ཚིག་མཛོད།

Traditional classification of Tibetan medicine that groups all illnesses into 404 kinds. On the site, it shows that the Tara mandalas counter every root of illness.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: 404 raízes de doenças

"The Unshakeable One": one of the five Buddhas, associated with purification. In the Jangwa Puja, the departed are guided to his Pure Land.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Buda Akshobhya, Mitrugpa

The highest of the four classes of tantra, which includes the generation and completion stages. Some of the centre's practices, such as Kangso, are reserved for those who have completed their highest yoga tantra classes.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Yoga tantra superior, Anuttarayoga tantra

Celebration of the birthday of His Holiness Kyabje Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche. At the centre it coincides with the conclusion of the Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden Festival.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Great Indian master (982–1054) who taught in Tibet and wrote A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, the basis of the Lamrim teachings.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Atiśa, Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana, Jowo Je

Colourful flags printed with prayers and mantras which, according to tradition, spread blessings carried by the wind. The almanac shows the favourable days for raising them.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Lungta

changchub sem

The mind that aspires to full enlightenment in order to benefit all sentient beings. It is the heart of the Mahayana path.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Bodicita, Bodhicitta, Mente da iluminação

One who has generated bodhichitta and strives for enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. The bodhisattva vow is the formal commitment to follow this path.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Bodisatva, Voto de bodhisattva

"The Awakened One": a being who has removed every fault and perfected every quality, attaining full enlightenment. In the plural, it refers to all enlightened beings.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Buddha, Budas

A blue Buddha whose practice is devoted to physical and mental healing and to removing the causes of illness.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Medicine Buddha, Menla, Bhaishajyaguru

The historical Buddha, who attained enlightenment in India about 2,500 years ago and taught the Dharma to free all beings from suffering. He is the source of every Buddhist lineage.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Buddha Shakyamuni, Sakyamuni, o Buda

Buddhist centre of the Ganden lineage founded in São Paulo in 2001 by Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche. The name is connected with Manjushri (Jampel) and means something like "Manjushri Hero".

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Djampel Pawo, Jampel Pawo, CBDP

ཞིབ་ཕྲ། →

Group of the centre's practitioners who conduct the Jangwa Puja.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: classe de dadju

"Sky-goer": a female manifestation of enlightened wisdom who inspires and protects tantric practitioners.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Khandroma

Offering the virtue of a practice to a purpose or to someone, such as a person's health, the liberation of someone who has died or the good of all beings. At the centre, the names sent in are dedicated in the daily prayers and festivals.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: dedicação de nomes

Daily prayers with names in the Book of Health, during the Guru Puja, for physical and mental health.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Dedications for Health

ཞིབ་ཕྲ། →

Region of Tibet where Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche was enthroned in 2003.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

chö

The Buddha's teachings and the realisations they bring about; the path that leads to freedom from suffering and to enlightenment.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Darma

khandroma

Lunar day dedicated to the dakinis, female manifestations of enlightened wisdom, considered special for the tsog offering. It usually falls on the 25th lunar day.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Dia das Dakinis

Anniversary of Je Tsongkhapa's passing (parinirvana), on the 25th day of the 10th lunar month, traditionally celebrated with offerings of light.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Ganden Ngamchö, Festival das Lamparinas

"Vajra Holder": the form of the Buddha who teaches tantra. It is also used as an honorific for the greatest masters, as in Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Vajradhara

A Dharma protector of the Ganden lineage, presented by the centre as Manjushri, the wisdom of all Buddhas, in the form of a protector. He looks after practitioners so that they follow the Lamrim path without straying from bodhichitta.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Dorjé Shugdän, Gyalchen Dorje Shugden

The two phases of highest yoga tantra practice. In the generation stage the practitioner trains in visualising themselves as the deity; in the completion stage they work directly with the subtle mind to attain enlightenment.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Estágio de geração, Estágio de conclusão, Estágio de completude

