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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The nature of things which, like space, does not come into being as a concrete, apprehensible entity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The nether world of the nāgas (''sa-'og klu'i srid-pa''), the surface world of humans (''sa'i steng mi'i srid-pa'') and the upper world of gods (''gnam-steng lha'i srid-pa''). 45, 212, 301, 405, 971, 973)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (The neuter Tibetan term ''mkha' 'gro'' is … The neuter Tibetan term ''mkha' 'gro'' is purposely used throughout the Tibetan texts. This term is the Tibetan translation of the masculine Sanskrit term ''ḍāka'', but is also used as an abbreviation for the feminine Tibetan term ''mkha' 'gro ma'', which is the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit term ''ḍākinī''. Thus an inherent ambiguity is often present in the use of the Tibetan term without the feminine ending ''ma''. In the Tibetan texts translated in this book the term ''mkha' 'gro'' is used to embrace both the masculine and feminine meanings. In many instances the intended gender is clear from context. But when the meaning is ambiguous, the single term ''mkha' 'gro'' has been translated as "ḍākas and ḍākinīs." This decision is based on conversations with His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Khenchen Appey Rinpoché, and Dezhung Rinpoché.chen Appey Rinpoché, and Dezhung Rinpoché.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (The new translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism (namely, Kagyupa, Sakyapa, and Gelugpa) founded in the period following the persecution by Langdarma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (The nine concentrations of equilibrium.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The nine kinds of activity include the bod … The nine kinds of activity include the body's (1) outer activities, such as walking, sitting, and moving about, (2) inner activities of prostrations and circumambulations, and (3) secret activities ofritual dancing, performing mudrās, and so on; the speech's (4) outer activities, such as all kinds of delusional chatter, (5) inner activities, such as reciting liturgies, and (6) secret activities, such as counting propitiatory mantras of your personal deity; and the mind's (7) outer activities, such as thoughts aroused by the five poisons and the three poisons, (8) inner activities of mind training and cultivating positive thoughts, and (9) the secret activity of dwelling in mundane states of dhyāna. See GD197, VE 322.ndane states of dhyāna. See GD197, VE 322.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The nine spiritual vehicles include the th … The nine spiritual vehicles include the three leading away from suffering—Srāvakayāna, Pratyekabuddhayāna, and Bodhisattvayāna; the three outer tantras evoking pristine awareness with austerities—kriyāyoga, upāyayoga, and yogi; and the three inner tantras—mahāyoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga. See BM 344-48; GD 179-88; VE 302-4.iyoga. See BM 344-48; GD 179-88; VE 302-4.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (The nine stabilizations of the mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The nine stages of tranquil abiding: mental placement, continuous placement, patched placement, close placement, taming the mind, pacification of the mind, complete pacification, one-pointed attention, and balanced placement.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The nine vehicles comprise the path of the … The nine vehicles comprise the path of the Nyingma School of the Early Translations. The first three vehicles are those of the Sūtra Vehicle, the exoteric Buddhist teachings: 1) the Vehicle of the Listeners, 2) the Vehicle of the Solitary Buddhas, and 3) the Vehicle of the Bodhisattvas. The next set comprises the three outer tantras: 4) the Vehicle of Kriyā, or Activity Tantra, 5) the Vehicle of Ubhaya, or Dual Tantra, and 6) the Vehicle of Yoga, or Union Tantra. The final set of three represents the inner tantric tradition: 7) the Vehicle of Mahāyoga, or Great Yoga, 8) the Vehicle of Anuyoga, or Concordant Yoga, and 9) the Vehicle of Atiyoga, or Supreme Yoga (also known as the Great Perfection). [NS 164]o known as the Great Perfection). [NS 164])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The nine-fold classification of the Buddha … The nine-fold classification of the Buddha’s teachings, expounded almost exclusively in the Southern tradition (Usually given in Pāli as navońga- satthu-sāsana. It also occurs in the Saddharma-puṇḍarika-sūtra of the Mahāyāna): 1. sūtra (/sutta), 2. geya (/geyya),3. vyākaraṇa (/veyyākaraṇa), 4. gāthā,5. udāna, 6. ityuktaka (/itivuttakah 7. jātaka,8. adbhuta -dharma (/abbhuta-dhamma), 9. vaidalya (/vedalla). —►dvādaśāṅga- dharma-pravacanabhuta-dhamma), 9. vaidalya (/vedalla). —►dvādaśāṅga- dharma-pravacana)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The ninth of the ten bhumis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The nirmāṇakāya and the sambhogakāya, which appear to those in need of guidance once the accumulation of merit has been perfected. [TD 2499])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The no-self of the individual (Tib. ''gang zag gi bdag med'') and the no-self of phenomena (Tib. ''chos kyi bdag med''). See also no-self.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (The no-self of the individual (gang zag gi bdag med) and the no-self of phenomena (chos kyi bdag med).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (The no-self of the individual (gang zag gi bdag med) and the no-self of phenomena (chos kyi bdag med).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The noble truth of unsatisfactoriness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The nondual ultimate reality that is neither existent nor nonexistent, neither the same nor different, neither produced nor destroyed, subject to neither growth nor diminution, neither pure nor impure.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (The nonmaterial, atomless forms, developed … The nonmaterial, atomless forms, developed only on the Kālacakra completion stage, that serve as bases for the development ofenlightened forms. Supreme among these empty forms is the mother-father Kālacakra union that replaces the flesh-and-blood body at the time of enlightenment. In other tantras a parallel can be found in the illusory body. Empty forms are created by the winds entering the central channel. Their appearance to the yogi is effortless and without contrivance, like prognostic images that appear in a clairvoyant's mirror.ges that appear in a clairvoyant's mirror.