetan for the first time in the modern era: The Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, or The Way of the Bodhisattva (BCA), and The Śikṣāsamuccaya, or The Compendium of Training.

2025

	Le Précieux Trésor des instructions essentielles DRL Avec le commentaire de Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoché Le Nectar de Lune Étincelante Translated by Matthieu Ricard Plazac, France · Padmakara · 2025 · ISBN 9782370411815 Composé par Longchen Rabjam Drimé Euzer (1308-1364), "Le Précieux Trésor des instructions essentielles" distille l'essence des enseignements des sūtras et des tantras en quatre cent treize séries de six points cruciaux.
	Meditation on Emptiness DRL By Jeffrey Hopkins New York · Wisdom · 2025 · ISBN 9781614299134 In this updated edition of the book, several adjustments have been made, particularly regarding technical terms, which now align with the latest translations from the UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies.
	Mountain Dharma: Library of Tibetan Classics 7 DRL An Ocean of Definitive Meaning Translated by Cyrus Stearns New York · Wisdom · 2025 · ISBN 9780861714469 The controversial master Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen shook Buddhist Tibet when he taught that an eternal enlightened essence, or buddha nature, exists in full form in all living beings. The ideas discussed in Mountain Dharma are still as provocative as when Dölpopa first taught them, impacting Buddhism to this day.
	Severance DRL The Early Practice of Chö Translated by Sarah Harding New York · Wisdom · 2025 · ISBN 9798890700001 The single overall directive of the first two texts in this volume—the Heart Essence of Profound Meaning root verses and their commentary, The Big General Guide to Severance(ཟབ་དོན་གྱི་སྤྱི་ཁྲིད་ཆེན་མོ།)—is to seek out and directly confront difficult circumstances.
	The All Illuminating Mirror DRL The Life Journey of Venerable Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche in His Own Words Katy, TX · 2025 · ISBN 9798998729102 The Life Journey of Venerable Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche, in his own words, and including a postscript by his grandson, Jigme Norbu. Khetsun Sangpo is the famed creator of The Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.
	The Great Hūṃ DRL A Commentary on Śāntideva's Way of the Bodhisattva Translated by Douglas Duckworth New York · Wisdom · 2025 · ISBN 9781614298731 This longest commentary on the first eight chapters of the Chonjuk or Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra) was funded by Tsadra Foundation as part of an effort to support research and translation on Śāntideva and the concept of Bodhicitta.
	The Perfection of Wisdom Tradition: Library of Tibetan Classics 16 DRL Three Essential Works Translated by Gareth Sparham New York · Wisdom · 2025 · ISBN 9780861714568 The perfection of wisdom (prajñāpāramitā) is a key element of the path in Mahāyāna Buddhism. Wisdom here is the transcendent wisdom of a bodhisattva who has penetrated the nature of reality, the emptiness (śūnyatā) of all things.
	The Precious Treasury of Essential Instructions DRL Translated by Matthieu Ricard — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2025 · ISBN 9781645474791 The Nectar of the Brilliant Moon: Explanations on The Treasury of Essential Instructions of Gyalwa Longen Rabjam by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
	The Precious Treasury of the Dharmadhatu DRL Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2025 · ISBN 9781645473718 The third volume of the Collected Works of the modern Tibetan master Khangsar Tenpa’i Wangchuk, this is the first published translation of a commentary on the 14th-century master Longchenpa’s Precious Treasury of the Dharmadhātu, a verse text on the direct practices to realize the nature of mind taught within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
	Trouver le repos dans la nature de l'esprit DRL La Trilogie du Repos -Volume 1 Translated by Helena Blankleder, Wulstan Fletcher, and Anne Benson Éditions Padmakara · 2025 · ISBN 9782370411785 Trouver le repos dans la nature de l’esprit, le premier volet de la Trilogie du Repos, se présente sous la forme d’un exposé progressif dela doctrine bouddhique orienté vers les enseignements de la Grande Perfection (Dzogchen), où l’accent est mis sur l’instruction en tant que fondement de la pratique.
	Wondrous Ocean of Eloquence DRL Histories of the Taklung Kagyu Tradition Translated by Gyurme Dorje Boulder · Snow Lion · 2025 · ISBN 9781559395069 Wondrous Ocean of Eloquence is the first ever English translation of a comprehensive historiographical volume on the political, artistic, architectural, biographical, and spiritual dimensions of the Taklung, one of four primary subsects of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

2024

	Kadam: Damngak Dzö 3 DRL Stages of the Path, Mind Training and Esoteric Practice, Part 1 Translated by Thupten Jinpa and Artemus Engle Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2024 · ISBN 9781559395052 Details of the 18 texts translated here can be seen on the Damngak Dzo website. The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet’s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet.
	Nyingma: Damngak Dzö 2 DRL Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga: Part Two Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Snow Lion · 2024 · ISBN 9781645472926 A collection of texts and commentaries from the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism on Dzogchen, or Great Perfection teachings, which introduce us to our most basic nature—the clear and pristine awareness that is the nature of the mind.
	Sounds of Innate Freedom DRL The Indian Texts of Mahāmudrā - Volume 2 Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl New York · Wisdom · 2024 · ISBN 9781614297093 Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahāmudrā are historic volumes containing many of the first English translations of classic mahāmudrā literature.
	The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind DRL A Treasure Tantra of the Great Perfection Translated by Stephen Gethin — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2024 · ISBN 9781645473343 The Dzogchen tantra titled The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind teaches the advanced practices of trekchö, thögal, and bardo.
	Trésor de connaissances DRL Les Terres et les voies- Volume 4 Translated by Christian Charrier Le Plantou, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2024 · ISBN 9782370411754 Dans son « Trésor de connaissances »,le premier de ses cinq grands traités,Jamgön Kongtrul explore une multitude de sujets organisés autour des trois entraînements supérieurs : la discipline, la concentration et la sagesse.

2023

	Awakening Wisdom DRL Heart Advice on the Fundamental Practices of Vajrayana Buddhism By Stephen Gethin and Charles Hastings — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder, CO · Shambhala · 2023 · ISBN 9781645471639 If you are new to Tibetan Buddhism, this short work will help you get started with your practice; and if you are well steeped in these teachings, it will inspire and motivate you to practice them.
	Marpa Kagyu: Damngak Dzö 7 DRL Methods of Liberation, Part 1. The Treasury of Precious Instructions: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet, Volume 7 Translated by Elizabeth Callahan Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2023 · ISBN 9781611808889 The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet’s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet.
	Sakya: Damngak Dzö 6 DRL The Path with its Result, Part 2 Translated by Malcolm Smith Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2023 · ISBN 9781611809671 The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet’s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet.
	Shangpa Kagyu: Damngak Dzö 12 DRL The Tradition of Khyungpo Naljor - Part 2 Translated by Sarah Harding Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2023 · ISBN 9781645472117 This is the second of two volumes that present teachings and practices from the Shangpa Kagyu practice lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. This tradition derives from two Indian yoginīs, the dākinīs Niguma and Sukhasiddhi, and their disciple, the eleventh-century Tibetan yogi Khyungpo Naljor Tsultrim Gönpo of the Shang region of Tibet.
	Sounds of Innate Freedom DRL The Indian Texts of Mahāmudrā - Volume 3 Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Somerville, MA · Wisdom · 2023 · ISBN 9781614297109 This is the third volume in an historic six-volume series containing many of the first English translations of the classic mahāmudrā literature compiled by the Seventh Karmapa. Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahāmudrā are historic volumes containing many of the first English translations of classic mahamudra literature.
	The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim DRL Thimphu, Bhutan · Loden Foundation · 2023 · ISBN 9789998083110 The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim publishes the collected works of the early Kadam master Kyoton in clear Uchen (dbu can) type based on the manuscripts in the Bka gdams gsung 'bum, which are very difficult to decipher in the old Ume (dbu med) scripts.
	Trésor de connaissances DRL Les Instructions cruciales - Volume 3 Translated by Patrick Carré Le Plantou, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2023 · ISBN 9782370411648 Le présent ouvrage est trois fois remarquable, d’abord parce qu’il émane du grand maître Jamgön Kongtrul Lodreu Thayé, ensuite parce qu’il forme un des chapitres de son premier « Trésor » et, enfin, parce qu’il donne à voir les plus hautes cimes des tantras bouddhistes, les pratiques couramment dites « des canaux et des souffles » (tsaloung), qui débouchent sur la grande félicité immuable.

