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- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The dharmakāya, enjoyment body, and emanation body.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The dharmakāya, saṃbhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya, svabhāvikakāya, and vajrakāya, which are naturally present in the ground sugatagarbha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The different versions of her biography gi … The different versions of her biography give varying details about her place of birth, the names of her parents, and so forth. In his Ocean of Wondrous Sayings to Delight the Learned Ones, Guru Tashi Tobgyal states that her father's name was Namkha Yeshe of the Kharchen clan and that she was born in Drongmochey of Drag. At first she was one of King Trisong Deu-tsen's queens, but later was given to Padmasambhava as an empowerment fee to be his spiritual consort. During the empowerment of Assemblage of Sugatas, her initiation flower fell on the mandala of Kilaya. Through this practice she became able to tame evil spirits and revive the dead. She was the chief compiler of all the inconceivable teachings given by the great master Padmasambhava. Having remained in Tibet for two hundred years, she departed for the celestial realm of the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain without leaving a corpse behind. In The Precious Garland of Lapis Lazuli (p. 352), Jamgőn Kongtrűl says: Yeshe Tsogyal was a direct incarnation of Dhatvishvari Vajra Yogini in the form of a woman. She served Padmasambhava perfectly in that life, engaged in sadhana practice with incredible perseverance, and attained a level equal to Padmasambhava himself, the "continuity adorned with inexhaustible body, speech, mind, qualities, and activities." Her kindness to the land of Tibet surpasses the imagination, and her compassionate activity, which is no different from Padmasambhava's, continues unceasingly.om Padmasambhava's, continues unceasingly.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The direct crossing over preliminary practice of differentiating samsāra from nirvāṇa with respect to the body, speech, and mind. See VS s86-89, VE 395-418.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The direct disciple and "heart son" of Nag … The direct disciple and "heart son" of Nagarjuna. He was a powerful advocate of Nagarjuna's teaching later to be known as the Madhyamika. He probably lived at the turn of the second and third centuries c.e. His most celebrated work is the ''Catuhshatakashastra-karika, The Four Hundred Verses on the Middle Way''.e Four Hundred Verses on the Middle Way''.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The direct introduction to the nature of mind. A root guru is the master who gives the pointing-out instruction so that the disciple recognizes the nature of mind.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The direct introduction to the nature of mind that is given by the root guru and leads to the recognition of mind nature.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (The direct object ofthe conceptual subjective mind, one ofthe four “objects” explained in logic texts.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (The direct teachings of the Buddha are known as sutras.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The direct teachings on emptiness and luminosity as opposed to the "expedient meaning" (drang don), which leads to the definitive meanmg.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The direct, final, or "definitive" meaning. Used of texts that directly reveal their true meaning as stated.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Precepts in Eight Chapters/Glossary + (The direct, non-discursive knowledge of th … The direct, non-discursive knowledge of the natural state. It discerns (''rig'') its own nature in the same way a butter-lamp illuminates itself and its surroundings. This has nothing to do with an idea of “presence” which is a mental event and is basically a more or less subjective mental sensation. Obviously, the Awareness of Dzogchen is entirely different and does not depend on such sensations, consciousnesses, etc. on such sensations, consciousnesses, etc.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The director of a monastery, one of the six temple administrators. See chiji. 34, 50n. 4, 102n. 11)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The disciplinary teachings of the Buddha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The discourses and teachings given by Buddha Shakyamuni.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The discoverer of the Longchen Nyingtik te … The discoverer of the Longchen Nyingtik teachings, revealed to him in a vision he had of Longchenpa. He is considered to be a combined emanation of Vimalamitra and King Trisong Detsen. Patrul Rinpoche is often considered to be the emanation of Jigme Lingpa's speech (1729-1798)ation of Jigme Lingpa's speech (1729-1798))
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The discriminating wisdoms resulting from hearing, contemplating, and practicing the teachings.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The display during the bardo of dharmata.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The display during the bardo of dharmata.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The display of the bardo of dharmata.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The dissolution stage is the part of the d … The dissolution stage is the part of the development stage in which the entire visualization successively dissolves, to the point where nothing remains and the practitioner rests in a state of empty awareness for as long as possible. The primary function of this phase is to purify clinging to confused perceptions as being real. [LW 135]nfused perceptions as being real. [LW 135])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The distilled forms of earth, water, fire, air, and space.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The distinct, meta-stable states of mental … The distinct, meta-stable states of mental operation attained through the quieting of mental functioning by one-pointed concentration. Attainment of the eight successively more quiescent absorption levels-the first four comprising the form realm and the second four the formless realm-involves the suppression of thought and disturbing mental functions. Their duration depends on the force of the process of suppression. They are states common to all yoga and are entirely samsaric in nature. yoga and are entirely samsaric in nature.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The distinction is usually made, particula … The distinction is usually made, particularly in such practices as the incense offering (Tib. gsang) and burnt offerings (Tib. gsur), between offering to sublime beings “above,” such as the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and giving (as part of the practice of generosity) to ordinary beings “below,” including animals and spirits.gs “below,” including animals and spirits.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The distinctions between (1) universal ground (kun gzhi) and dharmakaya (chos sku); (2) mind (sems) and awareness (rig pa); and (3) relative truth (kun rdzob bden pa) and absolute truth (don dam bden pa).