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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (The stage of union is the last of the five stages and refers to the union of the illusory body and the clear light. This is known as the union of the two truths. ''See also'' five stages.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The stages of attainment and the paths tha … The stages of attainment and the paths that lead to them. There are five sequential paths culminating in the liberation of a śrāvaka, five culminating in the liberation of a pratyekabuddha, and five bodhisattva paths culminating in the perfect enlightenment of a buddha. According to the sūtra tradition, there are ten āryabodhisattva grounds. According to the Great Perfection tradition, there are twenty āryabodhisattva grounds, followed by the culmination of the twenty-first ground.he culmination of the twenty-first ground.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The stages of development and completion with attributes. See also Completion stage; Development stage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The stake of absorption, the stake of the … The stake of absorption, the stake of the essence mantra, the stake of unchanging realization, and the stake of projection and absorption. k Tenpe Nyima explains, "All key points of the Vajrayana path of Secret Mantra are included in these four." [KR 59] Explaining further, Khenpo Ngaga writes, "It is traditionally said that these four stakes bring together our own ordinary body, speech, mind, and actions with the enlightened form, speech, mind, and activities of the wisdom deity. They are like stakes that bind these together ... In other words, these key instructions on the four stakes that bind the life-force purify the three gates and actions, which seem to be obscured from the perspective of the way things appear. Consequently, enlightened form, speech, mind, and activities - the way things really are - actually manifest. This is why these four are necessary." [ST 29] is why these four are necessary." [ST 29])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The state immediately following any direct … The state immediately following any direct, transcendent experience of voidness, called "actual realization state." During the actual realization state the perception of the apparent world yields to the perception of its voidness, while in the post-attainment state the preconceived perception of the apparent world returns subtly altered by the preceding experience.ubtly altered by the preceding experience.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The state of a Buddha, that is, the state … The state of a Buddha, that is, the state of having forever eliminated all disturbing attitudes, karmic imprints, and their stains from one's mindstream, and having developed one's good qualities and wisdom to their fullest extent. Buddhahood supersedes liberation. extent. Buddhahood supersedes liberation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The state of awareness in which consciousness mindfully comes to rest in its own state; with litde clinging to experiences, the mind setdes into its own natural state, free of modification.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The state of buddha hood endowed with the perfect benefit for self and others.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The state of buddhahood constituted by perfection of the two stores and removal of the two obscurations. It is the only level of attainment beyond the range of samsara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The state of buddhahood, in which both the afflictive and cognitive obscurations have been purified. [TD 1237])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The state of buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The state of cause-effect, causal relationship.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The state of complete and perfect buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The state of complete enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The state of concentrated mind with fixation, and also the god realms produced through such mental concentration.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The state of confusion experienced as real … The state of confusion experienced as reality by ordinary beings in which afflictive emotions and karma create states of suffering that are experienced as the existences of the hell realm, hungry ghost realm, animal realm, human realm, demigod realm, and god realms.uman realm, demigod realm, and god realms.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The state of confusion experienced as real … The state of confusion experienced as reality by ordinary beings in which afflictive emotions and karma create states of suffering that are experienced as the existences of the hell realm, hungry ghost realm, animal realm, human realm, demigod realm, and god realms.uman realm, demigod realm, and god realms.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The state of consciousness between death and rebirth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (The state of existence between death and the start of the next rebirth. The being of the intermediate state has a body composed of subtle wind. In advanced completion-stage practice, this state is replaced by the illusory body in the form of a deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The state of having removed all afflictions and karma causing us to take rebirth in cyclic existence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (The state of liberation from the sorrowful condition of cyclic existence. Sometimes this term is used as a synonym for emptiness. See note 39.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The state of maintaining mindfulness of the steady, vivid manifestation of thoughts without responding to them with hope, fear, joy, or sorrow.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The state of mind during the post meditation state.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The state of nondual wisdom that, while transcending the subject-object duality, knows itself.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The state of not holding on to an object meditated upon nor a subject who meditates. Also refers to the fourth stage of mahamudra in which nothing further needs to be meditated upon or cultivated.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The state of not holding on to subject and object.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The state of not holding onto an object meditated upon nor a subject who meditates.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The state of perfect enlightenment that transcends both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The state of release, or emancipation, fro … The state of release, or emancipation, from ''samsara'' achieved by every ''arhat'', hence the same as ''nirvana''. In ''Hinayana'', it is the highest achievement. In ''Mahayana'', it either is synonymous with the highest achievement, buddhahood, or is regarded as an attainment preliminary to following the ''bodhisattva'' path to full enlightenment.'bodhisattva'' path to full enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (The story of Sadaprarudita searching for his guru is related in the last chapters of the ''Prajnaparamita Sutras''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The strengths of knowing: what is the case … The strengths of knowing: what is the case and what is not the case; the maturation of karma; the various inclinations [of beings]; their various dispositions; their various faculties; the path that leads everywhere; the meditative concentrations, samādhis, absorptions, and so forth; previous lives; death and rebirth; and the exhaustion of defilements. GTCD.; and the exhaustion of defilements. GTCD.