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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (An outstanding Mahayana master in India (1 … An outstanding Mahayana master in India (11th—12th century) successively abbot of Vajrasana, Nalanda, and Vikramashila; a prolific author and commentator of Sutrayana and Tantrayana texts. Aware of the imminent decline of Buddhism in India, and in collaboration with his numerous Tibetan disciples, he presided over the translation of many Sanskrit texts into Tibetan.ation of many Sanskrit texts into Tibetan.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (An person who has committed him or herself to the mahāyāna path of compassion and the practice of the six pāramitās to free beings from saṃsāra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (An unbelieving and defiant monk-servant of Buddha Śākyamuni.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (An undistorted perspective of reality, which is the content of a sublime being s wisdom in postmeditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (An unenlightened being born in the hungry ghost or demi-god (asura) realms. Spirits may be helpful or harmful.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (Analysis that is like the purification of gold through (1) smelting, (2) cutting, and (3) polishing.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Analysis, exposition.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Analytic meditation in which one actively investigates the nature of mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Ananta, Takṣaka, Atlhala, Kulika, Vāsuki, Śaṅkhapāla, Padma, and Varuna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (Ancient Indian hymns believed to have divine origin.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (Ancient Tibetan spirits, sometimes called cannibal spirits. The female ''sinmo'' is often associated with the original demoness of the land of Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (Ancient Tibetan spirits, sometimes called cannibal spirits. The female ''sinmo'' is often associated with the original demoness of the land of Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Ancient master.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Anger.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Animal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (Animate substance (''srog'', Skt. ''jīva'' … Animate substance (''srog'', Skt. ''jīva''), inanimate substance (''zag-pa'', Skt. ''ajīva''), commitments (''sdom-pa'', Skt. ''saṃvara''), rejuvination, i.e. purgation of past deeds (''nges-par rga-ba'', Skt. ''nirjara''), bondage ('' 'ching'', Skt. ''bandha''), deeds (''las'', Skt. ''karmāsrava''), evil (''sdig-pa'', Skt. ''pāpa''), virtue (''bsod-nams'', Skt. ''puṇya'') and liberation (''thar-pa'', Skt. ''mokṣa''). 16, 66tion (''thar-pa'', Skt. ''mokṣa''). 16, 66)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Annotations (4.6–5.5) explains: "Buddha na … Annotations (4.6–5.5) explains: "Buddha nature is embraced by four inconceivable aspects: although its nature is pure, it has adventitious stains; despite its pure nature, its adventitious stains [need] to be purified; its excellent qualities are not newly attained and yet they are attained by clearing away those stains; and, although its activity is not conceptual, it engages with those to be trained appropriately, according to their circumstances." The Highest Continuum (1.25) states that these four aspects of the buddha heart are inconceivable for the following reasons: "Because [the basic element] is both pure and [yet] it has afflictions; "because [awakening] is free from afflictions [and yet] is purified; "because its qualities are inseparable; "and because its [activity] is spontaneous and nonconceptual." See Fuchs 2000, 115–16; and Holmes 1999, 94–95.uchs 2000, 115–16; and Holmes 1999, 94–95.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Another expression for ekō henshō, "Take the backward step of inner illumination," or "learn to withdraw, turning the light inwards, illuminating the Self," which is described in Dōgen's "Fukanzazengi," "The Way of Zazen Recommended to Everyone." 52n. 14)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Another expression for taiho henshō, "Take … Another expression for taiho henshō, "Take the backward step of inner illumination," or "learn to withdraw, turning the light inwards, illuminating the Self," which is described in Dōgen's "Fukanzazengi," "The Way of Zazen Recommended to Everyone." 52n. 14of Zazen Recommended to Everyone." 52n. 14)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (Another name for Jetsun Taranatha))
