The head of the Kagyü lineage, one of the four Tibetan traditions. The tradition of the Karmapa was founded in 1110. His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje is the seventeenth Karmapa.

The way in which things appear to us influenced by karma created in the past.

The third buddha of this eon. See also Krakucchanda, Kanakamuni and Maitreya.

Buddha-body or holy body. A body of an enlightened being. See also dharmakaya, rupakaya, two kayas, three kayas and four kayas.

See Dagpa Khachö.

Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme, a female oracle to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and highly realized being, now also teaching throughout the world.

The region of Tibet east of Lhasa and west of Amdo.

See Khadro-la. 

In Tibetan monasteries, colleges are divided into houses (khangtsen), and monks are generally assigned to these houses according to the region of Tibet (or neighboring country) from which they come.

A disciple of Gönpawa Wangchuk Gyaltsen; the dedicated meditator who could not even find time to cut the thorn bush outside his meditation room.

A white cotton scarf used by Tibetans for greetings and for offering to holy objects.

A tantric implement, a trident with symbolic elements.