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- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The practice of the anuttarayogayāna, the highest of the four tantric yānas, according to the New Translation school of Marpa and his contemporaries. The first three yānas are kriyā, upa (caryā), and yoga.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The practices of ethics, meditative concentration, and wisdom. Practicing these three results in liberation.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The practitioner's way to enlightenment, t … The practitioner's way to enlightenment, traditionally arranged into five paths: sambhāramārga (T: tshogs-lam; path of accumulation), prayogamārga (T: sbyor-lam; path of unification), darśanāmārga (T: mthong-lam; path of seeing), bhāvanāmārga (T: sgom-lam; path of meditation), and niṣṭhamārga or aśaikṣamārga (T: mthar-phyin-pa'i-lam, mi-slob-pa'i-lam; path of fulfillment or of no more learning).<br> On the path of accumulation, the meditator brings his being to the dharma by practicing the four foundations of mindfulness, and through insight (S: vipaśyanā; T: lhag-mthong), understanding what to cultivate and what to refrain from. The practitioner begins to transcend any notion of external savior and is able to cut the causes of rebirth in the lower realms.<br> On the path of unification, the meditator expands his vipaśyanā investigation of saṃsāra by developing a profound understanding of the four noble truths. He is able to cut the root of the desire realm (S: kāmadhātu).<br> On the path of seeing, the meditator accepts and understands the real significance of the four noble truths. ''See''ing the unsatisfactory nature of even the god realms of form (S: rūpadhātu), he begins to transcend them, entering the first level of attainment (S: bhūmi) of the bodhisattva.<br> On the path of meditation, the meditator practices and remains in the insight of the path of seeing. He attains to the second bhūmi onwards.<br> On the path of fulfillment or no more learning, the meditator attains vajra-like samādhi, entering the eleventh bhūmi-buddhahood. Other important descriptions of the path include the exposition of the bodhisattva bhūmis or stages, and the four yogas of mahāmudrā.on of the bodhisattva bhūmis or stages, and the four yogas of mahāmudrā.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (The practitioners of Dharma are identified … The practitioners of Dharma are identified as belonging to two different sets of teaching, or ''vehicles'', according to the nature of their aspirations. These are known as the Hīnayāna, or Fundamental Vehicle, and the Mahāyāna, or Great Vehicle. The Fundamental Vehicle is subdivided into the way of the Hearers (or Shrāvakas), who are disciples of the Buddha, and the way of those who seek enlightenment relying only on themselves, or Pratyekabuddhas. The goal of the Shrāvaka and Pratyekabuddha paths is nirvāṇa, conceived of as definitive liberation from the sufferings of saṃsāra. The Great Vehicle is that of the Bodhisattvas, or those who, while accepting the validity and efficacy of the other vehicle, aspire to the full enlightenment of Buddhahood for the sake of all beings. The term ''Hīnayāna'' means "Lesser Vehicle," but this should not be understood in a pejorative sense, since its teachings are fundamental to the practice of the Great Vehicle as well. The Dalai Lama has suggested the term ''Shrāvakayāna'' be used instead of Hīnayāna. In this case the term should be understood as including the Pratyekabuddha-yāna as well.including the Pratyekabuddha-yāna as well.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The precepts and practices of a bodhisattva.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The precious Buddha, the precious Dharma, and the precious Sangha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The precious buddha, the precious dharma, and the precious sangha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The precious buddha, the precious dharma, and the precious sangha. For a detailed discussion see Thrangu Rinpoche's ''Buddha Nature'' (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1988).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The precious word empowerment is one of th … The precious word empowerment is one of the three higher supreme empowerments. This is bestowed upon the student's ordinary body, speech, and mind in reliance upon the maṇḍala of ultimate bodhicitta. It purifies the impurities associated with the three gates, along with their related habitual patterns. In terms of the path, it empowers the student to train in the natural Great Perfection. As its result, a causal link is formed that leads to the attainment of the essence kāya, vajra wisdom. [TD 2271] the essence kāya, vajra wisdom. [TD 2271])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The precise enumeration is unidentified. They were subdued by [[Padmasambhava]] at Silma in Tsang. Refer to [[R. de Nebesky-Wojkowitz]], ''[[Oracles and Demons of Tibet]]'', (pp. 198-202). 581)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The preliminary practices for tantra: prostration, Vajrasattva purification meditation, guru yoga, and mandala offerings.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The preliminary to the five stages (rim lnga, pañchakrama), the perfection process of the Guhyasamāja system. See Kongtrul 2007b, 179-82 and 298; and Kongtrul 2008.