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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The path of accumulation, the path of joining, the path of seeing, the path of cultivation, and the path beyond training. [TD 2764])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The path of insight (''mthong-lam'', Skt. ''darśanamārga''), the path of meditation (''bsgom-lam'', Skt. ''bhāvanāmārga'') and the final path (''mthar-lam'', Skt. ''niṣṭhahamārga). 281)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The path of mahamudra practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The path of provisions (''tshogs-lam'', Sk … The path of provisions (''tshogs-lam'', Skt. ''sambhāramārga''), the path of connection (''sbyor-lam'', Skt. ''prayogamārga''), the path of insight (''mthong-lam'', Skt. ''darśanamārga''), the path of meditation (''bsgom-lam'', Skt. ''bhāvanāmārga'') and the path of no-more-learning (''mi-slob-pa'i lam'', Skt. ''aśaikṣamārga''). 30, 142, 155, 159, 174, 230, 237, 634''). 30, 142, 155, 159, 174, 230, 237, 634)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The paths of accumulation, joining, seeing, meditation, and beyond training. These five paths cover the entire path from sincerely beginning Dharma practice to complete enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (The paths of accumulation, preparation, se … The paths of accumulation, preparation, seeing, meditation, and no more learning. These represent successive stages in spiritual progress rather than distinct and different pathways to enlightenment. A Bodhisattva on the path of no more learning has attained Buddhahood. ''See also'' Ten levels.ained Buddhahood. ''See also'' Ten levels.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The paths of the Shravakas, Pratyekabuddha … The paths of the Shravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Bodhisattvas. The expository vehicle is so called because (1) it expounds the path that leads to the attainment of the goal and (2) the practitioners of this vehicle work only with the causes that bring forth—in a direct sense—the result of their particular path (e.g., arhatship in the case of Shravakas and Pratyekabuddhas) and, indirectly, the final result of buddhahood. In contrast with the expository vehicle of causality, one speaks also of the resultant vehicle. This is so called because here the result of the path (namely, the empty and luminous nature of the mind) is utilized and practiced as the path. The resultant vehicle is another name for the Vajrayana.vehicle is another name for the Vajrayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The perception of all the world and its contents as a pure Buddhafield, as the display of kayas and wisdoms)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (The perception of an object as separate fr … The perception of an object as separate from the perceiver. Despite the fact that they realize emptiness on attaining the path of seeing, Bodhisattvas traversing the path of meditation continue to experience, when not absorbed in meditative equipoise, the percept and the perceiving mind as two separate entities. This is the residue of dualistic habit and continues until full enlightenment even though, by virtue of their realization, the Bodhisattvas in question have long abandoned any belief in the reality of this appearance. belief in the reality of this appearance.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (The perception of an object as separate fr … The perception of an object as separate from the perceiver. Despite the fact that they realize emptiness on attaining the path of seeing, Bodhisattvas traversing the path of meditation continue to experience, when not absorbed in meditative equipoise, the percept and the perceiving mind as two separate entities. This is the residue of dualistic habit and continues until full enlightenment even though, by virtue of their realization, the Bodhisattvas in question have long abandoned any belief in the reality of this appearance. belief in the reality of this appearance.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The perception of ordinary 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/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The perception of the doctrine of the trut … The perception of the doctrine of the truth of suffering (''sdug-bsngal-la chos shes-pa'', Skt. ''duḥkhadharmajñāna''), receptiveness to the perception of the doctrine of suffering (''sdug-bsngal-la chos shes-pa'i bzod-pa'', Skt. ''duḥkadharmajñānakṣānti''), the after-effect of the perception of the doctrine of the truth of suffering (''sdug-bsngal-la rjes-su rtogs-pa'i shes-pa'', Skt. ''duḥkānvayajñāna'') and receptiveness to the after-effect of the perception of the doctrine of the truth of suffering (''sdug-bsngal-la rjes-su rtogs-pa'i shes-pa'i bzod-pa'', Skt. ''duḥkānvayajñānakṣānti''). These four moments are then applied in the same order to the truth of the origin of suffering, to the truth of its cessation and to the truth of the path, making sixteen moments in all; Mvt. (1216-32). 226-7, 230moments in all; Mvt. (1216-32). 