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (The nonmaterial, empty-form nature of phenomena of the three realms at the time of the final attainmentof enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The nonsectarian approach to the study and practice of the Eight Chariots of the Practice Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism: Nyingma, Kadam, Sakya, Kagyu, Shangpa, Chöd, Kalachakra, and Orgyen Nyendrub.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The normal preoccupations of unrealized people without a clear spiritual perspective. They are gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, fame and infamy.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The normal preoccupations of unrealized people without a clear spiritual perspective. They are: gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, fame and infamy)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The northern cosmic continent, where beings possess natural discipline.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The novice in the monastery who attends to the lamps. Literally, "fire boy" or "fire-spirit's apprentice," referring to fire as one of the five elements in Chinese cosmology. 183n. 15)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The object in its unique nature.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The object in which one takes refuge; ''skyabs 'gro'', the practice of taking refuge.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The object of a grasping mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (The object to be negated in the investigation of emptiness. See notes 34 and 37.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The objects of the eight consciousnesses: sight, sound smell, taste, texture, mental objects, the all-ground, and appearance.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The obscuration formed by the defilements and the obscuration of knowledge, the last being named according to what is obscured rather than by the cause of obscuration: the subtlest level of ignorance)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The obscurations of afflictive emotions and conceptual obscurations.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The obscurations that are not intrinsic to the sugatagarbha, like clouds are not inherent in the sky.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The omens perceived by Śākyamuni, which prompted his renunciation of the household life, namely, old age, sickness, death and a wandering ascetic. 418-19)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The one dharmakāya, which is replete with all the qualities of the buddhas and which encompasses the entirety of samsāra and nirvāṇa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The one, absolute, essential nature of the whole of 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 ontological aspect of primordial consciousness, which correctly knows the nature of ultimate reality, the sugatagarbha; this corresponds to knowing the essential nature of pristine awareness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The opening at the top of one's head, eight fingers above the hairline.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The opposite of supramundane, anything tha … The opposite of supramundane, anything that does not transcend saṃsāra. Translations of this term as “ordinary” or “worldly” can be misleading since meditators who have mastered the four dhyānas (but without being liberated from saṃsāra), and who have immense powers of concentration, magical powers, and so forth, cannot really be called “ordinary,” nor are they worldly in the sense of being materialistically minded and interested only in the present world. and interested only in the present world.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The oral commentary that a vajra master gives to his students concerning a particular abhiṣeka or sādhana. It generally is given after the reading transmission and abhiṣeka itself.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The oral lineage of the Nyingma school, the teachings translated chiefly during the period of Padmasambhava's stay in Tibet and transmitted from master to student until the present day.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (The oral transmission of canonical teachings in the Nyingma tradition.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The orally transmitted lineage through individuals in which it is necessary for the teacher to use words for the disciple to hear, rather than transmitting them mind-to-mind or through symbols.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The ordinary body (''lus'', Skt. ''kāya/śarīra''), speech (''ngag'', Skt. ''vāk'') and mind (''yid'', Skt. ''manas''). 264, 304, 367)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (The ordinary or normal condition of sentient beings, especially with regard to the vajra body, before they enterthe tantric paths.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The ordinary perception of unenlightened beings. The apprehension of phenomena in terms of subject and object and the belief in their true existence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (The ordinary state of existence, whose natural processes of birth, death, and intermediate state are mirrored and used in tantric practice to advance on the path.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (The original nature present in all beings which when realized leads to enlightenment. It is often called the essence of Buddhahood or enlightened essence and is the topic of the Uttara Tantra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (The original nature present in all being which when realized leads to enlightenment. It is often called the essence of Buddhahood or enlightened essence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Precepts in Eight Chapters/Glossary + (The original spiritual tradition of Tibet, … The original spiritual tradition of Tibet, existing before the advent of Buddhism in the Land of Snow. Modem Bönpos recognize three kinds of Bön : 1. Ancient Bön (''bon mying ma''), 2. Eternal Bön (''g.yung drung bon'') and 3. New Bön (''bon gsar''). What we are referring to Bön in this collection of works is the second kind of Bön.ection of works is the second kind of Bön.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The original spoken scriptures of Shakyamuni Buddha. They are divided into three divisions or "baskets" (''piṭaka''): instruction and philosophy (''sūtra''), mental science (''abhidharma''), and discipline (''vinaya'').)