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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A method of textual analysis adopted by th … A method of textual analysis adopted by the panditas of Nalanda and used by Tibetan scholars. It consists of a sequence of five topics: the author of the treatise (''mdzad pa po''), its scriptural source (''lung gang nas btus''), its general philosophical tendency (''phyogs gang du gtogs''), its condensed meaning (''bsdus don''), and its purpose (''dgos ched'').s don''), and its purpose (''dgos ched'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Meeting the Great Bliss Queen/Glossary + (A mind intent on achieving enlightenment for the sake of others.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Meeting the Great Bliss Queen/Glossary + (A mind's natural and clear awareness of itself, a state identified for '''Great Completeness''' practitioners so that they can discover it in the course of their training)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A minister in the government.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A minister of King Trisong Deutsen; also spelled Dershey Trelchung (sder bzhed sprel chung).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A minister of King Trisong Deutsen; also spelled Gyaltsa Lhanang (rgyal tsha lha snang).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A minister of the king Songtsen Gampo. After studying in India, he composed the grammar of the Tibetan language and devised the alphabet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A miraculous display made for the sake ofothers by one who has accomplished such power through meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A mischievous male spirit of a class of spirits born of the union of the ''rgyal po'' and '' 'gong po''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (A misconception of holding what does not exist to exist.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary + (A mode of thinking and expression linked in particular with certain sūtras teaching the ''tathāgatagarbha'', with the ''Ratnagotravibhāga-Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'', and with Nāgārjuna's "Hymnic Corpus" (Tib. ''bstod tshogs'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A monastery.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A monastic center of southern India, located in the present-day state of Madras. Nāgārjuna is among the well-known Buddhists who visited there.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A monk from the Chinese Buddhist tradition.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A monk's robe-a large, rectangular wrap, since the time of Shakyamuni traditionally sewed together by monks following a particular pattern and ritual sewing practice. Originally the okesa was made from discarded rags, dyed uniformly. 39, 53n. 22,70)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A monument enshrining the relics of a budd … A monument enshrining the relics of a buddha or realized master. There are many different kinds, but stupas usually have a square base with a round midsection topped by a spire. They symbolize the mind of the Buddha and are often major sites of pilgrimage, such as the Baudhanath Stupa outside Kathmandu, Nepal.Baudhanath Stupa outside Kathmandu, Nepal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A monument often containing relics of Budd … A monument often containing relics of Buddhist saints, as well as mandalas, hundred of thousands of mantras, sacred books, and earth from various sacred places. Stupas symbolize the enlightened mind of the buddhas, while statues symbolize the enlightened body and books symbolize the enlightened speech. There are many kinds ofstupas, which are all built according to well-defined proportions. It is said that they bring great benefit to the land where they are built and contribute to reducing conflicts, famines, and other causes of suffering throughout the world. causes of suffering throughout the world.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A mountain in the Yarlung valley of Central Tibet, where the first king of Tibet is said to have descended from the sky.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (A mountain range south of the Yarlung Valley, in southern Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A mountainside above Samye monastery and the location of many cave hermitages.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A mudrā may be any sort of symbol. For ins … A mudrā may be any sort of symbol. For instance, the white dharmacakra is a mudrā of Vairocana; the hooked knife is a mudrā of Vajravārāhī. Specifically, mudrās are symbolic hand gestures that accompany sādhana practices to state the quality of different moments of meditation.<br> More generally, mudrā is the provocative color of apparent phenomena. Mudra is self-evidencing, and the symbol and symbolized are inseparable., and the symbol and symbolized are inseparable.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A multivalent term in Indic religions more … A multivalent term in Indic religions more generally and Buddhism in particular. In English orthography, Dharma (capitalized) refers to the entirety of the Buddhas teachings or to a particular teaching or set of teachings (e.g., the six Dharmas of Nāropa), while dharma (not capitalized) denotes the basic constituents of reality as described by the Buddha and categorized in the texts of the ''abhidharma'' tradition.the texts of the ''abhidharma'' tradition.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A mundane dākinī. See CM 45 4amaru (Skt.).A ritual hand-drum used, fe instance, in the practice oseverance.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A mundane dākinī. See CM 450.