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- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A "hearer" or "listener," one who follows the practices of the Foundational Vehicle to move through four stages of realization and arrive at the stage of an arhat, the highest level in this tradition.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A "holder of knowledge who has ascertained … A "holder of knowledge who has ascertained the nature of pristine awareness. Nyingma tantras describe four levels of vidyādhara. In ascending order of realization, they are the matured vidyādhara, corresponding to the vision of the direct perception of ultimate reality and the first āryabodhisattva ground, known as Very Joyful; the vidyādhara with mastery over life, corresponding to the vision of progress in meditative experience and the fifth āryabodhisattva ground, Difficult to Cultivate; the mahāmudrā vidyā dhara, corresponding to the vision of reaching consummate awareness and the eighth āryabodhisattva ground, Immovable; and the spontaneously actualized vidyādhara, corresponding to the vision of extinction into ultimate reality and the tenth āryabodhisattva ground, Cloud of Dharma. See VE 350-51.va ground, Cloud of Dharma. See VE 350-51.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A "primordial consciousness being, whom one invites and with whom one merges inseparably in the practice of the stage of generation. See VE 149.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A "samaya demon" which has taken on such rebirth due to tranhgressing the samayas of secret mantra.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A "solitary Buddha," one who, without rely … A "solitary Buddha," one who, without relying on a teacher, attains the cessation of suffering by meditating on the twelve links of dependent arising. Pratyekabuddhas realize the no-self of the person and go halfway to realizing the no-self of phenomena. In other words, they realize the no-self of perceived phenomena but not that of the perceiving mind.omena but not that of the perceiving mind.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A "sphere" of experience involving a sense … A "sphere" of experience involving a sense power, its object, and the consciousness arising from their conjunction. Although a dhatu in this sense may be considered as a composite of these three elements, in fact each of these elements is referred to as a dhatu in its own right. Thus, the six senses, six objects, and six corresponding consciousnesses may be referred to as the eighteen dhatus, as expounded in the Abhidharma.en dhatus, as expounded in the Abhidharma.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A "vinaya-holder" is a keeper of the monastic discipline. Here, the epithet is used in reference to Jampel Gyatso in particular.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A "wheel" of channels through which vital … A "wheel" of channels through which vital energies course. The fivefold classification of the cakras includes the cakra of great bliss at the crown of the head, the cakra of enjoyment at the throat, the dharmacakra at the heart, the cakra of emanation at the navel, and the cakra ofs ustaining bliss at the genital region. See VEz8o.ng bliss at the genital region. See VEz8o.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (A "worthy one," who has attained nirvana, … A "worthy one," who has attained nirvana, or liberation from all the afflictions. The Tibetan translation, which technically should have been rendered os pa, instead reads it as a combination of ari, "enemy," and han, "kill," producing a literal meaning of "enemy destroyer" Arihan was the term used in the Jain tradition that was founded just before Buddhism. Though earlier traditions used the title arhant for the Buddha and his enlightened disciples, in the Mahayana tradition it came to mean those who were enlightened only through the non-Mahayana traditions. The Lotus Sutra, which coined the term Mahayana, declared that arhants would be awakened from their nirvanic bliss by the Buddha after a period of time in order to continue on the Mahayana path of freeing all beingson the Mahayana path of freeing all beings)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Meeting the Great Bliss Queen/Glossary + (A '''Great Completeness''' term referring to the whole of everything in all its diversity, as experienced by '''innate awareness''')
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A ''bodhisattva'' who has, through tantric … A ''bodhisattva'' who has, through tantric practice, gained both worldly and transmundane ''. The great adepts of medieval India, whose lifestories are both colorful and inspirational, were instrumental in transmitting the tantras and are at the source of many Tibetan practice lineages. source of many Tibetan practice lineages.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A Bodhisattva on one of the ten Bodhisattva levels)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A Brahmic script derivative. It is either the Tibetan name for Ranjana/Rañjanā (the writing system for the Nepali language), or for a derivative of that script. See Kongtrul 2012, 779n453 and 248–50.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A Buddha who appeared in remote antiquity. During his lifetime the ascetic Sumedha (who was reborn many kalpas later as Shakyamuni Buddha) resolved to attain enlightenment.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A Buddha who is victorious over the four demons.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A Buddha who is victorious over the four demons.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A Buddhist lay practitioner who has taken some or all of the precepts of the upasaka vow.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A Buddhist monk of the intermediate rank, who has taken the thirty-six vows.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (A Buddhist practitioner who has chosen to unconventional path of practicing.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A Buddhist relic-mount, a dagoba.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A Buddhist sage who, with Asanga, helped to revive the Mahayana; noted for his elucidation of the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A Buddhist scripture, a transcribed discou … A Buddhist scripture, a transcribed discourse of the Buddha. There are Hinayana sutras and Mahayana sutras (as distinct from the tantras). Of the Mahayana sutras, some are categorized as being of expedient meaning (''drang don'') and their purpose, as the ''Akshayamatinirdesha-sutra'' explains, is to lead disciples onto the path. Other Mahayana sutras are classified as being of ultimate meaning (''nges don'') and introduce the hearers directly to the Buddha's wisdom.e hearers directly to the Buddha's wisdom.