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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (One who has gone to bliss; epithet for a buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (One who has overcome the foe, foe destroyer. One who has overcome the obscurations of the four maras and has attained the final stage of the Hinayana path.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (One who has removed the two veils (the vei … One who has removed the two veils (the veil of afflictive emotions, which is the cause of suffering, and the veil of ignorance, which is the obstacle to omniscience) and who has brought to perfection the two sorts of knowledge (of the ultimate and relative nature of phenomena).ltimate and relative nature of phenomena).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (One who has vanquished the enemies of afflictive emotion and realized the nonexistence of the personal self, and who is forever free from the sufferings of samsara. Arhatship is the goal of the teachings of the Root Vehicle, the Shravakayana or Hinayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (One who hears the teachings of the Buddha, … One who hears the teachings of the Buddha, practices them, and transmits them to others with a view to his or her personal liberation from samsara. Shravakas are practitioners of the Root Vehicle, or Hinayana, which is often for that reason called the Shravakayana.n for that reason called the Shravakayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (One who hears the teachings of the Buddha, … One who hears the teachings of the Buddha, practices them, and transmits them to others with a view to his or her personal liberation from samsara, rather than the perfect enlightenment of buddhahood. Shravakas are practitioners of the Root Vehicle, or Hinayana, which is often for that reason called the Shravakayana.n for that reason called the Shravakayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (One who hears the teachings of the Buddha, … One who hears the teachings of the Buddha, transmits them to others, and practices them. The characteristic goal of the Shravaka is Arhatship, a personal, individual liberation from samsara, rather than the perfect enlightenment of Buddhahood for the sake of all beings. Shravakas are practitioners of the Hinayana or Root Vehicle, hence Shravakayana.ayana or Root Vehicle, hence Shravakayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (One who holds (dhara) or upholds the wisdom of knowledge (vidya)-mantra. An accomplished master of vajrayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (One who holds that dharma-s exist for no more than one kṣaṇa. Samghabhadra ridicules the Sautrāntika-Dārstāntikas, calling them Ksanikavādins because they hold that dharma-s exist only in the single present moment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (One who is accomplished in the vajrayāna teachings and capable of transmitting them to others.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (One who is intent on becoming a buddha for the benefit of others.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (One who is totally purified from all defilements (sangs) and who has realised all that can be known (rgyas).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (One who practices tantra or vajrayāna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (One who progresses according to the regular order.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (One who succeeds in attaining enlightenment in one lifetime using tantric means. The subjects of the namtar translated herein.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (One who through compassion strives to atta … One who through compassion strives to attain the full enlightenment of Buddhahood for the sake of all beings. Bodhisattvas may be "ordinary" or "noble" (sometimes referred to as mundane and transmundane respectively), depending on whether they have attained the Mahayana Path of Seeing and are residing on one of the ten Bodhisattva grounds.ing on one of the ten Bodhisattva grounds.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (One who through compassion strives to atta … One who through compassion strives to attain the full enlightenment of buddhahood for the sake of all beings. Bodhisattvas may be "ordinary" or "noble" depending on whether they have attained the path of seeing and are residing on one of the ten bodhisattva grounds.ing on one of the ten bodhisattva grounds.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (One who ‘has gained victory,, i.e., one who has become an adept (in a practice) and is no more a beginner (ādikarmika).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (One who ‘has transcended mental application/effort’, i.e., one who has attained perfect mastery (in a practice), beyond the stages of a beginner (ādikarmika) and an adept (kṛta-parijaya).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (One who, through compassion, strives to at … One who, through compassion, strives to attain the full enlightenment of buddhahood for the sake of all beings. Bodhisattvas may be "ordinary" or "noble" depending on whether or not they have attained the path of seeing and are residing on one of the ten bhumis.and are residing on one of the ten bhumis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (One who, through hinayana practices, has gone beyond emotional defilements to attain the lesser fruition of individual liberation, or "arhatship.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (One's own awareness, the sugatagarbha, which witnesses the displays of primordial consciousness. See CM 427-28, VS 591, VE 427-28.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (One's principal teacher. ''See also'' guru.