Sacred monument symbolising the Buddha's enlightened mind, usually containing relics and sacred texts. In the centre's project, the stupa serves to pacify the mind: inner peace creates outer peace.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Stupa, Chörten

A monk who has received full ordination, with the complete set of monastic vows.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Gelongma, Bhikshu

Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa in the 15th century, also called the Ganden lineage after Ganden Monastery, which he founded. It joins rigorous study, ethical discipline and the practice of sutra and tantra.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Gelug, Gelugpa, Linhagem Ganden, Gandenpa

Monastic academic title of the Gelug tradition, granted after many years of studying Buddhist philosophy and debate.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Gueshe

In Tibetan, "monastery" or "place of solitude". At the centre, it is the meditation and practice hall, entered without shoes and in silence.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Gonpa

A guru yoga practice composed by the First Panchen Lama, Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen, that brings together all the stages of the sutra and tantra paths. At the centre it is held every morning and, on Sundays, in the presence of Venerable Kalden Rinpoche.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Lama Chöpa, Guru puja, Oferenda ao Guia Espiritual

A practitioner's principal spiritual teacher, from whom they received the most important teachings and initiations. A "heart disciple" is a teacher's principal disciple.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Lama raiz, Mestre raiz, Discípulo raiz

Almanac date dedicated to the practice of Guru Vajrayogini, connected with the tsog offering.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Practice in which the disciple regards the spiritual teacher as inseparable from the Buddha and receives their blessings. It is considered the root of all realisations.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Ioga do guru

The state of a Buddha: a mind completely free of all obscurations and endowed with perfect wisdom and compassion. It is the goal of the Mahayana path.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Plena iluminação, Budeidade

The fact that all composite things change from moment to moment and eventually come to an end. Reflecting on it is one of the foundations of the Lamrim.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Ceremony in which a qualified teacher introduces the disciple to the practice of a tantric deity and grants permission to practise it. Associates can record their initiations in My Account.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Iniciações, Empoderamento

Purification ritual dedicated to people who have died, so that their consciousness is purified and guided towards a good rebirth. At the centre it is held every year on the full moon of the seventh lunar month.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Jangwa, Festival de Libertação dos Mortos

ཞིབ་ཕྲ། →

Great Tibetan master (1357–1419), founder of the Gelug tradition (Ganden lineage), who brought together a complete understanding of sutra and tantra and wrote the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path (Lamrim Chenmo).

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Lama Tsongkhapa, Tsong Khapa, Je Rinpoche

A wrathful Dharma protector, the "Dharma King", traditionally connected with Yamantaka. According to the centre, he was entrusted by the Buddha with caring for all practitioners, especially in times of instability and violence.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Dharmaraja, Chögyal

ཞིབ་ཕྲ། →

His Eminence Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche, founder and teacher of the Djampel Pawo Buddhist Centre (2001). He studied at Sera Je Monastery, received full ordination in Tibet and was enthroned as a tulku in 2003 by his root guru, Kyabje Denma Gonsar Rinpoche.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Kalden Rinpoche, Venerável Kalden Rinpoche, Kalden Tulku

ཞིབ་ཕྲ། →

Daily puja of offering and restoration of commitments with the Dharma protectors, called "The Melodious Drums of Victory" at the centre. Attendance is reserved for those who have completed highest yoga tantra classes, but anyone can sponsor names.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Kangsol, Os Tambores Melodiosos da Vitória

The two great collections of the Tibetan Buddhist canon: the Kangyur gathers the translated words of the Buddha, and the Tengyur the commentaries of the Indian masters.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Kangyur, Kanjur, Tengyur, Tanjur

The law of cause and effect of actions: virtuous actions bring happiness and non-virtuous actions bring suffering, in this life or in future lives.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Carma, ações cármicas

Ceremonial scarf, usually white, offered as a sign of respect and good intention to teachers, sacred images and at ceremonies.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Katha

Title of someone who has previously served as abbot of a monastery or monastic college.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Abade emérito

