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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Piṇḍola Bharadvaja, Ajita, Subinda, Kalika, Vajraputra, BKadra, Kanakavatsa, Kanakabhadra, Nakula (Vakula), Rāhula, Chuḍapaṇṭhaka, Aṅgaja, Paṇṭhaka, Nāgascna, Jīvaka, Vanavasin.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Place near Rajgir in Bihar, central India, where the Buddha taught.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Placement of attention on a single object.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (Placing one's confidence in the precious ones, the three jewels.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Placing the attention in meditation)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Plane of existence. The Sarvāstivāda speaks of five: manusya, deva,<br>tiryañc,naraka, preta. Some schools,like the Vātsīputrīya, add<br> asura as the sixth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Platforms in the sōdō on which monks sit, … Platforms in the sōdō on which monks sit, eat, and sleep. Zazen is done facing the wall, while meals are taken facing the center of the room. The tan is also wide enough for monks to sleep at their places; cabinets with bedding are along the wall. Tan could also refer to the sitting platforms in the shurya. 77n. 10e sitting platforms in the shurya. 77n. 10)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Play, display.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Poetry.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Poison is synonymous with kleśa. The three … Poison is synonymous with kleśa. The three root poisons are rāga (T: 'dod-chags; passion), dveṣa (T: zhe-sdang; aggression), and moha (T: gti-mug; delusion). The five poisons include the above three plus mānas (T: nga-rgyal; arrogance) and īrṣyā (T: phrag-dog; envy). ''See also'' realms, lower or higher.vy). ''See also'' realms, lower or higher.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Pollution, the process of defiling; opposite to vyavadāna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Positive energy arising from wholesome act … Positive energy arising from wholesome action or virtue (''dge ba''). There are two kinds of merit: (1) mere "merit tending to happiness" (''bsod nams tsam po pa'' or ''bsod nams cha mthun'') and (2) "merit tending to liberation" (''thar pa cha mthun''), on the basis of which the mind progresses toward emancipation from samsara. "Stainless merit" (''zag med dge ba'') is merit tending to liberation, accumulated on the five paths. See also Virtue tending to happiness; Virtue tending to liberation.o happiness; Virtue tending to liberation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Possessing of the faculties.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (Possibly Khenchen Gyurme Tubten Jamyang Drakpa (c. 1883–1945).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (Possibly Khenpo Könchok Özer.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (Possibly Tangdrok Ön Pema Chokdrub, third reincarnation of Natsok Rangdrol. Prominent student of Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (Possibly Tromge Jigme Dongak Tendzin (fl. 19th century).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Possibly a period of six months.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Possibly first or second century ce. An an … Possibly first or second century ce. An ancient scholar-physician who revised the Charakasaṃhitā, the oldest and most important text of nonsurgical Āyurvedic medicine. Zysk (1999, 1) places the compilation of the Charakasaṃhitā in a period spanning a few centuries prior to and after the Common Era. See Wujastyk 2001, 39–103.the Common Era. See Wujastyk 2001, 39–103.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Possibly identical with Mőnkha Senge Dzong, a cave situated to the east of Bumthang in Bhutan, which was used by Padmasambhava and later by Yeshe Tsogyal as a sacred place for the sadhana of Vajra Kilaya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Possibly the former teacher of Baoen Xuanze before Fayan.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Post meditation, or the period subsequent to formal meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (Potential existing in the mind stream, which may become active)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Power of knowledge.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Power, potency.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Power.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Powerful long-lived serpentlike beings who inhabit bodies of water and often guard great treasure. Nagas belong half to the animal realm and half to the god realm. They generally live in the form of snakes, but many can change into human form.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Powerful realization or empowerment that is experienced in connection with a guru or a physical place or object associated with a realized being. Consecration of an inanimate object or substance.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Powerful, long-living serpent-like beings dwelling in water domains and often guarding great treasures. Nagas belong half to the animal realm and half to the god realm. They generally live in the form of snakes, but many can change into human form.