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (One's reified sense of one's own identity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (One-cubit-tall image of the Lord of Secrets, Vajrapāṇi revealed to King Ja)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (One-incremental.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (One-piece robe (jikitotsu) used during day. 79n.27)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (One-piece robe worn during nighttime. 79n. 27)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (One-pointed, the first level of Mahāmudrā.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (One-pointedness, nonelaboration, single taste, nonmeditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (One’s own goal, benefit, or welfare (Tib. … One’s own goal, benefit, or welfare (Tib. ''rang don'') and that of others (Tib. ''gzhan don''). Often understood in the ultimate sense of the goal for oneself being achieved by the realization of emptiness, the body of truth (Skt. ''dharmakāyd''), and the goal for others by compassion manifesting as the form body (Skt. ''rūpakāya'').ting as the form body (Skt. ''rūpakāya'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Operation, action.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Opponent and competitor of the Buddha. A proud scion of the Shakya clan whose pride prevented him from appreciating the qualities of the Buddha)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Optional evening food served informally, n … Optional evening food served informally, not in the monks' hall, and considered medicine, not a meal. Literally, "medicine stone," its name comes from the ancient monastic practice of warming rocks and placing them on the belly to stave off hunger. From Dōgen's time to the present, Sōtō monasteries have served food instead. lōOn. 1asteries have served food instead. lōOn. 1)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (Or literally, "ear tantras." This is often … Or literally, "ear tantras." This is often misspelled snyan brgyud and therefore confused with "oral lineage " It is the specific name for the teachings received by Tilopa from a dākinī whose body had vanished so that he received the instructions as words emanating from the syllable hūṃ. Therefore these teachings are also known as the Dharma of the bodiless dākinīknown as the Dharma of the bodiless dākinī)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Oral Transmissions of the Old School; 56 volumes in the expanded edition published by Dudjom Rinpoche. The predominant number of scriptures concern the three inner tantras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Oral advice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (Oral instruction communicated directly from guru to disciple. An alternate Tibetan term is ''man ṅag''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Oral instructions received from an authentic master which, when practiced, liberate one's mind from delusion.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Oral transmission.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Ordinary mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (Ordinary persons (''so-so skye-bo'', Skt. ''pṛthagjana''), pious attendants (''nyan-thos'', Skt. ''śrāvaka''), self-centred buddhas (''rang-rgyal'', Skt. ''pratyekabuddha'') and [[bodhisattva]]s (''byang-chub sems-dpa' ''). 186)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Ordinary, dualistic thoughts concerning the objects of saṃsāra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (Ordinary, ignorant beings who lack wisdom and are thus trapped in samsara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (Ordinary, ignorant beings who lack wisdom and are thus trapped in samsara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Ordination, literally, "to receive precepts," a term used in Japanese Sōtō Zen for both householder, zaike, lay ordination and home-leaving, tokudo, monk ordination. 182n. 3)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Origin.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Originally a Hindu deity, an emanation of … Originally a Hindu deity, an emanation of Śiva. In the vajrayāna, Rudra is the personification of the destructive principle of ultimate ego. Traditionally, Rudra was a student who perverted the teachings, eventually killing his guru. Rudrahood is the complete opposite of buddhahood.od is the complete opposite of buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Originally a Hindu scholar who converted t … Originally a Hindu scholar who converted to Mahayana Buddhism under the influence of Aryadeva. He is sometimes identified with the master Shura (''dpa' bo''). A great poet, as important in the history of Sanskrit literature as in the history of Buddhism, he is celebrated as the author of a celebrated account of the Buddha's life, the ''Buddhacharita''. the Buddha's life, the ''Buddhacharita''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Originally a disciple who actually heard t … Originally a disciple who actually heard the teachings of the Buddha directly. It is also the name of the first of the nine yānas, in which the practitioner concentrates on basic meditation practice and an understanding of basic Buddhist doctrines such as the four noble truths.t doctrines such as the four noble truths.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (Originally a part of Śaivite lore. These a … Originally a part of Śaivite lore. These are the sacred places where various parts of Sati's body fell as Śiva carried it through the sky. With the defeat and adoption of Śivas body by Heruka, thus creating Cakrasamvara, he inherited all these sacred places, which play an important role in the Cakrasamvara literature and are also correlated with sites within the human body's network of channels and winds.uman body's network of channels and winds.)