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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.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (A Sanskrit word not translated into Tibeta … A Sanskrit word not translated into Tibetan. The term is used to designate a certain physical region of the body, mostly the abdomen below the navel, but sometimes also extending up to the heart cakra. Many of the key channel syllables are located in this region according to the Hevajra tradition. The same term is also used for the vulva. The same term is also used for the vulva.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A Sarvāstivādin who takes the Abhidharma-mahāvibhāṣā as the authority.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (A Tibetan accomplished master of the Drigung Kagyu school who was an emanation of Nagarjuna and also Phamo Drupa (1110-70), one of the three foremost disciples of Gampopa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (A Tibetan classification of Buddhist teach … A Tibetan classification of Buddhist teachings into nine sequential spiritual approaches: (1) Shravaka, (2) Pratyekabuddha, (3) Bodhisattva, (4) Kriya, (5) Upa, (6) Yoga, (7) Mahayoga, (8) Anuyoga, and (9) Atiyoga. The first two are Hinayana; the third is Mahayana; the next three are called the Three Outer Tantras; and the last three are called the Three Inner Tantras. three are called the Three Inner Tantras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A Tibetan scroll image, usually of deities or mandalas, which is painted from ground precious stones (or, now, modern paints), stitched, or made of appliqué.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A Tibetan translator predicted by Padmasambhava. The first monk ordained by Khenpo Bodhisattva. He is also known as Ratna of Ba (sba ratna).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (A Tibetan word for ritual reading. To perform a vajrayāna practice, one must have a holder of the lineage read the text through (Tib. lung), give an explanation of the practice (Tib. tri) and give the empowerment for the practice (Tib. wang).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (A Vajrayana text that includes various med … A Vajrayana text that includes various meditations and ritual practices that one carries out in association with a particular ''yidam'' or tantric deity after receiving ''abhisheka'' into that deity's ''mandala''. The primary tantras of each deity contain material that is similar, but in an often random or cryptic fashion, whereas in the ''sadhana'' the same practices are presented in a structured, accessible, and understandable way.tured, accessible, and understandable way.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A Vajrayāna system of practice, corresponding to anuyoga, which is based upon the practice of the stage of generation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A Vajrayāna system of practice, correspond … A Vajrayāna system of practice, corresponding to mahāyoga, in which one's own body, speech, and mind arc regarded as displays of the vajra body, speech, and mind of one's personal deity. As a result ofsuch practice, one achieves stability in one's own awareness, ordinary appearances and clinging arc transferred to the nature of buddhafields, and one's body, speech, and mind are transformed into the three vajras.ind are transformed into the three vajras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (A View of the real (''de-kho-na-nyid lta-b … A View of the real (''de-kho-na-nyid lta-ba''), determinate conduct (''la-dor-ba spyod-pa''), maṇḍala array (''bkod-pa dkyil-'khor''), successive gradation of empowerment (''rim-par bgrod-pa dbang''), commitment which is not to be transgressed (''mi-'da'-ba dam-tshig''), enlightened activity which is displayed (''rol-pa phrin-las''), fulfilment of aspiration (''don-du gnyer-ba sgrub-pa''), offerings which bring the goal to fruition (''gnas-su stobs-pa mchod-pa''), unwavering contemplation (''mi-gYo-ba ting-nge-'dzin'') and mantra recitation (''zlos-pa sngags''), accompanied by the seal which binds the practitioner to realisation ('''ching-ba phyag-rgya''). 266, 347, 358 ('''ching-ba phyag-rgya''). 266, 347, 358)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A Worthy One’, epithet for one who has achieved the highest <br>spiritual attainment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (A basic meditation practice aimed at taming and sharpening the mind. It is also called basic sitting meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (A basic meditation practice aimed at taming and sharpening the mind. It is also called basic sitting meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A basic meditation practice common to most … A basic meditation practice common to most schools of Buddhism, whose aim is the taming and sharpening of the mind by means of coming back again and again to meditative discipline. Samātha is developed as a springboard for insight, seeing the transparency of experiences, rather than solidifying them.