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The structures of the subtle body, emanati … The structures of the subtle body, emanating out from the cakras and through which ''prāṇa'', or life-force energy, flows. The central channel, which directly connects the cakras, is of particular importance. It is said that realization occurs when the prāṇa enters the central channel, and hence it is the object of yogic practice. hence it is the object of yogic practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The structures of the subtle body, emanati … The structures of the subtle body, emanating out from the cakras and through which ''prāṇa'', or life-force energy, flows. The central channel, which directly connects the cakras, is of particular importance. It is said that realization occurs when the prāṇa enters the central channel, and hence it is the object of yogic practice. hence it is the object of yogic practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The subject, object and their interaction. 316, 588, 619)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The subtle "wind," or energy, that circulates through the spiritual channels, or nadis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (The subtle and primordial state of mind, everpresent in all sentient beings, manifested naturally at death andintentionally in the completion stage, where it is used as a subtle consciousness to focus on emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The subtle central channel of the body int … The subtle central channel of the body into which, by means of the practice of the perfection stage (rdzogs rim), the subtle wind-energies are gathered, a process that gives rise to nondual wisdom. By extension, the term avadhuti is often used loosely to indicate nondual wisdom.n used loosely to indicate nondual wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The subtle channels or veins (nodi, Skt.; rtsa, Tib.), the wind-energies (prana; rlung), and the bodily essences (bindu; thig le), which are manipulated and brought under control in the course of Anuyoga practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The subtle channels, wind energies, and essences, brought under control in the practice of Anuyoga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The subtle energy determined by one's karma, as opposed to ye shes kyi rlung, the energy connected with wisdom)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The subtle mental obscurations, specifically the habitual propensities of mental afflictions and the appearances of inherent existence, which impede the achievement of omniscience.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The subtle obscuration of holding on to the concepts of subject, object, and action.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The subtle obscuration of holding on to the concepts of subject, object, and action.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The subtle pristine cognition of appearances (''snang-ba''), emptiness (''stong-pa'') and their coalescence (''zung-'jug''). Refer to [[Mipham]] Rinpoche, ''spyi-don 'od gsal snying-po'', (p. 194). 342)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The subtlest aspect of sound, represented by the curved line above such Tibetan and Sanskrit syllables as Hūṃ and Oṃ.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The successive steps of visualization empl … The successive steps of visualization employed in the generation stage of meditation: (1) the moon cushion emerging from the Sanskrit vowels, (2) the sun cushion emerging from the Sanskrit consonants, (3) the seedsyllable of buddha speech, (4) the hand implements emblematic of buddha mind, and (5) the complete body of the yidam deity. The moon cushion represents the mirrorlike wisdom, the sun cushion represents the wisdom of evenness, the seed-syllable and symbolic qualities represent the wisdom of discernment, the combination of all of these represents the wisdom of accomplishment, and the complete form of the deity represents the wisdom of the space of reality.esents the wisdom of the space of reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The suffering of change ('' 'gyur-ba'i sdu … The suffering of change ('' 'gyur-ba'i sdug-bsngal'', Skt. ''vipariṇāmaduḥkhatā''), the suffering of propensities ('' 'du-byed-kyi sdug-bsngal'', Skt. saṃskāraduṇkhatā) and the suffering of suffering or pain itself (''sdug-bsngal-gi sdug-bsngal'', Skt. ''duḥkhaduḥkhatā''). 419ug-bsngal'', Skt. ''duḥkhaduḥkhatā''). 419)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The supernormal powers developed by the pr … The supernormal powers developed by the practice of yoga: clairvoyance, clairaudience, levitation, thought-reading, and control of the body and external world. All siddhis are mundane (samsaric), with the exception of the supreme siddhi, enlightenment. Also, a woman siddha.ddhi, enlightenment. Also, a woman siddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The supervisor of the monks' hall, and gen … The supervisor of the monks' hall, and generally of the monks' conduct, one of the six temple administrators. See chiji. The word inō derives from the Sanskrit karmadana, literally, bestower of conduct [karma], i.e., the one who assigns monks their activities and places in the sōdō. The i of inō comes from the Chinese, meaning oversee; while the no of inō is used to transliterate the na of karmadana. Yuezhong [esshu in Japanese] was used as a Chinese translation for the inō position, and means literally, "joy or delight to the assembly." 34, 50n. 4, 135-36, 167-70, 199n. 125ly." 34, 50n. 4, 135-36, 167-70, 199n. 125)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The support for miraculous ability which c … The support for miraculous ability which combines the contemplation of aspiration with the volition to renounce ('' 'dun-pa'i ting-nge-'dzin spang-ba'i 'du-byed-dang ldan-pa'i rdzu-'phrul-gyi rkang-pa'', Skt. ''chandasamādhiprahāṇasaṃskārasamanvāgataṛddhipāda''); the support for miraculous ability which combines the contemplation of the mind with the volition to renounce (''sems-kyi ting-nge-'dzin spang-ba'i 'du-byed-dang ldan-pa'i rdzu-'phrul-gyi rkang-pa'', Skt. ''cittasamādhiprahāṇasaṃskārasamanvāgataṛddhipāda''); the support for miraculous ability which combines the contemplation of perseverance with the volition to renounce (''brtson-'grus-kyi ting-nge-'dzin spang-ba'i 'du-byed dang ldan-pa'i rdzu-'phrul-gyi rkang-pa'', Skt. ''vīryasamādhiprahāṇasaṃskārasamanvāgataṛddhipāda''); and the support for miraculous ability which combines the contemplation of scrutiny with the volition to renounce (''dpyod-pa'i ting-nge-'dzin spang-ba'i 'du-byed-dang ldan-pa'i rdzu-'phrul-gyi rkang-pa'', Skt. ''mīmāmṣāsamādhiprahāṇasaṃskārasamanvāgataṛddhipāda''). 236rahāṇasaṃskārasamanvāgataṛddhipāda''). 236)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (The supreme ''siddhi'' or accomplishment, that is, enlightenment, buddhahood.)