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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The lowest of the hot hells, according to Buddhist teaching, characterized by the most intense and protracted form of suffering.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The lowest of the hot hells, according to Buddhist teaching, characterized by the most in-tense and protracted form of suffering.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The lowest subdivision of the commoners caste (śūdra) of Vedic India, known in English as "untouchables.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The lowest, most intense of the hells.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The luminosity during the bardo of dharmata.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The luminosity of dharmakaya or empty luminosity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The luminosity of the manifest aspect. Compare with ''empty luminosity''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The mahamudra practice connected to the six doctrines of Naropa. See Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's "Introduction.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The mahamudra system based on the prajnaparamita scriptures and emphasizing shamatha and vipashyana and the progressive journey through the five paths and ten bodhisattva bhumis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The mahayana school of philosophy established by Asanga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The mahāyāna schools appeared in literary … The mahāyāna schools appeared in literary form several hundred years after the Buddha's death, although traditionally the transmission lineage goes back to Śākyamuni himself, who is said to have first presented mahāyāna teachings on Vulture Peak mountain near Rājagṛha to a celestial assembly. Going beyond the somewhat nihilistic emptiness of the hīnayāna schools and the preoccupation with individual liberation, the greater vehicle presents greater vision based on śūnyatā, compassion, and the acknowledgment of universal buddha nature. It introduced the ideal of the bodhisattva, who lives in the world to deliver sentient beings, while dwelling neither in the struggle of saṃsāra nor in a quietistic nirvāṇa. Socially, the mahāyāna expanded the buddhadharma beyond the monastic communities to the lay population.onastic communities to the lay population.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The main buddha of the Tathagata family, which corresponds to the aggregate of form.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The main deity upon which a Vajrayana practitioner focuses.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The main disciple and lineage holder of Vairotsana. He was the reincarnation of Tsang Lekdrub.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The main left nāḍī.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The main passageway for the winds within the body's subtle physiology, which is manipulated in tantric practice. It runs parallel to the spine)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (The main resident and residence mandala of the generation stage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The main right nāḍī.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The main seat of the Karmapas in Tibet, located in the Tölung Valley about twenty miles west of Lhasa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The main temple in Lhasa that was built by Songtsen Gampo and that housed the Shakyamuni image brought to Tibet by his wife.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The main yidam of the Kagyu lineage. She appears as a red ḍākinī in the charnel ground, wielding a hooked knife and wearing a garland of fresh human heads. She has a human head and a sow's head. Also called Vārahī or Vajrayoginī.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The main yidam of the Kagyu lineage. She appears as a red ḍākinī in the charnel ground, wielding a hooked knife and wearing a garland of fresh human heads. She has a human head and a sow's head. Also called Vārahī or Vajrayoginī.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The major impediments to receiving secret teachings： desire, fear, anger, and confusion. Alternatively, it may refer to the sorts of beings who are controlled by these tendencies.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The male (white) and female (red) substances which, together with the consciousness, are the causes of the conception of human life.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The male (white) and female (red) substances which, together with the consciousness, are the causes of the conception of human life.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The mandalas of the five buddhas.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The manifest state of the ground, which is self-emergent, naturally luminous, and free of outer and inner obscuration; this is indivisible from the all-pervasive, lucid, clear expanse of the absolute space of phenomena, free of contamination.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (The manifestation body, the aspect of compassion and means, whereby a Buddha may be perceived by unenlightened beings. This is, therefore, the means by which he can communicate with and help them.