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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Production-production ’,one of the four anulakṣaṇa-s. Its function is to generate jāti. —►anulakṣaṇa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Rabbit-dust’,the size of seven ap-rajas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Ram-dust’. The size of seven śaśa-rajas-s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Resemblance of delusion’. It is not the kleśa, delusion itself, but only a resemblance of it. This refers to the vāsanā left behind as a result of the perfuming of moha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Resemblance of greed’. It is not the kleśa,greed itself, but only a resemblance of it. This refers to the vāsanā left behind as a result of the perfuming of rāga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Resemblance of hatred’. It is not the kleśa, hatred itself, but only a resemblance of it. This refers to the vāsanā left behind as a result of the perfuming of dveṣa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Sameness in mode of activity’: Conjoined thought and thought-concomitants have the same mode of comprehending the shared cognitive object. —►pañca-samatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Sameness in respect of [being a singular] … ‘Sameness in respect of [being a singular] substance':Conjoined thought and thought-concomitants are equal in being singular in substance. E.g., although there are three types of sensation (yedanā) and various types of ideations (samjñā), only one single type of sensation and one single of ideation at a time is conjoined with thought and other thought-concomitants. —► pañca-samatād with thought and other thought-concomitants. —► pañca-samatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Sameness of the supporting basis:conjoined thought and thought- concomitants share the same support-basis. pañca samatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Sameness of time’:Conjoined thought and thought-concomitants necessarily arise at the same time. —►pañca samatā.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Signless; one of the 3 vimokṣa-mukha-s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Similar to that (which is presently active, although this itself is non-active)’, a ‘facsimile,. E.g., an eye in darkness which does not exercise its function of seeing is a tatsabhāga eye.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Split of the monastic community’; it is also the name of a citta-viprayukta-saṃskāra, having asāmagrī as its svabhāva.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Stream-discordant’,one who has planted the skilful roots of mokṣa-bhāgīya. Stream (srotas) refers to saṃsāra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Subsidiary element,a term similar in significance to bīja (seed), used by Śrīlāta.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Substance-atom’,atom as a single entity in itself; e.g., a green colour atom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Teaching’, ‘elaborative exposition ’;the … ‘Teaching’, ‘elaborative exposition ’;the last member of the dvādaśāṅga -dharma- pravacana. In a specific sense, it is synonymous with Abhidharma. In Saṃghabhadra's words, "upadeśa refers to the non-erroneous revealing, answering of objections and ascertainment, of the preceding [eleven] members [of the dvādaśāṅga-dharma-pravacana]"g [eleven] members [of the dvādaśāṅga-dharma-pravacana]")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘The extremely fine,an atom. The MVS defin … ‘The extremely fine,an atom. The MVS defines it thus: "A paramānu is the smallest rūpa. It cannot be cut, broken, penetrated It is neither long nor short, It has no smaller parts; it cannot be decomposed, ... . It is ... the finest (sarva-süksma) of all rūpa-s:’Paramānu is divisible as dravya-paramānu and samghāta-paramanu.u is divisible as dravya-paramānu and samghāta-paramanu.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Thoughtless,without any mental activity (as in the cessation meditation).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Trace’,perfuming. Saṃghabhadra explains that this is a designation (not a real entity) for a mental state conditioned by the aklita-ajñāna. The Buddha is free from this because he does not have the aklista-ajñāna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Turning’,‘operating’;present, the present.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Twelve-limb’,twelve-fold (classification). —► dvādaśāñga-dharma-pravacana)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘View';its svabhāva is prajñā. It is chara … ‘View';its svabhāva is prajñā. It is characterized by a strong mode of activity (ākāra) of speculation and judgment (saṃtīraṇa). As kleśa, it is five-fold: satkāya-dṛṣṭi, antagraha-dṛṣṭi, mithyā-dṛṣṭi, dṛṣṭi-parmārśa and śīlavrata-parāmarśa. It also operates as proper view (samyag-dṛṣṭi).rāmarśa. It also operates as proper view (samyag-dṛṣṭi).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Warmed-up’,‘warmth,. This is the first attainment in the nirvedha -bhāgīya of the prayoga stage. It is sometimes also given as ūṣman.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Weak faculty’;in contrast to a tīkṣnendriya.