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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A great ''siddha'', an advanced practitioner who has attained the supreme accomplishment, which is enlightenment. A famous work by the I2th-c. Indian scholar Abhayadatta recounts the lives of eighty-four ''mahasiddhas'' of ancient India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A great Bodhisattva, one of the eight Close Sons. He personifies the power and the Mind of all the Buddhas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (A great Buddhist scholar (paṇḍita).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A great Indian master of philosophy. He was named "Naga Master" because he taught the beings in the naga world and returned with the extensive version of Prajnaparamita left in their safekeeping.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A great Indian master who expounded the teachings of the Middle Way and composed numerous philosophical and medical treatises)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (A great Kadam master of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A great Tibetan master and the chief disciple of Marpa. See'' The Life of Milarepa'' (Shambhala Publications, 1977).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A great Tibetan master and translator, dis … A great Tibetan master and translator, disciple of Drogmi, Naropa, Maitripa, and other great siddhas. He brought many tantrasfrom India to Tibet and translated them. These teachings were passed down through Milarepa and his other disciples, and are the basis of the teachings of the Kagyu lineageasis of the teachings of the Kagyu lineage)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A great Tibetan master in the Oral Lineage of the Nyingma School.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A great bodhisattva of a past aeon.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A great bodhisattva, one of the eight close sons. He personifies the power and mind of all buddhas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A great female Indian master and a teacher of Khyungpo Naljor.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A great kalpa is the time period correspon … A great kalpa is the time period corresponding to a cycle of formation, duration, destruction, and vacuity of a universe (each of these four phases comprising twenty intermediate kalpas). There is also a so-called measureless kalpa (''grangs med bskal pa''), which, despite its name, does not refer to an infinite lapse of time but to a specific period defined in the Abhidharma as consisting of 10 kalpas. The present (great) kalpa is usually referred to as the Good or Fortunate Kalpa on account of the fact that a thousand universal Buddhas will appear in the course of it. The Buddha Shakyamuni is the fourth in the series.ha Shakyamuni is the fourth in the series.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A great lineage master in the Drukpa Kagyu school.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A great master of the Drukpa Kagyü School.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A great master of the Nyingma Lineage. ''C … A great master of the Nyingma Lineage. ''Chetsun'' means "Noble-Tongued," someone who never lied, slandered, or gossiped. At the verge of passing away in the rainbow body of five-colored light, at Oyuk Lung in Central Tibet, he imparted his last instructions, the epitome of the Dzogchen teachings, to the dakini Palgyi Lodrö. Many centuries later, the great nonsectarian master Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo had a visionary experience recalling his former incarnation as Chetsun Senge Wangchuk and was given the teachings back by the dakini. He wrote them down as the ''Chetsun Nyingthig'', the Heart Essence of Chetsun, a cycle of teachings that is one of the most important Dzogchen tantras to be practiced in the coming generations.to be practiced in the coming generations.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (A great pandita or great scholar or teacher.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (A great scholar.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (A great scholar.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A great second-century master of the Mahayana and founder of the Madhyamika system of thought closely associated with the Prajnaparamita-sutras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A great translator (958—1051) and inaugurator of the second phase of translation of Sanskrit texts into Tibetan, so-called the New Translation period.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A great translator and one of the principal disciples of Guru Padmasambhava from whom he received the transmission of the ''Matarah mandala''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (A group of meditation practices, with and … A group of meditation practices, with and without a specific object of mindfulness, that bring the mind into a state of quiescence. The breath is most usually taken as the primary object of meditation in the practice of ''shamatha''. ''Shamatha'' is practiced in all the Buddhist meditation traditions and is commonly considered the preliminary to ''vipashyana'', or insight. ''See also'' vipashyana.na'', or insight. ''See also'' vipashyana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A group of powerful spirits indigenous to … A group of powerful spirits indigenous to Tibet. They were converted by Padmasambhava and commanded to serve Buddhism. Today, they are still called upon along with Nyenchen Tanglha and Machen Pomra during Vajrayana rituals in order to guard the doctrine of the Buddha, elevate the status of the Precious Ones, expand the community of the Sangha, increase the life and splendor of the practitioners, raise the banner of fame, blow the conch of renown, and increase our following and prosperity.and increase our following and prosperity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (A group of words or syllables associated with specific meditational deities, the recitation of which forms an essential part of tantric meditation.