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- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (Gain or loss, pleasure or pain, praise or criticism, and fame or infamy. Most people who are not following a spiritual path seek gain and try to avoid loss, and so on for each of these pairs of opposites.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (Gampopa Sönam Rinchen (1079-1153), also known as Dagpo Rinpoche, was the most famous disciple of Milarepa and the founder of the Kagyupa monastic order)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Gateway of arising.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Gateway of entering.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Gateway of immortality, (i.e., to Nirvāṇa), referring to ānāpāna-(anu) <br>smṛti and aśubhānusmṛti/aśucyanusmṛti.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Gautama, the historical Buddha of our age, the founder of Buddhism.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (General Preliminaries (thun mong gi sngon 'gro) The four contemplations on precious human body, impermanence and death, cause and effect of karma, and the defects of samsara.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (General empowerments, called "circular" because of the implements used: (1) vase, (2) skull, (3) mirror, and (4) torma.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (General guardian ofthe Buddha's Dharma.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (Generally bindu means a spot or a dot, as … Generally bindu means a spot or a dot, as in a leopard or snakes spots, and it is also commonly used for the decorative dot between a woman's eyebrows, which has been anglicized as bindi. It can also mean a circle, a zero in mathematics, the anusvāra in calligraphy, the colored spots representing deities in a mandala, or a sphere or circle of light, a globule, or a drop. In the context of tantric physiognomy, it refers to an essence, whether the essence of a purity or an impurity, and can occur in various forms, liquid and solid. For example, the white upside-down ham syllable in the crown of the head is solid white and in the shape of that letter. As a result of sexual excitement, or certain practices, it begins to melt, and drops fall from it down the channel that leads to the penis. These drops are also hindus. The subsequent ejaculate is also a bindu, and it is in certain contexts a synonym for semen. In those cases it can be translated as "vital essence." Though it is most often rendered as "drop" in this volume, a hindu is only technically a liquid "drop" in the context of the semen falling through the central channel; most visualizations involving a bindu in the central channel are of a tiny ball of lightentral channel are of a tiny ball of light)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (Generally described as a "tantric feast," the term refers to a communal ritual performed by tantric adepts.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Generally means the state of buddhahood, characterized by the perfection of the accumulations of merit and wisdom and by the removal of the two obscurations. It can also refer to the lower stages of enlightenment of an arhat or pratyekabuddha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (Generally refers to the deities that are kings of the four directions. Their paradises are at the foot of Mount Meru so that each king looks out over one of the four directions)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (Generally refers to the generation stage where conceptualization is used to "create" divine forms, as opposed to the more nonconceptual completion stage. Within the generation stage, it refers to the more advanced practices of subtle yoga and drop yoga.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (Generally religion, here the doctrine of Buddha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Generally speaking, a “virtuous friend” wh … Generally speaking, a “virtuous friend” who assists one on the spiritual path. The Tibetan term is used most commonly to refer to great masters of the Kadam tradition and, since the seventeenth century, to Geluk monks with a high level of scholastic achievement.th a high level of scholastic achievement.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Generally speaking, any powerful attainmen … Generally speaking, any powerful attainment that results from spiritual practice. Yogic achievements are generally divided into the transmundane—i.e., complete ''buddhahood''一 and the mundane, which includes such powers as invisibility, flying, walking through solids, curing disease, and prolonging life.lids, curing disease, and prolonging life.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (Generally speaking, the three dimensions are above, on, and under the earth. Occasionally this term refers to the three realms of Buddhist cosmology. ''See also'' three realms.