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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (The mound atop a Buddha's head, forming one of the major marks of a Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The mountain abode of Saraha, where Nagarjuna is said to have spent his last days. In south India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The mountain in the center of the four continents.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The mountain in the center of the four continents.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The mundane path of cultivation. The Sarvā … The mundane path of cultivation. The Sarvāstivāda holds that a prthagjana can also abandon defilements, albeit not absolutely. He does so through the mundane path of cultivation, developing disgust towards a lower stage by contemplatting on its being audārika, sthulabhittaka and duhkhila, and delight in a higher state by contemplating it as being śānta, pramta and nihsarana.er state by contemplating it as being śānta, pramta and nihsarana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The mundane ‘knowledge of an ārya obtained subsequently’ to the true spiritual insight in the process of direct realization (abhisamaya).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The mythical king of birds, like a great eagle.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The mythical mountain at the center of the universe, according to Indo-Tibetan cosmology.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The mythical mountain at the center of the universe, according to Indo-Tibetan cosmology.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (The mythological bird, able to travel from one end of the universe to the other with a single movement of its wings. It is also known to hatch from the egg fully developed and ready to soar through the sky.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The mythological bird, able to travel from one end of the universe to the other with a single movement of its wings. It is also known to hatch from the egg fully developed and ready to soar through the sky.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The mythological bird, able to travel with a single movement of its wings from one end of the universe to the other.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The mythological giant mountain at the cen … The mythological giant mountain at the center of our world-system, where the two lowest classes of gods of the desire realm live. It is surrounded by chains of lesser mountains, lakes, continents, and oceans and is said to rise 84,000 leagues above sea level.id to rise 84,000 leagues above sea level.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The mythological mountain at the center of … The mythological mountain at the center of our worldsystem surrounded by the four continents where the two lowest classes of gods of the world of desire live. It is encircled by chains of lesser mountains, lakes, continents, and oceans and is said to have an altitude of eighty-four thousand leagues above sea level.hty-four thousand leagues above sea level.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The nadis are the spiritual-energy channels of the physical body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (The name by which Guru Padmasambhava, the … The name by which Guru Padmasambhava, the Lotus-Born, is commonly known in Tibet. He was predicted by Shakyamuni Buddha as the one who would propagate the teachings of the Secret Mantra. Invited to Tibet by King Trisong Detsen in the eighth century, he succeeded in definitively establishing there the Buddhist teachings of sutra and tantra.he Buddhist teachings of sutra and tantra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The name by which Padmasambhava is most commonly known in Tibet)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The name first appears in Indian literatur … The name first appears in Indian literature in the Vedas as the deity of the jungles, outside civilization. He became a principal deity much later and eventually, under the name of Śiva, one of the most important deities in India today. The tantric deity Cakrasaṃvara is said to destroy Rudra/ Siva, but then adopts his body, sacred sites, and so on. In Tibet, Rudra is most often used as the symbol of powerful, self-fixated, deviant mindol of powerful, self-fixated, deviant mind)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The name given to a vajrayāna practitioner by the vajrācārya during the abhiṣeka ceremony.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (The name given to our world in the cosmological system of ancient India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The name given to the bodhisattva-to-be during the bodhisattva vow ceremony.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (The name of Gampopa in a previous life, wh … The name of Gampopa in a previous life, when he was a bodhisattva at the time of Buddha Shakyamuni: Tsoje Dawo Shunu in Tibetan, Chandraprabhava-kumara in Sanskrit. The full moon symbolizes complete enlightenment or Buddhahood. The light of the new or waxing moon symbolizes the realization of a bodhisattva, one who is partially illuminated and is on the path to complete spiritual realization.he path to complete spiritual realization.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The name of Milarepa, given to him by his father.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (The name of a Bodhisattva mentioned in the Avatamsaka Sutra. See note 28.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (The name of a Bodhisattva whose deeds are recounted in the Samadhiraja Sutra. See note 31.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (The name of a Buddhist heaven or pure land.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The name of a bodhisattva, renowned for his unwavering perseverance in seeking enlightenment. He appears in the Prajñāpāramitā literature. His teacher was Dharmodgata, whom he met in the city of Gandhavatī.