2022

	Delightful Ocean of Pith Instructions DRL An Essential Meaning Commentary on the Instruction for the Supremely Profound Swift Path of the Great Transfer, Belonging to the Profound Secret Great Perfection Translated by Heidi Nevin and Dechen Wangmo Rhinebeck, NY · Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation · 2022 · ISBN 9780975861813 Restricted book. Translations of Buddhahood Without Meditation, Delightful Ocean of Pith Instructions, and Showering a Rain of Blessings: Essence Guru Yoga of the Swift Path of Luminosity.
	La Terre pure d'Amitābha - Tome 1 DRL Sūtras, dharanīs et prières. Translated by Jean-François Buliard France · 2022 · ISBN 9782911417504 The Pure Land of Amitabha Volume 1. Sutras, Dharania and Prayers of the Buddhist Canon.
	Mahāsiddha Practice: Damngak Dzö 16 DRL From Mitrayogin and Other Masters Translated by Stephen Gethin Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2022 · ISBN 9781611808933 Mahāsiddha Practice, the sixteenth volume of Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye's The Treasury of Precious Instructions (gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod), presents a selection of teachings and practices (40 texts) centered on the mahāsiddhas, Indian tantric masters.
	Ornament of Dakpo Kagyü Thought DRL Short Commentary on the Mahāmudrā Aspiration Prayer Translated by Sarah Harding Somerville, MA · Wisdom · 2022 · ISBN 9781614297185 The Mahāmudrā Aspiration Prayer is one of the most brilliant and popular compositions on mahāmudrā.
	Sakya: Damngak Dzö 5 DRL The Path with its Result, Part 1 Translated by Malcolm Smith Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2022 · ISBN 9781611809664 The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet’s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet.
	Shangpa Kagyu: Damngak Dzö 11 DRL The Tradition of Khyungpo Naljor, Part 1 Translated by Sarah Harding Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2022 · ISBN 9781611809640 The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet’s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet.
	The Precious Treasury of the Fundamental Nature DRL Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2022 · ISBN 9781611809336 Modern scholar and Nyingma master Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk composed this first and only commentary on the fourteenth-century Buddhist master Longchenpa's essential text, The Precious Treasury of the Fundamental Nature.
	The Ruby Rosary Joyfully Accepted by Vidyādharas and Dākinīs as the Ornament of a Necklace. DRL Translated by Heidi Nevin Boulder · Shambhala · 2022 · ISBN 9781559394574 An in-depth presentation of one of the most profound traditions of Tibetan Buddhism—the Dudjom lineage—beginning with the Buddha and tracing the origins and development of the lineage through its Indian and Tibetan masters.
	Trésor de connaissances DRL Les tantras bouddhistes - Volume 2 Translated by Christian Charrier and Patrick Carré Le Plantou, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2022 · ISBN 9782370411525 Le présent volume du « Trésor de connaissances », consacré aux tantras bouddhistes tels que les écoles de Traduction Nouvelle et Ancienne les ont classés et en distillent les enseignements, décrit exhaustivement les thèmes majeurs et les principes qui sous-tendent les différents systèmes tantriques.

2021

	A Chariot to Freedom DRL Guidance From the Great Masters on the Vajrayāna Preliminary Practices Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder, CO · Shambhala · 2021 · ISBN 9781611804584 A Chariot to Freedom is one of the most beloved presentations of the preliminary practices, or ngöndro, that form the foundation of the Vajrayana Buddhist path. This set of practices, common to all schools of Himalayan Buddhism, is what nearly every practitioner begins with, yet it also constitutes a complete method in and of itself.
	Four Tibetan Lineages: Library of Tibetan Classics 8 DRL Core Teachings of Pacification, Severance, Shangpa Kagyü, and Bodong Translated by Sarah Harding Somerville, MA · Wisdom · 2021 · ISBN 9780861714476 Drawing primarily from the Pacification, Severance, Shangpa Kagyü, and Bodongpa traditions, Four Tibetan Lineages presents some of Tibet's most transformative yet lesser-known teachings on meditative practice.
	Illuminating the Intent: Library of Tibetan Classics 19 DRL An Exposition of Candrakīrti's Entering the Middle Way Translated by Thupten Jinpa Somerville, MA · Wisdom · 2021 · ISBN 9780861714582 This work is perhaps the most influential explanation of Candrakirti's seventh-century classic Entering the Middle Way (Madhyamakavatara).
	Sounds of Innate Freedom DRL The Indian Texts of Mahāmudrā - Volume 4 Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Somerville, MA · Wisdom · 2021 · ISBN 9781614297116 Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahāmudrā are historic volumes containing many of the first English translations of classic mahamudra literature.

2020

	Jonang: Damngak Dzö 18 DRL The One Hundred and Eight Teaching Manuals Translated by Sarah Harding and Gyurme Dorje Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2020 · ISBN 9781559394956 The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet’s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet.
	Le Tantra du Choral des noms de Mañjuśrī Commenté par Vimalamitra. La lampe qui élucide le sens des noms - commentaire du Filet d'Illusions de Mañjuśrī DRL Translated by Patrick Carré Le Plantou, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2020 · ISBN 9782370411310 Aussi vénérable que vénéré, le Choral des noms de Manjuśrī est l’un des tantras bouddhistes les plus anciens et les plus commentés. La réalisation de la vacuité et de la non-dualité prend ici l’aspect d’un poème en forme de liste foisonnante et chamarrée de postulats, de vérites et de pratiques.
	Lion of Speech DRL The Life of Mipham Rinpoche Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder, CO · Shambhala · 2020 · ISBN 9781559394949 A traditional biography on the life of Mipham Rinpoche—one of the greatest 19th-century masters—from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche—one of the greatest 20th–century masters.
	Music of the Sphere of Definitive Meaning DRL Detailed Explanation of the Mahamudra Prayer in Accordance with the Philosophy of the Great Emptiness-of-Other Translated by David Molk Kathmandu · Benchen · 2020 · ISBN 9789937843034 A translation of Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche's detailed explanation of the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje's famous Mahāmudrā Aspiration Prayer.
	Practicing the Great Perfection DRL Instructions on the Crucial Points Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder, CO · Shambhala · 2020 · ISBN 9781559394932 Shechen Gyaltsap is a renowned master of the Great Perfection, or Dzogchen, the pinnacle of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the teacher of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and is therefore a wellspring of the wisdom and accomplishments of the present generation of teachers.
	Sounds of Innate Freedom DRL The Indian Texts of Mahāmudrā - Volume 5 Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Somerville, MA · Wisdom · 2020 · ISBN 9781614296355 Sounds of Innate Freedom: The Indian Texts of Mahāmudrā are historic volumes containing many of the first English translations of classic mahāmudrā literature.
	Trésor de connaissances DRL Les systèmes philosophiques bouddhistes - Volume 1 Translated by Christian Charrier Le Plantou, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2020 · ISBN 9782370411181 Dans son Trésor de connaissances, le premier de ses cinq grands traités, Jamgön Kongtrul pose les fondements du mouvement œcuménique appelé Rimé qui s’est fixé pour mission de préserver et promouvoir les différentes traditions tibétaines, dans leur intégrité, pour qu’elles puissent profiter aux futures générations de pratiquants et de chercheurs.

