Glossary

arising-subsiding

awareness

character (luminous)

cognitive power/potency

creative power

display

equality

evenness

fundamental nature

fundamental stratum

hallucinatory perceptions

luminosity

natural meditative absorption nature

nonexistence

open and unimpeded

open(ness) and free(dom)

ornament

primordial openness and freedom

primordial/primal wisdom

self-experience of awareness

single nature

spontaneous presence, spontaneously present

subjective mental experience

shar grol rig pa rang bzhin thugs rje rtsal rol ba mnyam nyid phyal ba gnas lugs rang mal ’ khrul snang ’od gsal rang bzhin bsam gtan ngo bo med pa zang thal grol ba rgyan ye grol ye shes rang snang gcig pu lhun grub rang snang

to essentialize key points ’gag bsdam pa

to gain clear conviction la bzla ba

to reveal key points gnad bkrol ba

to subside grol ba

to subsume key points chings su bcings pa

ultimate reality, dharmatā chos nyid