The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa

by Tsangnyon Heruka

  faults of

  liberation and cutting

  not existing

  ocean of (song)

  phenomena of

  and revulsion and weariness

  and suffering

  see also samsara and nirvana

  samsara and nirvana

  bardo of

  complete within mind

  depending on conditions

  and dharmakaya

  guide for

  inseparability of

  kayas and wisdoms transcending

  knowledge that sees

  and liberation

  pointed out as Mahamudra

  rejecting and accepting

  in relative truth

  sealing of

  Samten Drönma

  sangha

  Sangye Kyap, Repa

  Sangye Kyap, the wise and foolish

  Saraha

  scripture

  scripture, logic, and upadeshas

  Seben Repa

  heart-son

  interceding for Lotön

  meeting

  trying to fly

  Seben Tashi Bar. See Seben Repa

  Seben Tönchung. See Seben Repa

  Se’i Lhamo of Mangyul

  self-awareness

  as deities

  as fruition

  as guru

  lack of in ultimate truth

  of mind

  self-clinging

  abandonment

  as demon

  and generosity

  as illness

  taming and exhaustion of

  self-liberation

  of appearances

  of characteristics

  of eight concerns

  of hopes and fears

  of samsara

  self-luminosity

  Semodo

  sense pleasures

  and attachment

  as support and ornament

  seven noble riches

  Sewa Valley of Nyal

  Shakya Guna

  meeting of

  Shakyamuni

  shamatha

  as birthright of the deity

  instruction given

  lethargic

  and vipashyana

  see also dullness and agitation

  Shampo Snow Mountain

  Shang Darma Ö

  Shendormo

  meeting of

  and teaching on death

  Shengom Repa

  Shepa Dorje

  shidakn

  Shila Bharo of Nepal

  Shiwa Ö, Repa

  asking for teachings of six beings

  asking of Rechungpa’s confession

  attending Milarepa

  and Bönpos’ apparition

  dream of

  prophecy of

  receiving Gampopa

  request to appoint lineage holder

  singing with Milarepa

  song for disciple-sons

  writer of Tseringma cyclen

  Shmashana

  shravakas

  Shri Mountain. See Gyal-gyi Shri

  Mountain

  Shuyé clan

  siddha

  blessings of

  few in Tibet

  meeting of

  Milarepa as

  siddhi

  bestowed by yidam

  common and supreme

  of long life

  and messenger path

  Silk Cave

  Silver Spring Stupa

  Singa Ling

  Singala

  Singhala

  Six Dharmas of Naropa

  teaching

  sixfold collection

  and appearances

  attachment free

  emptiness of

  in own place

  relaxed

  see also consciousness

  skandhas

  perpetuating

  Sönam Rinchen. See also

  Gampopa

  solitude

  as guide

  sons of Milarepa, close sons

  Dampa Gyakpupa

  Darma Wangchuk, Repa

  Dorje Wangchuk, Repa

  Dretön Tashi Bar

  Kharchung Repa

  Lengom Repa

  Likor Charuwa

  Lotön Gendun

  Mégom Repa

  Rongchung Repa

  Shengom Repa

  Tsaphu Repa

  see also daughter disciples; teacher

  disciples

  sons of Milarepa, heart-sons

  bestowing abhisheka on

  Drigom Repa

  four heart-like sons

  Khyira Repa

  Rechungpa

  Sangye Kyap, Repa

  Seben Repa

  see also daughter disciples; teacher

  disciples

  spiritual friend. See geshe

  spontaneous presence

  of three kayas

  study

  as negative

  no need for

  as positive

  without practice

  words or terminology

  suffering

  alleviation and liberation of

  of birth (song)

  and bliss

  bringing to path

  cause and origin of

  of death (song)

  four rivers of

  of having family

  inseparability with happiness

  of old age (song)