2019

	Guhyasamāja Practice in the Ārya Nāgārjuna System. Vol. 1, The Generation Stage DRL Translated by Artemus Engle Boulder · Snow Lion · 2019 · ISBN 9781559394857 The Guhyasamāja Tantra is one of the Unexcelled Yoga Tantras of Vajrayana Buddhism. In the initial, generation-stage practice, one engages in a prescribed sequence of visualizations of oneself as an enlightened being in a purified environment in order to prepare one’s mind and body to engage in the second stage: the completion stage.
	Le Trésor de précieuses qualités Vol. II DRL Quintessence de l'ambroisie des Trois Véhicules, Véhicule de Vajra et Grande Perfection Padmakara Translation Group Le Plantou · Padmakara · 2019 · ISBN 9782370411266
	Lion de la Parole DRL Lampe de merveilleuse ambroisie - Biographie essentielle de l'omniscient Mipham Jamyang Namgyal Gyatso, l'impavide Lion de l'Éloquence, Phare de l'enseignement du Grand Secret Padmakara Translation Group Le Plantou · Padmakara · 2019 · ISBN 9782370411211
	Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā - Dakpo Tashi Namgyal DRL With Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance by Wangchuk Dorje, the Ninth Karmapa Translated by Elizabeth Callahan Boulder · Snow Lion · 2019 · ISBN 9781559394802 This classic Buddhist work, written in the sixteenth century, comprehensively presents the entire scope of the Tibetan Kagyu Mahāmudrā tradition. These profound yet accessible instructions focus on becoming familiar with the nature of one’s mind as the primary means to realize ultimate reality and thus attain buddhahood.
	Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule - Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra, avec le commentaire de Jamgön Kongtrul Lodreu Thayé L'Incontestable Rugissement du lion DRL Translated by Christian Charrier and Patrick Carré Plazac, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2019 · ISBN 9782370411181 This new translation of the famed Gyü Lama, or Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra, represents a major step forward in providing access to key Buddhist literature for Francophones.
	Vajra Heart Revisited DRL Teachings on the Path of Trekchö By Erik Pema Kunsang San Rafael, CA · Rangjung Yeshe · 2019 · ISBN 9781732871762 These pith instructions in Vajra Heart Revisited are concise, brilliant expositions on the path of Trekcho, starting with the ground, the preliminaries, shamatha, and viphashyana, Three Vital Words, up to and including teachings on guru yoga, and bardo.
	Zhije: Damngak Dzö 13 DRL The Pacification of Suffering Translated by Sarah Harding Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2019 · ISBN 9781559394840 The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet's greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet.

2018

	A Compendium of the Mahāyāna DRL Asaṅga's Mahāyānasaṃgraha and Its Indian and Tibetan Commentaries, Volume One By Karl Brunnhölzl Boulder · Snow Lion · 2018 · ISBN 9781559394659 The Mahāyānasaṃgraha, published here with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries in three volumes, presents virtually everything anybody might want to know about the Yogācāra School of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
	A Compendium of the Mahāyāna DRL Asaṅga's Mahāyānasaṃgraha and Its Indian and Tibetan Commentaries, Volume Three By Karl Brunnhölzl Boulder · Snow Lion · 2018 · ISBN 9781559394659 VOLUME THREE of The Mahāyānasaṃgraha, published with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries in three volumes, presents virtually everything anybody might want to know about the Yogācāra School of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
	A Compendium of the Mahāyāna DRL Asaṅga's Mahāyānasaṃgraha and Its Indian and Tibetan Commentaries, Volume Two By Karl Brunnhölzl Boulder · Snow Lion · 2018 · ISBN 978-1-55939-465-9 VOLUME TWO of The Mahāyānasaṃgraha, published with its Indian and Tibetan commentaries in three volumes, presents virtually everything anybody might want to know about the Yogācāra School of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
	A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle DRL An Explanation of the Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras; Maitreya's Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra with a Commentary by Jamgön Mipham Translated by Stephen Gethin — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2018 · ISBN 9781611804676 A monumental work and Indian Buddhist classic, the Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras (Mahāyānasūtrālamkāra) is a precious resource for students wishing to study in-depth the philosophy and path of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
	Finding Rest in Illusion DRL The Trilogy of Rest, Volume 3 Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2018 · ISBN 9781611805925 Finding Rest in Illusion is the third volume of the Trilogy of Rest, Longchenpa’s classic exposition of the Buddhist path. The purpose of these teachings is to introduce us to our most basic nature—the clear and pristine awareness that is the nature of the mind.
	Finding Rest in Meditation. The Trilogy of Rest Volume 2. DRL Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2018 · ISBN 9781611805529 Longchenpa’s classic exposition of the Buddhist path, the Trilogy of Rest, teaches us how to familiarize ourselves with our most basic nature—the clear and pristine awareness that is the nature of the mind.
	Matchik Labdreun à ses disciples - Enseignements détaillés sur la pratique de Tcheu DRL Translated by Patrick Devinoy Ygrande, France · Éditions Yogi Ling · 2018 · ISBN 9782911417337
	Soûtra de l'Entrée dans la dimension absolue DRL Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra; extrait du grand Soūtra des Ornements du Bouddha - Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra. Vol. 1, Fusion Parfaite Translated by Patrick Carré Plazac, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2018 · ISBN 9782370411136 Le Soûtra de l’Entrée dans la dimension absolue est un texte essentiel du Grand Véhicule en l’honneur de l’esprit d’Éveil relatif et absolu. Il raconte, à travers l’allégorie d’un voyage initiatique, la formation du bodhisattva Sudhana à sa bouddhéité intrinsèque.
	Soûtra de l'Entrée dans la dimension absolue DRL Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra; extrait du grand Soutra des Ornements du Bouddha - Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra. Vol. 2, Traduction du Soutra et Glossaire Translated by Patrick Carré Plazac, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2018 · ISBN 9782370411136 Le Soûtra de l’Entrée dans la dimension absolue est un texte essentiel du Grand Véhicule en l’honneur de l’esprit d’Éveil relatif et absolu. Il raconte, à travers l’allégorie d’un voyage initiatique, la formation du bodhisattva Sudhana à sa bouddhéité intrinsèque.
	The Emanated Scripture of Manjushri DRL Shabkar's Essential Meditation Instructions from Lam-Rim to Mahamudra and Dzogchen Translated by Sean Price Boulder · Snow Lion · 2018 · ISBN 9781559394611 "The Emanated Scripture of Manjushri is quite unique in Tibetan literature, not only because of its being written in the form of questions and answers, alternating verse and prose, but because it is a compendium of short teachings that presents a limpid, concise, and yet profound instruction on the entire graded path to enlightenment.
	The Treasury of Precious Qualities Called The Rain of Joy DRL Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group New Delhi · Shechen · 2018 · ISBN 9788174722430 Rigzin Jigme Lingpa (1730–1798) was one of the most important masters of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He and the great fourteenth century master Longchen Rabjam (1308–1363), with whom he was closely linked through visionary experience, are known as the "two omniscient masters, father and son.

2017

	Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind DRL Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder, CO · Shambhala · 2017 · ISBN 9781611805161 Longchenpa’s classic Buddhist manual for attaining liberation teaches us how to familiarize ourselves with our most basic nature—the clear, pristine, and aware mind. Written in the fourteenth century, this text is the first volume of Longchenpa’s Trilogy of Rest, a work of the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition.
	L’Essence du soleil - Explication du véhicule le plus sublime DRL l’insurpassable et très secrète Lumineuse Essence Adamantine Translated by Anne Benson Le Plantou, France · Padmakara Translation Group · 2017 · ISBN 9782370411020
	Mémoires DRL La Vie et L'œuvre de Jamgön Kongtrul Translated by Richard Barron (Chokyi Nyima) and Christian Charrier Le Plantou, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2017 · ISBN 978-2-37041-099-3
	The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 13 DRL Philosophical Systems and Lines of Transmission Translated by Gyurme Dorje Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2017 · ISBN 9781559394604 In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a yogin and scholar of northeastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end.
	The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 14 DRL An Overview of Buddhist Tantra Translated by Ngawang Zangpo Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2017 · ISBN 9781559394598 In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a Buddhist yogi-scholar of eastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Written by a lay practitioner for laypeople, it was intended to be accessible, informative, inspirational, and above all, practical.
	The Wisdom Chapter DRL Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva" Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2017 · ISBN 9781611804164 Shāntideva’s guide to the training of a Bodhisattva is one of the most important and beloved texts in the Tibetan tradition. The ninth chapter, however, dealing with Madhyamaka, the Middle Way, the most profound wisdom view of Mahayana Buddhism, has always posed unique challenges to readers.

