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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (Medicine is one of the primary offerings f … Medicine is one of the primary offerings found in the Secret Mantra Tradition, where, along with torma and rakta, it is one of the inner offerings. In this context, medicine takes the form of "nectar that dispels the demon of dualistic thinking," which, as Getse Mahāpaṇḍita explains, symbolizes "the realization that all phenomena are equality, beyond acceptance or rejection." [CG 62], beyond acceptance or rejection." [CG 62])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Meditation here means resting in equanimity free from mental constructs, like pure space. Postmeditation is when one is distracted from that state of equanimity, and one conceptually regards appearances as an illusion, mirage, dream, and so forth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Meditation on loving-kindness)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Meditation on the entire universe dissolving into the space of awareness as illusory apparitions. The actualization of the absolute space of emptiness, ultimate reality, the mode of existence of suchness. See GD 241, VE 113.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (Meditation or concentration. It means bein … Meditation or concentration. It means being watchful with that basic panoramic awareness that characterises all the other Paramitas. Dhyana is the means of stabilizing oneself within the framework of seeing relationships, and thereby seeing that one can afford to open. This openness and keen meditative intelligence brings one to deal with the nowness of each new situation.al with the nowness of each new situation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (Meditation that reveals the absence of inherent existence in both the mind and phenomena.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Meditation, recollection.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Meditation, reflection. Only the first four samāpatti-s pertaining to the rūpa-dhātu can be called dhyāna, because in these four meditations, śamatha and vipaśyanā exist evenly, dṛṣṭa-dharma-sukha-vihāra)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Meditation-restraint; one type of avijñapti.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Meditational deities in peaceful or wrathful forms figuring in the Vajrayana and representing different aspects of the buddha nature.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (Meditational deity (yidam) and tantra of anuttarayogatantra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (Meditational deity (yidam) and tantra of anuttarayogatantra. See Shangpa-Kagyu.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (Meditational deity of the dharmakāya, the primordial awakening; inspirer of the revelations of numerous lineages.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (Meditational deity or "chosen" deity. The … Meditational deity or "chosen" deity. The second of the Three Roots, yidams are the central figures in the elaborate visualization practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism. These practices are done only with the blessing and guidance of a qualified lama. The yidam is called the root of accomplishment, as it is through doing these practices that realization is accomplished.ractices that realization is accomplished.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (Meditational deity or "chosen" deity. The … Meditational deity or "chosen" deity. The second of the Three Roots, yidams are the central figures in the elaborate visualization practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism. These practices are done only with the blessing and guidance of a qualified lama. The yidam is called the root of accomplishment, as it is through doing these practices that realization is accomplished.ractices that realization is accomplished.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (Meditational deity whose practice is particularly associated with purification.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Meditations on the precious human life of freedom and opportunity, death and impermanence, the miserable nature of saṃsāra, and the nature of actions and their ethical consequences.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (Meditative absorption has the meaning of "to truly grasp," meaning that with this mental state one is able to focus one-pointedly and continuously on a given topic or the object one is examining. [TD 1027])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (Meditative absorption of different degrees. Generally translated as "concentration.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (Meditative absorption of different degrees. Generally translated as "concentration.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (Meditative absorption of different degrees. Generally translated as “concentration.”)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Meditative absorption of different degrees.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Meditative absorption of different degrees.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (Meditative absorption, a state of mind wit … Meditative absorption, a state of mind without any distraction, essential for all meditative practices, the result of which depends on the motivation and view of the meditator. Non-Buddhist meditative concentration leads to rebirth in the worlds of form and formlessness. The concentrations of the Shravakas result in their attaining the level of Arhat, while only those of the Bodhisattvas can result in Perfect Buddhahoodhisattvas can result in Perfect Buddhahood)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Meditative absorption, stable concentration.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Meditative absorption.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (Meditative concentration or absorption, when the meditation and the mind of the meditator become inseparable.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Meditative concentration.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Meditative concentration.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (Meditative process involving three main vi … Meditative process involving three main visualizations. The ''samādhi'' sattva is usually a deicy syllable or a drop and is usually at the heart. The pledge (''samaya'') sattva is normally one self as a deity. The wisdom ''(jñāna'') sattva is the actual deity absorbed from without or resident in the heart.bed from without or resident in the heart.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Member of the priestly caste of ancient In … Member of the priestly caste of ancient India. This term often indicates hermits and spiritual practitioners. It should be noted that the Buddha rejected the caste system and proclaimed on several occasions that the true Brahmin is not someone so designated through an accident of birth, but one who has thoroughly overcome defilement and attained freedom. See caste.efilement and attained freedom. See caste.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Member of the priestly caste.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (Members of a no longer extant school of thought, with portions of its texts surviving only in attacks upon it by its opponents. It denied that a god or karma created the world or that there is a life after death)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Members of an ancient Indian philosophical school professing metaphysical nihilism. The Charvakas denied causality, the law of karma, and the existence of past and future lives.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Au Cœur de la compassion/Glossary + (Membre de la caste sacerdotale, la plus élevée de la société indienne.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Memory, recollection.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Mental activity that is prone to discursiv … Mental activity that is prone to discursiveness, complication, and fantasy. Useful in everyday life, elaboration, like ''conceptual thought'', is an impediment to the direct realization of ''emptiness'' and so must be overcome on the path to ''liberation''.be overcome on the path to ''liberation''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Mental application of resolve'. This refer … Mental application of resolve'. This refers to the application of adhimukti, in meditative practice like the aśubhā, as a force in visualizing a desired state (e.g. the state of deterioration of corpse) which is not the actual stage at the present moment (e.g, the person being so visualized is actually not a deteriorating corpse). This is in contrast to tattva-manaskāra>deteriorating corpse). This is in contrast to tattva-manaskāra)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Mental application, attention.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Mental elaboration or proliferation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (Mental events that disrupt the mind's natu … Mental events that disrupt the mind's natural peace, causing unrest and preventing it from seeing ultimate reality. The ''Abhidharmakośa'' lists six root afflictions (desire, hatred, ignorance, pride, doubt, and wrong views) and twenty secondary afflictions derived from these six.ondary afflictions derived from these six.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (Mental fabrication.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (Mental factors that influence thoughts and actions and produce suffering. The five principal afflictive emotions are attachment, aversion or hatred, bewilderment or ignorance, jealousy, and pride.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (Mental factors that influence thoughts and actions and produce suffering. The five principal afflictive emotions are attachment, aversion or hatred, bewilderment or ignorance, jealousy, and pride.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (Mental factors that influence thoughts and actions and produce suffering)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Mental factors that produce states of mental torment both immediately and in the long term. The five principal kleshas, which are sometimes called poisons, are attachment, hatred, ignorance, envy, and pride.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Mental factors that veil the true nature o … Mental factors that veil the true nature of the mind. In the general Buddhist teachings, several types are mentioned: the obscuration of karma preventing one from entering the path of enlightenment; the obscuration of disturbing emotions preventing progress along the path; the obscuration of habitual tendencies preventing the vanishing of confusion; and the final obscuration of dualistic knowledge preventing the full attainment of buddhahood.venting the full attainment of buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Mental factors which veil the nature of the mind. ''See'' Two obscurations.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (Mental factors whose influence on thoughts and actions ultimately produces suffering. The five principal negative emotions are the five poisons (q.v.).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (Mental functions that are obstructive to the quiescence of nirvana. There are six primary afflictions: ignorance, desire, aversion, doubt, pride, and wrong views; and a number of subsidiary afflictions associated with their occurrence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Mental imprints accumlated as a result of previous experiences or actions, which influence later events and conduct.)