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The manifestation of Amitabha on the sambhogakaya level and one of the three main deities connected with long life along with White Tara and Ushnisha- Vijaya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The manifestation ofreality unfolding as a "dance" or "play")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The manifesting capacity of innate wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The manner in which all phenomena are devoid of intrinsic existence; the true nature of things. [TD 1110])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The mantra of Avalokiteshvara, om mani padme hum)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The mantra of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion. The most popular mantra in Tibetan Buddhism, also known as the six-syllable mantra. ''Hung'' is the Tibetan pronunciation of Sanskrit ''hum''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The mantra of Avalokiteshvara: OM MANI PADME HUNG.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The mantra of Avalokitesvara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The mantra of [[Avalokiteśvara]], OṂ MA ṆI PAD ME HŪṂ, each syllable of which purifies one of the SIX CLASSES OF LIVING BEINGS. 508, 545, 569, 841)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (The masculine principle in tantric symboli … The masculine principle in tantric symbolism. The Heruka plays the partner in the Dakini's dance. The translation of the word tragthung in Tibetan is blood drinker. This energy principle is called "blood drinker" because it is the energy of skilful means; that which makes the situation powerful and creative, that which drinks the blood of clinging, doubts and duality. Skilful means is the active aspect of knowledge and is spontaneous and precise in each situation.spontaneous and precise in each situation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The master from whom Jamgön Kongtrul received instructions on Rangjung Dorje's Profound Inner Principles, Treatise on the Distinction between Consciousness and Wisdom, and Treatise That Reveals the Tathāgata Heart. See Barron 2003, 25.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The maṇḍala of the five tathāgatas or jina … The maṇḍala of the five tathāgatas or jinas (victorious ones). They embody the five wisdoms, but in saṃsāra, these energies arise as the five confused emotions. Everything in the world is said to possess a predominant characteristic of one of these five. Thus, they are called families. The five families, tathāgatas, wisdoms, confused emotions, directions, and colors, respectively, are as follows: (1) buddha, Vairocana, dharmadhātu wisdom, ignorance, center, white; (2) vajra, Akṣobhya, mirror-like wisdom, aggression, east, blue; (3) ratna (jewel), Ratnasambhava, wisdom of equanimity, pride, south, yellow; (4) padma (lotus), Amitābha, discriminating-awareness wisdom, passion, west, red; (5) karma (action), Amoghasiddhi, wisdom that accomplishes all actions, envy, north, green. Some of these qualities vary in different tantras, especially those of buddha and vajratras, especially those of buddha and vajra)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The meaning lineage of the conquerors, the … The meaning lineage of the conquerors, the symbol lineage of mantra adepts, the ear-whispered lineage of ordinary persons, the lineage of prophecies of the special oral tradition, the lineage of the karmically projected treasure, and the lineage of the mindseal prayer.e, and the lineage of the mindseal prayer.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The meaning of ultimate reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The meaningless, low in meaning, erroneous and meaningful. 89)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The means for traveling the path to enlightenment)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The means for traveling the path to enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The means for traveling the path to enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The means of determining that a text is au … The means of determining that a text is authoritative. They show that the text's presentation of observable objects does not contradict direct cognition (mngon sum, pratyakṣha); its description of hidden objects (lkog gyur, parokṣha) does not contradict objective inferential valid cognition (dngos po stobs zhugs kyi rjes dpag); and its description of thoroughly hidden objects (shin tu lkog gyur, atyantaparokṣha) is not internally contradictory. See Dunne 2004, 240 and 361–63; Tillemans 1999a; and Tillemans 1999b, 27–47.llemans 1999a; and Tillemans 1999b, 27–47.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The meditation associated with sadhana practice in which one purifies oneself of one's habitual clingings by meditating on forms, sounds, and thoughts as having the nature of deities, mantras, and wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The meditation on the impure (= aśubha-bhāvanā).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (The meditation position where the legs are … The meditation position where the legs are loosely crossed, with the left leg drawn up close (symbolizing control of sexual energy), and the right leg slightly out in front (symbolizing the readiness to act for the benefit of sentient beings). bodhisattva stages There are ten bodhisattva stages or bhumis: (1) The Joyous; (2) The Stainless; (3) The Radiant; (4) The Brilliant; (5) The Hard to Conquer; (6) The Realized; (7) The Reaching Far; (8) The Unshakable; (9) The Good Intelligence; (10) The Cloud of Dharma. At each stage, more defilements and obscurations are purified, and more enlightened qualities are manifested. The first six stages correspond to the realization of the six paramitas, and the last four to refinement of the perfection of wisdom (prajna paramita). The ten stages are progressive, but do not always occur in a linear fashion. Beyond the tenth stage is complete awakening, buddhahood.h stage is complete awakening, buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The meditation practice associated with a particular Buddha. This is often a written text that one follows, by chanting or reading, in order to meditate on that Buddha.)