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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.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (A non-Vedic doctrinal system generally linked with the Nyaya school and laying great emphasis on analysis and reason.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A non-meritorious deed.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A nonconceptual, nonmistaken awareness arisen on the basis of its own uncommon dominant condition, a physical sense faculty. See Mind and Its World I Sourcebook 2007, 67–70.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A nonconceptual, nonmistaken awareness arisen from the last moment of highest meditation. See Mind and Its World I Sourcebook 2007, 162–67.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A nonconceptual, nonmistaken awareness arisen on the basis of its own dominant condition, the mental sense faculty. See Mind and Its World I Sourcebook 2007, 126–37.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A nonconceptual, nonmistaken awareness that experiences itself. See Mind and Its World I Sourcebook 2007, 138–52.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A nonmonastic tantric practitioner.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A nonvirtuous karma that ripens as misery and adversity in this or future lifetimes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A novice monk, who vows to abide by thirtythree basic rules of behavior, one of which is celibacy for life. ''See also'' gelong.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A nun from Khotan who became Vairotsana's foremost female disciple.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A nāga queen, ruler of the world of water.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A painted or embroidered Tibetan Buddhist image, usually depicting one or more deities or manualas, which can be rolled up for storage or transportation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (A particle prefixed to roots in Sanskrit.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A particular form of tantric practice that … A particular form of tantric practice that is often presented alongside the single seal and elaborate seal; Ju Mipham explains, "In group assembly practice, the five perfections form the basis. The main practice is then carried out via the four divisions of approach and accomplishment, which allows one to swiftly attain the states of the four knowledge holders that result from this process (in thirty-six days, for example}." [ON 536]n thirty-six days, for example}." [ON 536])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A particular teaching whose practice is the entrance to the path of enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A particular type of mantra, usually quite long.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A particularly dreadful female demon, among the most feared of the spirits in Tibetan Buddhism. Mamos are associated with warfare and disease.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A particularly dreadful female demon, among the most feared of the spirits in Tibetan Buddhism. Mamos are associated with warfare and disease.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (A path to become buddha that involves bodhicitta, the method of compassion, and the wisdom that thoroughly realizes emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (A path to enlightenment that emphasizes the renunciation of samsara in the quest for personal liberation. This tradition does not accept the Great Vehicle scriptures (i.e., the middle and last wheels of Dharma) as the word of the Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A patron or sponsor, especially of religious persons or undertakings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A perception that is a pratyakṣa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A perfect buddha's thirty-two major and eighty minor marks of excellence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A perfect memory, the essence of which is nondistraction.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A period of six months.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A person belonging to the highest social caste in India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A person belonging to the priestly caste.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (A person of the Small Vehicle who has attained nirvana for his or her own benefit without the aid of a buddha's teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A person practicing a spiritual path)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A person practicing a spiritual path.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A person practicing a spiritual path.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A person practicing a spiritual path.)