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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.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The meditation, in accordance with the strength of which, the particular pranidhi-jñāna is produced.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (The meditational tutelary deity that embod … The meditational tutelary deity that embodies a practitioner's enlightened being. Through meditating on the ''yidam'', the practitioner is enabled gradually to disengage from his or her illusory, personal "self" and identify more and more fully with the buddha-nature within. Each Tibetan school has its most characteristic ''yidams'', upon which most members of the school will meditate at one time or another. In addition, practitioners are often given a specific ''yidam'' that most closely reflects their own as yet hidden enlightened qualities. Tantric meditation on the ''yidam'' typically contains two phases, ''utpattikrama'' (the stage of generation) and ''sampannakrama'' (the stage of completion). In the first, one visualizes the deity with all of his or her accoutrements and performs various ritual activities, including refuge, generation of ''bodhichitta'', confession of misdeeds, offerings, and praises, culminating in visualizing oneself as the ''yidam'' and reciting his or her mantra. In the completion stage, one dissolves the visualization and rests one's mind in emptiness, realizing the inborn wisdom that is immaculate and out of which all phenomena arise.immaculate and out of which all phenomena arise.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The meditative practices associated with the FIVE PATHS OF ANUYOGA. 288, 369)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The meditative transmission handed down es … The meditative transmission handed down especially by the Kagyü school, from Vajradhara Buddha to Tilopa up to the present lineage holders. In this state, all experiences are transformed into transcendental knowledge and skillful means. From the primordial intelligence and energy that arise, there comes great luminosity, so that the vividness pf experience becomes the display of the maṇḍala. According to the ''Cakrasaṃvara Tantra'': ''phyag'' is the wisdom of emptiness, ''rgya'' is freedom from saṃsāra, and ''chenpo'' is their indivisibility; therefore, it is called chagyachenpo (S: mahāmudrā). Or, as Saraha declared, Having no shape or colour, being all-encompassing, Unchanging, and stretching across the whole of time. Like celestial space without end or beginning, With no real meaning as when a rope is seen to be a snake, Being the indivisibility of Dharmakāya, Sambhogakāya, and Nirmāṇakāya, Its actuality transcends the regions of the intellect. Mahāmudrā which is instantaneous experience of Buddhahood Manifests itself in Sambhogakāya and Nirmāṇakāya for the benefit of sentient beings. [from Herbert V. Guenther, The Life and Teachings of Nāropa, London: Oxford University Press, 1963, p. 223] [from Herbert V. Guenther, The Life and Teachings of Nāropa, London: Oxford University Press, 1963, p. 223])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (The mental afflictions and their residues … The mental afflictions and their residues that temporarily cover the mind's true nature, thus preventing the attainment of buddhahood. Liberation is said to be possible precisely because these defilements are not inherent to the nature of the mind and can be removed by means of the path.d and can be removed by means of the path.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The mental faculty of attending continuously, without forgetfulness, to an object with which one is already familiar.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (The mental ground of an individual that is the basis for all the experiences included in saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The mental process by which one monitors one's own body and mind. In the practice of śamatha, its principal function is to note the occurrence of laxity and excitation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The mental traces of past experience and action that give rise to the present samsaric situation.)