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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A class of goddesses called "fierce.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A class of malevolent spirits and ghosts. [TD 467])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A class of semi-divine beings who sometimes act as protectors of the Dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A class of semi-divine beings, generally benevolent but sometimes wicked. Many are powerful local divinities; others live on Mount Sumeru, guarding the realm of the gods.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A class of semidivine beings, generally benevolent, but sometimes wicked. Many are powerful local divinities; others live on Mount Sumeru, guarding the realm of the gods.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A class of sentient beings who live on sce … A class of sentient beings who live on scents. Gandharvas are also a type of celestial musicians living on the rim of Mount Sumeru in cloudlike castles. Often a "city of the gandharvas" is used as an analogy for illusory phenomena, like a fairy castle in the clouds.nomena, like a fairy castle in the clouds.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A class of spirits who ride goats and as patrons of blacksmiths carry a bellows and hammer.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A class ofprotectors of the Dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (A classes of nonhuman beings usually portrayed as having animal heads, such as of a horse, and being master musicians)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A classification of sufferings particularl … A classification of sufferings particularly associated with the human condition. These are birth, old age, sickness, death, and the sufferings of encountering enemies, of being separated from loved ones, of not having what one wants, and of having to put up with what one does not want.ing to put up with what one does not want.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (A classification of worldly spirits into t … A classification of worldly spirits into the categories of ging, dü, tsen, yaksha, rakshasa, mamo, rahula, and naga. On the inner level, they correspond to the eight kinds of consciousness, namely, the five sense consciousnesses, the mental consciousness, the defiled consciousness that conceives of "I," and the consciousness of the ''alaya'', the foundation of the mind that is the repository of karmic seeds and habitual tendencies.y of karmic seeds and habitual tendencies.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A close disciple of Guru Rinpoche, who att … A close disciple of Guru Rinpoche, who attained accomplishment through the practice of Hayagriva and later was incarnated as the Karmapas. Born in the clan of Ngenlam in the Phen Valley, he took ordination from Khenpo Bodhisattva in the first group of seven Tibetan monks. It is said that he kept his vows with utmost purity. Having received the transmission of Hayagriva from Padmasambhava, he practiced in solitude and reached the level of a vidyadhara.ude and reached the level of a vidyadhara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A close disciple of Vimalamitra and Guru Rinpoche. He later incarnated as the great tertön Jatson Nyingpo, one of Tsele Natsok Rangdröl's teachers.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A cloud-shaped flat metal gong in front of the kitchen. It is struck with a wooden mallet. 80n. 29)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A coarse or subtle conduit included within the triad of channels, vital energies, and bindus. The three principal channels are avadhūti, lalanā, and rasanā. The quintessence of the channels is the hollow crystal kati channel See CM 387; VE 279-80.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (A cognition that correctly knows its object, a nondeceptive cognition that brings about certainty regarding its object.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (A cognition that correctly knows its object, a nondeceptive cognition that brings about certainty regarding its object.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (A collection of Mahayana sutras or text in … A collection of Mahayana sutras or text in which the Buddha gives teachings on the meaning of ''shunyata'', emptiness. The earlier ''Prajnaparamita Sutras'' are among the earliest Mahayana compositions and later became the basis for the Madhyamaka school through Nagarjuna's influential commentaries on them.arjuna's influential commentaries on them.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A collection of scriptures, originally in the form of palm leaf folios stored in baskets. The Buddha’s teachings are generally divided into three collections or baskets: Vinaya, Sūtra, and Abhidharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A collection of spontaneous vajra songs by the Indian masters of the mahamudra lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (A collection, often in 108 volumes, that c … A collection, often in 108 volumes, that constitutes the base of the Buddhist canon in the Tibetan tradition. The ''Kangyur'' (literally, "translation of the words of Buddha") is divided into several sections, of which the main ones are the ''Tripiṭaka'', or Three Baskets, (sde snod gsum) and the tantras (rgyud)., (sde snod gsum) and the tantras (rgyud).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A collective term for the manifestations of enlightenment that tame whoever needs to be tamed and that do so in whichever way is necessary. In this book, the term refers to a collection of tantric scriptures belonging chiefly to Mahayoga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A collective term for the paths of accumul … A collective term for the paths of accumulating and joining. The level of earnest aspiration is a sort of prelevel before one reaches the first of the ten bodhisattva levels. Practitioners on the paths of accumulating and joining have not yet realized emptiness and cannot therefore practice the six transcendent perfections in a truly transcendental way. Their practice is more a question of willingness than of the genuine practice of amature bodhisattva.e genuine practice of amature bodhisattva.