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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The central channel is the main energetic channel in the body, running vertically through its center. Its upper end is located at the cranial aperture on the crown of the head, while its lower end is found in the secret place (the perineum). [TD 2212])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The central channel, or vein, of the arcane body generated by the tantric adept.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The central deity of the tantra of the sam … The central deity of the tantra of the same name. This tantra, which is also known as the "King of all Tantras," is one of the so-called "father tantras" (''pha rgyud'') of the highest (''bla na med rgyud'') class of tantras, wherein generation of the "illusory body" is given preference over the development of the "clear light" yogas.he development of the "clear light" yogas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (The central energy channel of the illusory … The central energy channel of the illusory body or vajra body. The central channel begins at the tip of the penis in men and the tip of the clitoris in women. It ascends in a straight line to the crown of the head, and then arches forward and downward, ending at the mid-eyebrow point. It is blue in color and straight like an arrow. Inside it has an oily red color. It is clear and transparent, and is soft and flexible like a flower petal. It is the trunk of the energy body, and links the chakras together.ergy body, and links the chakras together.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The central nāḍī of the illusory body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The central of the three main channels running vertically through the subtle body; also known in Sanskrit as the madhyamā.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The central structure at the temple complex of Samye.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The central teaching of Mahāyāna Buddhism, the quality of a lack of abiding essence in any phenomena; connected to the teachings on impermanence and interdependence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The central teaching of Mahāyāna Buddhism, the quality of a lack of abiding essence in any phenomena; connected to the teachings on impermanence and interdependence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The central temple in Lhasa and the most sacred in all of Tibet, the Jokhang was established by King Songtsen Gampo in the seventh century and enshrines the famous statue of the Buddha, the Jowo Rinpoche (q.v.).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The central term in ''Mahayana'' philosoph … The central term in ''Mahayana'' philosophy, especially the ''Madhyamaka'' school, and the truth that must be realized if enlightenment is to be attained. A radicalization and universalization of the early Buddhist idea of no-self, emptiness is the true nature of all entities and concepts in both ''samsara'' and ''nirvana'', variously taken to be the absence of ''inherent existence'', the enlightened minds lack of samsaric ''dharmas'', or external objects’ nondifFerence from the mind that perceives them.Ference from the mind that perceives them.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The central white buddha of the five buddha families, associated with the wisdom of the dharmadhatu.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The central yidam deity, associated with the principle of enlightened qualities, from the Eight Great Sādhana Teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The cessation of afflictive emotion brough … The cessation of afflictive emotion brought about by an analytical understanding, or wisdom, that eliminates the conditions in which such affliction can occur. The cessation itself is a nirvana (the "small nirvana" of Arhats) and is regarded as an "uncompounded phenomenon." regarded as an "uncompounded phenomenon.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The cessation of one's own misery through … The cessation of one's own misery through eradication of affiictional mental states. In the Great Vehicle nirvana is used in distinction to enightenment, which involves not only the eradication of misery but also the attainment of unique abilities and insights into reality.nique abilities and insights into reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The cessation of suffering and its causes. Freedom from cyclic existence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The chakras in the three joints of each finger and toe.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The channel in the heart through which flow the life-sustaining vital energies, corresponding to the aorta of the physical body and the avadhūti)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The channels in the vajra body through which the winds (prana) flow.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The channels of the subtle body through which the winds, or prana, flow,)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The channels or pathways in the arcane body generated by a tantric adept. The mind-bearing "winds" (''prāṇa'') are said to course through the ''nāḍī''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The channels, energies or winds, and essences of the physical body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The characteristic of rūpa (primarily: obstructiveness and resistance).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The characterized.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The chief Mahayoga tantra of the Nyingma school.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The chief buddha of the fifty-eight wrathful deities.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The chief buddha of the lotus family and lord of the pure land of Sukhavati. He is also the manifestation of discriminating wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The chief buddha of the vajra family.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The chief cook of a monastery. Dōgen discu … The chief cook of a monastery. Dōgen discusses this position in detail in the first essay, "Instructions for the Tenzo," and in a later section of "Pure Standards for the Temple Administrators." This is one of the six temple administrator positions. See chiji. 3349, 50n. 4,136-43,170-79ons. See chiji. 3349, 50n. 4,136-43,170-79)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The chief disciple and successor of Manjus … The chief disciple and successor of Manjushrimitra in the lineage of the Dzogchen teachings. He extracted the tantras that had been concealed in Bodhgaya and went to China, where he classified the Ati Yoga Instruction Class into four cycles: outer, inner, secret, and innermost secret. His main disciples were Jnanasutra, Vimalamitra, Padmasambhava, and Vairotsana.imalamitra, Padmasambhava, and Vairotsana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The chief disciple of Tilopa and the guru of Marpa in the Kagyü Lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The chief disciple of Tilupa and the guru of Marpa in the Kagyu lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The chief figure in the mandala of Mundane Worship.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The circle or dot above the letter that nasalizes the vowel. Represented in diacritics as m, it is nowadays pronounced as m or ng)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (The clan name of Buddha Shakyamuni prior to his enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The clarity or knowing aspect of the mind. Refers to being free from the darkness of unknowing and endowed with the ability to cognize.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The clarity or knowing aspect of the mind. Luminosity means practically the same thing as primordial wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The class of tantra (''rgyud-sde'', Skt. *''tantravarga'') and the class of means for attainment (''sgrub-sde'', Skt. *''sādhanavarga''). 462)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The classes of dialectics of the pious attendants, self-centred buddhas and [[bodhisattva]]s. See THREE OUTER VEHICLES OF DIALECTICS)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (The clear or pure essences of the nine or ten father and mother ḍākas and ḍākinīs, which are the nine or ten essential constituents of the vital winds and mind in a human body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The close female disciple of Guru Rinpoche and compiler of his teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The co-nascent proximate cause.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Precepts in Eight Chapters/Glossary + (The coalescence of Emptiness and Clarity abiding as the primordially pure mode of the natural state.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The coarse Outer [[Madhyamaka]] of the [[Svātantrika]] and the [[Prāsaṅgika]], and the subtle Inner [[Madhyamaka]] also known as [[Yogācāra-Madhyamaka]]. 208-9)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The coarse obscurations that are abandoned on the path of seeing the nature of reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (The coemergent gnosis without elaborations.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The cognizant aspect of the all-ground, like the brightness of a mirror.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The collection of 108 volumes containing the canon of Buddhist scriptures embodying the teachings of the Buddha Shakyamuni.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The collection of parts or qualities in dependence upon which an object is labeled.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The collections of merit and gnosis, which produce the form and dharma bodies of a buddha, respectively.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The collections of scripture or "baskets" … The collections of scripture or "baskets" (Skt. piṭaka), refers to the three collections which constitute the Buddhist canon: the vinaya piṭaka, the books of discipline or rules; the sutra piṭaka, books of the Buddha's sermons; and the abhidharma piṭaka, the teachings on all phenomena (dharmas). Sometimes the tantras are called the fourth basket. In general the term refers to the basic Buddhist teachings.rm refers to the basic Buddhist teachings.)