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• 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)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary  + (The first Buddhist king of Tibet, who flourished in the seventh century and is said to have been a manifesta-tion of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig. Four reigns separate him from Trisong Detsen (eighth and ninth centuries).)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary  + (The first Buddhist monastery built in Tibet, constructed ca. 775–79 c.e. under the patronage of King Trisong Detsen.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary  + (The first Buddhist text that appeared in Tibet, which fell on to the roof of King Lha Thothori Nyensheľs palace during the fifth century and was translated by Thonmi Sambhota.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary  + (The first Karmapa, Tusum Khyenpa (1110-119 … The first Karmapa, Tusum Khyenpa (1110-1193), was the disciple of Gampopa (1079-1153) and founded Tsurphu monastery. The succession of Karmapas is at the heart of the Karma-Kagyu, or Kamtshang-Kagyu, lineage. From the second, Karma Pakshi (1204-1283) to the fifth, Deshin Shekpa (1384-1415), the Karmapas were spiritual guides of the emperor of China. The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339), was a remarkable scholar and adept who dso played an important role in the Nyingma lineage. The lineage of Karmapas proceeded without interruption until the seventeenth century. The sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa was Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1924-1982); his fame caused him to be more generally recognized as the head of the Kagyu school as a whole. The seventeenth Karmapa was recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and by Tai Situpa in the person of an eight-year-old child who was enthroned at Tsurphu monastery in Tibet in September 1992. Karmapa signifies "he who translates enlightened activity into works." The Karmapas are recognized as emanations of Chenrezig, the buddha of compassion.ns of Chenrezig, the buddha of compassion.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary  + (The first abode in the formless realm dwelling on the thought, "Space is infinite!" Inseparability Of The Three Kayas (sku gsum dbyer med))
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary  + (The first beginning (of saṃsāra).)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary  + (The first categories are those arisen from … The first categories are those arisen from the elements conjoined with consciousness and those arisen from the elements not conjoined with consciousness. Each of those can either convey meaning or not, making four; and each of which can be pleasant or unpleasant, making eight. See Choephel 2012, 111; Hopkins [1985] 1991, 226–27; Kongtrul 2012, 543–44; and Pruden 1988–90, 65–66.l 2012, 543–44; and Pruden 1988–90, 65–66.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary  + (The first five hierarchs of the Sakya trad … The first five hierarchs of the Sakya tradition: Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (Sa chen Kun dga' snying po) (1092–1158); Lopön Sönam Tsemo (sLob dpon bSod nams rtse mo) (1142–82); Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen (rJe btsun Grags pa rgyal mtshan) (1147–1216); Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (Sa skya paṇḍita Kun dga' rgyal mtshan) (1182–1251); and Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen (Chos rgyal 'phags pa bLo gros rgyal mtshan) (1235–80). See Stearns 2001; and Tseten 2008, 234–49.See Stearns 2001; and Tseten 2008, 234–49.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary  + (The first five of the ten advantages: (1) to be born a human, (2) in a region where the Buddha's doctrine is taught, (3) with all one's sense organs complete, (4) with a propensity for positive deeds, and (5) with faith in the Dharma)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary  + (The first foetal stage.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary  + (The first four of the five paths on which concepts of progress, training, and learning still remain.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary  + (The first four of the five paths. The fifth path is called the "path beyond training" and corresponds to perfect buddhahood.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary  + (The first four of the five stages of the p … The first four of the five stages of the path to awakening: path of accumulation (''saṃbhara-mārga, tshogs lam''), path of joining (''bhāvanā-mārga, sgom lam''), path of seeing (''darśana-mārga, mthong lam''), and path of cultivation (''bhavana-marga, sgom lam''). The fifth stage, the path of no further training (''aśaikṣa-mārga, mi slob lam''), is synonymous with buddhahood.lob lam''), is synonymous with buddhahood.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary  + (The first human recipient of the Maha Yoga tantras and an important figure in the transmission of Anu Yoga. Some sources say he is the same as King Indrabhuti, also known as Indrabodhi.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary  + (The first human vidyadhara in the Dzogchen lineage.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary  + (The first is the meditative concentration … The first is the meditative concentration which possesses both ideas and scrutiny (''rtog-pa-dang bcas-shing dpyod-pa-dang bcas-pa'i bsam-gtan dang-po''), the second is the meditative concentration which possesses no ideas but scrutiny alone (''rtog-pa med-la dpyod-pa tsam-dang bcas-pa bsam-gtan gnyis-pa''), the third is the meditative concentration of mental action which is devoid of ideas and scrutiny (''rtog-pa-dang dpyod-pa yang-med-pa yid-la byed-pa bsam gtan gsum-pa'') and the fourth is the meditative concentration of mental action which is united with delight (''dga'-ba sdud-payid-la byed-pa'i bsam-gtan bzhi pa''); Mvt. (1477-81). 13, 14-15, 61-2, 115a''); Mvt. (1477-81). 13, 14-15, 61-2, 115)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary  + (The first level of the first samadhi of the form realm.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary  + (The first manifestations in the bardo of dharmata. They belong to the category of unconditional phenomena.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary  + (The first monastery built in Tibet, Samye was modeled after the Indian monastery Odantapurī. However, Samye's actual design is a combination of Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan styles.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary  + (The first of Tibet's three great religious kings. It was during his time that the first Buddhist temples were built)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary  + (The first of the "four aspects of ascertainment" on the path of joining. Getting close to the flamelike wisdom of the path of seeing by possessing concentration concurrent with discriminating knowledge.)