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A hanging scroll painting.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A hanging wooden block that is struck with a wooden mallet, one of the instruments to signal events in the monastery. It is roughly (with some variation) two feet by one-and-a-half feet by four inches. 77n. 12)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A heavenly abode or pure realm.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (A hell realm where black lines are drawn on the victims' bodies and they are then cut along these lines. The Vajra Hells are the worst of the hot hell realms.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A heruka of the Vajra Family, repre-senting the mind aspect; one the main yidams of the Mahayoga tantra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A heruka of the father order of anuttara t … A heruka of the father order of anuttara tantra. Belonging to the vajra family, he exemplifies the penetrating quality of transmuted anger. Blue, sitting in the vajārasanā , he has six arms and four faces. With two arms he clasps his prajñā (consort) with his vajra and ghaṇṭā; the other four hands hold the mudrās of the other four buddha families: a dharmacakra, a flaming jewel, a lotus, and a crossed vajra.aming jewel, a lotus, and a crossed vajra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A heruka of the mother order of anuttara tantra, belonging to the padma family; he is a particularly important yidam in the Kagyü lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A high level of accomplishment. Same as the vidyadhara level of mahamudra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A high level of realization; perceiving the empty nature of all things.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (A high teacher in the Tibetan tradition.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A highly concentrated state of mind in whi … A highly concentrated state of mind in which one is focused effortlessly on a particular object of meditation. Like ''concentration'', meditative equipoise presupposes ''tranquil abiding'' and has a range of possible objects that are its focal point, including ''emptiness'' itself.cal point, including ''emptiness'' itself.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A highly learned and realized being, he is one of the late Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's sons and holder of the Dudjom Tersar lineage. He lives in the United States and has published some of the most amazing books on Dharma written in English.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (A highly meritorious devotional practice, consisting in walking clockwise, concentratedly and with awareness, around a sacred object, such as a temple, stupa, holy mountain, or the house — and even the person — of a spiritual master.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A highly realized being who reveals Dharma teachings concealed in the physical world or in the nature of mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A hinayana follower of the Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (A historical giant and Herculean warrior.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A hot, red cone visualized at the navel cakra in candālī meditation. See CM 408, VE183-90.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A human existence endowed with the eight freedoms and ten riches.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A key principle of mahāyāna Buddhism, desc … A key principle of mahāyāna Buddhism, describing the motivatīon and action of a bodhisattva, i.e., the practice of the pāramitās. Compassion is said to arise' from experiencing the suffering of sentient beings, including ourselves; insight into the four noble truths; seeing the suffering inherent in bewilderment about cause and effect; clinging to solid and permanent existence; and spontaneously, from śūnyatā.xistence; and spontaneously, from śūnyatā.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A key term in Thögal practice, Connected to the Innermost Unexcelled Cycle of the Great Perfection.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A key term in Vajrayana philosophy, signif … A key term in Vajrayana philosophy, signifying a departure from the Mahayana's over-emphasis on emptiness, which can lead to nihilism. According to Mipham Rinpoche, "luminosity" means "free from the darkness of unknowing and endowed with the ability to cognize." and endowed with the ability to cognize.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A key term in vajrayāna referring to the simultaneous arising of sarṃsāra and nirvāṇa, naturally giving birth to wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A key term in vajrayāna referring to the n … A key term in vajrayāna referring to the naked simplicity of things as they are, raw and rugged. Here there is nothing to abandon and nothing to cultivate. It is synonomous with the fourth moment (S: vilakṣaṇa; T: mtsan-nyid-dang-bral-ba) which cuts through the web of past, present, and future.ough the web of past, present, and future.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A kind of bird, in Indian and Tibetan my-thology, traditionally of great size, the chicks of which are said to emerge from the shell already equipped with feathers and able to fly immediately. It is a symbol of Primordial Wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A kind of bird, in both Indian and Tibetan tradition. A creature of great size, it hatches already fledged and is able to fly at once. It is therefore used as a symbol of primordial wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A kind of bird, in both the Indian and Tibetan traditions. A creature of great size, immediately upon hatching it is able to fly. A symbol of primordial wisdom.)