Abbot emeritus of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, who gave full ordination (gelong) to Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche in Tibet.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Venerável Khensur Sherab Chödar Rinpoche

The first of the four classes of tantra, emphasising ritual, purification and outer conduct.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Tantra de ação

An offering (usually monetary) made to the teacher or to those performing a ritual, together with a khata, at the Festival fire pujas.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Ku-yön

"Lord of refuge": a title of great respect given to the most eminent masters of the tradition.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Root guru of Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche, who enthroned him as a tulku in Denma, Tibet, in 2003.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Denma Gonsar Rinpoche

Great Gelug master (1878–1941), whose Lamrim teachings, collected in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, made the complete practice of the Ganden lineage accessible. He was the root teacher of Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Pabongka Rinpoche, Phabongkha Rinpoche

His Holiness, recognised as the reincarnation of Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang. He is a guru of Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche and visited the centre in 2012 for the first Rabne Chenmo in Brazil.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche

Great Gelug master (1901–1981), heart disciple of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. He gathered and passed on his teacher's teachings, making them accessible to practitioners of every capacity.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Trijang Rinpoche, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche

The institutional household of a reincarnate lama (tulku), which manages their activities and assets. The Kalden Labrang was founded in 2003, after Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche's enthronement in Tibet.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Kalden Labrang

ཞིབ་ཕྲ། →

A qualified spiritual teacher who guides disciples on the Dharma path. It is the Tibetan equivalent of the Sanskrit guru.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Guru, Mestre

"Stages of the path to enlightenment": a step-by-step presentation of all the Buddha's teachings, systematised by Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa. It is one of the foundations of training at the centre.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Lam Rim, Estágios do caminho

Small wooden boards prepared and blessed by His Eminence Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche, on which requests for peace, prosperity and power are inscribed and dedicated at the Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden Festival.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Leshin, tábua le-shin

One of the four great Buddha days: it celebrates his descent from the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, where he had taught the Dharma to his mother. It falls on the 22nd day of the 9th lunar month.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Traditional shrine built in high places and dedicated to the protectors and spirits of the land, which radiates protection for Dharma activities.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Lapse, Labtse, Latse

Final freedom from the cycle of rebirth marked by suffering (samsara), attained by removing the mental afflictions and their causes.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Nirvana

Lineage of oral instructions passed down from Je Tsongkhapa directly from teacher to disciple, which the centre follows in particular.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Ganden Nyengyu, ganden nyengyu gelugpa, Linhagem oral de Ganden

"Mind training": practical instructions for transforming everyday difficulties into the path, exchanging self-cherishing for cherishing others.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Lo Jong

The Tibetan New Year, on the first day of the first lunar month, celebrated with pujas, offerings and prayers for the year ahead.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Ano-Novo tibetano

"Great Vehicle": the Buddhist path motivated by bodhichitta, which seeks full enlightenment in order to free all beings. It is the basis of training at the centre.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Maaiana, Grande Veículo

trengwa

Buddhist rosary, usually with 108 beads, used to count mantra recitations.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Japamala, Rosário budista

Representation of the pure environment of a Buddha or deity. It also refers to the symbolic offering of the entire universe to holy beings.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Mandalas, Mandala do Protetor

The Buddha of wisdom, embodying the wisdom of all Buddhas. He is traditionally shown holding a sword that cuts through ignorance and a text.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Mañjuśrī, Jampelyang

Sacred syllables recited to protect the mind and connect with the qualities of a Buddha or deity. Associates can record their mantra counts in My Account.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Mantras, contagem de mantras

At the centre's ceremonies, the sadhana is recited in Tibetan, in a chanted rhythm, while participants follow the text.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: recitação em tibetano

One of the colleges of Sera Monastery, one of the great Gelug monasteries, now re-established in South India. It is where Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche studied.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Sera Je, Sera Jey

Great Gelug monastery in Shigatse, Tibet, where Venerable Kalden Tulku Rinpoche received full ordination.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Tashi Lhünpo

