Sublime

When we see our teacher as a buddha, that is a mark of the evolution of our Vajrayana practice

any tantric practitioner, whether male or female, who carries the Vajrayāna commitments especially of the practice of the feminine yidam is also considered an embodied ḍākinī, foiling the notion that only women can be considered human ḍākinīs. Finally, subsuming all

Evidently, Nyoshul Lungtok was an academic belonging to the gradualist persuasion. Again, if we relate the thirteen cantos to the four samayas and trekcho and togal, the first five cantos relate to the first two samayas and trekcho, while the remaining eight cantos treat the third and fourth samayas and togal. Specifically, the canto entitled Spaci

gender.

This was the Buddha’s promise: Mindfulness of the body leads to happiness in this life, and the fullness of spiritual awakening.

The way that Trungpa Rinpoche trained his students was a combination of the Kagyü and the Nyingma lineages of teachings of Tibetan Buddhism.

the sangha can refer variously to the bodhisattvas on the high bhumis [the ten stages that the bodhisattva must go through to attain buddhahood], to the monastic sangha, and, most broadly, to all those who have dedicated their lives to the liberation of sentient beings (5.9, 5.10).