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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The second of the three categories of Mind Class tantras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The second of the three experience of appearance, increase, and attainment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The second of the three inner tantras, emphasizing the completion stage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The second of the three inner tantras. It … The second of the three inner tantras. It emphasizes knowledge (prajna) rather than means (upaya) and the completion stage rather than the development stage. The view of Anu Yoga is that liberation is attained through growing accustomed to the insight into the nondual nature of space and wisdom. According to the ''Pond of White Lotus Flowers'' by Shechen Gyaltsab, the teachings of Anu Yoga appeared in this world when King Ja, a Dharma king also known as Lungten Dorje, Vajra Prophecy, received empowerment and instruction from the Lord of Secrets, through which he gained full comprehension of the meaning. The scriptural lineage he received from the human vidyadhara Vimalakirti. The major texts of Anu Yoga are the Four Scriptures and the Summation. King Ja transmitted the Anu Yoga teachings to the master Uparaja and his own sons Shakputri, Nagaputri, and Guhyaputri. Later lineage masters include Singhaputra, Kukuraja the Second, and Rolang Dewa (Garab Dorje). All the masters up to this point attained enlightenment together with their retinue and departed from this world without leaving a body behind. The dissolution of the physical body can also be attained through accomplishment in the mundane practices of essence-extract, manipulation of and control over the vital essences (bindu), or through prana mastery; but the accomplishment attained through the practice of Anu Yoga is superior because of transmuting the physical body of karmic ripening into luminosity by means of the practice connected to the nonconceptual wakefulness of the path of seeing. Subsequent masters in the transmission of Anu Yoga include Vajrahasya, Prabhahasti, Shakya Little Light, Shakyamitra, and Shakya Senge (Padmasambhava). In India, Padmasambhava transmitted the teachings to Master Hungkara. From him the lineage continued to Dewa Seldzey, Dharmabodhi, Dharma Rajapala, Vasudhara of Nepal, Tsuklag Palgey, and finally Chetsen Kye from the country of Drusha, who translated the Anu Yoga teachings into the Drusha language. This is the lineage that the translator Sangye Yeshe of Nub brought to Tibet.ator Sangye Yeshe of Nub brought to Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The second of the three inner tantras:)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The second of the three outer tantras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The second of the three outer tantras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The second of the three sections (along wi … The second of the three sections (along with the vinaya and abhidharma) of the tripitaka, the early compilation of the Buddha's teachings. More generally, a sutra is a text containing the discourses of Shakyamuni Buddha or those inspired by him. Sutras are often in the form of a dialogue between the Buddha and a disciple on a particular topic. Within discussions of philosophical view, the sutra approach refers to a gradual path to enlightenment, as distinguished from the swift path of the Vajrayana.shed from the swift path of the Vajrayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The second of the three worlds of existenc … The second of the three worlds of existence. It is divided into four levels of samadhi which, all together, are again subdivided into seventeen spheres. These are the heavens of: (1) the Pure (''tshangs ris''); (2) Priests of Brahma (''tshangs pa'i mdun na 'don''); (3) Great Pure Ones (''tshangs chen''); (4) Dim Light ('' 'od chung''); (5) Measureless Light (''tshad med 'od''); (6) Clear Light ('' 'od gsal''); (7) Lesser Virtue (''dge chung''); (8) Limitless Virtue (''tshad med dge''), (9) Flourishing Virtue (''dge rgyas''); (10) Cloudless (''sprin med''); (11) Merit-Born (''bsod nams skyes''); (12) Great Fruit ('' 'bras bu che''); (13) Not Greater (''mi che ba''); (14) Without Distress (''mi gdung ba''); (15) Manifest Richness (''gya nom snang ba''); (16) Good Vision (''shin tu mthong ba''); (17) Akanishta (the Unsurpassed, '' 'og min''). This realm is characterized by the absence of gross afflictive emotions. Beings in the form realm remain in blissful states of meditative concentration.issful states of meditative concentration.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The second of the three worlds, comprising the twelve realms of the four concentrations and the five pure abodes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The second of the three worlds, comprising the twelve realms of the four concentrations and the five pure abodes)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The second of the two phases of the practice of the Great Perfection, which is aimed at realizing the spontaneous manifestations of the dharmakāya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The second of three outflow-free faculties … The second of three outflow-free faculties. It exercises predominance with regard to cessation of bhāvanā-heya defilements. In the acquisition of the fruit of stream entry, it functions as the support of the visaṃyoga-prāpti, and constitutes the path of liberation. In the acquisition of the arhat-irmi, it constitutes the immediate path. —► anājñātam-ājñāsyāmīndriya.constitutes the immediate path. —► anājñātam-ājñāsyāmīndriya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The second phase of visualization practice … The second phase of visualization practice, following the generation stage. At this stage, all the images are dissolved back into the emptiness whence they came. More subtly, this stage can be divided into an aspect that has features, referring to the practice of nadi, prana, and bindu (q.v.), and an aspect without features, referring to the practice of mahamudra.s, referring to the practice of mahamudra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The second phase of yidam practice, in which one dissolves the visualization of oneself as the yidam deity and rests directly in the nature of mind. The yogic practices such as tummo are also counted as completion phase.