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Wheel-wielding’,Universal Monarch.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Wind of saṃjñā.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘[A straight-forward anwer] consisting the word "No”’ (to a question of the form: "does p imply q?").)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘[A straight-forward anwer] consisting the word "yes’” (to a question of the form: "does p imply q?’’).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘supported’,as opposed to the support (āśraya). E.g., the Great Elements are the āśmya-s and the derived matters are āśrita.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (’Listener’. A disciple of the Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“Dharma body”: the emptiness aspect of Buddhahood; also translated as “body of truth,” “absolute dimension.”)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“Great Seal”: the Great Seal means that the seal of the absolute nature is on everything, that all phenomena belong to the wisdom mandala. The term is used to denote the teaching, the meditation practice, or the supreme accomplishment)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (“He who is honored with a hundred gifts.” The ruler of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three in the realms ofthe gods.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (“He whose accomplishment is related to the … “He whose accomplishment is related to the nāgas.” The great first-second-century Indian master and father of the Profound View tradition who rediscovered the Buddha’s teachings on transcendent wisdom (prajnāpāramitā) in the realm of the nāgas and composed numerous treatises that became the basic texts for the proponents of the Madhyamika or Middle Way philosophical system.yamika or Middle Way philosophical system.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (“Land of the Jambu Tree.” The southern continent in the ancient Indian cosmology, the world in which we live.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (“Laughter of Kīla's Great Power” offered by Chogyur Lingpa to Situ Pema Nyinje Wangpo)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“The Joyous”: one of the realms of the gods in the world of desire, in which Buddha Shakyamuni took a final rebirth before appearing in this world. The future Buddha, Maitreya, is currently in the Tushita Heaven teaching the Mahayana)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (“Vase Pillar” in the middle storey of the innermost shrine at Samye)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“action, cause, and result”: the process by which every action inevitably produces a corresponding effect.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“all-concealing truth”: the apparent truth perceived and taken as real by the deluded mind, which conceals the true nature of phenomena.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“basket”: a collection of scriptures, originally in the form of palm leaf folios stored in baskets. The Buddha's teachings are generally divided into three pitakas: Vinaya, Sutra, and Abhidharma)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“beyond suffering”: while this can be loos … “beyond suffering”: while this can be loosely understood as the goal of Buddhist practice, the opposite of samsara, it is important to realize that the term is understood differently by the different vehicles: the nirvana of the Basic Vehicle, the peace of cessation that an Arhat attains, is very different from a Buddha's nirvana, the state of perfect enlightenment that transcends both samsara and nirvanat that transcends both samsara and nirvana)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“body of manifestation”: the aspect of Buddhahood that manifests out of compassion to help ordinary beings)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“body of perfect enjoyment”: the spontaneously-luminous aspect of Buddhahood, only perceptible to highly realized beings)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“drop”: the essence or seed of the great bliss; in the channels there are different kinds, pure or degenerate. The term thig le has a number of different meanings according to the context and type of practice)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“grasping at” or “apprehending two”: the concept of “I” and “other.”)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“individual liberation”: the collective term for the different forms of Buddhist ordination and their respective vows, as laid down in the Vinaya)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“knowledge holder”: one who through profound means holds the deities, mantras, and the wisdom of great bliss)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“lesser vehicle” (in relation to the Mahayana or Great Vehicle): the vehicle of the Shravakas and Pratyekabuddhas)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (“moving through space”: the feminine princ … “moving through space”: the feminine principle associated with wisdom and with the enlightened activities of the lama. This term has several levels of meaning. There are ordinary dakinis, who are beings with a certain degree of spiritual power, and wisdom dakinis, who are fully realizedand wisdom dakinis, who are fully realized)