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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (An expert in the ''Tripiṭaka'', the three canonical collections of Buddhism; the term implies extraordinary scholarly achievement.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (An explanation of these and their aspects is given under SIXTEEN MOMENTS OF PRISTINE COGNITION. 158, 230)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (An exposition tantra of the All-Creating Monarch Tantra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (An expression apparently Tibetan in origin, it is synonymous with the three afflictions of ignorance, attachment, and aversion)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (An extensive approach to development stage … An extensive approach to development stage practice found in the Mother Tantras. According to Jamgön Kongtrül, the five manifestations of enlightenment are presented differently in the various tantric lineages. There are, however, certain elements common to these different approaches. The following presentation from the ''Hevajra Tantra'' mirrors Jigme Lingpa's description translated in this book. Kongtrül writes, "Developing the five manifestations of enlightenment involves the following. On top of the lotus and other elements that make up the throne, visualize that a moon disc comes out of ''ali'' and a sun disc out of ''kali''. Resting on the center of these is a symbolic implement marked by a seed syllable. Light radiates out from this implement. Gathering back in, it coalesces into the complete form of the deity. This is what is referred to as 'the five manifestations of enlightenment.' From the moon comes mirrorlike wisdom; from the sun, the wisdom of equality; from the seed and implement, discerning wisdom; from the coalescing of all these factors, all-accomplishing wisdom; and from the complete form of the deity, the wisdom of the basic space of phenomena. This is based on the explanation of the ''Hevajra Tantra''." [TK 3, 208]on of the ''Hevajra Tantra''." [TK 3, 208])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An extremely long aeon, sometimes reckoned at 4,320 million years.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (An hermitage dwelling.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An honorific Tibetan term applied to revered teachers.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (An honorific form meaning "glorious" and "resplendent.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An honorific term for a Tibetan guru.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (An honorific term for a monk in the Amdo dialect.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (An illness caused by prana getting stuck in the heart center due to various strenuous circumstances.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (An immense period of time as conceived in … An immense period of time as conceived in the traditional cosmology of India. A great kalpa, which corresponds to the period of formation, duration, disappearance, and absence of a universal system, comprises eighty small kal-pas. An intermediary kalpa consists of two small kalpas taken together, in the first of which the duration of life increases, while in the second it decreases.creases, while in the second it decreases.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (An impermanent phenomenon; something that performs a function.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (An implement used in tantric ceremonies. Can also refer to a food offering to protectors of the Dharma or unfortunate spirits.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (An important Indian master who held an imp … An important Indian master who held an important place in the lineages of the Great Perfection. He went to Tibet in the eighth century, where he taught extensively, and composed and translated numerous Sanskrit texts. The quintessence of his teaching is known as the Vima Nyingtikhis teaching is known as the Vima Nyingtik)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (An important Indian religious system found … An important Indian religious system founded in the sixth century B.C.E.) by Jina (whence Jaina or Jain), also known as Vardhamana. The Jains advocate a very pure ethical system involving, in particular, an extreme form of ''ahimsa'' or nonviolence. They are subdivided in two groups, the naked ones (''gcer bu pa'') and the white-robed ones.(''gcer bu pa'') and the white-robed ones.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (An important Indian religious system found … An important Indian religious system founded in the sixth century B.C.E.) by Jina (whence Jaina or Jain), also known as Vardhamana. The Jains advocate a very pure ethical system involving, in particular, an extreme form of ''ahimsa'' or nonviolence. They are subdivided in two groups, the naked ones (''gcer bu pa'') and the white-robed ones.(''gcer bu pa'') and the white-robed ones.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (An important Sakyapa master (1182-1251), also known as Kunga Gyaltsen)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (An important Vajrayāna practice common to all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, in which one requests and symbolically receives the blessings of one's root lama.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (An important Vajrayāna practice common to all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, in which one requests and symbolically receives the blessings of one's root lama.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (An important cave hermitage in the northern Lhüntse District in eastern Bhutan. Related to the enlightened activity aspect of Padmasambhava.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (An important cycle of teachings and practice in the Nyingma tradition that were rediscovered by Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa as a mind treasure.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (An important fifth-century master of the Madhyamika teachings and initiator of the Svatantrika school. ''See also'' Svatantrika.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An important image in the Shambhala tradit … An important image in the Shambhala tradition, representing indestructible wakefulness. Being spontaneously present, it radiates peace and confidence. Being brilliant, it illuminates the way of discipline. Since it shines over all, heaven, earth, and man find their proper place.n, earth, and man find their proper place.