2016

	Chants de Plénitude des Yogis de l'Inde DRL By Joy Vriens Ygrande, France · Éditions Yogi Ling · 2016
	Chöd: Damngak Dzö 14 DRL The Sacred Teachings on Severance Translated by Sarah Harding Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2016 · ISBN 9781611803723 The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet’s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet.
	L'Essence de la sagesse primordiale DRL Instructions cruciales sur les étapes de la voie - extraites de l'Accomplissement de l'Esprit du Maître Puissance du Terrible Vajra. Trésor de Gourou Padmasambhava: transcrit par Yéshé Tsogyal, découvert et décrypté par Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo et Chogyour Détchen Lingpa et le Commentaire: L'Immense Éclat de la sagesse primordiale - rédigé par Jamgön Kongtrul Lotreu Thayé - Volume 3 Padmakara Translation Group Le Plantou · Éditions Padmakara · 2016 · ISBN 9782370410955
	L'Essence de la sagesse primordiale DRL Instructions cruciales sur les étapes de la voie - extraites de l'Accomplissement de l'Esprit du Maître Puissance du Terrible Vajra. Trésor de Gourou Padmasambhava: transcrit par Yéshé Tsogyal, découvert et décrypté par Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo et Chogyour Détchen Lingpa et le Commentaire: L'Immense Éclat de la sagesse primordiale - rédigé par Jamgön Kongtrul Lotreu Thayé - Volume 4 Padmakara Translation Group Le Plantou · Éditions Padmakara · 2016 · ISBN 9782370410979
	Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo DRL The Wisdom Essence of Oral Instruction in the Stages of the Path, The Heart Essence of Pasmasambhava According to The Guru's Heart Practice of Dorje Drakpo Tsal, Powerful Vajra Wrath Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang Kathmandu · Rangjung Yeshe · 2016 · ISBN 9780990997870 This is a special publication with red cover and gold leaf arranged by Rangjung Yeshe Publications, provided for free distribution by the generosity of George MacDonald and Eric Colombel. It was for limited release and is not available for purchase.
	Lumière de diamant DRL Présentation générale des quatre classes de tantras bouddhistes Translated by Christian Charrier Plazac, France · 2016 · ISBN 9782370410818
	The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment DRL A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhūmi Translated by Artemus Engle Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2016 · ISBN 9781559394291 Ārya Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhūmi, or The Stage of a Bodhisattva, is the Mahāyāna tradition’s most comprehensive manual on the practice and training of bodhisattvas—by the author’s own account, a compilation of the full range of instructions contained in the entire collection of Mahāyāna sutras.
	The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17 DRL The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga. Vol. 1. Translated by Gyurme Dorje Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2016 · ISBN 9781559394369 In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a yogin and scholar of northeastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end.
	The Complete Nyingma Tradition From Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17 DRL The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga. Vol. 2 Translated by Gyurme Dorje Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2016 · ISBN 9781559394369 In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a yogin and scholar of northeastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end.
	The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way DRL The Mulamadhyamakakarika Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Shambhala · 2016 · ISBN 9781611803426 This volume presents a new English translation of the founding text of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahayana Buddhism, Nagarjuna’s Root Stanzas of the Middle Way, and includes the Tibetan version of the text.

2015

The Profound Inner Principles DRL Translated by Elizabeth Callahan Boston · Snow Lion · 2015 · ISBN 9781559394161 With masterful clarity and precision, The Profound Inner Principles delineates the principles and foundations of Vajrayāna practice. Rangjung Dorje presents the nature of things—mental and physical—and looks at the cause of delusion, what delusion creates, and how delusion is corrected.

2014

	A Chest of Amṛita DRL Instructions for the Long Life Practice of Kalyāṇī Cintāmaṇicakra In the Pure Unalloyed Tradition of Atisha Dīpaṃkara, An Instruction Manual on White Tārā Translated by Gelong Sherab Drime Kathmandu, Nepal · Benchen · 2014
	A Manual of Instruction on the Union of Connate Mahāmudrā DRL The Torch that Illuminates the Heart-Essence, The Innermost Nectar-Essence, Pointing out the Dharmakāya Translated by Gelong Sherab Drime Kathmandu, Nepal · Benchen · 2014
	Au coœur du ciel DRL Controverses dans les systèmes de la voie médiane Translated by Christian Charrier Plazac, France · Padmakara · 2014 · ISBN 9782370410351 Ce deuxième volume nous plonge au cœur des grands débats qui ont entraîné des divergences doctrinales au sein de ce système philosophique. Qu’est-ce qui distingue vraiment les Prāsangikas des Svātantrikas ? Réfutent-ils un objet différent ? Qu’est-ce que le courant shentong au Tibet ?
	Nigouma et Soukhasiddhi, Hagiographies et chants suivi de Horizons féminins DRL Hadewijch, Lalla, Rabi'a al-Adawiya By Joy Vriens Ygrande, France · Éditions Yogi Ling · 2014 · ISBN 978-2-911-41724-5
	Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sūtras DRL Maitreya's Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham Translated by Cortland Dahl, Douglas Duckworth, Thomas Doctor, James Gentry, Heidi Köppl, and Hilary Herdman — Dharmachakra Translation Committee Boston · Snow Lion · 2014 · ISBN 978-1-55939-428-4 The Buddhist masterpiece Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sūtras, often referred to by its Sanskrit title, Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, is part of a collection known as the Five Maitreya Teachings, a set of philosophical works that have become classics of the Indian Buddhist tradition.
	The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 1 to 10 DRL Foundations of the Buddhist Path Translated by Ngawang Zangpo Boston · Snow Lion · 2014 · ISBN 978-1-55939-435-2 In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a Buddhist yogi-scholar of eastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Written by a lay practitioner for laypeople, it was intended to be accessible, informative, inspirational, and above all, practical.
	When the Clouds Part DRL The Uttaratantra and Its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra By Karl Brunnhölzl Boston · Snow Lion · 2014 · ISBN 9781559394178 "Buddha nature" (tathāgatagarbha) is the innate potential in all living beings to become a fully awakened buddha.

