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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (In this text, this term refers not to regions of modern geography, but to the regions located around the vast universal mountain that, according the Buddhist cosmology, forms the central axis of one universal world system.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (In this work this term refers to the fourth- stage actual clear light.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (In traditional Indian cosmo-geography ： the eastern continent of Pūrvavideha, the southern continent of Jambudvīpa, the western continent of Aparagodanīya, and the northern continent of Uttarakuru.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (In traditional Tibetan historiography, the … In traditional Tibetan historiography, the period from approximately 950 to 1300, during which Buddhist institutions and practices were revived in Tibet after the chaos ensuing from the collapse of the empire around 850. Many new Indian Buddhists texts were introduced and new translations undertaken. Traditions traced to the later spread include the Kadam, Kagyü, Sakya, Shijé, and Geluk.the Kadam, Kagyü, Sakya, Shijé, and Geluk.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (In traditional Tibetan historiography, the … In traditional Tibetan historiography, the period from approximately 650 to 850, during which Buddhism, under the sponsorship of numerous Dharma kings, first began to take hold in Tibet. Crucial events of the early spread included the foundation (ca. 775) of the first monastery, Samyé, and the beginning of the process of translating Indian Buddhist texts into Tibetan. The Nyingma tradition traces its roots back to the early spread.traces its roots back to the early spread.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (In tranquilabiding meditation faith, deter … In tranquilabiding meditation faith, determination, perseverance, confidence (all of which counter laziness), mindfulness (which counters lack of mindfulness), introspection (which counters sinking and distraction), investigation (which counters further association with sinking and scattering), and equanimity (which counters unnecessary prolongation of countermeasures).ecessary prolongation of countermeasures).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (In vajrayana, the ignorance of conceptualizing subject and object. In the sutra system, superimposed or learned wrong views. Specifically, in mahamudra practice it means conceptual thinking.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (In vajrayāna, the guru personally communic … In vajrayāna, the guru personally communicates the essence of meditation practice to his students. In this manner, both the literal instructions and their intuitive sense are conveyed to the student. Even if the student came across the instructions in written form, it would still be necessary for him to receive them directly from the mouth of his teacher. ''See also'' hearing lineage.his teacher. ''See also'' hearing lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (In vinaya: ''Elements of Vinaya, Divisions of Vinaya, Elements of Lesser Vinaya'', and ''Higher Text of Vinaya''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (In virtually all Indic traditions, a poten … In virtually all Indic traditions, a potent syllable or phrase, most often in Sanskrit, which may or may not have denotative meaning. In Buddhist ''tantra'', a mantra evokes the ''buddha''-deity with whom one identifies, and is uttered as the speech of that deity, with the power to affect and effect events in the mind and in the world.ffect events in the mind and in the world.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (In virtually all Indic traditions, a state … In virtually all Indic traditions, a state in which one is deeply focused in meditation on a particular object. In Buddhism, concentration presupposes ''tranquil abiding'', and is roughly synonymous with ''meditative equipoise''. Concentrations are as various as the objects of meditation and may involve states of inner absorption, the mastery of extraordinary powers, or insight into the nature of things.ers, or insight into the nature of things.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (In, e.g., the ''Brahmajala Sutta'' of the … In, e.g., the ''Brahmajala Sutta'' of the ''Dīgha Nikāya'': four grounds for asserting the eternity of the self and world； four grounds for asserting the partial eternity and partial noneternity of the self and world; four grounds for asserting the finitude and infinitude of the self and world; four grounds for avoiding assertion altogether; two grounds for asserting origination through chance; sixteen assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and conscious and either material, immaterial, both material and immaterial, neither material nor immaterial, finite, infinite, both, neither, of uniform perception, of varied perception, of limited perception, of unlimited perception, wholly happy wholly miserable, both, or neither； eight assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and unconscious and either material, immaterial, both, neither, finite, infinite, both, or neither; eight assertions regarding the self after death, to the effect that it is healthy and unconscious and either material, immaterial, both, neither, finite, infinite, both, or neither; seven grounds for asserting the annihilation of the self after death; and five grounds for wrongly asserting the attainment of nirvana here and now.ng the attainment of nirvana here and now.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (Inborn knowing; the empty and dear awareness that is naturally present within the mind streams of all sentient beings. [TD 2593])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Incalculable aeons.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (Incarnate lamas who have voluntarily taken human birth in fulfillment of their bodhisattva vows to help beings. The power to determine one's rebirth is gained upon attainment of the eighth stage of a bodhisattva.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Inclination.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Inclination—► adimokṣa)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (Included in the stage of speech isolation, this is the exclusive form of mantra repetition on the completion stage. It is not vocalized chanting but an identification of the tones of the movement of the inner breath with the three fundamental syllables.