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A mythical bird symbolizing primal wisdom, … A mythical bird symbolizing primal wisdom, of great size and able to fly as soon as it is hatched. The five colors in which it is sometimes represented symbolize the five wisdoms. It is the enemy of the nagas, and is depicted with a snake in its beak, symbolizing consuming the afflictive emotionsbolizing consuming the afflictive emotions)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (A mythical bird which hatches fully grown.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A mythical creature half-man and half-animal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A mythical creature that is half man and half animal. Along with the gandharvas, the kinnaras are celebrated as celestial musicians.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A mythical demon believed to cause eclipses by devouring the sun and moon.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (A mythical demon believed to devour the sun and moon, thereby causing the eclipses.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A mythical lotus, extremely large and rare. It is said to flower only once in a single kalpa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (A mythical mountain of fire believed to exist within the southern ocean.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A mythological bird, master of the skies. It traditionally preys on the nāgas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A name for abbot that means, literally, "provider of food," referring to the abbot's responsibility to monks in his temple. 55n. 37)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A name for the Kagyü lineage, which emphasizes their strong allegiance to meditation practice. This epithet can be applied to the Nyingma lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A name for the red bindu (located four fin … A name for the red bindu (located four finger-widths below the navel) that relates to its shape. It may refer to the final vertical stroke mark in the letter a—the ा (from अ in Devanāgarī, rendered as A in Tibetan)—or to the Vartula script's representation of the letter A by a single vertical line. See Kongtrul 2007b, 159; and Roberts 2011, 703.ongtrul 2007b, 159; and Roberts 2011, 703.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A name given in the tantras to male Bodhisattvas; the male counterpart of a dakini. A worldly daka is a being endowed with certain preternatural powers, not necessarily beneficent.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A name given to the mind in the bardo. This is discussed in the Explanation of the "Treasury of Abhidharma," chapter 3, commentary on verse 12cd. See Pruden 1988–90, 286.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (A name of the pure land of Padmasambhava, or Guru Rinpoche. ''See also'' Chamara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A native intelligence that sees beyond the … A native intelligence that sees beyond the surface to a more profound reality, which can be seeing the impermanence of all phenomena, or more deeply, mind's nature itself. In dialectics, deeper knowing is traditionally defined as the faculty of the mind that is able to distinguish between the relative and the ultimate.ish between the relative and the ultimate.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A natural state of liberation in which the emergence of appearances becomes simultaneous with their release, like lightning flashing from the sky and vanishing back into the sky. See VE 41.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A naturally occurring spirit abiding in mountains, cliffs, and patches of earth, often a kind of earth goddess.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A naturally occurring spirit abiding in mountains, cliffs, and patches of earth, often a kind of earth goddess.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A nectar that brings freedom from birth and death; it can also function as a purifying liquid to cleanse away defilements.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (A negation in which the possibility of ano … A negation in which the possibility of another (positive) value is implied. For example, in the statement "It isn't a cat that is on the roof," the presence of a cat is denied, but in such a way as to suggest that there might be something else. Compare this with the statement "There is nothing on the roof" This is a nonaffirming negative (''med dgag''), which negates without implying anything else.ch negates without implying anything else.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (A negation in which the possibility of ano … A negation in which the possibility of another (positive) value is implied. For example, in the statement "It isn't a cat that is on the roof," the presence of a cat is denied, but in such a way as to suggest that there might be something else. Compare this with the statement "There is nothing on the roof" This is a nonaffirming negative (''med dgag''), which negates without implying anything else.ch negates without implying anything else.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A negation that does not indicate or imply … A negation that does not indicate or imply anything in place of its object of negation. The other main type of negation used in Indo-Tibetan debate is an implicative negation (ma yin dgag, paryudāsapratiṣhedha), which implies or affirms something in place of the object of negation.ething in place of the object of negation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (A negation that eliminates its object of negation but does not imply an affirmative phenomenon.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A newly ordained Buddhist monk. See the entry under ''pravrajyā''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (A nomadic grassland region near Manigango, in Derge County.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (A non-Vedic doctrinal system generally linked with the Nyaya school and laying great emphasis on analysis and reason.)