2013

	An Ocean of Auspicious Renown: Damngak Dzö DRL The Catalog of The Treasury of Precious Instructions Translated by Richard Barron (Chokyi Nyima) New York · Tsadra Foundation · 2013 An initial draft translation of the Karchag or catalog text found in volume 18 of the gdams ngag mdzod by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, translated by Richard Barron.
	Butön's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet DRL A Treasury of Priceless Scripture Translated by Ngawang Zangpo and Lisa Pickford-Stein Boston & London · Snow Lion · 2013 · ISBN 9781559394130 This fourteenth-century Tibetan classic serves as an excellent introduction to basic Buddhism as practiced throughout India and Tibet and describes the process of entering the Buddhist path through study and reflection.
	Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature DRL Maitreya's Dharmadharmatāvibhaṅga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham Translated by Cortland Dahl, Thomas Doctor, and Zachary Beer — Dharmachakra Translation Committee Boston · Snow Lion · 2013 · ISBN 9781559394093 The Buddhist masterpiece Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature, often referred to by its Sanskrit title, Dharmadharmatāvibhaṅga, is part of a collection known as the Five Maitreya Teachings, a set of philosophical works that have become classics of the Indian Buddhist tradition.
	Machik's Complete Explanation DRL Clarifying the Meaning of Chöd, a Complete Explanation of Casting out the Body as Food Translated by Sarah Harding Boston · Snow Lion · 2013 · ISBN 9781559394147
	Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend with Commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche DRL Translated by Stephen Gethin — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Snow Lion · 2013 · ISBN 9781559394154
	Refining Our Perception of Reality DRL Sera Khandro's Commentary on Dudjom Lingpa's Account of His Visionary Journey Translated by Ngawang Zangpo and Christina Monson Boston · Snow Lion · 2013 · ISBN 9781559394246 Dakini Sukha Vajra, widely known as Sera Khandro, wrote this commentary of an account by the great Dudjom Lingpa of visions he had of enlightened beings and the teachings he received from them regarding our perception of reality. This book contains four Tibetan texts in translation.
	Song of the Road DRL The Poetic Travel Journal of Tsarchen Losal Gyatso. Celebration of the Cuckoo: My Autobiographical Song of the Road Translated by Cyrus Stearns Boston, MA · Wisdom · 2013 · ISBN 9781614290551 In Song of the Road, Tsarchen Losal Gyatso (1502-66), a tantric master of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, weaves ecstatic poetry, song, and accounts of visionary experiences into a record of pilgrimage to central Tibet.
	Treasury of Precious Qualities DRL The Rain of Joy. Book Two: Vajrayana and the Great Perfection Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2013 · ISBN 1570625980 This second and concluding volume of Jigme Lingpa’s classic Treasury of Precious Qualities is presented together with a detailed commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche. Composed in the form of a lamrim, or presentation of the stages of the path, the first volume set out the teachings of the sutras.
	Wondrous Dance of Illusion DRL The Autobiography of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang Translated by Jakob Leschly and Heidi Nevin Boston · Snow Lion · 2013 · ISBN 9781559394277

2012

	Au cœur du ciel DRL Le système de la voie médiane dans la tradition kagyu Translated by Christian Charrier Plazac, France · Padmakara · 2012 · ISBN 9782916915661 Voie d'accès au réel par le raisonnement analytique et l'expérience directe de la vacuité, le Madhyamaka permet à tout un chacun d'évincer la souffrance et de réveiller la sagesse innée qui dort en lui.
	Groundless Paths DRL The Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Nyingma Tradition Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2012 · ISBN 1-55939-375-0 ISBN 978-1-55939-375-1 The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the prajñaparamita sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries.
	Jewels from the Treasury DRL Vasubandhu's Verses on the Treasury of Abhidharma: And Its Commentary Youthful Play by the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje By David Karma Choephel Woodstock, NY · KTD · 2012 · ISBN 9781934608258
	L'Essence de la sagesse primordiale DRL Instructions cruciales sur les étapes de la voie - extraites de l'Accomplissement de l'Esprit du Maître Puissance du Terrible Vajra. Trésor de Gourou Padmasambhava: transcrit par Yéshé Tsogyal, découvert et décrypté par Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo et Chogyour Détchen Lingpa et le Commentaire: L'Immense Éclat de la sagesse primordiale - rédigé par Jamgön Kongtrul Lotreu Thayé - Volume 2 Padmakara Translation Group Le Plantou · Éditions Padmakara · 2012 · ISBN 9782916915678
	Mining for Wisdom within Delusion DRL Maitreya's Distinction between Phenomena and the Nature of Phenomena and Its Indian and Tibetan Commentaries Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Boston · Snow Lion · 2012 · ISBN 9781559393959 Maitreya’s Distinction between Phenomena and the Nature of Phenomena distinguishes the illusory phenomenal world of saṃsāra produced by the confused dualistic mind from the ultimate reality that is mind’s true nature. The transition from the one to the other is the process of “mining for wisdom within delusion.
	The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Seven and Book Eight, Parts One and Two DRL Foundations of Buddhist Study and Practice, The Higher Trainings in Sublime Intelligence and Meditative Absorption Translated by Richard Barron (Chokyi Nyima) Boston · Snow Lion · 2012 · ISBN 9781559393997 Foundations of Buddhist Study and Practice comprises Book Seven and Book Eight, Parts One and Two of the Treasury of Knowledge. Book Seven elucidates the various keys needed to correctly interpret, understand, and contemplate Buddhist teachings, including the secret teachings of the Vajrayana.
	The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Parts One and Two DRL Indo-Tibetan Classical Learning and Buddhist Phenomenology Translated by Gyurme Dorje Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2012 · ISBN 9781559393898 The first two parts of Book Six, contained in this volume, respectively concern Indo-Tibetan classical learning and Buddhist phenomenology. The former analyzes the traditional subjects of phonology and Sanskrit grammar, logic, fine art, and medicine, along with astrology, poetics, prosody, synonymics, and dramaturgy.
	Vajra Wisdom DRL Deity Practice in Tibetan Buddhism Translated by Cortland Dahl, Andreas Doctor, James Gentry, Catherine Dalton, and Benjamin Collet-Cassart — Dharmachakra Translation Committee Boston · Snow Lion · 2012 · ISBN 1559393971 9781559393973 Vajra Wisdom presents the commentaries of two great nineteenth-century Nyingma masters that guide practitioners engaged in development stage practice through a series of straightforward instructions. The rarity of this kind of material in English makes it indispensable for practitioners and scholars alike.

2011

	A Pleasure Grove Where Satisfaction Arises for the Intelligent DRL A structural commentary on the meaning of the Vajra Lines, the root text of the Precious Teaching of the Path with the Result, by which absolutely all the commentaries will be easily understood By Cyrus Stearns Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2011 · ISBN 1-55939-338-6
	A Practice of Padmasambhava DRL Essential Instructions on the Path to Awakening Translated by Zachary Beer and Catherine Dalton — Dharmachakra Translation Committee Ithaca, N.Y · Snow Lion · 2011 · ISBN 9781559393621 A Practice of Padmasambhava presents two practical and compelling works related to a visualization and mantra practice of Padmasambhava. This practice is based on the most important revelation of the renowned nineteenth-century treasure revealer Chokgyur Lingpa, Accomplishing the Guru's Mind: Dispeller of All Obstacles.
	A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom DRL Complete Instructions on the Preliminary Practice of the Profound and Secret Heart Essence of the Dakini Translated by Stephen Gethin — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2011 · ISBN 9781590309094 The foundations of Vajrayana practice are laid out with eloquence and precision here by one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of our age.
	Gone Beyond DRL The Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyü Tradition (Volume Two) Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2011 · ISBN 978-1-55939-356-0 The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries.
	L'Essence de la sagesse primordiale DRL Instructions cruciales sur les étapes de la voie - extraites de l'Accomplissement de l'Esprit du Maître Puissance du Terrible Vajra. Trésor de Gourou Padmasambhava: transcrit par Yéshé Tsogyal, découvert et décrypté par Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo et Chogyour Détchen Lingpa et le Commentaire: L'Immense Éclat de la sagesse primordiale - rédigé par Jamgön Kongtrul Lotreu Thayé - Volume 1 Padmakara Translation Group Le Plantou · Éditions Padmakara · 2011 · ISBN 9782916915630
	Manuel de Retraite de Djamgoeun Kongtrul DRL By Ngawang Zangpo, Pamela Gayle White, and Joy Vriens Bourbon-l'Archambault, France · Éditions Yogi Ling · 2011 · ISBN 2911417038
	Ornament of Reason DRL The Great Commentary to Nāgārjuna's Root of the Middle Way By Thomas Doctor — Dharmachakra Translation Committee Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2011 · ISBN 9781559393683 The present work contains Nagarjuna's verses on the Middle Way accompanied by Mabja Jangchub Tsöndrü's famed commentary, the Ornament of Reason.
	The Treasury of Knowledge, Books Nine and Ten DRL Journey and Goal, An Analysis of the Spiritual Paths and Levels to Be Traversed and the Consummate Fruition State Translated by Richard Barron (Chokyi Nyima) Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2011 · ISBN 9781559393607 Journey and Goal focuses on the spiritual path—the journey and the resultant state of enlightenment to which it leads—the goal. Extensively varied perspectives are offered not only from within the many schools of Buddhism but also from the different levels of practice and attainment.
	Treasury of Esoteric Instructions DRL An Explication of the Oral Instructions of the Path with the Result By Cyrus Stearns Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2011 · ISBN 9781559393379 The Lamdré, or the Path with the Result, is the most important system of tantric practice in the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The goddess Vajra Nairatmya first transmitted these teachings to the Indian adept Virupa (ca. seventh–eighth centuries) who then composed the Vajra Lines.