Lu Drub

Great Indian master and philosopher, founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school, who explained the emptiness taught by the Buddha.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Beings connected with water, earth and the natural environment, called "lords of the environment" on the site. Cultivating a good relationship with them is part of the Environment and Pacification project.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Naga

Name given by the teacher to someone who takes refuge in the Three Jewels. At the centre, it can be added in My Account and is used in emails.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Refuge name

The centre's lhaptse in the Serra da Cantareira (São Paulo), where the closing fire pujas of the Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden Festival are held.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Lhaptse da Serra da Cantareira

Lunar days on which the tsog offering is traditionally made, usually the 10th and 25th of the lunar month. See "Tsog / Ganachakra".

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: dia de tsog

Four pairs of concerns that bind the mind to worldly life: gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and blame, fame and disrepute.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Oito preocupações mundanas

Eight dangers from which Tara protects, according to tradition. They have an outer meaning (physical threats) and an inner one (disturbing emotions such as pride, anger, attachment and doubt).

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Oito perigos

Eight vows taken for one day, from dawn to the next dawn, with the motivation of benefiting all beings. They are traditionally taken on special lunar days.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Oito preceitos, Votos de um dia

Traditional consultation carried out at monasteries on request, to guide decisions or to indicate suitable personal pujas.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: consulta ao oráculo

Almanac date connected with Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Three of the enlightened activities to which rituals such as fire pujas and le-shin are dedicated: pacifying obstacles and illness, increasing favourable conditions and empowering virtuous activities.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: atividades iluminadas

Gesture of respect made with the body before the Buddha, the teacher or the altar, which helps to purify and to reduce pride.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Prostrações

An enlightened or oath-bound being committed to protecting the teachings and practitioners, removing obstacles and creating favourable conditions for practice.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Protetores, Dharmapala

Ceremony of prayer, offering and meditation, usually held in a group with chanted recitation of a text (sadhana), dedicated to purposes such as health, pacification or the removal of obstacles.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Pujas

Ritual in which offerings are placed into a consecrated fire to purify broken commitments and to accomplish peaceful, enriching and empowering activities. It concludes the Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden Festival.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Pujas de fogo, Jinsek

Offering puja to the nagas, beings connected with water and earth, to pacify the environment and harmonise our relationship with them. It is part of the Environment and Pacification project.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Puja de naga, Dia de naga

Lunar day especially auspicious for Tara practice, usually the 8th day of the lunar month.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Puja de Tara

Lunar day dedicated to the Medicine Buddha, whose practice is devoted to physical and mental healing. It usually falls on the 8th and 15th lunar days.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Lunar day dedicated to the Dharma protectors, traditionally the 29th day of the lunar month.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Puja dos protetores

The traditional division of the tantric teachings into kriya (action), charya (performance), yoga and highest yoga tantra, in increasing order of depth.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Daily practice offering four mandalas to Tara Chittamani and the twenty-one Taras, to remove obstacles and improve the conditions of everyday and spiritual life.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Quatro Mandalas, Mandalas de Tara

Great consecration ceremony that invites the presence of enlightened beings into a temple, statues or sacred objects. The first Rabne Chenmo in Brazil was performed at the centre in 2012 by Kyabje Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Rabne, Grande consagração

Relying on the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha as guides on the spiritual path. Formally taking refuge before a teacher marks one's entry into the Buddhist path.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: tomar refúgio, data do refúgio

A period devoted to intensive practice, usually with mantra recitation and meditation on a deity, under the teacher's guidance. Associates can record their retreats and certificates in My Account.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Retiros, certificado de retiro

"Precious one": a title of respect given to recognised teachers, especially tulkus and great lamas.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Rimpoche

Traditional image for the act of teaching the Dharma. "Turning the wheel of Dharma" means giving teachings.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: girar a roda do Dharma

Meditation and ritual text that guides a practice step by step, usually recited in Tibetan. It is handed out to participants during ceremonies.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Sadhanas, texto de meditação

The fourth lunar month, the holiest of the Tibetan year, celebrating the birth, enlightenment and parinirvana of Buddha Shakyamuni. The main day is the full moon (15th day).