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (An important late fourth-century text attributed to Maitreya.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An important mahāyāna sūtra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (An important pairing in Mahayana Buddhism. … An important pairing in Mahayana Buddhism. It refers to the wisdom (shes rah) of emptiness, and the voidness aspect of phenomena, together with the skillful means (thabs) of compas-sion, and the appearance aspect of phenomena. Skillful means and wisdom are indissociable.illful means and wisdom are indissociable.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (An important realization gained on entry to the eighth bodhisattva stage. In this book, a synonym for complete enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (An important sadhana of Mahayoga. See also Forty-two peaceful deities.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (An important technical term referring to the aspects of the sambhogakāya deities in their complete splendor and glory.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (An indigenous spirit associated with fire and destruction.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (An indigenous spirit associated with fire and destruction.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (An individual compounded phenomenon.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (An individual who has attained liberation … An individual who has attained liberation from samsara by eliminating the veil of mental afflictions from the mind stream. Having attained the fruition of the vehicle of śrāvakas, arhats are no longer propelled into a new samsaric existence after death. Since the realisation of fully awakened buddhas and bodhisattvas on the stages of awakening (''bhūmi'') includes this attainment, they are also referred to as arhats. (The Tibetan rendering of the term, ''dgra bcom pa'', literally means ''foe destroyer''.) pa'', literally means ''foe destroyer''.))
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (An individual who has committed him or her … An individual who has committed him or herself to the mahayana path of compassion and the practice of the six paramitas to achieve Buddhahood in order to free all beings from samsara. More specifically those with that motivation who have achieved liberation from samsara and are one of the ten bodhisattva stages that culminates in Buddhahood.ttva stages that culminates in Buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (An individual who has made the resolve to attain the perfect awakening of a buddha for the benefit of all beings and follows the Mahāyāna path for that purpose.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (An individual who reincarnates consciously with the motivation to take rebirth in order to benefit others.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (An infallible state of consciousness that is able to induce certainty about its object. It can be either conceptual or nonconceptual.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (An informal full prostration, done with the zagu folded up and placed horizontally on the ground in front of the bowing monk, rather than spread out on the ground. 118n. 16)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (An inherently existent and independent entity of the individual self or of phenomena.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (An initiation, usually given in a formal c … An initiation, usually given in a formal ceremony by a lama to disciples, transferring the authority to engage in a particular practice. A simple form conveys the blessing of the body, speech, and mind of the deity to the disciple's body, speech, and mind with the instruction to regard all forms as the deity, all sounds as mantra, and all thoughts as wisdom.nds as mantra, and all thoughts as wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (An institute of higher learning focused on the in-depth study of the major Buddhist treatises.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (An intermediary state. This term most ofte … An intermediary state. This term most often refers to the state between death and subsequent rebirth. In fact, human experience encompasses six types of bardo: the bardo of the present life (''rang bzhin skye gnas bar do''), the bardo of meditation (''bsam gtan gyi bar do''), the bardo of dream (''rmi lam gyi bar do''), the bardo of dying ('' 'chi ka'i bar do''), the luminous bardo of ultimate reality (''chos nyid bar do''), and the bardo of becoming (''srid pa'i bar do''). The first three bardos unfold in the course of life. The second three refer to the death and rebirth process which terminates at conception at the beginning of the subsequent existence.the beginning of the subsequent existence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (An intermediary state. This term most often refers to the state separating death and subsequent rebirth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (An intermediate state of being that primarily refers to the period between death and rebirth but can also in certain specific contexts be applied more widely)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (An intermediate state or interval, of whic … An intermediate state or interval, of which six types are usually enumerated: birth, dream, meditation, the time of death, dharmata, and becoming. The common understanding of bardo encompasses the last three, from the process of dying, to the dharmata, the various appearances, and rebirth.ata, the various appearances, and rebirth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An intrinsically existent identity of a phenomenon other than the self, which is actually nonexistent but which is grasped as real by the deluded mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An intrinsically existent self, which is actually nonexistent but which is grasped as real by the deluded mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (An object grasped by the conceptual mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (An obstruction to spiritual progress, some … An obstruction to spiritual progress, sometimes personified as the tempter Māra. There are four types: the aggregates, mental afflictions, death, and ''devaputra''. The last, literally "son of the gods," is the personification of intoxication with desire-realm pleasures. intoxication with desire-realm pleasures.)