<br> Many Buddhist schools teach one to accomplish śamatha first, and only then how to cultivate vipaśyanā. Some lineages, including that of the Kagyü mahāmudrā, teach the possibility of developing simultaneous śamatha and vipaśyanā, as a stage in the experience of śūnyatā and mahāmudrā.tage in the experience of śūnyatā and mahāmudrā.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A being in a heavenly abode; a god. —►deva.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A being in whom bodhicitta arises effortlessly and who devotes himsel for herself to the cultivation of the six perfections, in order to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A being to which the remains of the ganacakra are offered.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A being who has achieved the highest goal … A being who has achieved the highest goal of sentient striving: unsurpassed, perfect ''enlightenment''. In ''Hinayana'', a buddha is a special type of ''arhat'', appearing only periodically to start a dispensation of the Dharma. For most proponents of ''Mahayana, buddhahood'' is the destiny of all beings, and a buddha is asserted to consist of three “bodies” or aspects (''kāya''): ''dharmakāya'', ''enjoyment body'', and ''emanation body''.'enjoyment body'', and ''emanation body''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A being who has attained enlightenment wit … A being who has attained enlightenment without recourse to a teacher or who, having attained enlightenment, chooses not to teach but to remain solitary. Along with the ''śrāvaka'' vehicle, the vehicle of the pratyekabuddha is often treated as a ''Hinayana'' approach to ''liberation'', requiring a thorough realization of ''dependent arising''.ough realization of ''dependent arising''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A being who has developed calm abiding and special insight.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A being who has gained direct realization of ultimate reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A being who takes on all kinds of forms and is an embodiment of disturbing attachments.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A being who, having developed the Awakening Mind, devotes his life to the task of achieving Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A big hill at Samye. One of four sacred mountains in Central Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A billionfold cosmic system of universes, each of which comprises a Mount Meru and four cosmic continents.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A billionfold cosmic system of worlds, each of which comprises a Mount Meru and four cosmic continents.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A bird of Indian mythology said to hatch fully grown and hence symbolizes the awakened state of mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A black karma; one that yields a black (i.e., disagreeable) retribution.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A bodhicitta practice of giving one's virtue and happiness to others and taking their suffering and misdeeds upon oneself.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A bodhisattva who embodies wisdom and holds a sword in one hand and a text in the other.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A bodhisattva who has gained direct realization of ultimate reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A bowing cloth, sewn ritually along with the okesa. It is spread out on the ground to protect the okesa when monks bow. 53n. 22, 139)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (A branch of Dzogchen Monastery. In Dzachukha region of Derge County. Monastic seat of the successive Gemang rinpoches.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A branch of science/study developed in Buddhism, corresponding roughly to<br> (but with a broader scope than) what we understand as logic.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A branch of the Great Vehicle that uses th … A branch of the Great Vehicle that uses the special techniques of the tantras to pursue the path of enlightenment for all beings more rapidly. Because these practices are based on the realization of the diamond like nature of the mind, this vehicle is also known as the Diamond Vehicle.icle is also known as the Diamond Vehicle.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A branch of the Great Vehicle that uses the special techniques of the tantras to traverse the path of enlightenment more rapidly for all beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A branch of the Great Vehicle that uses the special techniques of the tantrasto pursue the path of enlightenment for all beings more rapidly. Synonymous with Vajrayana)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A brick ornamented with flourishes. A gold patra possibly weighs several kilos.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A bright scarlet powdery substance consisting of red lead, or vermilion. The powder is used, especially in tantric initiations involving the female ''yidam'' Vajrayoginī, to mark the "three doors" [of body, speech, and mind] of the disciple.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A buddha considered the head of all the buddha families, regarded as a dharmakāya buddha in the new schools of Tibetan Buddhism.)