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- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A place for practice/realization of the Way; used for the Sanskrit bodhimandala, originally the site of Buddha's enlightenment. Now also commonly used for martial arts practice halls. 115, 119n.21)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A place or world manifested by a buddha or … A place or world manifested by a buddha or great bodhisattva through the spontaneous qualities of his realization. A place where beings can progress toward enlightenment without falling back into the lower realms of samsara. Also, any place whatsoever when it is perceived as a pure manifestation of spontaneous wisdom. pure manifestation of spontaneous wisdom.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A positive action, such as a profound stat … A positive action, such as a profound state of meditation devoid of the motivation of bodhichitta. The characteristic feature of this kind of action is that it invariably produces rebirth in the form or formless realms of samsara. Other actions lack this unwavering or invariable quality in the sense that, depending on circumstances, their result may ripen in a realm different from the one normally to be expected.rent from the one normally to be expected.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A positive or virtuous act that serves as a cause propelling one towards happy states.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A positive or virtuous act that serves as a cause propelling one towards happy states.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A positive or virtuous act that serves as a cause propelling one towards happy states)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A powerful being in Indo-Tibetan mythology, the nāga is commonly represented as a being with a human torso and head and with a serpent's body. Nāgas are commonly associated with water and with wealth and dwell in subterranean areas.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A powerful being in Indo-Tibetan mythology, the nāga is commonly represented as a being with a human torso and head and with a serpent's body. Nāgas are commonly associated with water and with wealth and dwell in subterranean areas.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A powerful being that guards one of the ten directions)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A powerful creature figuring in the Buddhi … A powerful creature figuring in the Buddhist and Hindu worldview, closely associated with snakes and endowed with intelligence, magical powers, and great wealth. Nagas are said to live beneath the earth and to inhabit the watery element; in traditional medicine, they are linked with certain diseases, especially those of the skin.in diseases, especially those of the skin.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A powerful deity residing in the realm of form.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A powerful local spirit from the area of Kham, the chief of twenty-one major local divinities.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A powerful malevolent or hostile spirit or demon, the embodiment of obstacles on the path to liberation.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A powerful malevolent or hostile spirit or demon, the embodiment of obstacles on the path to liberation.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A powerful protector, who may be a sentient being.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A powerful, violent, and malicious spirit. [TD 1315])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A powerful, wrathful spirit.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A practice connected with dream yoga.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A practice consisting of the visualization … A practice consisting of the visualization of the guru (in whichever form), prayers and requests for blessing, the visualized reception of these blessings, and the merging of the mind in the guru's enlightened wisdom mind. Guru yoga is the single most important practice of tantric Buddhism.st important practice of tantric Buddhism.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A practice consisting of visualizing the g … A practice consisting of visualizing the guru, making prayers and requests for blessing, receiving these blessings, and merging the mind in the guru's enlightened wisdom-mind. It is the final part of the preliminary practices (''ngöndro'') of the Vajrayana and is considered to be the quintessence of all subsequent practice.e quintessence of all subsequent practice.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (A practice of the Great Perfection that focuses on the spontaneously present "clarity aspect" of ultimate reality. By contrast, trekchö focuses on the aspect of primordial purity.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A practice of training (sbyong) the mind ( … A practice of training (sbyong) the mind (''io''/bio) and cultivating relative and absolute bodhichitta with the use of short phrases, or slogans, as taught by Atisha in his Seven-Point Mind Training and other eminent Kadam masters. Later, numerous ''lojong'' slogans were written by masters of all schools.ns were written by masters of all schools.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A practice to accomplish speed walking.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A practice to purify outer, inner, and secret or innermost breaches and violations of a practitioner's Hinayana precepts, Mahayana vows, or Vajrayana commitments.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A practice which sustains the living body with the essences of medicinal plants, minerals, and elemental energy in order to purify the body, heighten concentration, and avoid the diversions of seeking ordinary material food.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A practitioner of vajrayana.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (A practitioner on the path to Buddhahood, training in the practice of compassion and the six pāramitās (q.v.), who has vowed to attain enlightenment for the sake of all beings. The Tibetan translation of this term means "hero of the enlightened mind.")