2010

	Gone Beyond DRL The Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyü Tradition (Volume One) Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2010 · ISBN 978-1-55939-356-0 The Abhisamayalamkara summarizes all the topics in the vast body of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. Resembling a zip-file, it comes to life only through its Indian and Tibetan commentaries.
	Le trésor de précieuses qualités DRL Volume 1, Véhicule causal des caractéristiques Translated by Patrick Carré and Gwenola le Serrec — Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, FR · Padmakara · 2010 · ISBN 2916915559
	Niguma, Lady of Illusion DRL By Sarah Harding Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2010 · ISBN 1-55939-361-0
	Rayons de lune DRL Les étapes de la méditation du Mahāmudrā: Éloquente explication qui éclaire la progression dans la méditation du Mahāmudrā de sens définitif Translated by Christian Charrier Plazac, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2010 · ISBN 9782916915579
	The Buddha From Dolpo DRL A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen By Cyrus Stearns Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2010 · ISBN 9781559393430 The Buddha from Dölpo is a revised and enlarged edition of the only book about the most controversial Buddhist master in the history of Tibet, Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361), who became perhaps the greatest Tibetan expert of the Kālacakra, or Wheel of Time, a vast system of tantric teachings.
	The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech DRL A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2010 · ISBN 9781590304396 This book is an essential companion volume to the root text of Śāntideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva, translated by Helena and Wulstan of the Padmakara Translation Group.
	The Treasury of Knowledge, Books Two, Three, and Four DRL Buddhism's Journey to Tibet Translated by Ngawang Zangpo Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2010 · ISBN 9781559393454 Jamgön Kongtrül’s ten-volume Treasury of Knowledge is a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet.
	Treasury of Precious Qualities DRL The Rain of Joy; Book One Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2010 · ISBN 9781590307113 This book is a translation of the first part of Jigme Lingpa's Treasury of Precious Qualities, which in a slender volume of elegant verses sets out briefly but comprehensively the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school.

2009

	'Le Lotus Blanc, Explication détaillée de la Prière en Sept Vers de Guru Rinpoché DRL Padmakara Translation Group Padmakara · 2009 · ISBN 9782916915548
	Luminous Essence DRL A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra Translated by Cortland Dahl, Andreas Doctor, Douglas Duckworth, Thomas Doctor, and Heidi Köppl — Dharmachakra Translation Committee Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2009 · ISBN 9781559393270
	Luminous Heart DRL The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2009 · ISBN 1559393181 This superb collection of writings on buddha nature by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1284–1339) focuses on the transition from ordinary deluded consciousness to enlightened wisdom, the characteristics of buddhahood, and a buddha’s enlightened activity. Most of these materials have never been translated comprehensively.
	The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice DRL Vasubandhu's Summary of the Five Heaps with Commentary by Sthiramati Translated by Artemus Engle Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2009 · ISBN 9781559393225, 155939322X The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice contains translations of texts by two historically important Indian Buddhist scholars: Vasubandhu's Summary of the Five Heaps and Sthiramati's commentary on Vasubandhu's root text.

2008

Les Stances fondamentales de la voie médiane DRL Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère · Padmakara, DL · 2008 · ISBN 9782916915395

The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Three DRL The Elements of Tantric Practice, A General Exposition of the Process of Meditation in the Indestructible Way of Secret Mantra Translated by Ingrid McLeod and Elio Guarisco — Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2008 · ISBN 9781559393058 Jamgön Kongtrül's Treasury of Knowledge in ten volumes is a unique encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were presented in Tibet.

2007

	Bodhicaryâvatâra DRL La marche vers l'éveil; Nouvelle traduction Translated by Christian Bruyat and Patrick Carré — Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, France · Éditions Padmakara · 2007 · ISBN 9782916915357 « Le Bodhicaryâvatâra est le guide essentiel de tous ceux qui s’entraînent sur la voie des bodhisattvas.
	In Praise of Dharmadhātu DRL Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Boulder · Snow Lion · 2007 · ISBN 155939286X Nagarjuna is famous in the West for his works not only on Madhyamaka but his poetic collection of praises, headed by In Praise of Dharmadhatu. This book explores the scope, contents, and significance of Nagarjuna's scriptural legacy in India and Tibet, focusing primarily on the title work.
	King of the Empty Plain DRL The Tibetan Iron-Bridge Builder Tangtong Gyalpo Translated by Cyrus Stearns Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2007 · ISBN 9781559392754
	Perles d'ambroisie Volume III DRL Développement de l'esprit d'Éveil Translated by Christian Bruyat, Patrick Carré, and Gwenola le Serrec — Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère · Padmakara · 2007 · ISBN 9782906949348 Ce troisième et dernier volume des Perles d'ambroisie traite d'abord du courage, cet «enthousiasme pour le bien» qui accompagne nécessairement toute pratique spirituelle, puis de la concentration méditative et des conditions qui la favorisent, avant d'aborder l'aboutissement et la culmination de L'Entrée dans la pratique des bodhisattvas, autrement dit la connaissance de la vacuité de tous les phénomènes.
	Straight from the Heart DRL Buddhist Pith Instructions Translated by Karl Brunnhölzl Ithaca, New York · Snow Lion · 2007 · ISBN 1-55939-279-7 Straight from the Heart brings together an inspiring collection of Buddhist teachings, songs of realization, meditation instructions, and enlightened poetry—all chosen for their power to speak directly to the student.
	The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Eight, Part Four DRL Esoteric Instructions, A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayāna. Translated by Sarah Harding Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2007 · ISBN 9781559392846 This volume, Esoteric Instructions, deals with meditation—specifically tantric meditation. Esoteric Instructions is a collection of intimate records of personal teachings by masters that simplify tantric meditations by providing pertinent examples and very personal and helpful hints to disciples based on the master's own experience.
	The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Three DRL Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy, A Systematic Presentation of the Cause-Based Philosophical Vehicles Translated by Elizabeth Callahan Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2007 · ISBN 9781559392778 In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrül's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as it was preserved in Tibet.
	White Lotus DRL An Explanation of the Seven-line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2007 · ISBN 9781590305119 The text called the “Seven-Line Prayer” is said to contain the most sacred and important teachings of the Nyingma school and is recited daily by many Tibetan Buddhists. White Lotus unlocks the secret of the prayer and explains its meaning on many levels.