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The name of a mountain where Avalokiteśvara resides. Later, the name of the Dalai Lama's residence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (The name of a place in ancient India where competitions were held to see who could endure the most pain.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (The name of a primordial Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (The name of a subcontinent lying to the south and west of the continent of Jambudvipa (our world) according to Buddhist cosmology. It is here that the glorious Copper-Colored Mountain, the buddhafield of Guru Padmasambhava, is located.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (The name of a tenet system belonging to the Hinayana, notable for its elaborate system of logic and epistemology.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The name of an immense cosmic mountain, acting as the axis of the universe and around which are located the four continents. Every universal system has its Mount Meru and four continents.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The name of our present world system. ''Saha'' means "enduring" because sentient beings endure unbearable suffering here)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The name of our present world system. Saha means "enduring," because the sentient beings here endure unbearable suffering.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The name of the Buddhist ethical teachings in general and of the code of monastic discipline in particular.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The name of the Buddhist ethical teachings in general and of the code of monastic discipline in particular.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The name of the dharmakāya buddha. He is depicted as dark blue, and is particularly important to the Kagyü lineage as it is said that Tilopa received the vajrayāna teachings directly from Vajradhara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The name of the family clan into which Buddha Shakyamuni was born. Practitioners are often given "Shakya" as a part of their Buddhist name.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The name of the next buddha. It is said that Maitreya presides over Tuṣita heaven.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (The name of the present kalpa, so called because a thousand universal Buddhas will appear in the course of it. The Buddha Shakyamuni is the fourth in the series.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The name of the subcontinent lying to the south and west of the continent of Jambu (our world) according to Buddhist cosmology (see Mount Meru). It is here that the Buddha-field of Guru Rinpoche is located.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The name of the text used for this translation of Padmasambhava's life story. See Translator's Preface.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The name of the third level in the second samadhi of the form realm.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (The names of eight celebrated manifestations of Guru Padmasambhava as described in his mystic biographies. They are Padmasambhava, Loden Chokse, Padma Gyalpo, Nyima Özer, Senge Dradok, Shakya Senge, Dorje Drolö, and Vajradhara of Oddiyana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The nasalization of the vowel indicated by a dot above the letter, represented in transliteration by ṃ.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The native religion of Tibet, according to Tibetan Buddhists. It was first promulgated in Shangshung (T: zhang-zhung), an ancient name of the province of Guge in western Tibet, west of lake Manasarovar.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The native religion of Tibet. Its followers are called Bönpo.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The natural expression which is fully matu … The natural expression which is fully mature in the nature of just what is (''de-bzhin-nyid-du nar-son-pa'i rang-bzhin''); the natural expression which is the spontaneous presence of enlightened attributes without their being sought (''yon-tan ma-btsal-bar lhun-gyis grub-pa'i rang-bzhin''); the natural expression which is pristine cognition without extremes or centre (''ye-shes mtha'-dbus dang bral-ba'i rang-bzhin''); the natural expression whose true essence cannot be pointed out (''rang-gi ngo-bo bstan-du med-pa'i rang-bzhin''); the natural expression which remains free from the range of objective qualification, even having disclosed sameness (''mnyam-nyid mngon-du mdzad-kyang spyod-yul dang bral-ba'i rang-bzhin''); the natural expression which is liberated from concepts of one and many (''gcig-dang du-ma-las grol-ba'i rang-bzhin''); and the natural expression which is without conjunction and disjunction throughout the three times (''dus-gsum 'du-bral med-pa'i rang-bzhin''). 20, 124, 251-bral med-pa'i rang-bzhin''). 20, 124, 251)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The natural glow (rang mdangs) of awarenes … The natural glow (rang mdangs) of awareness, which is transcendently present in the ground, expresses itself as self-emergent, innate primordial consciousness. When this is obscured by ignorance, its radiance is transformed into subde grasping, afflictive mentation, mentation, and the external display of the elements and aggregates of saṃsāra. See SV 618; VS 533-34, 555-56; CM 326-29; GD 151-56; VE122-27.4, 555-56; CM 326-29; GD 151-56; VE122-27.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The natural law that all phenomena arise " … The natural law that all phenomena arise "dependent upon" their own causes "in connection with" their individual conditions. The fact that no phenomena appear without a cause and none are made by an uncaused creator, but all arise exclusively due to the coincidence of causes and conditions. the coincidence of causes and conditions.)