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Saka Dawa, Saga Dawa Düchen

gendün

The spiritual community. Broadly, the practitioners who follow the Dharma together; strictly, the monastic community and realised beings.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Sanga

Consecrated vase filled with precious and blessed substances, buried or placed at specific sites to heal and enrich the earth.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Satchu bumpa, Sachu bumpa, Vaso do tesouro da terra

The six kinds of rebirth in cyclic existence: gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hell beings.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Seis reinos de existência

Every being with a mind that has not yet attained enlightenment, in any form of life. Benefiting all of them is the motivation of the Mahayana.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: todos os seres

Forested area north of São Paulo where the centre's Odyana Lhaptse is located.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

Ceremony of the monastic community for confession and restoration of vows, usually held on the new moon and full moon.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

The Buddha's discourses, and the body of teachings and practices of the common path that form the basis for tantra.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Sutras

The teachings and methods of the Vajrayana, practised on the basis of renunciation, bodhichitta and wisdom, and received through initiation from a qualified teacher.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Tantras

A female Buddha of compassion and swift action, who protects from fears and obstacles. The twenty-one Taras are her manifestations, each with a different activity.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Vinte e uma Taras, Drolma

A form of Tara practised in highest yoga tantra in the Gelug tradition. She cares for each being as if it were her only child and guides it through every stage to enlightenment.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Chittamani Tara, Suprema Tara Chittamani

ཞིབ་ཕྲ། →

"The One Thus Gone": one of the Buddha's titles, meaning one who has reached ultimate reality. On the site, it refers to Buddha Shakyamuni.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Tathagata Supremo

A realm manifested by a Buddha, where conditions are entirely favourable to practising the Dharma and attaining enlightenment.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Terras Puras, Campo de Buda

The Pure Land of Buddha Akshobhya, in the east, to which the Jangwa Puja guides the departed, according to the centre's text.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Terra Pura de Akshobhya, Abhirati

"Teaching of the Elders": the Buddhist tradition prevalent in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, based on the Pali canon.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Teravada

The consciousness of a person who has died, moving on from one life to the next. In the Jangwa Puja, the names of the departed are dedicated so that they may find a good rebirth.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: ente falecido

See "Lojong". Also used more broadly for training the mind in Dharma practice.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

The Buddha (the teacher), the Dharma (the teachings) and the Sangha (the spiritual community): the three objects of refuge in Buddhism.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Três Joias Preciosas

Ritual offering of food and substances pleasing to the senses, made to the guru, the Buddhas and all beings. It accumulates virtue and renews commitments. At the centre it is performed within the Lama Chöpa.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Tsog, Tsok, Ganachakra, Oferenda de tsog, festim de tsog

ཞིབ་ཕྲ། →

A teacher recognised as the reincarnation of an accomplished practitioner, who is reborn intentionally in order to continue benefiting beings.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

"Diamond Vehicle": the part of the Mahayana that includes the methods of tantra, practised with initiation and the guidance of a qualified teacher.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Veículo do Diamante, Mantrayana, Tantrayana

A female deity of highest yoga tantra, very important in the Gelug tradition. Her practice is received through initiation.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Guru Vajrayogini, Dorje Naljorma

A positive action, word or thought that creates causes for happiness and progress on the path. Offerings, practice and service to the centre accumulate virtue.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: karma virtuoso

Wrathful form of Manjushri and one of the main highest yoga tantra deities in the Gelug tradition. The centre held a Yamantaka initiation in November 2025.

བཅོས་སྒྲིག་གྲོས་འཆར་འབུལ།

འབྲི་ཚུལ་གཞན།: Vajrabhairava, Dorje Jigje