  and revulsion

  of six realms

  Sukhavati

  supplication

  to deities

  and guru

  instruction to make

  as practice

  to receive blessing and siddhi

  to the three jewels

  when heavy hearted

  svabhavikakaya

  symbols

  Takla Peak

  Takmo

  Tangdrem, King

  tantra

  anuttarayoga

  Chakrasamvara

  condensed meaning of

  father and mother

  four sections of

  Heruka Gyalpo

  Hevajra

  intention of

  knowing extent of

  of Marpa Kagyu

  Tara

  Tashi Gang

  Tashi Oma River

  Tashi Tsek

  Tashi Tseringma

  Azure Queen Snow Mountain

  Azure Snow Queen

  Khyung-go Tashi Snow Mountain

  Lhamen Queen Mountain

  Lhamen Snow Range

  Menlha Mountain

  mountain

  seeing by disciples

  song to disciples on

  teacher-meditator sons

  Lotön Gendun

  Shakya Guna

  Tekar Dro Sangma

  tendrel

  and Gampopa

  power of

  song of precious connection

  thoughts. See concepts

  three jewels

  offerings to

  as refuge

  supplication to

  as supports

  three kayas. See kayas

  Tibet

  birthplace of Gampopa

  border at Do

  border with Nepal

  few siddhas in

  little basis for faith in

  Tiger Cave Lion Fortress

  Tipupa

  tirthika

  Tisé Snow Mountain

  journey to

  as meditation site

  Tenma Goddesses, Twelve

  Te’u-rang deity

  Three Vital Points of Mixing. See

  mixing

  Tilopa

  as ancestor

  as lineage holder

  Tingi Shal Sangma

  Tongla

  Tongla Ngonmo

  Tongla Pass

  Töpa-ga

  Tradruk Temple, Yoro

  tramen dakinis

  transference
(phowa)n

  treacherous path

  as bardo

  trulkhor

  Tsa

  Tsang

  Tsaphu

  Tsaphu Repa

  Tsarma

  tsa-tsas

  tsen

  Tseringma. See Tashi Tseringma

  Tsikpa Kangthil Fortress

  Tsinesar

  tsok

  Tushita

  two accumulations

  Ü

  four districts

  Milarepa sending Rechungpa to

  Rechungpa’s request to go to

  Uddiyana

  union

  and bliss

  and coemergence

  of creation and completion

  and deity

  and emptiness

  path of

  of view, meditation, and conduct

  see also samsara and nirvana, inseparability of; means and

  wisdom

  upadeshas

  on being self-sufficient

  given to Gampopa

  of guru

  of six falsehoods

  of whispered lineage

  see also scripture, logic, and

  upadeshas

  upasaka

  Ushnishavijaya

  Utso Gabar Gyalpo

  vajra body

  vajra hell

  vajra recitation

  Vajradhara

  and kayas

  lineage of

  Marpa as

  Vajrasadhu

  Vajrasattva

  Vajrayogini

  prophecy of

  valid cognition. See pramana

  Varachandra

  vase breath

  vehicle. See yana

  vetalas

  vidyadhara

  view, meditation, and conduct

  (songs of)

  bardo of

  comparison with ordinary ones

  and delight in death

  for Dretön Repa

  expanse of

  and faults of

  feeling good

  for Gampopa

  and happy ways of being resolved

  key points of

  at Lachi

  for Lingpa Rock demoness

  mastery of

  as Milarepa’s practice

  for Paldarbum

  and pigeon goddess

  at Ramding Sky Cave

  and Rechungpa

  and resolve

  supreme

  taking up with experiences

  teaching for thoughts arising

  three nails of

  union of

  vinaya

  vipashyana

  virtue

  encouragement to engage in

  as food

  lacking and disturbing

  results of

  Vital Points of Mixing, Three

  vow

  bodhichitta

  of Milarepa (song)

  pratimoksha

  refuge

  of three trainings

  upasaka

  walking stick, bamboo

  wealth

  abandoning

  amassing and hoarding

  and avarice

  and contentment

  as demon and ghost

  no desire for

  as dharmakaya

  and generosity

  teaching for the sake of

  whispered lineage instructions

  and bardo

  Dharma Cycles of the Formless

  Dakinis

  four streams of

  greatness of

  and path of means

  taught without stinginess

  upadeshas of

  versus texts and explanations

  White Rock Horse Tooth Fortress

  wisdom

  accumulation of

  five

  of four joys

  as free of dawning and waning

  inseparable from afflictions

  inseparable from sentient beings

  lack of in ultimate reality

  nonconceptual

  recognition of mind as

  self-arisen

  self-aware

  self-display of

  transformation into

  versus conceptuality and

  consciousness

  see also paramitas

  women

  words of truth

  Yakdé Valley

  Yakru Tangpa, Geshe

  yakṣhas

  at Chuwar

  at Rakma

  Yama

  Yama’s messenger

  yana

  lower

  nine progressive

  supreme

  Yangé, Lhajé

  Yerang, king of

  yidam deity

  mind as

  practice of

  prophesy to Milarepa

  pride of

  recitation of

  and refuge

  seeing others as

  visions of

  yogic discipline

  conduct of

  repa with

  yogini

  Yolmo Snowy Range

  Yungtön Trogyal

  Zadong Marnak. See Rahula, Red and

  Black-Faced

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