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The second phase of yidam practice, in which one dissolves the visualization of oneself as the yidam deity and rests directly in the nature of mind. The yogic practices such as tummo are also counted as completion phase.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The second stage in the foetal development.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The second stage in the practice of mahamudra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The second stage of the subtle dissolution stages of appearance, increase, and attainment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The secret consort of a guru; the female embodiment of knowledge (''rig ma'') that a yogi of the Mantra tradition practices with. [TD 1733])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The secret empowerment (''gsang-dbang'', S … The secret empowerment (''gsang-dbang'', Skt. ''guhyābhiṣeka''); the empowerment of discriminating pristine cognition (''shes-rab ye-shes-kyi dbang'', Skt. ''prajñājñānābhiṣeka''), or third empowerment (''dbang gsum-pa''); and the empowerment of word and meaning (tshig-don-gyi dbang), also known as the fourth empowerment (''dbang bzhi-pa'', Skt. ''caturtha''). The secret one is associated with the commitments such as enjoying the five meats and five nectars without concepts of purity or impurity; the third is associated with conduct which concerns the consort embodying awareness (''rig-ma'', Skt. ''vidyā''); and the fourth is associated with the sameness of all things. See, e.g., [[Mipham]] Rinpoche, ''spyi-don 'od-gsal snying-po'', p. 146; and [[Jamgön Kongtrül]], ''shes-bya kun-khyab mdzod'', Vol. 2, pp. 656-82. These empowerments are called “uncommon” because they are revealed solely in the Unsurpassed Yogatantra. They are also referred to as the THREE PROFOUND EMPOWERMENTS. 347, 360, 913THREE PROFOUND EMPOWERMENTS. 347, 360, 913)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The secret empowerment is the first of the … The secret empowerment is the first of the three higher supreme empowerments (the other two being the knowledge-wisdom empowerment and the precious word empowerment). This is bestowed upon the ordinary speech of the student by relying upon the maṇḍala of the relative enlightened mind of the male and female teachers in union. This purifies the impurities of ordinary speech. In terms of the path, this empowers one to meditate on the energetic practices and recite mantra. In terms of the fruition, a link is formed to the attainment of the sambhogakāya and vajra speech. [TD 3006]e sambhogakāya and vajra speech. [TD 3006])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The secret name of Guru Rinpoche, which means "Powerful Lotus of the Garland of Skulls.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The secret or sexual centres of the father consort (''yab'') and the mother consort (yum). 277, 368)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The secret script of the female spiritual beings, which can only be decoded by accomplished masters.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The section of abstention.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The section of observation of vows.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The section of the Buddha's teaching (Tripitaka) that deals with discipline, and in particular with the vows of monastic ordination.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The section of the Buddhist canon containi … The section of the Buddhist canon containing the rules governing the monastic communities and the extensive narrative literature that surrounds that code of conduct. The Tibetan collection of texts under this rubric contain all the sutras of early Buddhism, which in earlier collections form the sutra collectionlier collections form the sutra collection)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The section of śīla.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (The seed syllable for all-encompassing space, the womb which accommodates all creations, the mother principle. It is passiveness or emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (The seed syllable of the indestructible vajra nature, also representing great joy. It is the principle of son or youthful prince, the active force of clear light.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The self (''puruṣa'') and the twenty-four … The self (''puruṣa'') and the twenty-four aspects of “nature” (''prakṛti''): prime matter (''pradhāna''); intellect (''buddhi'' or ''mahat''); ego (''ahaṃkāra''); the five quiddities (''pañcatanmātṛa'') which are the objects of the FIVE SENSES; the eleven faculties (''ekādaśendriya'') which are the FIVE SENSE ORGANS with the addition of speech, hand, foot, the organs of excretion and generation, and mind; and the FIVE ELEMENTS 16, 64on, and mind; and the FIVE ELEMENTS 16, 64)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The selflessness or lack of inherent identity of phenomena. There are two types: (1) the identitylessness ofpersons and (2) the identitylessness of phenomena.