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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The term "non-Buddhist," which is often tr … The term "non-Buddhist," which is often translated literally as "forder," is often used in a pejorative sense to refer to non-Buddhist Indian religions and philosophical schools. The original term, however, also implies certain similarities between some of these traditions and Buddhism. When it comes to the development stage, such similarities do exist between practices found in the Hindu tradition and those practiced in Buddhist Tantra. There are also important differences, however. Taking a polemic approach, Jigme Lingpa explains, "From a general point of view, the practices found in the non-Buddhist traditions do involve a tremendous amount of virtue. Nevertheless, it is nothing more than a moderate degree of virtue, insofar as these practices do not involve any sense of self-discipline. Their development stage practices are bereft of the vows of the knowledge holder and, despite their status as methods of the Secret Mantra path, they have no capacity to bring enlightenment. The specific problem is that these individuals do not grasp the interdependent link between the basis of purification and the methods that comprise the process of purification, insofar as these relate to development stage practice. Demonstrating a complete lack of understanding, in this style of development stage practice, the apparent aspect, shape, and color, for example, are believed to be permanent. This is the approach taken by the non-Buddhist schools, as well as some powerful spirits." [YT 408]s well as some powerful spirits." [YT 408])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The term "recollecting purity" refers to t … The term "recollecting purity" refers to the symbolic associations between the features of the deity and the celestial palace and the enlightened state. Along with clear appearance and stable pride, this is one of the key features of the development stage. As Tenpe Nyima explains, development stage practice forms a link between the enlightened qualities that are present as our own fundamental nature and the state where these qualities actually manifest. He writes, "Once the experiences of clarity and stability have arisen, you should use the development stage to mature the proximate cause of the supreme spiritual accomplishment. To do this, recall the purity [of the divine form]. This will form a link with the fundamental fruition. Nevertheless, you should not fixate on the visualization as being an independent entity that really exists. In reality, it is just the natural manifestation of wisdom. The wisdom maṇḍala does not have projected features like color, shape, a face, or hands. Rather, the qualities that naturally appear with the state of buddhahood arise, from the perspective of disciples, in various symbolic forms, such as those of the support and supported, the celestial palace, and the deity." [KR 50] ''See also'' clarity, purity, and pride.] ''See also'' clarity, purity, and pride.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (The term ''byang chub'' often refers to en … The term ''byang chub'' often refers to enlightenment or buddhahood and is usually short for ''rdzogs pa'i byang chub'' ("complete enlightenment"). The fundamental meaning of ''byang chub'' alone, however, is to perfect, or to master, and it is used to describe the mastery of a particular science such as medicine. In this work ''mngon par byang chub'' is primarily a synonym of fourth-stage clear light and is rendered as "mastery." The same term is found in generation-stage practices when referring to the visualized transformation of the practitioner into the five buddhas by way of seed syllables, and in such instances, I have used enlightenment" to distinguish it from the completion-stage practice and to indicate that such a transformation, although imagined, is a transformation into the forms of enlightened deities.ion into the forms of enlightened deities.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (The term ''dhātu'' has many meanings and is rendered in different ways in Tibetan translations, depending on the context (''khams, dbyings'', or ''byings''). In this text, ''dhātu'' refers to causal buddha-nature (see also ''buddha-nature'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (The term ''gotra'' refers to the spiritual … The term ''gotra'' refers to the spiritual propensity or affinity of an individual. According to the Madhyamaka school, the potential for enlightenment is present in all beings, but only active in those in whom the ''gotra'' has been awakened. According to Cittamātra there are five types ofbeings: (1-3) those having the ''gotra'' ofthe three vehicles (Śrāvakayāna, Pratyekabuddhayāna, and Mahāyāna), (4) those with an undetermined ''gotra'', and (5) those with a severed ''gotra''.', and (5) those with a severed ''gotra''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (The term ''wisdom (shes rab)'' refers to t … The term ''wisdom (shes rab)'' refers to the female consort, or mudrā, whether imagined or actual, who is the ''embodiment of wisdom (shes rab ma)''. Through the practices of the third initiation, which are dependent on her, the connate ''primordial awareness (ye shes)'' arises. Chogye Trichen Rinpoché glossed the name of the third initiation with the phrase "connate primordial awareness dependent on a female embodiment of wisdom" ('''''shes rab''' ma la brten nas lhan cig skyes pa'i '''ye shes'''''). His Holiness Sakya Trizin agreed with this definition and the meaning is also clear in Lama Dampa's commentary. is also clear in Lama Dampa's commentary.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The term ''yoga'' is derived from the Sanskrit root, ''yuj'', "to join together." Thus, it generally refers to practices-both physical and mental- aimed at bringing about a state of holistic integration.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The term can refer to an instance of valid … The term can refer to an instance of valid cognition or to the whole system of dialectics, which is a central part of the curriculum of higher Buddhist studies. It is considered a path to valid knowledge and is usually divided into three types: direct, inferential, and scriptural.ypes: direct, inferential, and scriptural.