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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A female soothsayer.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A female wisdom protector of the tantric teachings, an emanation of Samantabhadri. See dharmapala)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A female yak.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A female yidam deity that embodies the principle of knowledge. [TD 2585] ''See also'' male and female consorts.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A female yidam deity whose name (Lit. "the Liberator") signifies her capacity to liberate beings from the eight forms of fear. [TD 625])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (A female yoga practitioner.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A feminine figure who ranges in meaning from a worldly deity with a variety of functions to an enlightened embodiment of wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A fierce, blue-black protector deity central to the Kagyu lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A fifth-sixth-century Indian Abhidharma scholar. He was a disciple of Vasubandhu and wrote numerous commentaries on his master’s works.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A fig tree.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A flour used throughout Tibet as a staple food-ground, roasted barley. It is often mixed with tea and butter into a thick porridge.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A follower of Hinayana, whose goal is to be free of the sufferings of samsara. Unlike the followers of the Great Vehicle, shravakas do not aspire to full enlightenment for the sake of all beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A follower of a Hindu school of philosophy See note 50)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A follower of a Hindu school of philosophy.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A follower of a Hindu school of philosophy. See note 52.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A follower of a nonBuddhist materialist philosophy current in ancient India See note 55)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A follower of the Basic Vehicle who attains liberation (the cessation of suffering) without the help of a spiritual teacher.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A follower of the Basic Vehicle who attains liberation (the cessation of suffering) without the help of a spiritual teacher.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A follower of the Basic Vehicle who attains liberation (the cessation of suffering) without the help of a spiritual teacher)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A follower of the Great Vehicle whose aim is perfect enlightenment for all beings. One who has taken the vow of bodhicitta and practices the six transcendent perfections.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A follower of the Great Vehicle whose aim is enlightenment for all beings)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A follower of the Great Vehicle whose aim is enlightenment for all beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A follower of the Great Vehicle whose aim is enlightenment for all beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A follower of the Hinayana noted for his living in isolation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A follower of the Lesser Vehicle whose goal is to attain liberation for themselves as an arhat. The listeners are so called because they listen to the Buddha’s teaching and then teach it to others.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (A follower of the Madhyamaka)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A follower of the Madhyamaka philosophical school founded by Nagarjuna See note 34)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A follower of the sarvāstitva doctrine.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A follower of the school of Madhyamaka.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A foretaste or illustration of the absolute wisdom. Example wisdom is not totally devoid of conceptual mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A form embodiment of an enlightened being, including nirmāṇakāyas and saṃbhogakāyas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A form of a Buddha used as a support in meditation in the Mantrayana. Such deities may be masculine or feminine, peaceful or wrathful, and are regarded as being inseparable from the mind of the meditator.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A form of being somewhat similar to a fairy or nymph. Some exist within cyclic existence, others are free from it.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A form of divination using mirrors or other reflective surfaces (including water or the sky) into which prepubescent children may see prognostic images. See Strickmann 2002, 210–18.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A form of prayer comprising seven parts: prostration, offering, confession, rejoicing, requesting the teachers to turn the wheel of Dharma, requesting them not to pass into nirvana, and dedication of merit)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (A form of sacred architecture representing the pure presence of the Buddha and embodying essential principles of the body, speech, mind, qualities, and actions of enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A form of yoga practiced in the vajrayāna, which involves working with the illusory body of nāḍī, prāṇa, and bindu by means of controlling mind, breath, and body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A fourth buddha body uniting the other three; see ''kusum''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A fourth century Buddhist teacher, one of the founders of the Yogācāra school of Buddhism.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (A fully and completely enlightened being. … A fully and completely enlightened being. All the historical Buddhist traditions — Theravada (Hinayana), Mahayana, and Vajrayana — enumerate many such beings, both preceding and following the buddha of this world age, Shakyamuni Buddha. Mahayana Buddhism counts the buddhas as limitless in number, appearing throughout endless time and space. In the Mahayana and Vajrayana, many celestial buddhas are known and become the objects of meditation and worship.ome the objects of meditation and worship.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A fully enlightened buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (A fully enlightened compassionate being who, through the "superior" motivation and practices of the mahayana path, goes beyond personal liberation to benefit all sentient beings. (See also Three yanas))
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A fully ordained Buddhist monk, who has taken the 253 vows of full ordination.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A fully ordained Buddhist monk.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A fully ordained Buddhist monk.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A fully ordained female member of the Sańgha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A fully ordained male member of the Saṅgha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A fully ordained monk, who vows to abide by 253 rules of behavior. ''See also'' getsul.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A fully ordained monk.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A fully ordained monk.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A fully ordained monk.)