དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Transliteration: dga' rab rdo rje
<name> "Garab Dorje". An Indian man who is the first human of the Great Completion lineage in this era. Some English texts say that his Indian name was "pramodavajra" and some "prehevajra". However, these are names derived from the Tibetan name. In fact, his Indian name is unknown. He passed away 540 years after the Buddha's nirvāṇa. His main disciple was Mañjuśhrīmitra.
གཟུ་དགའ་བའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Transliteration: gzu dga' ba'i rdo rje
<name> "Zu Gawa'i Dorje". A translator who was a key figure in the transmission of Maitreya's five dharmas into Tibet. He lived in the 11th century A.D. Zu was a translator so is also referred to as ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་གཟུ་ lotsawa Zu.
དགྱེས་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Transliteration: dgyes pa rdo rje
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "hevajra". The name of the Hevajra tantra cycle and the associated Hevajra ཡི་དམ་ personal deity belonging to the མ་རྒྱུད་ mother tantra section of the བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ anuttaratantra division of the གསར་མ་ new-translation tantra system. Hevajra has a consort called བདག་མེད་མ་ Nairatmya. Other spellings and names for Hevajra are ཀྱེ་རྡོ་རྗེ་, ཀྱཻ་རྡོ་རྗ…
རྡོ་རྗེ་རྩེ་དགུ་པ་
Transliteration: rdo rje rtse dgu pa
<noun> "Nine-pointed vajra". The old translation tantra system uses a nine-pointed vajra in comparison to the new translation system which uses a རྡོ་རྗེ་རྩེ་ལྔ་པ་ five-pointed vajra. There are many explanations for the iconography; one explanation as that each of the nine ribs represents one of the ཐེག་པ་དགུ་ nine vehicles that are explained in that system.
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཚེ་
Transliteration: rdo rje tshe
<noun> Secret mantra terminology of the རྙིང་མ་ old school regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering. [AKR] gives: a secret term for a substance used in a feast ceremony.
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཅན་
Transliteration: rdo rje can
I. <noun> In general, "that which has a vajra".
II. <noun> [Mngon] "He who has a vajra". 1) Epithet of རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ Vajradhara q.v. 2) Epithet of ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་ Vajrapāṇi q.v.
III. <adj> "having a vajra".
རྡོ་རྗེ་དབྱིངས་
Transliteration: rdo rje dbyings
<noun> Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit "vajradhātu". The term is used similarly to dharmadhātu but indicates the realm or expanse (dhātu) in which the reality of the vajra vehicle operates.
རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན་
Transliteration: rdo rje gdan
<noun> "Adamantine Seat". Translation of the Sanskrit "vajrāsana". The name of the place on which all buddha's become enlightened. This place is said in the sūtras to be special in that it is the only place in all existence that beings in the intermediate state cannot pass through. This, the site of the Śhākyamuni Buddha's enlightenment is at the place in North India now called Bodhgaya.
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རྡོ་རྗེ་ཀརྨ་
Transliteration: rdo rje karma
<noun> "Vajra assistant", "vajra worker". Translation of the Sanskrit "vajrakarma". Secret mantra terminology regarding rituals, especially ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering. [AKR] gives: also a སྒྲུབ་ཆེན་ drubchen term where it is similar to རྡོ་རྗེ་ལས་པ་, རྡོ་རྗེ་ཡུམ་, རྡོ་རྗེ་གཟུངས་མ་.
རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་
Transliteration: rdo rje 'chang
<noun> "Vajra Bearer". Translation of the Sanskrit "vajradhara". The Sanskrit and Tibetan terms mean "bearer of the vajra" and note that this is slightly different from རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པ་ "holder of the vajra". The "bearer of the vajra" has more air of authority to it; it means the person who has it and is the authority of it. The "holder of the vajra" means more simply, someone who has the va…
རྡོ་རྗེ་སྐུ་
Transliteration: rdo rje sku
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "vajrakāya".
རྡོ་རྗེ་བྲག་དགོན་པ་
Transliteration: rdo rje brag dgon pa
<noun> "Dorje Drak Gonpa". The name of a Nyingmapa monastery founded by Tashi Tobgyal.
འཇམ་དཔལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Transliteration: 'jam dpal rdo rje
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "mañjuvajra".