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (Generally, ''ārya'' refers to the levels ( … Generally, ''ārya'' refers to the levels (''bhūmi'') of attainment, or to those who have attained these levels, characterized by a direct and non conceptual understanding of the ultimate truth in meditation. Becoming an ārya, attaining the first of the ten levels, and reaching the path of seeing all happen simultaneously. Specifically, in this work the Ārya tradition is the Guhyasamāja tradition that primarily follows Ārya Nāgārjuna and his disciples. follows Ārya Nāgārjuna and his disciples.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (Generally, a highly developed meditative c … Generally, a highly developed meditative concentration, whose power divorces the mind temporarily fromafflictions such as desire. It shares essential characteristics with meditative concentration and peaceful abiding. Specifically, in the Sutra Vehicle, it refers to the four meditative absorptions that act as causes for birth in the form or Brahmā realms. In Kālacakra, meditative absorption is the second of the six yogas absorption is the second of the six yogas)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (Generally, an advanced meditative developm … Generally, an advanced meditative development in which the mind can be effortlessly held toaparticular object. Although by its nature it is almost synonymous with meditative absorption and peaceful abiding, a meditative concentration is often used to develop powers or to bring about some magical transformation in inanimate phenomena. Because of this function meditative concentrations are variously named. In Kālacakra, meditative concentration is the sixth of the six yogasoncentration is the sixth of the six yogas)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (Generally, any correct knowledge. Specifically, transcendent wisdom, the direct perception of the void nature of persons and things. During such experience the perception of the apparent world is temporarily suppressed.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Generally, buddha hood is attained by unit … Generally, buddha hood is attained by uniting the two aspects of means and knowledge, in mahayana compassion and emptiness, and in vajrayana the stages of development and completion. According to the Kagyu schools in particular, these two aspects are the "path of means," referring to the six doctrines and the "path of liberation," referring to the actual practice of mahamudra.rring to the actual practice of mahamudra.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Generally, in the buddhadharma the practit … Generally, in the buddhadharma the practitioner takes the refuge vow, where he commits himself to the Buddha as example, the dharma as teaching, and the saṅgha as fellow practitioners on the path. The refuge vow marks the practitioner's formal entry into the dharma. In the vajrayāna, the refuge is fourfold, including the root guru, or sixfold, including the three roots and the three jewelsuding the three roots and the three jewels)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (Generally, knowledge; specifically, the wisdom by which the apparent world and its reality are simultaneously perceived.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (Generally, the four or five "wheels" or chakras in the body.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Generally, the period of being involved in sense perceptions and daily activities. Specifically, the period of being distracted from the natural state of mind.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Generally, the period of involvement in sense perception and activities. Specifically, the time when distracted from the natural state of mind. See also Meditation and postmeditation.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Generally, this term is used as in dharmacakra pravartana ("turning the wheel of dharma"), which refers to teaching the dharma. More technically, it can refer to the heart cakra.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (Generally, this term refers to the prime f … Generally, this term refers to the prime function of any consciousness apprehending its own object. The branch of ''apprehending'' is the fourth yoga of six yogas that comprise an alternative categorization of the completion stage. In terms of the five stages, it is a synonym for clear light. ''See also'' six-branch yoga.clear light. ''See also'' six-branch yoga.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (Generally, three types of faith are discus … Generally, three types of faith are discussed in the scholastic tradition: lucid faith, desirous faith, and the faith of conviction. The first entails a lucid frame of mind that arises in reference to the Three Jewels. The second concerns the desire to take up and reject the four truths. The third involves having conviction in the principle of karmic causality. [YD 607]he principle of karmic causality. [YD 607])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Generally, upāya conveys the sense that en … Generally, upāya conveys the sense that enlightened beings teach the dharma skillfully, taking into consideration the various needs, abilities, and shortcomings of their students. Upāya is an expression of compassion. In the bodhisattva's discipline, it corresponds to the first five pāramitās and to relative bodhicitta. By prajñā alone, without upāya, the bodhisattva is fettered to a quietistic nirvāṇa. By upāya without prajñā, one remains bound to saṃsāra. Therefore the practitioner must unify them.