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...pes (fourth level) of [[Mount Meru]] in the Heaven of the Four Great Kings and guard the four cardinal directions. Each of them are leaders of a semi-divi ...

...anets | and as the regent of the south-west quarter | among Buddhists many demons are called Rāhu | an eclipse or (rather) the moment of the beginning of an ...

...anets | and as the regent of the south-west quarter | among Buddhists many demons are called Rāhu | an eclipse or (rather) the moment of the beginning of an ...

*Yeshe, Tsogyal, ''The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava'', Vol. I & II, (Emeryville: Dharma Publishing, *Dan Martin, "The Star King and the Four Children of Pehar: Popular Religious Movements of 11th- to 12th-Ce ...

...| of the planet Venus | of the sons of several Manus | of a son of Kauśika and pupil of Garga | of a son of Ṛishabha | of Vālmīki | a keeper or herd | ...

...ung''; Eng. 'Defender of the Area') is the Guardian King of the '''East''' and chief of the [[gandharva]]s, the musicians of the heavens. ...ge]] in the [[Dharma]]. From then on their virtue protected them from harm and they lived, free of fear, on the ocean's surface. ...

...o that their transgressions could be used as an example of how not to act, and so become the basis for the rules of monastic discipline. However, these to ...uch a rudra is usually accompanied by a retinue of other malignant beings, and as a group their main activity is to cause obstacles to the propagation of ...

...ntheon. Her name can be glossed as "the inaccessible" or "the invincible", and Monier Williams translates the name as "difficult of access or approach", " ...as then known as Umadevi and through her devotion managed to seduce Shiva (and so release him from his austerities). ...

...akshinis]] (Skt.; Tib. ''Nöjin Shyi''). They are called the "Twelve Mother and Sister Tenmas" because they take care of us like a mother or like older sis ...na Linpa’s Tukdrub Yangdü.</Ref> belong to the classes of ''dümo, nöjin,'' and ''menmo.'' ...

...a | in the later mythology | is subordinated to the triad Brahman, Vishṇu, and Śiva, but remained the chief of all other deities in the popular mind | in ...

...maṇa | of the father of Hīra-bhaṭṭa (author of the | called Carakabhāshya, and of the work Sāhitya-sudhā-samudra | N. of a hell {{Context|[[:Category:Ma ...

...ite Balas | N. of a king | of a prince of Kaśmīra | founder of Padma-pura and of a temple | of another man | of a Brāhman | of a mythical elephant | of ...iety of Phaseolus Mungo | Opuntia Dillenii | N. of a messenger of the gods and friend of Indra | of a Dānava {{Context|[[:Category:Mahavyutpatti|Mahavyut ...

...nner aspect of drala is connected to the subtle energy system in the body, and the ‘secret’ aspect to the nature of mind. ...is perhaps one reason why windhorse practices are usually recited loudly), and with controlling the flow of [[prana]] in the channels. ...

...respond to human misconduct and environmental misuse by creating obstacles and disease. [[Patrul Rinpoche]] categorizes wordly mamos in the [[preta]] clas *mamos with special karma and ...

.... of a daughter of Daśa-ratha (adopted daughter of Loma-pāda or Roma- pāda and wife of Ṛshya-śṛṅga) | (with Jainas) of a goddess who executes the o ...th | of a fraudulent person | the god Śiva and his wife | N. of a class of gods in the third Manvantara | of a class of Brāhmans who have attained a •pa ...

...je]], [[Dodrup Tenpé Nyima]], [[Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche]], [[Adzom Drukpa]] and [[Lerab Lingpa]]. ...diment of the [[Nyingma|Early Translation]] teachings, lord of [[siddha]]s and powerful [[vidyadhara]], Pema Vajra Tsal, was born at the end of the thirte ...

...''[[lojong]]'', Wyl. ''blo sbyong'') brought to Tibet by Lord [[Atisha]] and written down by [[Geshe Chekawa]]. The seven points are: | || || {{gtib|གཏོང་ལེན་གཉིས་པོ་སྤེལ་མར་སྦྱང་།}} || Train in the two—giving and taking—alternately. ...

...ertön Sogyal]], Lerab Lingpa. His family was related to [[Dudjom Lingpa]], and the 3rd Dodrupchen [[Jikmé Tenpé Nyima]] was his father’s uncle. ...five hundred of Sogyal Rinpoche’s students from Europe, the United States and Australia attended the retreat, which was to become an important landmark i ...

...he the first [[Dodrupchen Jikme Trinle Özer]], [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] and [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]]. ...e Shechen edition were based on the Derge edition of Jikme Lingpa's works, and the latter two were taken from various sources. For the sake of clarity som ...