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རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་
Transliteration: rnal 'byor bzhi
<phrase> "Four yogas".
I. Most commonly in reference to the path of ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ Mahāmudrā according to the Kagyu tradition which is composed of four levels of practice, each being called a yoga. They are the ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞི་ four yogas of Mahāmudrā q.v.
II. In reference to four stages of practice in the སེམས་ཀྱི་སྡེ་ Mind section teachings of རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་.
III. In referen…

ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་
Transliteration: aa nu yo ga
<noun> "Anuyoga". Translit. of the Sanskrit "anuyoga". Translated into Tibetan with རྗེས་སུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ "Subsequent Yoga" but the most texts use the Sanskrit name given here, not the Tibetan translation. The name of the second of the three inner tantras and the eighth of ཐེག་པ་དགུ་ the nine vehicles of the རྙིང་མ་པ་ Nyingmapa system of Buddhist teachings. The other two levels of the inner ta…

རྒྱུད་ལུང་མན་ངག་གསུམ་
Transliteration: rgyud lung man ngag gsum
<phrase> "The three, tantra, scripture, upadeśha". A term from the རྙིང་མ་པ་ Nyingmapa system of tantra. The term རྒྱུད་ "tantra" refers to the level of མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་ག་ Mahāyoga; the term ལུང་ "scripture" to the level of ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་ Anuyoga; and the term མན་ངག་ upadeśha to the level of ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག་ Atiyoga.
[KYL] gives: "The completely perfected buddha, Samantabhadra, while not having his thought wa…

མ་རྒྱུད་ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་
Transliteration: ma rgyud aa nu yo ga
<phrase> "Mother tantra, Anuyoga". In the རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system, the tantras are classified into outer and inner. The inner tantras are classified into three, Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga. These are then classified as father, mother, and non-dual tantra respectively. Thus, ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་ "Anuyoga" is classified as མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra". See also ཕ་རྒྱུད་མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་ག་ "Father tantra, Mahāyoga…

ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག་
Transliteration: aa ti yo ga
<noun> "Atiyoga". Translit. of the Sanskrit "atiyoga". Translated into Tibetan with ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ "Peak yoga" q.v. The name of the third level of the three inner tantras and the ninth of ཐེག་པ་དགུ་ the nine vehicles of the རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system of Buddhist teachings. The name is another name for རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Completion q.v. which refers specifically to the fact that the practi…