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The sensory bases of the eye, form and the … The sensory bases of the eye, form and the consciousness of the eye; those of the ear, sound and the consciousness of the ear; those of the nose, smell and the consciousness of the nose; those of the tongue, taste and the consciousness of the tongue; those of the body, touch and the consciousness of the body; and those of the intellect, phenomena and the consciousness of the intellect; Mvt. (2040-58). 13, 55, 513the intellect; Mvt. (2040-58). 13, 55, 513)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The separate collections of the Buddhas te … The separate collections of the Buddhas teachings, originally Sutra, Vinaya, and Mātrka. The latter evolved into the Abhidharma, although the Tibetan tradition, following the Sautrāntika view on the noncanonical status of the Abhidharma texts, does not have an Abhidharma section in the Kangyur have an Abhidharma section in the Kangyur)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The series of teachings on emptiness based … The series of teachings on emptiness based on the second turning of the wheel of the Dharma first expounded by Nāgārjuna and considered to form the basis of the Secret Mantrayāna. “Middle” in this context means that it is beyond the extremes of existence and nonexistence.he extremes of existence and nonexistence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary + (The set of four positions in terms of whic … The set of four positions in terms of which a reified entity might conceivably be postulated and defined. All of these positions and their corresponding statements have been negated by Nāgārjuna and his followers, who did not posit any such substantial entity (without the interpretation of this ''prasajya''-type negation having to depend on an intuitionist or paraconsistent logic); see the entry "negation" above. Cf. D. Seyfort Ruegg, ''Three studies'', pp. 109-12 (note 5), 139-47. See Skt. ''catuṣkoṭi'', Tib. ''mu bzhi''. See Skt. ''catuṣkoṭi'', Tib. ''mu bzhi'')
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The setting or context in which the tantra … The setting or context in which the tantras are expounded, comprised of (1) the perfect place (buddha realms); (2) the perfect teacher (buddhas); (3) the perfect assembly (male and female bodhisattvas, meditational deities, and so forth); (4) the perfect teaching (tantras); and (5) the perfect time (indefinite time).nd (5) the perfect time (indefinite time).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The seven points of posture recommended for sitting meditation, involving proper positioning of the legs, spine, neck, head, arms, chin, and eyes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The seven points of posture recommended for sitting meditation, involving proper positioning of the legs, spine, neck, head, arms, chin, and eyes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The seven points of the ideal meditation p … The seven points of the ideal meditation posture: legs crossed in the vajra posture, back straight, hands in the gesture of meditation, eyes gazing along the nose, chin slightly tucked in, shoulders well apart “like a vulture's wings,” and the tip of the tongue touching the palate the tip of the tongue touching the palate)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The seven qualities of a sambhogakaya buddha: complete enjoyment, union, great bliss, absence of a self-nature, presence of compassion, being uninterrupted, and unceasing.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The seven qualities of a sambhogakaya buddha: complete enjoyment, union, great bliss, absence of a self-nature, presence of compassion, being uninterrupted, and being unceasing.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The seven qualities of a sambhogakaya buddha: complete enjoyment, union, great bliss, absence of a self-nature, presence of compassion, being uninterrupted, and being unceasing.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The seven riches of a bodhisattva: faith, discipline, generosity, learning, decorum, modesty, and knowledge.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The seventeen domains of the form realm, w … The seventeen domains of the form realm, which are spontaneously actualized by afflictive mentation, include the domains of Brahma's Assembly, the Priests of Brahma, and Great Brahma in the first dhyāna; Lesser Radiance, Immeasurable Radiance, and Clear Radiance in the second dhyāna; Lesser Virtue, Immeasurable Virtue, and Most Extensive Virtue in the third dhyāna; Cloudless, Increasing Merit, and Great Fruition in the fourth dhyāna; and the five pure heavens: the Slightest, the Painless, Perfect Appearance, Extreme Vision, and Akaniṣṭha.Appearance, Extreme Vision, and Akaniṣṭha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (The seventh of the eight consciousnesses. See consciousnesses, eight.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (The seventh of the nine ''yanas'' of the Nyingma path. Mahayoga emphasizes the visualization of tantric deities and the practice of the liturgies and meditations associated with them.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The seventh of the ten bhumis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The shamatha state at the first bhumi. which is embraced with insight into emptiness.)