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The preliminary, preparatory, or foundatio … The preliminary, preparatory, or foundational "practices" or "disciplines" (Skt. sadhana) common to all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and also to Bön. Often referred to as ngöndro, they establish the foundation for the more advanced and rarefied Vajrayana sadhana, which are held to engender realization and the embodiment of enlightenment. The outer preliminaries consist of the four thoughts that turn the mind: (1) precious human birth (2) impermanence, (3) karma, and (4) suffering. The inner preliminaries comprise one hundred thousand accumulations of (1) taking refuge, (2) generating bodhichitta, (3) meditating on Vajrasattva and reciting his hundred-syllable mantra, (4) offering the mandala, as well as (5) guru yoga with one or ten million recitations of the vajra guru mantra.lion recitations of the vajra guru mantra.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The preoccupations of ordinary beings: (1) gain and (2) loss; (3) pleasure and (4) pain; (5) praise and (6) blame; (7) fame and (8) infamy.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The preparatory mind of the first mental absorption, and then the actual experiences of the four form-realm and four formless-realm mental absorptions.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The preparatory path.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The present world age markedby the degeneration of all discipline, morality, and wisdom.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The primal substance; one of the two great … The primal substance; one of the two great principles that account for the manifested universe according to the Hindu Samkhya philosophy. Prakriti comprises the three gunas, or universal qualities, which, when disturbed, give rise to the phenomenal appearances of the world. ''See'' Purusha.appearances of the world. ''See'' Purusha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (The primary "defiling emotions" or "emotio … The primary "defiling emotions" or "emotional obscurations" that lead to demeritorious actions, the creation of negative karma, and ongoing bondage and suffering within samsara. The ''kleshas'' are listed in a threefold group — passion, aggression, and ignorance — and in a fivefold grouping, the three mentioned plus pride and jealousy or paranoia. In the Hinayana the ''kleshas'' are abandoned; in the Mahayana, they are transformed; and in the Vajrayana, their essence is realized to be nothing other than the immaculate wisdom of a buddha.er than the immaculate wisdom of a buddha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The primary mantra of a given yidam deity. [TD 2206])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (The primordial Buddha who has never fallen into delusion; the symbolic personification of awareness; the ever-present and luminous nature of the mind.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Meeting the Great Bliss Queen/Glossary + (The primordial Buddha, in some contexts also the primordially pure innate awareness of each individual.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Precepts in Eight Chapters/Glossary + (The primordial Enlightened One who is the source of the Dzogchen teachings. He is depicted as a blue naked Buddha, without ornaments.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The primordial and nondual knowing aspect of the nature of the mind.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The primordial buddha Samantabhadra; a synonym for the enlightened state of dharmakaya.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The primordial dharmakaya buddha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The primordial nature of the mind, which is beyond the three times and all conceptual elaborations, and knows the nature of the ground of being. SeeBM 354; GD 142-43,326-27; VE 109-10,116-21.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The primordial state of the mind, clear, awake, free from grasping: the union of emptiness and clarity.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The primordial, dharmakāya buddha, blue in color and naked, often depicted in consort with Prajñā, who is white in color.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The primordially enlightened buddha.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Precepts in Eight Chapters/Glossary + (The primordially pure (''ka dag'') and emp … The primordially pure (''ka dag'') and empty aspect (''stong cha'') of the natural state, corresponding to the abiding mode of the Absolute Body (''bon sku''). When applied to the notion of Wisdom (''ye shes''), this Essence is defined as an empty and luminous state devoid of conceptualizations, dualistic grasping, etc.nceptualizations, dualistic grasping, etc.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The primordially pure, essential nature of the mind, equivalent to pristine awareness, which is none other than the dharmakāya. It may be regarded provisionally as one's capacity for achieving spiritual awakening.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The principal (or fundamental nature), the great, the I-principle, form, sound, smell, taste, tangibles, earth, water, fire, air, space, eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, voice, hands, feet, excretory organs, generative organs, mind, and the person.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The principal afflictive mental functions: ignorance, desire, aversion, as well as jealousy and pride.