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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.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (Predominantly referring to Viśvamātā, the mahāmudrāconsort, the highest development of aspected emptiness or empty form.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Preliminary practices.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (Preoccupation with: pleasure and pain, praise and blame, fame and shame, loss and gain.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Preparatory effort.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Preparatory effort. This stage comprises the mokṣa-bhāgīya and the<br> nirvedha-bhāgīya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Preparatory efforts (prayoga) conducing to liberation. They essentially<br>comprise śamatha and vipaśyanā meditational practices.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Preparatory efforts conducing to decisive distinction: i.e., to the arising of<br>outflow-free knowledge. These are also called the skilful roots; there<br>are four: uṣmagata, mūrdhan, kṣānti,laukikāgra-dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Presence and absence of thought activity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Present, the present.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Present-day Bihar, in central India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Pretas inhabit one of the three lower real … Pretas inhabit one of the three lower realms of saṃsāra. They suffer the obsession of hunger and craving. It is said that even if they came upon a lake of pure fresh water, due to their heavy karmic obscurations, they would experience it as an undrinkable pool of pus. Pretas are depicted with very large bellies and very thin necks.th very large bellies and very thin necks.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Previously arisen)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Pride, intoxication.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Primordial basis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Primordial consciousness by which all pure … Primordial consciousness by which all pure, free, simultaneously perfected deeds and activities are accomplished naturally, of their own accord; this is purified as Bhagavān Amoghasiddhi. When obscured by ignorance, it manifests externally as green light; this is reified as the derivative element of air. Its radiance is transformed into subtle grasping of the five sensory consciousnesses and gives rise to thoughts of envy and the aggregate ofcompositional factors. See GD 150-53, VE 121-25.itional factors. See GD 150-53, VE 121-25.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Primordial consciousness of the equal puri … Primordial consciousness of the equal purity of saṃsāra and nirvāna in great emptiness; this is purified as Bhagavān Ratnasambhava. When obscured by ignorance, it manifests externally as yellow light; this is reified as the derivative element of earth. Its radiance is transformed into afflictive mentation and gives rise to thoughts of pride and the aggregate of feeling. See GD 150-53, VE 121-25.gate of feeling. See GD 150-53, VE 121-25.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Primordial consciousness that knows reality as it is (ontology) and primordial consciousness that perceives the full range of phenomena (phenomenology).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Primordial consciousness that unimpededly … Primordial consciousness that unimpededly discerns the displays of pristine awareness, which knows reality as it is and perceives the full range of all phenomena; this is purified as Bhagavān Amitābha. When obscured by ignorance, it manifests externally as red light; this is reified as the derivative element of fire. Its radiance is transformed into mentation and gives rise to thoughts of attachment and the aggregate of recognition. See GD 150-55, VE 1x1-15. of recognition. See GD 150-55, VE 1x1-15.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Primordial gnosis or wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (Primordial ignorance perpetuated in the minds of sentient beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (Primordial intelligence is the key of the … Primordial intelligence is the key of the Bodhisattva's actions in dealing with practical details of earth and space. He develops such a sharp and penetrating sense that he can cut through the conceptualised notion of duality and see the simplicity. Prajna is that quality which culminates in acting spontaneously with the help of the other Paramitas with such precision that the spinal cord of duality is cut.on that the spinal cord of duality is cut.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Primordial knowledge, divested of the dualistic mental activity characteristic of the ordinary mind, which "sees" (nondualistically) the ultimate reality or absolute truth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (Primordial liberation (''ye-grol''), natural liberation (''rang-grol''), direct liberation (''cer-grol'') and liberation from extremes (''mtha'-grol''). 334)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Primordial liberation not bound by the attachment to experience.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Primordial purity not sullied by the veils of conceptually.)