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Another name for Kan'in, the director of a monastery, later divided into the first three of the six chiji positions. 183n. 12)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Another name for Kham, a province of East Tibet where the Kagyü lineage enjoyed great popularity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Another name for Kukkurīpa, a mahāsiddha and one of the main teachers of Marpa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Another name for Neither Discrimination nor Nondiscrimination, the fourth and final sphere of the formless realm.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Another name for Padmasambhava, who brought vajrayāna to Tibet in the eighth century. He is also referred to as Guru Rinpoche, the precious teacher.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Another name for Vajrapani.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Another name for kuri or kuin. 192n. 76)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Another name for sōdō, the monks' hall. 76n. 5)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Another name for the Karma Kagyü, originating from a vision of Rangjung Dorje, Karmapa III.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (Another name for the Vajrayana. ''See'' resultant vehicle.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Another name for the proponents of the Chittamātra system. See Kongtrul 2007a, 176 and 349n520.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Another name for the protector Nyenchen Tanglha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Another name for the six yogas of Nāropa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (Another name for the three natures. The imputed reality, the dependent reality, and the fully present reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Another name for training in the higher samādhis (lhag pa ting nge 'dzin gyi bslab pa).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Another name of Guru Padmasambhava.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (Another term for emptiness; the nature of phenomena.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Another term for shuso [head monk], or for someone who has been a shuso. 190n. 62)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Another term for the practice of "one taste," one of the six yogas of Nāropa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Another term for things as they are, the world as seen from sacred outlook.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Another term for vajrayāna, whose meditation practices make extensive use of mantra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Another term used for the primal, or natur … Another term used for the primal, or natural, matter (rang bzhin, prakṛiti) asserted by the Sāṃkhyas to be the permanent, all-pervading, and unmanifest ultimate. It is composed of the three guṇas: motility (rdul, rajas), darkness (mun pa, tamas), and lightness (snying stobs, sattva). See Brunnhölzl 2004, 795; Hiriyanna [1932] 2000, 271–73; Hiriyanna [1948] 2000, 108–9; and Kongtrul 2012, 406.1948] 2000, 108–9; and Kongtrul 2012, 406.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Another word for buddha-nature, the enlightened essence inherent in sentient beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (Another word for buddha-nature, the enlightened essence inherent in all sentient beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Anu Yoga scripture of major importance. Abbreviation of The Scripture of the Embodiment of the Realization of All Buddhas (sangs rgyas thams cad kyi dgongs pa 'dus pa'i mdo).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (Anuyoga is the eighth of the nine vehicles … Anuyoga is the eighth of the nine vehicles found in the Nyingma tradition. To enter this system one first receives the thirty-six supreme empowerments: the ten outer empowerments, eleven inner empowerments, thirteen practice empowerments, and two secret empowerments. Next, one trains in the Anuyoga view until one has come to a definitive understanding concerning the essence of the threefold maṇḍala of Samantabhadra. In the meditative system of this tradition, one practices the paths of liberation and skillful means. The former involves settling in a nonconceptual state in accordance with reality or, in accordance with letters, reciting mantras to visualize the maṇḍala of deities. The latter entails arousing coemergent wisdom by relying upon the upper and lower gates. In terms of conduct, one understands all appearances and mental events to be the play of the wisdom of great bliss and, with this understanding, uses the proximate cause of being beyond acceptance and rejection to attain the fruition. Here, the fruition involves the five yogas (which are in essence the five paths), the completion of the ten levels, and the attainment of the state of Samantabhadra. [TD 3120]t of the state of Samantabhadra. [TD 3120])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (Any cause, or first action, producing some effect or fruition, which then becomes another cause. Awareness of cause and effect brings understanding of karma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (Any dissatisfactory condition. It doesn't refer only to physical or mental pain, but includes all problematic conditions.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Any living being in one of the six realms who has not attained liberation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Any living being in the six realms who has not attained liberation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Any of the twelve sense bases. Any of the five "signs" (Tib. mtshan ma, Skt. nimitta) that eventually arise due to meditating on the generic emblems of the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space.)