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The principal deity in the Kagyü tradition, who appears to have originated in the late eighth century in India. It is explicitly a transmutation of Śiva)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The principal delusion is the reification of oneself and ''other phenomena,'' which acts as the root of all other mental affliction)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The principal practice of a bodhisattva, combining skillful means and wisdom, the compassionate motivation of attaining enlightenment for the sake of all being sand the view of emptiness. See six and ten transcendent perfections.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The principal practice of the six Dharmas of Nāropa, sometimes rendered as "inner heat" based on the physiological results of the practice. See extended discussion of this term in the introduction)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The principal yidam of the Nyingma school. Vajrakila or Vajrakilaya is a wrathful manifcstion of Vajrasattva.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The principle of difference(/exclusion).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The principle of offering has several leve … The principle of offering has several levels of application, generally based on generosity and surrendering one's ego-clinging. Outer (material) offerings of anything desirable in the world are given as expressions of gratitude, appreciation, and nonattachment. Inner offering is giving up the attachment to one's body. Secret offering is surrendering the ego reinforcement that we derive from dualistic emotions. The "fourth" offering is recognizing the inseparability of offerer, offering, and the recipient in things as they are. All the above offerings are referred to as "faith offerings" (T: dad-zas) and are made out of devotion to a guru or a deity.<br> Other types of offerings are made for the benefit of others. The merit of "food offerings" (T: gshin-zas) is dedicated to benefit dead persons in need. "Ransom offerings" (T: sku-glud) are made in instances where a person is possessed by a spirit, with the intent that the spirit will accept the ransom offering in lieu of the possessed person.ransom offering in lieu of the possessed person.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The pristine cognition of the expanse of r … The pristine cognition of the expanse of reality (''chos-dbyings-kyi ye-shes'', Skt. ''dharmadhātujñāna''), the mirror-like pristine cognition (''me-long-giye-shes'', Skt. ''ādarśajñāna''), the pristine cognition of discernment (''so-sor-rtog-pa'i ye-shes'', Skt. ''pratyaveksanajñāna''), the pristine cognition of sameness (''mnyam-nyid-kyi ye-shes'', Skt. ''samatājñāna'') and the pristine cognition of accomplishment (''bya-ba grub-pa'i ye-shes'', Skt. ''kṛtyānusthānajñāna''). Also referred to as the FIVE KINDS OF BUDDHA-MIND. 22-3, 117, 125, 128, 142, 273, 288, 338, 342, 352, 357, 59428, 142, 273, 288, 338, 342, 352, 357, 594)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The pristine cognition which perceives the cessation of corruption or defilements (''zad-pa shes-pa'i ye-shes'') and the pristine cognition which perceives that corruption is not recreated (''mi-skye-ba shes-pa'i ye-shes''). 227)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The pristine essence of a phenomenon, as contrasted with its impure portion, derivative, residue, or dregs (Tib. snyigs ma, Skt. kaṣāya). See VE129,424-5.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The pristine expanse of the sole bindu inside the citta lamp of the flesh, which is the space of awareness, in which the bindus and vajra strands appear. See CM 424-26, VS 591, VE 425-27.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The process of detailed examination of the meditation object as to its actual mode of existence. It involves thought and is aimed at penetrating the conceptual process. It results in receptivity to the direct perception of voidness.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (The process of forcibly separating the con … The process of forcibly separating the consciousness, or primordial body, from the coarse body in order to take another life without going through the death and intermediate-state process. Also refers to the more commonly known practice of ensuring, with a lamas help, migration into a pure land at the time of death.ion into a pure land at the time of death.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Precepts in Eight Chapters/Glossary + (The process of inner discursiveness.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The process of receiving the four empowerments.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (The profit oriented and competitive mental … The profit oriented and competitive mentality which could even be applied to "spiritual" activities. It is based on the neurotic need for security and expanding ego's territory. It is the paranoid fear ofloss and greed for achievement which tends to permeate one's whole psychology. Materialism is the "sane" approach to gaining happiness. There's nothing wrong with it, but in the process of seeking happiness the original aim is lost. Instead of the simple primordial happiness one tries to grasp something tangible. At the end one is amazed to find that the search did not fulfil the original aim. Instead, shock and panic result.inal aim. Instead, shock and panic result.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The prominence on the head of a Buddha, one of the thirty-two major marks)