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (A Buddhist seeks the protection and guidan … A Buddhist seeks the protection and guidance of the Three Jewels (q.v.) in order to find freedom from the suffering of saṃsāra. The Three Jewels therefore constitute the Buddhist refuge, and a Buddhist can be defined as someone who ''takes refuge'' in them.d as someone who ''takes refuge'' in them.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A Chinese Buddhist master who was invited to Tibet by King Songtsen Gampo. Also mentioned as one of the Chinese yogis that Vairotsana received teachings from in China.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A Dharma treasure such as those hidden by … A Dharma treasure such as those hidden by Guru Rinpoché and Yeshé Tsogyal to be discovered by a predicted revealer for the benefit of future generations. Earth treasures are physical objects concealed in the environment, and mind treasures are concealed in the mindstreams of realized beings, particularly of the incarnated disciples of Padmasambhava.the incarnated disciples of Padmasambhava.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A Dzogchen master invited to Tibet by King Trisong Detsen.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A Dzogchen practice concerned with "cutting through" the solidity of clinging to reveal primordial purity.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A Dzogchen practice relating to the realization of spontaneous presence of pure awareness.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A Dzogchen tantra.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Himalayan region corresponding more or less to modern Bhutan with the addition of certain contiguous regions in Tibet itself.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A Kadam special instruction involving recollection of: your lama as an object of refuge, your body as a deity, your speech as mantra, all beings as your parents, and your mind as empty.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A Kashmiri master, the last abbot of Vikramashila, who visited Tibet in the early thirteenth century. He was the source of the lineage of monastic ordination called the Middle Vinaya lineage (''bar 'dul'') of the Ngor branch of the Sakya school.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (A Mahayana Buddhist tradition popular in Tibet and Japan.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A Mahayana sutra belonging to the third turning of the Dharma wheel. It expounds the doctrine of the tathagatagarbha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A Mahayana sutra of the third turning of t … A Mahayana sutra of the third turning of the Dharma wheel that belongs, according to Gyalwa Longchenpa, Karma Rangjung Dorje, and Kongtrul Lodrothaye and others, to the teachings of the ultimate meaning. Chandrakirti classified this sutra as being of expedient meaning, in line with the teaching of the Aksayamatinirdesha-sutra, which, however, does not mention or take into account the three turnings of the Dharma wheel. For an excellent discussion of this topic, see Susan K. Hookham, The Buddha Within: Tathagatagarbha Doctrine According to the Shentong Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991 ).tate University of New York Press, 1991 ).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A Mahayana sutra of the ultimate meaning belonging to the third turning of the Dharma wheel and expounding the doctrine of the tathagatagarbha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayana sutra. Refers to the letter A, the syllable symbolizing the nonarising nature of emptiness.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture explaining the ritual of a ganachakra. See also Feast offering.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture found in the Nyingma … A Mahayoga scripture found in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. BA. Magical Net of the Goddess (lha mo sgyu 'phrul) A Mahayoga scripture found in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. BA. Magical Net of Vairochana (rnam snang sgyu 'phrul drva ba) A Mahayoga scripture, which functions as a subsidiary support for engaging in yogic activities connected to the mandala. See also Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras.ndala. See also Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture in eight chapters, found in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. PHA.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. MA. Sometimes counted among the Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras as the tantra of enlightened speech.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture listed here as one of the Six Secret Sections. Sometimes also mentioned as one of the Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras—the tantra of enlightened activity. Texts with this name are found in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. TSA and SHA.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture, found in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. TSA. Sometimes counted among the Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras, as the tantra of enlightened mind.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture, found in the Nyingma Gyiibum, vol. PHA.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture. A tantra of this name is found in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. PA.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Mahayoga scripture. A tantra of this title is found in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. DZA.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (A Middle Way view, mainly associated with … A Middle Way view, mainly associated with the Jonang school, that claims that the ultimate truth (the content of authentic experience) is not empty of its own essence but is only empty of what is extrinsic to it (i.e., relative phenomena, or the content of inauthentic experience).or the content of inauthentic experience).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A Rinzai term referring to enlightenment opening experiences. Sometimes contrasted with daigo, great enlightenment, shōgo literally means "see, examine, or reflect" [shō], "awakening" [go]. 183n.17)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Sambhogakaya form of Buddha representing the union of the five Buddha Families. Also used as a title of respect for the lama, the spiritual master.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (A Sanskrit term that literally means "seal … A Sanskrit term that literally means "seal," but also has many other uses. In the translated texts, perhaps the most common meaning of the term is "female consort," whether imagined or actual. In other contexts the word is used to mean "seal," "ornament," "ritual gesture," "formal position," "yogic technique," and more. Keeping these possible meanings in mind, a careful reader will be able to understand the intended meaning of the term in each specific instance.ing of the term in each specific instance.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (A Sanskrit term used in the Buddhist tantric tradition for a male semi-wrathful deity.)