Buddha Nature Topics List

1. Abhidharma
2. Actualized enlightenment
3. Advaya
4. Amalavijñāna
5. Anuyoga
6. Anātman
7. Arhat
8. Atiyoga
9. Avidyā
10. Bhūmi
11. Bodhicitta
12. Bodhigarbha
13. Bodhiprasthānacitta
14. Bodhipraṇidhicitta
15. Bodhisattva
16. Brahman
17. Buddhadhātu
18. Byams chos sde lnga
19. Bīja
20. Cittamātra
21. Dharmadhātu
22. Dharmakāya
23. Dharmatā
24. Dhātu
25. Dpyad sgom
26. Dzogchen
27. Ekayāna
28. Geluk
29. Gotra
30. Great Madhyamaka
31. Guṇa
32. Guṇapāramitā
33. Hīnayāna
34. Icchantika
35. Jonang
36. Ka dag
37. Kadam
38. Kagyu
39. Kleśa
40. Kālacakra
41. Lam rim
42. Madhyamaka
43. Mahāmudrā
44. Mahāyoga
45. Mahāyāna
46. Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā
47. Neyārtha
48. Ngo bo
49. Ngok Tradition
50. Nirmāṇakāya
51. Niḥsvabhāva
52. Niḥsvabhāvatā
53. Niṣprapañca
54. Nyingma
55. Nītārtha
56. Original enlightenment
57. Paramārthasatya
58. Paratantrasvabhāva
59. Parikalpitasvabhāva
60. Pariniṣpannasvabhāva
61. Paryudāsapratiṣedha
62. Prabhāsvaracitta
63. Prabhāsvaratā
64. Prajñā
65. Prajñāpāramitā
66. Prakṛtisthagotra
67. Pramāṇa
68. Prasajyapratiṣedha
69. Pratipakṣa
70. Pratyekabuddha
71. Pratītyasamutpāda
72. Prātimokṣasaṃvara
73. Pāramitā
74. Rang stong
75. Sakya
76. Samudānītagotra
77. Sangpu Neutok
78. Sarma
79. Saṃbhogakāya
80. Saṃvṛtisatya
81. Sems nyid
82. Sugatagarbha
83. Svabhāva
84. Svasaṃvedana
85. Sūtra
86. Tantra
87. Tathatā
88. Tathāgatagarbha
89. Tattva
90. Tha mal gyi shes pa
91. Thugs dam
92. Tridharmacakrapravartana
93. Trikāya
94. Trisvabhāva
95. Triviṣa
96. Triyāna
97. Tsen Tradition
98. Uttaratantra
99. Vajrapada
100. Vajrayāna
101. Vinaya
102. Viparyāsa
103. Visaṃyogaphala
104. Yan lag bdun
105. Yogācāra
106. Āgantukamala
107. Ālayavijñāna
108. Ātmaka
109. Ātman
110. Āvaraṇa
111. Bodhi
112. Rgyu'i rgyud
113. 'jog sgom
114. Kun gzhi
115. Sādhana
116. Sarvākāravaropetāśūnyatā
117. Śrāvaka
118. Śūnyatā
119. Test Term
120. Gzhan stong
121. Gzhi

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 actualisation of empty bliss.

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.

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.

Brahman is the universal principle, supreme truth or ultimate reality in the Hindu religion considered to be absolute, eternal and blissful. A metaphysical concept, it is described as the single binding unity behind the diversity of all that exists. In Buddhism, while this metaphysical principle is not presented, one finds frequent mention of the deity named Brahmā, who is the personification of this principle.

This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita.

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.

The mainstream teachings and the early schools of Buddhism which primarily taught individual liberation through practice-focused renunciation and monasticism, considered lesser than the later movement of the Greater Vehicle (Mahāyāna), which professed enlightenment for all sentient beings and promoted compassion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of 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.

Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

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.

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.

Sangpu Neutok is an important monastery in central Tibet, just south of Lhasa, that was founded in 1072 by Ngok Lekpai Sherab, a disciple of Atiśa, and developed by his nephew, Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab. Originally a Kadam monastery with two colleges, it evolved into a monastery that includes both Sakya and Geluk traditions. At its peak in the 11th to 14th centuries, it was one of the most highly esteemed centers for monastic education and the study of Buddhist philosophy in all of the Tibetan plateau. Many influential philosophers of the time studied there.

The new Buddhist schools which began to rise in the second millennium in Tibet after Buddhism declined in the ninth century as a result of the fall of the Yarlung dynasty. The Sarma schools were mostly based on Buddhist teachings freshly received from India and Nepal in contrast to the revival of the old teachings which already existed in Tibet.

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.

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).

This is the meditation of directly observing the mind without engaging in any analytical or intellectual activity. (Thrangu Rinpoche, Transcending Ego, 102).