226-7, 230)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The perception of the world and its contents as a pure buddha-field or as the display of kayas and wisdoms.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The perception of the world as the pure di … The perception of the world as the pure display of the kayas and wisdoms, in other words, as a buddhafield. Tending in this same direction is the contrived pure perception of a practitioner who endeavors to view everything purely, while still on the conceptual level.rely, while still on the conceptual level.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The perception, through wisdom, of the true nature of things.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The perceptions or appearances perceived during the postmeditation state.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The perfect age (''rdzogs-ldan'', Skt. ''k … The perfect age (''rdzogs-ldan'', Skt. ''kṛtayuga''), the age of “threes” (''gsum-ldan'', Skt. ''tretāyuga''), the age of “twos” (''gnyis-ldan'', Skt. ''dvāparayuga'') and the age of degeneration (''rtsod-ldan'', Skt. ''kaliyuga''). The names are derived from the ancient Indian game of four-sided dice, “perfection” being the score of four, second-place a three, third-place a two, and ''kali'' being the name for the lowest score, a one. 268-9he name for the lowest score, a one. 268-9)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The perfect and complete enlightenment of dwelling in neither samsara nor nirvana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The perfect and complete enlightenment, in … The perfect and complete enlightenment, in which one dwells in neither samsara nor nirvana; the state of having eradicated all obscurations and being endowed with the wisdom of seeing the nature of things as they are and with the wisdom of perceiving all that exists. the wisdom of perceiving all that exists.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The perfect teaching, the perfect time, the perfect teacher, the perfect place, and the perfect retinue. [TD 1718])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The perfect time, place, teacher, retinue, and Dharma, or teaching. Also called five fully endowed circumstances, excellences, or certainties.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The perfection process of the Guhyasamāja … The perfection process of the Guhyasamāja system consisting of speech isolation (ngag dben) or vajra repetition (rdo rje'i bzlas pa); mind isolation (sems dben); illusory body (sgyu lus) or self-blessing (bdag byin rlabs); luminosity ('od gsal); and unification (zung ' jug). See Kongtrul 2007b, 298; and Kongtrul 2008.ee Kongtrul 2007b, 298; and Kongtrul 2008.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The perfection-vehicle system and the mantra-vchicle system.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The period after death from the arising of confusion and one's emergence in a mental body until being conceived in the womb of the next life.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The period following meditative equipoise. … The period following meditative equipoise. Although often translated as "postmeditation," it refers to the level of realization of emptiness that is attained when emerging from meditative equipoise. Bodhisattvas then apply this realization to seeing the illusion-like nature of all appearances and experiences while they cultivate the six pāramitās. A synonym for the subsequent state of attainment is "the samādhi in which [appearances are seen to be] illusion-like" (sgyu ma lta bu'i ting nge 'dzin).n-like" (sgyu ma lta bu'i ting nge 'dzin).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The period from catching a fatal sickness until the end of the three dissolution stages.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The period from conception in the womb until catching a fatal disease or meeting with an irreversible cause of death.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The period from dying until emerging in the mental body of the bardo of becoming.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The period from emerging in a mental body until entering a womb at the moment of conception.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The period from the moment after death until one emerges in the mental body of the bardo of becoming.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The period of time equal to one-fifteenth … The period of time equal to one-fifteenth of the waxing or waning phases of the moon. It may be divided into ghaṭikās that are enumerated as being either "slightly more than fifty-nine ghaṭikās" (based on solar-day-length ghaṭikās; see Kongtrul 1995, 159), or sixty ghaṭikās, which "will be slightly shorter in duration than those that are sixtieth parts of a solar day." See Henning 2007, 268.ts of a solar day." See Henning 2007, 268.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The period of time from the dawn of one day to the dawn of the next one, made up of sixty ghaṭikās. See Kongtrul 1995, 159.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The period of time it takes to breath in and out six times. Sixty pāṇīpalas make up one ghaṭikā. One pāṇīpala is equivalent to twenty-four seconds. Also translated as "minor clepsydra measure" and "interval.