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Powers attained by advanced meditators: re … Powers attained by advanced meditators: retrocognition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, yogic achievements, and knowledge of the destruction of the corruptions, i.e., delusions. The first five can be gained through deep ''concentration'', and arc not specific to Buddhism； the last is unique to Buddhists and is attained only on the basis of ''superior insight'' into the nature of reality.rior insight'' into the nature of reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Practice hall, literally, "pure building," another word for a temple in East Asian Buddhism. 187n. 40)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Practice of yoga, a Mahāyāna philosophical school.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Practice-certification, authentification, … Practice-certification, authentification, or enlightenment. Used by Dōgen to express the nonduality of practice and true awakening. Practice is the expression and celebration of enlightenment, rather than a means to attain some later, resultant experience identified as enlightenment. 75n. 4rience identified as enlightenment. 75n. 4)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Practices related to the four activities of pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and subduing.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (Practices through which one develops compa … Practices through which one develops compassion toward others and fearlessness in relation to one's own experience. These include (in Sanskrit) ''maitri'' (loving-kindness), ''karuna'' (compassion), ''mudita'' (sympathetic joy), and ''upeksha'' (equanimity).thetic joy), and ''upeksha'' (equanimity).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Practitioners linked together by tantric samaya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Practitioners of the Hinayana teachings who aspire to liberation from the cycle of existences.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Practitioners of the Mahayana teachings who, out of compassion, aspire to buddhahood in order to help beings in the immediate term and to lead them ultimately to enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Prahevajra's previous incarnation in the celestial realms.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Prahevajra; incarnation of a god who earli … Prahevajra; incarnation of a god who earlier had been empowered by the buddhas. Immaculately conceived, his mother was a nun, the daughter of King Dhahena Talo of Uddiyana. Garab Dorje received all the tantras, scriptures and oral instructions of Dzogchen from Vajrasattva and Vajrapani in person and became the first human master in the Dzogchen lineage. Having reached the state of complete enlightenment through the effortless Great Perfection, Garab Dorje transmitted the teachings to his retinue of exceptional beings. Manjushrimitra is regarded as his chief disciple. Padmasambhava is also known to have received the transmission of the Dzogchen tantras directly from Garab Dorje's wisdom form. Garab Dorje means 'Indestructible joy'rm. Garab Dorje means 'Indestructible joy')
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Prajñā (shes rab), examination (rtog), analysis (dpyod), joy (dga'), and bliss (bde). See Kongtrul 2008, 157.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Prajñā is the natural sharpness of awarene … Prajñā is the natural sharpness of awareness that sees, discriminates, and also sees through conceptual discrimination. "Lower prajñā" includes any sort of worldly knowledge (e.g., how to run a business, how to cook a meaṇ "Higher prajñā" includes two stages: seeing phenomena as impermanent, egoless, and suffering; and a higher prajñā that sees śūnyatā-a direct knowledge of things as they are.-a direct knowledge of things as they are.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Prana here is the "wind of karma," the current of conceptual thinking, as well as the energy-currents in the body. Mind is the dualistic consciousness of an unenlightened being. These two are closely related.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Prana here is the wind of karma and "mind" is the dualistic consciousness of an unenlightened being.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Au Cœur de la compassion/Glossary + (Pratiquant du Véhicule Fondamental qui a écouté les enseignements de la bouche du Bouddha en personne et les a mis en pratique dans le seul but d’atteindre la libération pour lui-même.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Praying to and doing intensive retreat on … Praying to and doing intensive retreat on the inseparable guru/meditational deity； striving well in both accumulation of merit and purification of negativities; and analyzing the meaning of textual systems carefully through reason, and thinking about them in detail.reason, and thinking about them in detail.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Pre-dawn, early morning, noon, and dusk.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Precepts undertaken for one full day and night. Same as upavāsa-saṃvara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (Precious One. An honorific term reserved for tulkus or lamas of high rank or great meditative accomplishment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Predicted by Padmasambhava and trained as … Predicted by Padmasambhava and trained as a translator during the time of Trisong Deutsen, along with Kawa Paltsek he translated the sutras and tantras while Vairo went to India. Later, he and Kawa went to India to invite Vimalamitra to Tibet. He is considered the third greatest Tibetan translator and was also one of Padmasambhava's twenty-five disciples. Also referred to as Chok.-five disciples. Also referred to as Chok.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Predilection, desire.)