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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (The extremes of eternalism and annihilationism. This sometimes refers to “inherent existence” and “inherent nonexistence.” It is the brief exposition of the extremes; the broader exposition being the “four extremes.”)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The eye (''mig-gi dbang-po'', Skt. ''cakṣurindriya''), ear (''rna-ba'i dbang-po'', Skt. ''śrotrendriya''), nose (''sna'i dbang-po'', Skt. ghrāṇendriya) and tongue (''lce'i dbang po'', Skt. ''jihvendriya''); Mvt. (1853-6). 20, 125)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The eye of great, all-pervasive wisdom tha … The eye of great, all-pervasive wisdom that comprehends saṃsāra and nirvāṇa as being totally subsumed within great enlightenment, which entails natural liberation in the absolute space of the ground—the great purity and equality of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. See GD }i6.uality of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. See GD }i6.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The fact of being accumulated.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The fact of unsatisfactoriness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The fact of‘all exists’,tri-temporalexistence(of all dharma-s).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The fact that all things have the nature of emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (The fact that phenomena and the ego are empty of, or lack, independent true existence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The fact/principle of pratītya-samutpāda, one of the<br> nine unconditioned dharma-s of some schools.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The factors allowing all beings to attain full enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The faculty of eqimnimity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The faculty of joy.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The faculty that sees reality without obscurations.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The families of buddha, vajra, ratna, padma, and karma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The families of tantric tradition： tathāgata or buddha, vajra, jewel, lotus, and action.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The famous monastic university built at th … The famous monastic university built at the birthplace of Shariputra some distance north of Bodhgaya in Bihar and near Rajgir or Vulture Peak where Shakyamuni Buddha expounded the sutras of the Prajnaparamita. The place where many of the greatest masters of the Mahayana lived, studied, and taught, Nalanda had a long and illustrious history.alanda had a long and illustrious history.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The famous monastic university built at th … The famous monastic university built at the birthplace of Shariputra some distance north of Bodhgaya in Bihar. Nalanda had a long and illustrious history, and many of the greatest masters of the Mahayana lived, studied, and taught there. It was destroyed in 1200 C.E.aught there. It was destroyed in 1200 C.E.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The famous shedra at Dzogchen Monastery, founded in 1842 by Gyalse Shenpen Taye, which produced many of the finest scholars in Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The fears of fire, water, earth, air, elephants, snakes, thieves and kings. 538, 624)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The female counterpart of Samantabhadra; representing wisdom, Samantabhadrī embodies the empty nature of all phenomena, the "pure spacious expanse." [NS 284])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The female deity of art, science, music, and speech, traditionally regarded as the original teacher of the Sanskrit language.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The female of the yak.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The feminine counterpart of sukra (T: khu-ba; semen, sperm) It is symbolic of bodhicitta.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The feminine principle of ultimate insight. Often rendered "wisdom ḍākinī," the term is also a common epithet for Vajrayoginī.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (The feminine principle which is associated … The feminine principle which is associated with wisdom. One finds many references made to the Prajnaparamita as being the mother of the Buddhas. It is pure knowledge, sharp intelligence, which can create chaos or harmony. As has been cautioned by Nagarjuna, misconceptions about Prajnaparamita or Shunyata are lethal, because the excitement of theoretical discovery is not in harmony with fundamental energy, particularly when one abuses these energies. But when the marriage of knowledge and intuitive skilful means takes place in conjunction with the perfection of the six paramitas, then everything is Buddha activity; the dance begins.hing is Buddha activity; the dance begins.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The feminine principle, wisdom or emptiness. See Great Mother; Prajnaparamita)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The field of refuge, the Three Jewels, and so forth, visualized as seated in the center and on the four great branches of a tree, for the purposes of taking refuge. ''See also'' Field of merit.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The fifteen ordinary sacraments and the TH … The fifteen ordinary sacraments and the THREE PROFOUND EMPOWERMENTS ether form the eighteen empowerments of [[Mahāyoga]]. Of these the former include ten outer empowerments of beneficence (''phyi-phan-pa'i dbang-bcu'') and five inner empowerments of ability (''nang nus-pa'i dbang-lnga''), while the latter includes the THREE PROFOUND EMPOWERMENTS that are secret (''gsang-ba zab-mo'i dbang-gsum''). The ten empowerments of beneficence are those of crown ornament, diadem, rosary, armour, victory-banner, seals, parasol, vase, food and drink, and the five essences. For their significance, see Longcenpa, ''Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions'', pp. 376-9 (GGFTC, pp. 878-9). The five empowerments of ability are listed under the FIVE EMPOWERMENTS OF THE ''SECRET NUCLEUS''. 701MPOWERMENTS OF THE ''SECRET NUCLEUS''. 701)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The fifth Shamarpa (1525–83), who was a student of the eighth Karmapa, Mikyö Dorje.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The fifth and future buddha, now abiding in Tushita heaven as Shakyamuni did before taking birth. Also considered the author, through Asanga, of "The Five Texts of Maitreya," an important set of teachings of which one is ''The Supreme Continuum''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The fifth class of downfalls in the Mulasarvastivadan school of the Vinaya. See five classes of downfalls.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The fifth divine sphere of the desire realm, in which the gods can magically produce whatever they wish.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The fifth of the five paths and the state of complete and perfect enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The fifth of the five paths; the perfection of the various qualities of abandonment and realization as they pertain to the specific context of each of the three vehicles - the attainment of the level of a foe destroyer, solitary buddha, or buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The fifth of the six perfections, this meditative stability involves a focused attention, undisturbed by the afflictions.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (The fifth of the six yogas that make up an alternative categorization of the completion stage. Recollection is included in the stage of union from the five stages. ''See also'' six-branch yoga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The fifth of the ten bhumis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (The fifty vowels and consonant-syllables of the Sanskrit language. The crooked channel syllables in the subtle body are in the shapes of these syllables.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The final liberation of buddhas or, by extension, great masters, which is said to occur when they pass away.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The final stage of the tenth bhumi which results in buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The final state of enlightenment attained … The final state of enlightenment attained when an enlightened being (an arhat or buddha) leaves their earthly body (composed of aggregates) and “passes into nirvāṇa.” When listeners attain cessation in the arhat’s nirvāṇa without residual aggregates, all their accumulated merit and qualities come to an end. On the other hand, the virtue and qualities that bodhisattvas accumulate never come to an end but continue to be active once they attain buddhahood. to be active once they attain buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The final, stated position of a school of thought or of an individual practitioner.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The finest.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The fingers, toes, nose, ears, and so forth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The fire and fuel, or charcoal manager, responsible for tending the fire for warmth and maintaining fuel supplies. 102n. 11, 193n. 79)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (The fire of the fierce or low-caste woman. … The fire of the fierce or low-caste woman.” A fundamental practice of highest yoga tantra completion stage, in which aninner fire is ignited at the navel cakra, through penetrative focusing or the use of a consort, which “burns” off impurities and produces the bliss of the four joyses and produces the bliss of the four joys)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The fire offering was a central feature in … The fire offering was a central feature in the traditions based on the Vedas and Brahmanas and had no place in early Buddhism. Well-known pracitioners[[sic]] of homa threw away their implements in a gesture of renunciation on becoming disciples of the Buddha. However in the tantra, the offering to Agni, the deity of fire, is a prelude to offering to the yidam deities, and different shapes of hearth, offerings, color of costumes, and so on will bring the accomplishment that is either peaceful, increasing, controlling, or wrathfuleful, increasing, controlling, or wrathful)