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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.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (A correct means of assessing what is true or real. It is particularly associated with an influential system developed by Dharmaklrti.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A counteragent which generates disgust.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A cousin of Shakyamuni Buddha whose extreme jealousy prevented him from receiving any benefit from the Buddha's teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A cousin of the Buddha who became his attendant. Since he was able to remember everything that he had heard the Buddha say, it was he who ensured the preservation of the sutra teachings by reciting the sutras in their entirety at the First Council)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A cross between a yak and a cow.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A cross between a yak and a cow.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (A culmination or limit of attainment is as … A culmination or limit of attainment is associated with each of the four initiations. These culminations of realization or attainment result from the specific practices of the respective initiations. These results arise at certain points along the path, and are not the ultimate and final results. The same Tibetan term also means "philosophical tenet," which is not applicable in this context." which is not applicable in this context.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A cup or bowl made from the top of a human skull. Kapalas are used in tantric ceremonies and symbolize non-attachment and the nonexistence of the ego.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A cycle of tantrie practices.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A dakini, usually of wrathful aspect; a kind of flesh-eating demoness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A dark blue gemstone; it is astringent in … A dark blue gemstone; it is astringent in taste, its post-digestive effects are cooling, and in terms of its healing effects, it benefits illnesses from poisoning, leprosy, lymph disorders, and skin disorders. Blue beryl may match this description, but this requires further research.ption, but this requires further research.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A deed that is done intentionally)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (A deep understanding that becomes part of us and changes our outlook on the world. When we realize love, for example, the way we feel about and relate to others changes dramatically.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A definition given by the semantic roots of terms.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A deity and set of scriptures belonging to … A deity and set of scriptures belonging to the Nine Sadhana Sections. Often the Guru Vidyadhara and the eight herukas in the Eight Sadhana Teachings form a single mandala with nine groups of deities. The chief existing scripture for the teachings on Guru Vidyadhara is called the Root Tantra oĵ the Assemblage of Vidyadharas (rig 'dzin 'dus pa rtsa ba'i rgyud) and is the fifteenth tantra within the Assemblage of Sugatas, an immensely detailed collection of teachings on the Eight Sadhana Teachings and associated Vajrayana material brought to Tibet by Padmasambhava and taught to his main disciple. The Assemblage of Sugatas was concealed as a terma and later revealed by Nyang Ral Nyima Oser. The practice of Guru Vidyadhara is expressed through the principle known as the four aspects of approach and accomplishment. The most detailed terma on this principle was revealed by Sangye Lingpa (1340—1396) and is still renowned as Lama Gongdū (bla ma dgongs 'dus) in eighteen volumes of approximately seven hundred pages each. The Guru Vidyadhara is also the basis for innumerable sadhanas propagated by other tertőns, for instance the Rigdzin Dupa cycle within the termas of Longchen Nyingtig as well as the Barchey Kunsel cycle revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, which are both widely practiced to this day.ich are both widely practiced to this day.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A deity of the Hindu pantheon, belonging, in the Buddhist system, to the world of form.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A deity representing enlightenment, in a male or female, peaceful or wrathful form, that corresponds to the practitioner's individual nature. The yidam is the source of accomplishments)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A deity who is the wrathful form of Manjushri. ''Yamantaka'' means "destroyer of Yama," the embodiment of death.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A demon associated with eclipses, and with one of the nine planets in Indo-Tibetan cosmology. Also regarded as a dharma protector.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A demon associated with eclipses, and with one of the nine planets in Indo-Tibetan cosmology. Also regarded as a dharma protector.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A demon who works in stealth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A demonic force or being that emerges from the aggregates of grasping at the "I and consists of the conceptual mental factors that reify appearances, arising as an apparition of ignorance.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A demonic force that manifests as grasping involving hopes and fears.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A dense forest.)