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Key Terms/Kadam + (Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces … Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (''phyi dar'') in the tenth century. Tib. བཀའ་གདམས་r'') in the tenth century. Tib. བཀའ་གདམས་)
Key Terms/Kagyu + (Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin … Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་)
Key Terms/Kudṛṣṭi + (Kudṛṣṭi - Kudṛṣṭisaṅghātana)
Key Terms/Kālacakra + (Kālacakra - Can refer to either the ''Kāla … Kālacakra - Can refer to either the ''Kālacakra Tantra'' and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered. Skt. कालचक्र Tib. དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། Ch. 時輪 Skt. कालचक्र Tib. དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། Ch. 時輪)
Key Terms/LAS + (LAS - Laṅkāvatārasūtra)
Key Terms/LTWA + (LTWA - Library of Tibetan Works and Archives)
Key Terms/MAV + (MAV - Madhyāntavibhāga)
Key Terms/MAVBh + (MAVBh - Madhyāntavibhāgabhāṣya)
Key Terms/MAVT + (MAVT - Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā)
Key Terms/MAv + (MAv - Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya)
Key Terms/MAvT + (MAvT - Madhyamakāvatāraṭīkā)
Key Terms/MBhS + (MBhS - Mahābherīsūtra)
Key Terms/MCB + (MCB - Mélanges Chinois et Bouddhiques)
Key Terms/MH + (MH - Madhyamakahṛdaya)
Key Terms/MMK + (MMK - Mūlamadhyamakakārikā)
Key Terms/MMPS + (MMPS - Mahāyānamahāparinirvāṇasūtra)
Key Terms/MN + (MN - Majjhimanikāya)
Key Terms/MS + (MS - Mahāyānasaṃgraha)
Key Terms/MSABh + (MSABh - Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkārabhāṣya)
Key Terms/MSAVy + (MSAVy - Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra-vyākhyā)
Key Terms/Madhyamaka + (Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is on … Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the ''Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras'', though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's ''Mūlamadhyamakakārikā''. Skt. मध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ Ch. 中觀見akārikā''. Skt. मध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ Ch. 中觀見)
Key Terms/Mahāmudrā + (Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advance … Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside ''dharmamūdra'', ''samayamudrā'', and ''karmamudrā''. Skt. महामुद्रा Tib. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།drā''. Skt. महामुद्रा Tib. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།)
Key Terms/Mahāyoga + (Mahāyoga - This is first one of the inner … Mahāyoga - This is first one of the inner tantric schools according to the Nyingma tradition. Mahāyoga includes two sub-sections of the tantras which includes eighteen tantras and the sādhanās that includes the eight sādhanā practices. Mahāyoga focuses on the Development Stage and espouses the view of equality and purity in which equality refers to equal nature of phenomena in being empty and purity refers to all appearances being inherently enlightened energies. The Mahāyoga path leads to four stages of vidyadharas. Skt. महायोग Tib. མཧཱ་ཡོ་ག,རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོ།kt. महायोग Tib. མཧཱ་ཡོ་ག,རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོ།)
Key Terms/Mahāyāna + (Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, … Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt. महायान Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ། Ch. 大乘ion. Skt. महायान Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ། Ch. 大乘)
Key Terms/Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā + (Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā - This is … Mahāyānottaratantraśāstravyākhyā - This is the title of Asaṅga's commentary to the ''Gyü Lama'' that is given by Tibetan sources instead of the ''Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā''. Skt. महायानोत्तरतन्त्रशास्त्रव्याख्या Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ།ེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ།)

Key Terms/MarKau + (MarKau - Marmakaumudī)

Key Terms/MuAlaṃ + (MuAlaṃ - Munimatālaṃkāra)
Key Terms/Mvy + (Mvy - Mahāvyutpatti)
Texts/Theg chen rgyud bla ma'i gdams pa + (Mönlam Tsültrim's pith instructions on the ''Uttaratantra'', which he claims to have copied from a manuscript that was passed down in a lineage that goes back to Maitrīpa.)
Key Terms/MĀl + (MĀl - Madhyamakāloka)
Key Terms/NGMPP + (NGMPP - Nepal German Manuscript Preservation Project)
Key Terms/Ngok Tradition + (Ngok Tradition - Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab's "analytic tradition" of exegesis of the ''Uttaratantra''; one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana. Tib. རྔོག་ལུགས་)
Key Terms/Nyingma + (Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་)
Key Terms/OAW + (OAW - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Texts/Aṅgulimālīyasūtra + (One of the tathāgatagarbha sūtras.)
Texts/Śrīmālādevīsūtra + (One of the more prominent sūtra sources for the Uttaratantra, this text tells of the story of Śrīmālādevī taking up the Buddhist path at the behest of her royal parents based on a prophecy of the Buddha.)
Texts/Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta + (One of the sūtra sources for the ''Ratnagotravibhāga'', which is only extant in its Chinese translation.)
Texts/Sarvabuddhaviśayāvatārajñānālokālaṃkārasūtra + (One of the sūtra sources referenced several times in the ''Uttaratantra''.)
Texts/Mahābherīsūtra + (One of the tathāgatagarbha sūtras.)
Key Terms/PEW + (PEW - Philosophy East and West)
Key Terms/PP + (PP - Prasannapadā)
Key Terms/PVAS + (PVAS - Pramāṇavārttikālaṃkāraṭīkā Supariśuddhā)
Key Terms/PVSV + (PVSV - Pramāṇavārttikasvavṛtti)
Key Terms/PañcT + (PañcT - Pañcatathāgatamudrāvivaraṇa)
Key Terms/Pañcaviṃśati + (Pañcaviṃśati - Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā)
Key Terms/Prajñāpāramitā + (Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtra … Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief ''Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra'', popularly known as the ''Heart Sūtra''. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (''śūnyatā''). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt. प्रज्ञापारमिता Tib. ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་,ཤེར་ཕྱིན་ Ch. 般若波羅蜜多་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་,ཤེར་ཕྱིན་ Ch. 般若波羅蜜多)
Key Terms/Pratyekabuddha + (Pratyekabuddha - Pratyekabuddhas are saint … Pratyekabuddha - Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups. Skt. प्रत्येकबुद्ध Tib. རང་སངས་རྒྱས།,རང་རྒྱལ། Ch. 緣覺येकबुद्ध Tib. རང་སངས་རྒྱས།,རང་རྒྱལ། Ch. 緣覺)
Key Terms/RCAJ + (RCAJ - Royal Central Asiatic Journal)
Key Terms/RGV + (RGV - Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra)
Key Terms/RGVV (tib) + (RGVV (tib) - Nakamura's Tibetan Edition of the Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā)
Key Terms/RGVV + (RGVV - Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā)