Chapter 8 - Additional Vocabulary Flashcards

Question

གདུལ་བྱ་

Answer 1

disciples (literally: those to be tamed) | dül-ja

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Answer 4

Lamp for the Path to Awakening by Atisha. Later became the foundation for Tsong-kha-pa's Lamrim Chenmo.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

Longchenpa Drime Wozer ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ Longchenpa (ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ - great expanse) (དྲི་མེད་ - stainless, འོད་ཟེར - light rays) Longchenpa (1308-1364) is considered one of the most brilliant Nyingma teachers. He systemized the Nyingma teachings with his Seven Treasuries and wrote extensively on Dzogchen.

Answer 7

Longchen-ram-cham (ཀློང་ཆེན་པ་ - great expanse, རབ་འབྱམས་ - countless or infinite) Longchenpa (1308-1364) is considered one of the most brilliant Nyingma teachers. He systemized the Nyingma teachings with his Seven Treasuries and wrote extensively on Dzogchen.

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

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