TANTRIC BUDDHISM AND TIBET

A.	TANTRA: THE THIRD TURNING OF THE WHEEL
B.	TIBETAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY
1.	Introduction
2.	Early History
3.	Development Of The Four Schools
a)	  Nyingma
b)	  Kagyu
c)	  Sakya
d)	  Gelug
4.	Holder Of The White Lotus – The Lives Of The Dalai Lama
5.	Tibetan Buddhism Today

C.	SACRED SPACE
D.	SACRED TIME
E.	SACRED PRACTICE
F.	SACRED TEXTS
G.	DEATH AND DYING IN TIBETAN BUDDHISM

TERMS
•	Vajrayana, Mantrayana, Northern Buddhism
•	Siddha (Guru, Adept)
•	Exoteric vs. Esoteric
•	Mantra
•	Mandala
•	Borobodur
•	Mudra
•	Ghanta, Vajra
•	Yab-Yum
•	James Hilton, Lost Horizon (1933) – “Shangri-La”
•	Bon
•	Tonpa Shenrap
•	Songtsen Bampo
•	Padmasambhava (774 CE)  -- Guru Rinpoche
•	King Trisong Detsen
•	Dakinis
•	Samye Monastery (766 CE)
•	Great Debate (793-94 CE)
•	Second Emanation
•	Rinchen Sangpo
•	Atisa (1042 -1054 CE)
•	Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
•	Kadampa Order, Dromdon (1008-1064 CE), Reting Monastery
•	Nyingma (“Old School”)
•	Dzogchen (“Great Perfection”)
•	termas, tertons
•	Kagyu (“Line of Oral Instruction”)
•	Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa the Translator (1012-1097), Milarepa (1052-1135)
•	tum’mo yoga
•	nyon’pa, Drukpa Kunley (1455-1529), “Crazy Wisdom”, Dogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-87)
•	Karmapa (“Black Hat Lama”)
•	Sakya (“Gray Earth”)
•	Konchok Gyelpo (1034-1102)
•	Sakya Pandita
•	Lambdre Teachings (“Path and Fruit”)
•	Virupa
•	Hevajra Tantara, Dromki
•	Gelug (“Followers of the Virtuous Path”) – (“The Yellow Hat Order”)
•	Tsongkhapa (1357-1419)
•	Ganden Monastery
•	Altan Khan
•	Sonam Gyatso
•	Panchen Lama
•	Ngawang Losang Gyatso (1617-82) – The “Great Fifth”
•	Thupten Gyatso – The “Great Thirteenth”
•	Tenzin Gyztso – The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
•	Tibet Autonomous Region
•	Dharamsala
•	Sikkim – Rumtek Monastery
•	Bodnath Stupa, Kathmandu
•	Mustang
•	Bhutan
•	Buryatia
•	Mount Kailash
•	Stupas (Chortens)
•	Potala Palace
•	Jokhang Temple – Jowo Shakyamuni Buddha and Jowo Mikyoe Dorjee (Wen Ch’eng and Bhrikuti Devi
•	Monlam Festival (Losar) – Butter Sculpture Festival, Kumbum Monastery
•	Geshe Degree
•	Om Mani Padme Hum
•	Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig); Tara
•	Puja
•	Thangkas
•	Mani Stones
•	tsod-pa
•	Incarnate Master, Rinpoche, Tulku
•	Kanjur (Translated Word of the Buddha)
•	Tenjur (Treatises)
•	Tantras, “twilight language”
•	Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Todrol Chenmo – “Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Between”)
•	Sky Burial
•	Rogyapas