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A combined term for ''gyalpo'' and ''gongpo'' spirits.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A combined term for ''gyalpo'' and ''gongpo'' spirits.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A comet.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A commentary on the Buddha's teachings. Th … A commentary on the Buddha's teachings. The term shastra does not only apply to a commentary on one particular teaching (a named sutra, for example) but also includes works by both Indian and Tibetan masters that provide condensed or more accessible expositions of particular subjects.ssible expositions of particular subjects.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A commentary on the Buddha's teachings. Th … A commentary on the Buddha's teachings. The term shastra does not only apply to a commentary on one particular teaching (a named sutra, for example) but also includes works by both Indian and Tibetan masters that provide condensed or more accessible expositions of particular subjects.ssible expositions of particular subjects.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A commentary on the Vinaya teachings, composed by Gunaprabha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A commentary on the words of the Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A commentary on the words of the Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A commitment or vow made to the buddhas as represented by one's vajra guru.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A common epithet for a bodhisattva, with its plural (“the wise”) being used to denote bodhisattvas, and in some instances translated directly as such.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A common epithet of Manjuśrī.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A common honorific.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A common name in Buddhist works for Jains (rGyal ba pa, "Followers of the Victor"), specifically for the Digambaras ("Sky-Clad Ones"), who were the naked ascetics (all other Jains are known as Shvetāmbaras, "White Clad Ones"). See Kongtrul 2012, 414–15.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (A common property shared by particular things. In Dharmaklrti s system of valid cognition, universals are simply unreal, conceptual constructs that are incapable of performing a function, in contrast to particulars.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A common type of dharma protector deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A common type of dharma protector deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A commoner, a member of the lowest Vedic - caste in classical India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (A compilation of translations into Tibetan … A compilation of translations into Tibetan of teachings attributed to the Buddha. There are a number of editions, varying in terms of the quantity and the quality of certain texts, which include Dergé, Narthang, Peking, Lhasa, Coné, Ugra, Phudrak, and Stog Palacehasa, Coné, Ugra, Phudrak, and Stog Palace)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (A completion-stage practice included in th … A completion-stage practice included in the first of the five stages in which the ordinary view of bodily constituents is replaced with a divine view in which these constituents appear as the play of bliss and emptiness in the form of deities. This is distinguished from generation-stage practice because this practice arises from the practice of dissolving the winds in the central channel. ''See also'' five stages.central channel. ''See also'' five stages.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (A conceptual framework; the working assumption of the threefold conceptualization of agent, object, and action, which serves to prevent the attainment of complete buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A concretion found in the stomachs or entrails of certain animals and which is endowed with medicinal properties.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A confidential transmission in which speci … A confidential transmission in which special instructions have been handed down orally from guru to disciple. Ear-whispered lineages often preserve tantric traditions that have been transmitted outside of major institutional structures. Though primarily oral/ aural, they may eventually be written down.ural, they may eventually be written down.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (A consort is called a mudrā or “seal” because she guarantees or can be relied upon (yid ches, āpta) to grant bliss.The three main types of consorts are activity, wisdom, and mahāmudrā consort)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A contemporary master of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, who lives at Nagi Gompa in Nepal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A contemporary master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages, who lives at Nagi Gompa in Nepal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A contemporary master of the Kagyű and Nyingma lineages, who lives at Nagi Gompa in Nepal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A continuity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A controversial view of ''emptiness'', imp … A controversial view of ''emptiness'', implicit in some Indian Buddhist sutras and tantras, and explicit to various degrees in thejonang, Nyingma, Kagyü, and Sakya traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, which asserts that all samsaric ''dharmas'' are empty of intrinsic existence, while a ''buddhas dharmakāya'' is empty of everything extrinsic to it, namely all samsaric dharmas, but is itself eternally replete with all buddha qualities.ernally replete with all buddha qualities.)