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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A spirit or hungry ghost who consumes the potent essences of food and wealth. It personifies ultimate envy and miserliness and is usually exorcised during rituals to promote food and wealth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A spirit or hungry ghost who consumes the potent essences of food and wealth. It personifies ultimate envy and miserliness and is usually exorcised during rituals to promote food and wealth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A spirit that dwells in a town, either temporarily or as the permanent spirit of that area.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A spirit that dwells in a town, either temporarily or as the permanent spirit of that area.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A spirit whose existence is dominated by insatiable hunger, thirst, and craving.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A spiritual guide or teacher.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A spiritual guide who is qualified to lead one in the practices of Vajrayāna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A spiritual teacher who leads one to the state of liberation and spiritual awakening.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (A stake with three sharp edges for destroying the three principal poisons. Associated particularly with Vajrakīla, kīlas were used in ancient Indian rituals as pegs in the ground around a ritual site)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A standing bow in gasshō. 76n. 8)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A stanza of poetry. In the Sanskrit tradition, it has a particular kind of common epic meter.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A stanza.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (A state in meditation in which the mind concentrates one-pointedly and effortlessly on the object of meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (A state of concentration in which the mind can one-pointedly and effortlessly abide on the object of meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A state of concentration, especially one of the four states of concentration associated with the world of form.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A state of total involvement in which the … A state of total involvement in which the mind rests unwaveringly, and the content of the meditation and the meditator's mind are one. There are many different kinds of samādhi, depending on whether the meditation is developed with a certain mental image, a principle such as compassion, or with the mind itself as the object of meditation, for example.<br> Samādhi refers to the principle of absorption in meditation, but does not specify the degree of insight (vipaśyanā, prajñā) that is present. Thus, it could refer to a conditioned state of concentration in the six realms in which the sense faculties are halted, or to an unconditioned, flowing, and unobstructed experience.nditioned, flowing, and unobstructed experience.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A step, or phase, of either the moon or the planets.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A story or dialogue from the former master … A story or dialogue from the former masters used as an object of meditation or study. With the spread of Zen in the West, the word "koan" has entered English usage. Koans are not nonsensical riddles to be solved and discarded. Rather they are subtle teachings about one's own life. Based in the dialectic and logic of awakening, koans challenge our limiting, conditioned viewpoints and refine our alignment with our deeper nature. 13-14, 76n. 4ment with our deeper nature. 13-14, 76n. 4)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A string of 108 beads used for counting during mantra recitation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A strong sense of disgust for saṃsāra. It is nausea combined with clear seeing, rather than aggressive disgust. Revulsion leads to renunciation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A student of Gampopa. His students founded the eight lesser lineages within the Kagyü lineage. He is also known as Khampa Dorgyal or Dorje Gyalpo (T: rdo-rje-rgyal-po).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A subclass of kṣamāpati. These beings are thought to harm people who create disturbances in the earth or bodies of water or who cut down trees. Nāgas are a subclass of nyen.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (A subde state of mind and according to tantric teachings is the state of mind that highest realization is attained.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A sublime being; in the Great Vehicle, a Bodhisattva on one of the ten Bodhisattva levels.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A sublime being; in the Great Vehicle, a Bodhisattva on one of the ten Bodhisattva levels.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A subsidiary topic or digression from the main topic under discussion.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (A substance akin to adamant or diamond. So … A substance akin to adamant or diamond. Sometimes referred to as a thunderbolt, it is an emblem of indestructibility. In the form of a ritual implement, regularly used in tantric ceremonies, the vajra is the symbol of skillful means, that is, compassion, and is coupled with the bell (Skt. ''ghanta''; Tib. ''dril bu''), symbolizing the wisdom of emptiness.u''), symbolizing the wisdom of emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A substance that allows one to conquer death)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A substantial cause of a phenomenon is a p … A substantial cause of a phenomenon is a prior phenomenon that actually transforms into the subsequent phenomenon that it produces, such as a seed that transforms into a sprout. substantialism (Tib. gngos par lta ba). The view that phenomena exist by their own inherent natures, prior to and independent of conceptual designation.and independent of conceptual designation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A succinct and powerful practical instruction, coming from the experience of the guru and the lineage. instruction, pointing-out (Tib. mdzub khrid, ngo sprod pa). An introduction to the nature of the mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (A superior being who has attained direct realization of ultimate reality. There are four kinds of ārya: śrāvaka ārya, pratyeka ārya, bodhisattva ārya and the fully enlightened ārya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A superior teacher. A master of the Dharma, capable of imparting both instruction (''luṅ'') and empowerment (''dbaṅ'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A superior teacher. See entry for "guru.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A supernormal ability or achievement The s … A supernormal ability or achievement The supreme siddhi is the perfect enlightenment of a buddha, while the eight common siddhis include: (1) the siddhi of celestial realms, the ability to dwell in celestial realms while still alive; (i) the siddhi of the sword, the ability to overcome any hostile army; (3) the siddhi of medicinal pills, the ability to become invisible by holding blessing pills in your hand; (4) the siddhi of fleet-footedness, by which you can walk around a lake in an instant by wearing boots you have blessed; (5) the vase siddhi, by which you can create a vessel that renders inexhaustible anything you put inside it, food or money for example; (6) the siddhi of yakṣas, the power to make yakṣas your servants; (7) the siddhi of ambrosia (Skt.amṛta),which gives you a lifespan as long as the sun and the moon, the strength of an elephant, and the beauty of a lotus, and makes you feel as light as cotton wool whenever you arise from your seat; and (8) the siddhi of the balm of clairvoyance, which, when applied to your eyes, allows you to see things beneath the earth, such as treasures and so on.th the earth, such as treasures and so on.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A sutra belonging to the third turning of the wheel of dharma. Translated into English and published as The Flower Adornment Scripture, vols. 1-3, translated by Thomas Cleary (Shambhala Publications, 1984-87).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A sutra belonging to the third turning of the wheel of Dharma. Published as The Flower Ornament Scripture, 3 vols., Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1984-1987.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A sutra belonging to the third turning of the wheel of the dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A sutra of the third turning of the wheel of the dharma. Used as basis for Yogachara and Chittamatra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (A symbol in the wider sense of gesture or … A symbol in the wider sense of gesture or action. It is the inspiring colour of phenomena. Also it is a symbol expressed with the hands to state for oneself and others the quality of different moments of meditation, such as touching the earth with the right hand as a witness to Buddha's freedom from emotional and mental frivolousness . from emotional and mental frivolousness .)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (A symbol of the indestructible enlightened body, speech, mind, and primal wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A symbol of ultimate reality, with the seven attributes of invulnerability, indestructibility, reality, incorruptibility, stability, unobstructability, and invincibility. See CM 385; BM 337; GD 88-89; VE 63-64,188-89.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A symbolic description of dharmakaya being like a single sphere because it is devoid of duality and limitation and defies all edges of conceptual constructs that could be formed about it.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A symbolic description of dharmakaya being like a single sphere because it is devoid of duality and limitation and defies all conceptual constructs that could be formed about it.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A symbolic implement that represents the severing of the three times)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A symbolic representation of the world, which is ritually offered; a representation of the pore abode of a deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A synonym for Buddhahood)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A synonym for buddha nature, the enlightened essence within all beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (A synonym for buddha-nature (''tathāgatagarbha/sugatagarbha'', ''bde gshegs snying po/de gshegs snying po''). See the introduction for a discussion of the term ''garbha''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A synonym for liberation from saṃsāra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A synonym for spiritual teacher)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A synonym for the "Confession of the Expanse of the View" (Tawa Longshag).)