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A practitioner taking the gradual approach to enlightenment.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A practitioner who has renounced worldly l … A practitioner who has renounced worldly life and taken the pledge to observe the 253 precepts of a fully ordained monk in order to attain liberation from samsara. Bhikshu Purna (dge slong purna) The previous life of the Tibetan translator Vairochana. Black Powerful One (stobs ldan nag po) The chief figure in the mandala of Maledictory Fierce Mantra from among the Eight Sadhana Teachings.ra from among the Eight Sadhana Teachings.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A prayer wheel, often carried by older Tib … A prayer wheel, often carried by older Tibetans in the right hand, consisting of a handle serving as an axis for a spinning metal container filled with mantras. The metal is often embossed with Chenreziks mantra, ''Om mani padme hung'', and practitioners recite this mantra while turning the wheel, hence the name. The term can also refer to the larger drums filled with mantras, which can be lined up in walls, stood in a large room by themselves, or set in a stream to be turned by water or on a roof to be spun by the wind.water or on a roof to be spun by the wind.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A predecessor of Shantarakshita as an exponent of the upper school of the Svatantrika, but not considered its founder.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A prefix meaning self, auto, intrinsic, natural.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A primordial Buddha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A princess who was one of the Indian lineage masters of the Dzogchen teachings. She was a disciple of the scholar Maharaja and the teacher of Atsantra Aloke.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A process of physical and mental dissolution that all sentient beings go through at various times, as when falling asleep and even in the moment of a sneeze. Here these stages refer chiefly to the process of dying.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (A proponent of a non-Buddhist tradition. The term is mostly used to denote followers of Indian religious and philosophical schools that promote any form of extreme view, such as the beliefs in permanence and annihilation.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A proponent of extreme philosophical views such as nihilism and eternalism. This term is often used to imply non-Buddhist religious traditions in India)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A proponent of extreme philosophical views such as nihilism and eternalism. This term is often used to imply non-Buddhist religious traditions in India.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A proponent of extreme philosophical views such as nihilism and eternalism. This term is often used to imply non-Buddhist religious traditions in India.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (A proponent of the Cittamātra view. Even though this term is not attested in Indian literature, we use it as a convenient convention instead of the lengthy ‘proponent of the Cittamātra view.’)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (A proponent of the Madhyamaka view.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A proponent of the Madhyamaka view.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (A proposition advanced by one’s own side in debate. Unlike Prāsaṅgika debaters, Svātantrikas put forward a proposition of their own to establish non-inherent existence ofphenomena at the ultimate level.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A protection amulet worn around the neck. Yantras contain mantras and sometimes pictures of deities.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A protective barrier, formed of a vajra mesh, that is erected in all directions prior to practicing a maṇḍala, making offerings, giving an empowerment, and so forth. [TD 2983])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A protector of the Dharma teachings bound under oath by Padmasambhava. She was formerly a Bőnpo warrior spirit (dgra lha).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A protector of the teachings. These normal … A protector of the teachings. These normally nonhuman entities arc sometimes emanations of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and sometimes local spirits, gods, or demons who have been subjugated by a great spiritual master and bound under oath. The harness-ing of their energy in the service of the Doctrine is considered to have played a decisive role in the preservation of the teachings from its begin-nings in Tibet until the present time. In the form of oracles, such as that of Nechung, for example, the dharmapalas continue to exert a direct influ-ence on Tibetan life.exert a direct influ-ence on Tibetan life.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A protectress of the Bŏnpo doctrine. She was subjugated by Padmasambhava and given the name Great Glacier Lady of Invincible Turquoise Mist.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A protuberance that raises infinitely into space from the top of a buddha's head. It can be seen only by a bodhisattva who has attained the first bhumi.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A province in eastern Tibet.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A psychophysical component that circulates … A psychophysical component that circulates in the subtle channels of the body and acts as the support of the mind. In ordinary beings the wind energy is impure. It is called karmic energy (''las kyi rlung'') because it is contaminated by karma. When purified, however, it becomes wisdom energy (''ye shes kyi rlung'').mes wisdom energy (''ye shes kyi rlung'').)