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (The periods in between formal meditation s … The periods in between formal meditation sessions. From the attainment of the first bhūmi onward, the path of bodhisattvas is divided into two types of activities: meditative equipoise (Tib. ''mnyam bzhag''), during which the mind abides in the direct, nonconceptual realisation of ultimate reality, and post-meditation, during which the bodhisattvas engage in various activities for the benefit of sentient beings.vities for the benefit of sentient beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The person assigned, in rotation from the … The person assigned, in rotation from the assembly, to cleaning and taking care of the monks' hall and who remains in attendance in the hall when all the other monks are elsewhere. In modern times they also carry the kyōsaku stick, and ring the wake-up bell each morning in between the practice periods. 169, 200n. 133tween the practice periods. 169, 200n. 133)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (The personal communication of the essence … The personal communication of the essence of a meditation practice from guru to student. Through this direct communication both the literal meaning and the intuitive sense are transmitted to a receptive disciple, since merely being in the field of a guru who has personally realized the practice conveys a powerful and subtle non-verbal message. The guru also adapts his presentation to the capacity, individual needs, and ripeness of the student in the moment. Meditations learned from books are considered useless without receiving the oral instructions from a guru. Because of its firm emphasis on the orally transmitted pith-instructions being passed from teacher to student, the Kagyu lineage is also known as the "hearing lineage."ge is also known as the "hearing lineage.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (The personal meditation deity of a Vajraya … The personal meditation deity of a Vajrayana practitioner. Although some yidams are prescribed and taught to everyone within a particular lineage at a preliminary level, the guru will later select a specific yidam for each practitioner in accordance with one's characteristic expression of Buddha nature. </br>:As a preliminary to yidam practice, the yogi must be accomplished in guru yoga and have great faith and devotion in the guru. This enables the practitioner to identify with the lineage and to establish a deep inner connection with the yidam. In this way one can transform the energy of one's neurosis into its enlightened expression, as represented in the yidam. Identification with the yidam also cuts through deeply entrenched attachment to one's physical form.renched attachment to one's physical form.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The personal teacher regarded as the embodiment of the three jewels, the three roots, and the three kayas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The phenomenal realm, contrasted philosophically with principle. See also rio Commonly ji also refers to affairs, business, or the situation. l00n. 3)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The phenomenal world directly seen from sacred outlook, once the obscurations have been cleared.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The phenomenological aspect of primordial consciousness—omniscience; this perceives all the manifestations of the natural radiance of pristine awareness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The philosophic traditions of the teaching on emptiness, the middle way between the extremes of eternalistic and nihilistic ideas about reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The philosophic traditions of the teaching on emptiness, the middle way between the extremes of eternalistic and nihilistic ideas about reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (The philosophical doctrine propounded by Nagarjuna and his followers, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (The philosophical doctrine propounded by Nagarjuna and his followers, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The philosophical doctrine propounded by Nagarjuna and his followers, the Middle Way that avoids the extremes of existence and nonexistence)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (The philosophical tradition systematized by Nāgārjuna that avoids the extremes of eternalism and nihilism, disclosing reality free from all extremes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The phrasing of these six types of scriptu … The phrasing of these six types of scripture differs slightly among the various versions of chronicles of Padmasambhava's life. In his Narration of the Precious Revelation of the Terma Treasures, Longchen Rabjam rephrases the same sequence from the Sanglingma so that the Six Sadhana Sections refer to the scriptures of the Six Secret Sections (gsang ba sde drug), including the scriptures for Manjushri Body, Lotus Speech, Vishuddha Mind, Nectar Quality, Kilaya Activity, and Liberating Sorcery of Mother Deities. and Liberating Sorcery of Mother Deities.)