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (Including body isolation this practice makes up the first of the five stages and the second of the three isolations. ''See also'' five stages.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Increasing, the second vision of ''thögal''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Indestructible innate space.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (Indestructible, diamond-like, adamantine, … Indestructible, diamond-like, adamantine, thunderbolt. A ritual scepter, called "dorje" in Tibetan, used in Vajrayana practice. It symbolizes skillful means and compassion, the masculine aspect of enlightened activity. The vajra is diamond-like in that it is priceless, indestructible, and clear, symbolizing the qualities of that which is unborn and undying. It is a symbol of the power of highest truth.is a symbol of the power of highest truth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Indeterminate dharma. A category of dharma-s whose nature <br>(skillful,unskilful; etc.) cannot be determined.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Indeterminate karma. A karma that is not necessarily retributed.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (India, China, Tibet, Khotan, [[Shambhala]] and Kailash. 507)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (India.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (Indian Buddhist master of the second century who elucidated the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras of Buddha; the major expounder of the Madhyamaka philosophy.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Indian Buddhist teacher (eleventh century), a student of Maitrīpa and teacher of Milarepa's student Rechungpa. See Nālandā Translation Committee 1982, 176–77; and Roberts 2007, 124–26.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Indian king who received the eighteen Mahayoga tantras on the roof of his palace approximately one hundred years after Buddha Shakyamuni's passing. The lineage of these teachings continues to the present day.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (Indian mahasiddha, the guru of Naropa and father of the Kagyü lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Indian mahasiddha, the guru of Naropa, and father of the Kagyu lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (Indian master of the sixth century who elucidated Nāgārjuna's exposition of the Madhyamaka philosophy; author of the ''Madhyamakāvtāra'' ([[sic]]).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Indian master-scholar who entered Tibet early in the eleventh century.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (Indian master; mentor to Nāgārjuna and highly accomplished tantric practitioner.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (Indian master; one of the Two Supremes. He … Indian master; one of the Two Supremes. He lived six hundred years and his activity places him mainly in the second and third centuries C.E. He was born to a Brahman family in the region of Vidarbha in southern India. As a youth, he studied and mastered all the traditional sciences, both ordinary and special, the ''Tripiṭaka'', and the four classes of tantra. At Nalanda, he took monastic ordination from the mahāsiddha Saraha and soon became abbot of the university. A physician of great talent, he healed Mucilinda, king of the nāgas, who, in gratitude gave him the texts of the ''Prajñāpāramitāsūtra'' in 100,000 verses. This text had been entrusted to him by Ananda, Buddha Śākyamuni's principal disciple, to be reveded in the future. This is how he was given the name Nāgārjuna. The Tibetan canon counts 180 works attributed to him. He composed numerous texts based on the ''Prajñāpāramitāsūtra'', but his main contribution was the Madhyamaka, with the ''Six Collections of Logic (dbu ma rigs tshogs drug)'', which became his fundamental texts.ug)'', which became his fundamental texts.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (Indian measure of distance equal to 16000 cubits, or about 4.5 miles (7.4 km); definitions differing by a factor of two are also given.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Indian temple frieze ornamentation featuring a lattice (i.e., web or net) of looped garlands with pendants hung from the highest points.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Indian yogi of high accomplishment, author of three cycles of ''dohas'', or songs of realization.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (Indian youth whose quest for enlightenment is featured in the Gandavyuha chapter of Avatamsakasutra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Indigenous religion of Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Indirect perception.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Meeting the Great Bliss Queen/Glossary + (Indissoluable unity between conventional, conditioned phenomena and their ultimate or unconditioned nature of emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Individual continuity of cognition.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Individual self.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Inexpressible.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Inference based on: causation, identity, and nonapprehension.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Inference.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (Inferential cognition based on reasoning with the three logically established modes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Infernal states, of varying duration, in w … Infernal states, of varying duration, in which beings suffer due to the fact that they identify as their bodies physical objects such as logs of wood or stoves and suffer the effects of the use to which these objects are put (logs being burned, stoves being heated, doors being slammed, etc.). being heated, doors being slammed, etc.).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Informative karma. This refers to the bodily and vocal karma-s that are<br>‘informing’,i.e., indicative of the mental state of the doer,)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Informing to or from others.)