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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An accomplished teacher, especially of Dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (An act of veneration that consists of walking clockwise, concentratedly and with awareness, around a sacred object, e.g., a temple, stupa, or holy mountain, or the residence, and even the person, of a spiritual master)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (An activity that enables one to accomplish a given outcome easily. [TD 1148] ''See also'' path of skillful means and Vehicle of Skillful Means.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (An actual consort)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (An adept of tantric rituals.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (An adept who has gained mastery over certain practices.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An advanced degree of meditative concentration, in which attentional stability and vividness have been developed to the point that one can fully engage in the cultivation of insight.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (An advanced state in which the mind is in one-pointed meditation. It is also called "meditative absorpiton.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An advanced state of meditative stabilization included in the form realm, including the four dhyānas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (An advanced vajrayana practice for combining bliss and emptiness producing heat as a byproduct.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (An affirming negative is a negation in whi … An affirming negative is 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 something else is there. Compare this with a nonaffirming negative (''med dgag''), which simply negates without any further implication, for example, in the statement "There is nothing on the roof." statement "There is nothing on the roof.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An aggregate of spontaneously actualized facets of primordial consciousness and qualities of enlightenment, designated as a composite body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (An alternate name for Caryā Tantra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (An alternate term for the Vajra Vehicle; J … An alternate term for the Vajra Vehicle; Ju Mipham explains the significance of this appellation, "This approach is referred to as such due to the four characteristics of its skillful means, which are great, easy, many, and swift. With the key points of this path, afflictive and pure phenomena are not engaged from the perspective of needing to be accepted or rejected. As this is the case, they do not obscure. In addition, its methods are great insofar as they lead to the perfection of the two accumulations. In other systems, such skillful means do not exist." [KG 38]such skillful means do not exist." [KG 38])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (An alternate term for the Vajra Vehicle; J … An alternate term for the Vajra Vehicle; Ju Mipham explains, "This system is 'secret' insofar as the profound maṇḍala of the victorious ones' enlightened body, speech, and mind is present as the innate nature of all phenomena. Nevertheless, this is inherently hidden from those who are confused and must be revealed skillfully. It is not revealed explicitly to the inferior practitioners of the lower approaches, bur is transmitted secretly. Hence, it is not part of the range of experience of ordinary disciples. The term 'mantra' indicates that, in order to practice the maṇḍala of these three secrets, this nature is presented as it actually is; it is not hidden or kept secret." [KG 38] it is not hidden or kept secret." [KG 38])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (An alternate term for the Vajra Vehicle; J … An alternate term for the Vajra Vehicle; Ju Mipham explains, "This vehicle is referred to as such because the essential fruition is seen to be present within the very ground, whereas in other systems it is believed to be something that must be attained. Hence, in this system the fruition is taken as the path in the present moment." [KG 40]s the path in the present moment." [KG 40])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (An ancient Indian kingdom believed to be situated around Mandir in the present state of Himachal Pradesh in north India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An ancient Indian measure of a day's range for an ox cart, about five miles.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (An ancient Indian measurement of distance which according to the ''Abhidharmakosha'' corresponds to 4.5 miles or 7.4 kilometers.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (An ancient Indian measurement. Different sources describe it as between one and several miles.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (An ancient Indian monastic university founded in the eighth century and second only to Nalanda in importance.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (An anthology of texts taken from important Mahayana sutras, compiled by Shantideva.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An apparitional city of ethereal beings appearing by the power of samādhi in conjunction with the presence of a nearby vessel and moisture.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An ascetic practice in which one takes only prepared food pills as sustenance. The food pills form a graded regimen. One starts with pills made of vegetable matter and gradually works up to pills made entirely of minerals.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An aspect of relative truth or a simile for it, such as a name established by agreement.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (An aspect of the Instruction Section of Dzogchen.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (An aspect of the aggregate of form asserted by certain listeners and said to comprise vows (commitment to virtue), nonvows (commitment to negative deeds), and intermediate activities (positive or negative deeds performed without conscious intention).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (An aspect or dimension of buddhahood. Generally four in number: the body of truth, body of perfect enjoyment, body of manifestation, and the body of the essential nature.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An earth spirit, whose actual nature is that of delusions produced by the causes and conditions of ignorance.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An emanation of Avalokiteśvara, she is said to have arisen from one of his tears. She embodies the female aspect of compassion and is a very popular deity in Tibet. Her two common iconographic forms are white and green.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (An emanation of Manjushri who was a minist … An emanation of Manjushri who was a minister of King Songtsen Gampo. Sent to India by Songtsen Gampo to study grammar and writing, on the basis of the Indian scripts he created the forms of the Tibetan letters and composed eight treatises on the Tibetan alphabet.d eight treatises on the Tibetan alphabet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (An emotion that, based on exaggerating the good qualities of a person or thing, clings to it.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (An emotional outgrowth of egoclinging, such as attachment or hatred, that functions to prevent liberation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (An emperor who, with his golden, silver, copper, or iron wheel, has dominion over the beings of the four continents. Universal monarchs only appear in certain eras when the human life span is greater than eighty thousand years.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (An emperor who, with his golden, silver, copper, or iron wheel, has dominion over the beings of the four continents. Universal monarchs only appear in certain eras when the human life span is greater than eighty thousand years.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (An emperor who, with his golden, silver, copper, or iron wheel, has dominion over the beings of the four continents. Universal emperors only appear in certain eras when the human life span is greater than eighty thousand years.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Precepts in Eight Chapters/Glossary + (An enlightened being, having purified (sangs) his passions and having increased (''rgyas'') his Wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (An eon lasting for thousands of years and made up of four stages: origination, continuation, gradual disintegration, and complete extinction.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (An eon which lasts in the order of millions of years.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An epithet applied to either a great ruler who realized and fulfilled the vision of the Buddha's teaching, or to great teachers themselves.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (An epithet for Avalokiteshvara, of whom the Karmapas are considered to be emanations.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An epithet for Avalokiteśvara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An epithet for Marpa, who was from the southern region of Lhotrak)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (An epithet for a Buddha, here specifically for Shakyamuni Buddha)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (An epithet for a Buddha, so called because he has overcome the four devils.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (An epithet for a Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (An epithet for a bodhisattva, also translated as “child of the Buddha.”)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (An epithet for a bodhisattva.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An epithet for a buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An epithet for a buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (An epithet for the Buddha)