<br> In vajrayāna, upāya arises from śūnyatā. It is joined with prajñā and represents the male, form aspect of the union of form and emptiness. form aspect of the union of form and emptiness.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Generating cause. One of a set of five hetu-s.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Generation of the deity through the five steps of the moon, sun, seed syllable and emblem, fusion, and the complete form of the deity. See Kongtrul 2008, 94. Note that the five steps are enumerated differently in other texts.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Generation of the deity through the three steps of seed syllable, emblem, and the complete form of the deity. See Kongtrul 2008, 95.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Generation stage and completion stage.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Generosity of material things, of protection from fear, and of the Dharma teachings.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (Generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (Generosity, giving without expectation, or … Generosity, giving without expectation, or opening, welcoming others. In other words, one does not establish the animal instinct of territory but anyone can help themselves " to me". As is said in the Bodhisattva disciplines, welcoming is the first gesture of the Bodhisattva. Without this, none of the other perfections could be put into practice.er perfections could be put into practice.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Generosity, kindness, blessing; a traditional Japanese social concept that implies some benefaction or kindness from which one incurs a natural response of obligation. 191n. 65)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (Generosity, pleasing speech, giving appropriate teachings, and maintaining consistency in behavior.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Genjō means manifestation, actualization, … Genjō means manifestation, actualization, or the present phenomena. Kōan, a term for stories and dialogues of ancient masters, here simply means the essential truth, so together this signifies manifestation of fundamental truth. "Genjōkōan" is also the name of one of Dōgen's major essays in the Shōbōgenzō. 76n.4en's major essays in the Shōbōgenzō. 76n.4)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Genuine, true; the real thing.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (Gesture, seal, sign, symbol. Mudra general … Gesture, seal, sign, symbol. Mudra generally refers to the hand gestures during Vajrayana practices that symbolize the qualities, moods, and actions related to a specific yidam. Vajrayana practice incorporates one's body, speech, and mind into the practice. Mudra corresponds to the body, drawing it into sacred activity. Mudra thus supports mantra and samadhi in the process of invoking the yidam. </br>:See ''karmamudra'' and ''Mahamudra'' for other uses of the term. ''Mahamudra'' for other uses of the term.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Gnostic dharmakāya and natural dharmakāya.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Gnostic dharmakāya and the two subdivisions of the natural body: natural emptiness and natural lack of any obstacles.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (Gnostic mantra (''rig-sngags'', Skt. ''vid … Gnostic mantra (''rig-sngags'', Skt. ''vidyāmantra''), dhāranī mantra (''gzungs-sngags'', Skt. ''dhāraṇīmantra'') and secret mantra (''gsang-sngags'', Skt. ''guhyamantra''). The ''dgongs-pa grub-pa'i rgyud'' says, “One should know that all mantra are divided into three classes: gnostic mantra which are the essence of skilful means, dhāraṇīs which are the essence of discriminative awareness and secret mantra which are the non-dual pristine cognition.” Thus dhāraṇīs are said to originate from the teachings of the Transcendent Perfection of Discriminative Awareness, gnostic mantra from the Kriyātantra and secret mantra from [[Mahāyoga]], [[Anuyoga]] and [[Atiyoga]]. 257)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (Goddesses who guard the four gates of the Secret Mantra mandala: (1) the Hook Lady (lcags kyu ma); (2) the Noose Lady (zhags pa ma); (3) the Chain Lady (lcags sgrog ma); and (4) the Bell Lady (dril bu ma).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Goddesses with human bodies and animal heads. Tramen means "hybrid" or "alloy.")
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (Gods ''lha'', Skt. ''deva''), antigods ('' … Gods ''lha'', Skt. ''deva''), antigods (''lha-ma-yin'', Skt. ''asura''), human beings (''mi'', Skt. ''manusya''), tormented spirits (''yi-dvags'', Skt. ''preta''), animals (''dud-'gro'', Skt. ''tiryak'') and denizens of hell (''dmyal-ba'', Skt. ''naraka''). 14-15, 21, 99,166, 250, 312, 341, 357''). 14-15, 21, 99,166, 250, 312, 341, 357)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (Gods, demigods, human beings, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell beings.)