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Common terms and phrases5th Dalai Lama agricultural Amdo areas Avalokitesvara Aziz betan Bhutan bodhicitta Bonpo Buddha Buddhist celibate centers central Tibet century ch'dpa Chapter Chinese clerical communities context cultural patterns Dalai Lama Derge Dingri Dolpo Dorje Drugpa Dzogch'en dzong early Ekvall Enlightenment Gelugpa Gelugpa gompa Geshe gods Goldstein gompa Guru Rimpoch'e hereditary lama households Indian K'am Kagyiidpa Kagyudpa karma Karmapa king Ladakh Lama's Lhasa Lhasa government lineages Lingpa Mahayana major meditation Milarepa monastery monastic gompa Mongol monks Nepal nomadic Norbu Nyingmapa Panch'en pastoralist political practitioners premodern period rebirth region reincarnate lama relationship religious Rimed Rimed movement ritual role rulers Sakya Sakyapa shamanic Sherpa Shigatse siddhas Snellgrove Sutras T1bet Tantra Tantric Tantric deities Tantric practice teachings Teichman terma terton texts Theravadin Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan population Tibetan religion Tibetan societies tion tradition trapa Trashi Lhunpo tribes trulku Trungpa Tsang Tsongk'apa Vajrayana village Western yogic yogins References to this bookFrom other books
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