2006

	Gourou Rimpoché DRL Sa Vie, Son Temps. By Kristophe Lanier Saint-Cannat · Claire Lumiére · 2006 · ISBN 9782905998828 Originally published in English as Guru Rinpoché: His Life and Times (2002) by Ngawang Zangpo, this text includes translations of sections of six different Tibetan texts by various authors, including Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, Sera Khandro, and Taranatha.
	L'ondée de sagesse DRL Chants de la lignée Kagyu Translated by Christian Charrier Saint-Cannat, France · Claire Lumière · 2006 · ISBN 290598814
	Middle Beyond Extremes DRL Maitreya's Madhyāntavibhāga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham Translated by Cortland Dahl, Thomas Doctor, Catherine Dalton, Ryan Damron, Hilary Herdman, Nir Levi, Matthew Stephenson, and Beatrice Volt — Dharmachakra Translation Committee Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2006 · ISBN 9781559392709 Middle Beyond Extremes contains a translation of the Buddhist masterpiece Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes. This famed text, often referred to by its Sanskrit title, Madhyāntavibhāga, is part of a collection known as the Five Maitreya Teachings.
	Perles d'ambroisie Volume I DRL Naissance de l'esprit d'Éveil Translated by Christian Bruyat, Patrick Carré, and Gwenola le Serrec — Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, FR · Padmakara · 2006 · ISBN 2906949329 Voici la première traduction complète du commentaire littéral que Kunzang Palden (env. 1870-1940), disciple du grand maître tibétain Patrul Rinpoché, composa pour le Bodhicaryavatara (L’Entrée dans la pratique des bodhisattvas) de Shantideva.
	Perles d'ambroisie Volume II DRL Préservation de l'esprit d'Éveil Translated by Christian Bruyat, Patrick Carré, and Gwenola le Serrec — Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère · Padmakara · 2006 · ISBN 2906949337 Le premier volume des Perles d'ambroisie, qui contient les trois premiers chapitres du Bodhicaryavatara (L'Entrée dans la pratique des bodhisattvas) de Shantideva commentés par Kunzang Palden, explique comment engendrer l'esprit d'Éveil, qui est le cœur de la pratique des bodhisattvas.
	The Heart of Compassion DRL Instructions on Ngulchu Thogme's Thirty-Sevenfold Practice of a Bodhisattva Translated by Matthieu Ricard — Padmakara Translation Group New Delhi · Shechen · 2006 · ISBN 9788174721297 What would be the practical implications of caring more about others than about yourself?
	The Way of the Bodhisattva DRL A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2006 · ISBN 1590303881 Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience.
	Zurchungpa's Testament DRL Commentary on Zurchung Sherab Trakpa's Eighty Chapters of Personal Advice Translated by Stephen Gethin — Padmakara Translation Group Boulder · Snow Lion · 2006 · ISBN 9781559392648 Zurchungpa's Eighty Chapters of Personal Advice was the final teaching given by the great Nyingma master Zurchung Sherab Trakpa. The original text consists of 580 maxims, covering the entire path of Dzogchen from fundamental teachings through to a series of pith instructions that bring the Dzogchen view to life.

2005

	Le Bouddha du Dolpo DRL Vie et pensée d'un maître tibétain atypique du XIVe siècle initiateur du Shèntong By Sylvie Carteron Saint-Cannat, France · Claire Lumière · 2005 · ISBN 9782905998743 This book is a French translation of Cyrus Stearns's The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen.
	Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend DRL With Commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche Translated by Stephen Gethin — Padmakara Translation Group Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2005 The great Indian Buddhist master Nāgārjuna wrote his celebrated poem Letter to a Friend as a gift of advice to a South Indian king, and it has since become a monument in the Indian shastra tradition.
	The Adornment of the Middle Way DRL Shantarakshita's Madhyamakalankara with commentary by Jamgon Mipham Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2005 · ISBN 9781590304198 In the Madhyamakalankara, Shantarakshita synthesized the views of Madhyamaka and Yogachara, the two great streams of Mahayana Buddhism. This was the last great philosophical development of Buddhist India.
	The Treasury of Knowledge Book Six, Part Four DRL Systems of Buddhist Tantra: The Indestructible Way of Secret Mantra Translated by Ingrid McLeod and Elio Guarisco — Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group Boulder · Snow Lion · 2005 · ISBN 155939210X
	Vie de Jamgœun Kongtrul DRL Écrite par lui-même Translated by Richard Barron (Chokyi Nyima) and Christian Charrier Saint-Cannat, France · Claire Lumière · 2005 · ISBN 290599875X Jamgœun Kongtrul Lodreu Thayé (1813-1900) was an extraordinary master of 19th century Tibet, whose abundant work remains widely used today.
	Wisdom Nectar DRL Dudjom Rinpoché's Heart Advice Translated by Ron Garry Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2005 · ISBN 9781559392242 Dudjom Rinpoche was one of the seminal figures in Tibetan Buddhism in the twentieth century, yet very few of his religious writings have been translated into English.

2004

Food of Bodhisattvas DRL Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2004 · ISBN 9781590301166 Based on the teachings of the Buddha, this book offers the most compelling and impassioned indictment of meat-eating to be found in Tibetan literature and is pertinent to anyone interested in vegetarianism as a moral or spiritual issue.

The Center of the Sunlit Sky DRL Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition By Karl Brunnhölzl Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2004 · ISBN 1559392185 Madhyamaka is a potent and universally accessible means of calming out suffering and awakening to our innate wisdom. The Center of the Sunlit Sky artfully rescues this brilliant teaching from its unwarranted reputation for intellectual opacity and reinstates it as a supremely practical toolkit for everyday living.

2003

	Counsels from My Heart DRL Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2003 · ISBN 1570628440 Counsels from My Heart is one of the few volumes of teachings by Dudjom Rinpoche, a legendary meditation master of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, to become available in English.
	Le Soleil de la confiance DRL La vie du Bouddha Translated by Anne Benson — Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, FR · Padmakara · 2003 · ISBN 2906949280
	Les Chants de l'Immortalité DRL Chants des Realisations des Maîtres de la Lignée Shangpa Translated by Ngawang Zangpo, Christiane Buchet, and Tcheuky Sèngué Saint-Cannat (Bouches-du-Rhône) · Claire Lumière · 2003 · ISBN 2905998695
	Machik's Complete Explanation DRL Clarifying the Meaning of Chöd, a Complete Explanation of Casting out the Body as Food Translated by Sarah Harding Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2003 · ISBN 1559391820 Fear, anger, and negativity are states that each of us have to contend with. Machik's Complete Explanation, the most famous book of the teachings of Machik Lapdrön, the great female saint and yogini of eleventh- to twelfth-century Tibet, addresses these issues in a practical, direct way.
	Mahasiddhas DRL La vie de 84 sages de l'Inde Translated by Christian Bruyat and Patrick Carré — Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère · Padmakara · 2003 · ISBN 9782906949270 Au début de notre ère, lorsque se répandirent les enseignements du Bouddha auxquels fut donné le nom de Grand Véhicule, apparurent nombre de maîtres remarquables qui devinrent célèbres sous le nom sanskrit de mahâsiddhas, grands êtres accomplis, parce qu'ils avaient atteint les siddhis, ou accomplissements.
	Marpa DRL Maître de Milarépa sa vie, ses chants Translated by Christian Charrier Saint-Cannat · Claire Lumière · 2003 · ISBN 9782905998682
	The Autobiography of Jamgön Kongtrul DRL A Gem of Many Colors Translated by Richard Barron (Chokyi Nyima) Boulder · Snow Lion · 2003 · ISBN 1559391847 Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye (1813–1899) was one of the most influential figures and prolific writers in the Tibetan Buddhist world. He was a founder and the single most important proponent of the nonsectarian movement that flourished in eastern Tibet and remains popular today.
	The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Five DRL Buddhist Ethics Translated by Ingrid McLeod and Elio Guarisco — Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group Boulder · Snow Lion · 2003 · ISBN 9781559391917 This book provides a detailed introduction to The Qualities of the Spiritual Teacher and Student (chapter 1), The Vows of Personal Liberation (chapter 2), The Commitments of Awakening Mind (bodhicitta vows, chapter 3), and The Vows and Pledges of Secret Mantra (chapter 4).
	The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One DRL Myriad Worlds Translated by Ingrid McLeod — Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2003 · ISBN 9781559391887 In Tibetan religious literature, Jamgön Kongtrül's Treasury of Knowledge in ten books stands out as a unique, encyclopedic masterpiece embodying the entire range of Buddhist teachings as they were preserved in Tibet.
	Timeless Rapture DRL Inspired Verse of the Shangpa Masters Translated by Ngawang Zangpo Boulder · Snow Lion · 2003 · ISBN 9781559392044 Throughout history awakened ones have celebrated the rapture of mystical states with inspired verse sung extemporaneously. This book offers a rare glimpse into the mysticism of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage a tradition based mainly on the profound teaching of two women.
	Une musique venue du ciel DRL Vie et œuvres du XVIIe Karmapa Ogyèn Trinlé Dorjé Translated by Christiane Buchet and Tcheuky Sèngué Saint-Cannat, France · Claire Lumière · 2003 · ISBN 9782905998736

2002

	Guru Rinpoché DRL His Life and Times Translated by Ngawang Zangpo Boulder, CO · Snow Lion · 2002 · ISBN 9781559391740 This book recounts Guru Rinpoche's historic visit to Tibet and explains his continuing significance to Buddhists.
	Introduction to the Middle Way DRL Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara with Commentary by Jamgön Mipham Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Shambhala · 2002 · ISBN 1570629420 Introduction to the Middle Way presents an adventure into the heart of Buddhist wisdom through the Madhyamika, or "middle way," teachings, which are designed to take the ordinary intellect to the limit of its powers and then show that there is more.
	Petites instructions essentielles DRL Padmakara Translation Group Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère · Padmakara · 2002 · ISBN 2906949256

2001

Sacred Ground DRL Jamgon Kongtrul on "Pilgrimage and Sacred Geography" Translated by Ngawang Zangpo Ithaca, NY · Snow Lion · 2001 · ISBN 1559391642 Sacred Ground describes two journeys: a journey outward to specific pilgrimage places in eastern Tibet, and a journey inward to the sacred world of tantra, accessible through contemplation and meditation.

Treasury of Precious Qualities DRL A Commentary on the Root Text of Jigme Lingpa by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche Translated by Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher — Padmakara Translation Group Boston · Snow Lion Publications (now Shambhala Publications) · 2001 · ISBN 1570625980 This book is a translation of the first part of Jigme Lingpa’s Treasury of Precious Qualities, which in a slender volume of elegant verses sets out briefly but comprehensively the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school.

Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib རྙིང་མ་  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt महासन्धि  Tib རྫོགས་ཆེན།  

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Atiyoga - A system of esoteric thought and practice associated with the Nyingma tradition and equivalent to Great Perfection, it is considered as the pinnacle of the nine vehicles or paths one can follow to reach Buddhahood. The system focusses on the pure, luminous and empty nature of the mind as the ground reality which must be realised through the path of trekchö and thögal practice. Skt अतियोग  Tib ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག;ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར།  

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Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt महासन्धि  Tib རྫོགས་ཆེན།  

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Śikṣāsamuccaya [शिक्षासमुच्चय]. bslab pa kun las btus pa [བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།]. [The Compendium of Training]. Tengyur, RKTST 3281 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3281&typ=2.

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Dharmadhātu - The fundamental expanse from which all phenomena emerge. Skt धर्मधातु  Tib ཆོས་དབྱིངས་  Ch 法界  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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Mahāyoga - This is first one of the inner tantric schools according to the Nyingma tradition. Mahāyoga includes two sub-sections of the tantras which includes eighteen tantras and the sādhanās that includes the eight sādhanā practices. Mahāyoga focuses on the Development Stage and espouses the view of equality and purity in which equality refers to equal nature of phenomena in being empty and purity refers to all appearances being inherently enlightened energies. The Mahāyoga path leads to four stages of vidyadharas. Skt महायोग  Tib མཧཱ་ཡོ་ག;རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོ།  

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Anuyoga - The second set of the three inner tantras and the eighth of the nine vehicles according to the Nyingma tradition. Anuyoga includes many yogini tantras and focuses on the Completion Stage practices of sacred channels, energies and essential fluids and espouses the actualization of empty bliss. Skt अनुयोग  Tib ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག  

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Saṃprajanyam - Vigilance or alertness is the mental function that monitors one's thoughts, speech, and physical actions to ensure they stay on the right path and avoid harmful distractions. Skt संप्रजन्य  Tib ཤེས་བཞིན་  Ch 正知  

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Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Dhyāna - A state of deep, one-pointed concentration where the mind is stable, calm, and focused on a single object, serving as a foundation for developing wisdom. Skt ध्यान  Tib བསམ་གཏན་  Ch 禪;禪那;靜慮  

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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Prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt प्रभास्वरता  Tib འོད་གསལ་  Ch 光明  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Vajrayāna - The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras. Skt वज्रयान  Tib རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།  Ch 金剛乘  

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Bodong - The Bodong tradition generally refers to the vast body of literature and activity stemming from Bodong Panchen Choklé Namgyal (1375/76-1451) and the monastery of Bodong E to the north of Sakya and the west of Narthang. Read more details from Sarah Harding here: Bodong Tradition Tib བོ་དོང་  

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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Jonang - The Jonang tradition was established by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a thirteenth-century Sakya monk famous for his Zhentong teachings. The Jonang teachings and monasteries were suppressed in Tibet in the seventeenth century but survived in Amdo. Tib ཇོ་ནང་  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt उत्तरतन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་  Ch 寶性論  

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Asaṅga (ཐོགས་མེད་). mahāyānasaṃgraha [महायानसंग्रह]. theg pa chen po bsdus pa [ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསྡུས་པ]. [A Summary of the Mahāyāna (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3387 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3387&typ=2.

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt योगाचार  Tib རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་  Ch 瑜伽行派  

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt योगाचार  Tib རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་  Ch 瑜伽行派  

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Maitreya (བྱམས་པ་). Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkārakārikā [महायानसूत्रालंकारकारिका]. theg pa chen po mdo sde'i rgyan zhes bya ba'i tshig le'ur byas pa [ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ།]. [The Verses on the Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras (84000)]. Translated by Śākyasiṁha, Ska ba dpal brtsegs, Prabhākaramitra. Tengyur, RKTST 3359 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3359&typ=2.

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Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra [बुद्धावतंसकनाममहावैपुल्यसूत्रात गण्डव्यूहसूत्रः पटलः]. sdong pos brgyan pa'i le'u [སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ]. [Chapter 45: The Gaṇḍhavyūha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Divākara, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajña, Sheng-chien. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-45 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Dharmakāya - "Truth body" or "true being" — One of the three bodies of a buddha. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, it often refers to a kind of fundamental principle or the true nature of reality itself. Skt धर्मकाय  Tib ཆོས་སྐུ་  Ch 法身  

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Gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib གཞན་སྟོང་  

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Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt उत्तरतन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་  Ch 寶性論  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Tathāgatagarbha - Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)." Skt तथागतगर्भ  Tib དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་  Ch 如来藏  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Abhidharma - Abhidharma generally refers to the corpus of Buddhist texts which deals with the typological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and epistemological presentation of Buddhist concepts and teachings. The Abhidharma teachings present a metaknowledge of Buddhist sūtras through analytical and systemic schemas and are said to focus on developing wisdom among the three principles of training. The Abhidharma is presented alongside Sūtra and Vinaya as one of the three baskets of the teachings of the Buddha. Skt अभिधर्म  Tib ཆོས་མངོན་པ།  Ch 阿毗达磨  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Kālacakra - Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered. Skt कालचक्र  Tib དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ།  Ch 時輪  

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Kālacakra - Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered. Skt कालचक्र  Tib དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ།  Ch 時輪  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Mettā - The unconditional wish for all sentient beings to experience happiness and the causes of happiness. It is a form of universal, selfless love and is one of the four immeasurables (or sublime abodes). Skt मैत्री  Tib བྱམས་པ་  Ch 慈  

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Kṣānti - Patience is the ability to remain calm and composed when facing difficulties, suffering, or harm from others, without becoming angry or discouraged. Skt क्षान्ति  Tib བཟོད་པ་  Ch 忍;忍辱  

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt योगाचार  Tib རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་  Ch 瑜伽行派  

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt योगाचार  Tib རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་  Ch 瑜伽行派  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Pratigha - A negative mental state of hostility, anger, or aversion. It is an aggressive attitude toward people or situations that one finds unpleasant, with the wish to cause them harm. It is considered one of the primary 'afflictions' that disturb the mind's peace. Skt प्रतिघ  Tib ཁོང་ཁྲོ་  Ch 瞋;恚  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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