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The dividing point between the bardo of dying and the bardo of dharmata.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The doctrine of the Vātsīputrlya school and its branches that there exists<br> a ineffable ‘person’ (pudgala) which is neither identical with nor different<br> from the five skandha-s.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The doctrines which respectively concern the [[middle way]] and the four truths, the absence of characteristics and the definitive meaning. See THREE (SUCCESSIVE) PROMULGATIONS/TURNINGS OF THE DOCTRINAL WHEEL)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The dragging out of a fruit (out of its existence in the future temporal period).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The dream-like intermediate period immediately following the transitional phase of ultimate reality, in which one is on the way to one's next rebirth.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The dreams we have while we are asleep are called "double delusions" because, unlike waking appearances—which are called the "actual dreams"—sleep-time dreams do not exist even conventionally. See Kongtrul 2007b, 184.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The dualistic accumulation of merit and the nondual "accumulation" of wisdom)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (The earlier spreading, or propagation, of Buddhism to Tibet.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The earliest literary evidence of vajrayān … The earliest literary evidence of vajrayāna surfaced in India around the middle centuries of the first millenium. Since this yāna consists of oral instructions and secret teachings, which would only have been given privately to a few of the most advanced students, or even to a master's single dharma heir, it is difficult to know how far back in history the tradition goes. Professor H. V. Guenther dates Śrī Siṃha, a great master of the ati lineage, at 52 A.D. It is quite likely that the availability of literary evidence really marks a second or third stage in the spreading of vajrayāna. From great masters like Śrī Siṃha or Saraha, who lived in solitary circumstances and had only a few disciples, vajrayāna entered the monastic framework, and from there, masters began to systematize it and make the teachings more accessible to a wider range of students.<br> In general, vajrayāna instruction is of two kinds: instruction meant to be understood the moment that it is shown, for giñed students capable of instantaneous enlightenment; and instruction by graded stages of practice, for those who come gradually to enlightenment.<br> From India and Central Asia, vajrayāna spread to Tibet, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Although anuttarayoga tantra was taught in China, it was not widely practiced and does not survive today. The japanese Shingon ("true word," i.e., mantrayāna) school, transmitted by Kobo Daishi, includes teachings of the lower tantras but not those of anuttaratantra.<br> It is said that Śākyamuni manifested as Vajradhara in order to teach vajrayāna. The tantras do not tend to present a dialogue between wakefulness and confusion, as in the sl1tras. Rather, vajrayāna presents the actuality of fruition.1tras. Rather, vajrayāna presents the actuality of fruition.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (The earliest of the four main traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, founded in the eighth century by Guru Padmasambhava.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The earliest of the higher tantras, principally Guhyasamāja and Yamāntaka. They received this name retrospectively to differentiate them from the later yoginī or mother tantras, in which the role of female deities was more pronounced)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (The early lamas of the Kadam lineage, founded by the Indian master Atisha, after he arrived in Tibet in 1042. ''See also'' Gelug.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The eastern buddha field of Akṣobhya)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The eastern continent.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The edge of the monks' sitting platforms toward the center of the room, on which ōryōki are set out during meals. 76n. 6)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The eight abodes and nearby abodes of Pull … The eight abodes and nearby abodes of Pullīramalaya, Jālandhara, Oḍḍiyāna, Arbuda, Godāvarī, Rāmeshvara, Devīkoṭa, and Mālava; the four fields and nearby fields of Kāmarūpa, Oḍra, Trishakuni, and Koshala; the four chandohas and nearby chandohas of Kaliṅga, Lampāka, Kāñchi, and Himālaya; the four gathering places and nearby gathering places of Pretapurī, Gṛihadevatā, Saurāṣhṭra, and Suvarṇadvīpa; and the four charnel grounds and nearby charnels grounds of Nagara, Sindhu, Maru, and Kulutā. For information on the locations of the twenty-four sacred places, from Pullīramalaya to Kulutā, see Gray 2007, 330–33; Hartzell 1997, 1050–53; Huber 2000; and Wallace 2001, 78–79. See also Bhattacharyya 1991; Dey [1927] 1984; Dyczkowski 2004, 166; Gupta 1973; Law 1984; Schwartzberg 1992; and Sircar 1971. 1984; Schwartzberg 1992; and Sircar 1971.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The eight avenues of ordinary consciousness: the five sense consciousnesses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch), (6) mind consciousness, (7) ego consciousness, and (8) all-ground consciousness.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The eight chief recipients in Tibet of the Eight Sadhana Teachings transmitted by Guru Rinpoche: King Trisong Deutsen, Namkhai Nyingpo, Sangye Yeshe, Gyalwa Cho-yang, Yeshe Tsogyal, Palgyi Yeshe, Palgyi Senge, and Vairochana.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The eight collections of consciousnesses, cognitions.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The eight conditions in which sentient bei … The eight conditions in which sentient beings lack the opportunity to hear and practice the Buddha's teachings. These are: to be born (1) in the hells, (2) as a preta, (3) as an animal, or (4) as a long-lived god; or as human being but (5) in a world where no Buddha has appeared, or (6) in a barbaric region where the Buddha's doctrine is unknown, or (7) as someone holding wrong views, or (8) as someone mute or mentally deficient (8) as someone mute or mentally deficient)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The eight female gatekeepers plus the two of the zenith and nadir, Siṃhāsyā (Seng gdong ma) and Vyāghrāsyā (sTag gdong ma).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (The eight freedoms.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The eight goddesses, such as the Beautiful One (''sgeg mo''), who make offerings to the deities. [TD 857])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The eight immortals of Daoist tradition: Zhong Liquan, Zhang Guolao, Lu Dongbin, Li Tieguai, He Xiangu, Nan Caihc, Han Xiangzi, and Chao Guojiu.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The eight independent schools of Buddhism that flourished in Tibet: Nyingma, Kadampa, Marpa Kagyü, Shangpa Kagyü, Sakya, Jordruk, Shije, and Chöd.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The eight independent schools of Buddhism that flourished in Tibet; Nyingma, Kadampa, Marpa Kagyu, Shangpa Kagyu, Sakya, Jordruk, Shije, and Chao See also Practice Lineage.)