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The term can technically be applied to anyone who has taken the bodhisattva vow to attain buddhahood in order to benefit beings, but it usually refers to the deity-like beings who have reached the bodhisattva levels (bhūmis).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The term dgongs pa is the honorific form o … The term dgongs pa is the honorific form of bsam pa, which means "thought" or "intention." However, according to Gangteng Tulku Rinpoché, in the context of these teachings it is the honorific form of lta ba, which means "perspective" or "view." The lineage is so designated because the enlightened view of all the buddhas of the three times is of one taste in the absolute space of phenomena. See VE 1, GD 179.lute space of phenomena. See VE 1, GD 179.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The term is generally used to mean "the thought of enlightenment." Here, it is also employed in its tantric sense ro refer to the "white drops" (''Tib. thig le; Skt. bindu'') generated and manipulated in the arcane body by a tantric adept.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (The term is used to refer to the accomplishment of different kinds of unfailing memory. It is also a verbal formula, often quite long, blessed by a Buddha or a Bodhisattva, belonging to the sutra tradition and similar to the mantras of the Vajrayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (The term is used to refer to the accomplishment of different kinds of unfailing memory. It is also a verbal formula, often quite long, blessed by a Buddha or a Bodhisattva, belonging to the sutra tradition and similar to the mantras of the Vajrayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The term may denote "accomplishment" or th … The term may denote "accomplishment" or the "method of accomplishment," which is the way it is translated into Tibetan. It can refer to any method of practice, usually of a deity, and by association it can mean the liturgical text used in the practice of meditation on a deity that describes the visualizations, mantras, offerings, prayers, and meditations to be performed, prayers, and meditations to be performed)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The term refers here to the teachings of Maha Yoga, Anu Yoga, and Ati Yoga respectively.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The term used for the various stages of experience between death and the next rebirth, with a wider interpretation that includes the various states of consciousness in life)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The term used in meditation theory to denote the state of complete and total absorption, wherein consciousness and the object of meditation are unified.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The term used most often by Tibetan Buddhi … The term used most often by Tibetan Buddhists to designate both a school of thought and a system of religious practice. It is broader than the Sanskrit notion of a philosophical viewpoint (''darśana'') but somewhat narrower than the modern notion of a “religion.”er than the modern notion of a “religion.”)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The term used to characterize the ''summum bonum'' of Mahāyāna Buddhist practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The term used, especially in Buddhist philosophical contexts, to refer to any existent reality or phenomenon, however fleeting in terms of temporal duration.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The term vehicle connotes a means of trave … The term vehicle connotes a means of traveling to enlightenment, that is, a major system of teaching and practice. The Small, or Elders', Vehicle is the oldest, relying on the scriptures set down in Pali. The Great Vehicle includes the teachings of the Small Vehicle, but in a new context and expanded scope. The Tantric Vehicle (synonym: Vajra Vehicle, Mantra Vehicle) combines the outlook of the Great Vehicle with a radically different, high-powered system of practice.ifferent, high-powered system of practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The term vidyā can be interpreted as knowledge, a magical spell or mantra, or even as a consort (in which case it is translated into Tibetan as rig ma). See also knowing)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The terrestrial pure land of Guru Rinpoche … The terrestrial pure land of Guru Rinpoche, situated on the subcontinent Chamara to the southeast of the Jambu continent. Chamara is the central of a configuration of nine islands inhabited by savage rakshasas. In the middle of Chamara rises the majestic copper-colored mountain into the skies. On its summit lies the magical palace Lotus Light, manifested from the natural expression of primordial wakeful-ness. Here resides Padmasambhava in an indestructible bodily form, transcending birth and death, for as long as samsara continues and through which he incessantly brings benefit to beings through magical emanations of his body, speech, and mind. emanations of his body, speech, and mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (The texts of Vajrayāna Buddhism, generally regarded as secret and difficult to understand without interpretation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (The texts of Vajrayāna Buddhism, generally regarded as secret and difficult to understand without interpretation.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (The texts of the vajrayana teachings.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The theory of etemalism.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The theory that knowledge necessarily possesses an image of its object.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The things that appear to us, that we perceive)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The third Dharma king of Tibet and an eman … The third Dharma king of Tibet and an emanation of Manjushri. He appeared in the fifth reign after Songtsen Gampo and was thirteen years old when he started ruling the kingdom. He invited many masters to Tibet to propagate the true doctrine, built Samye, and established Buddhism as the state religion of Tibet. There are many different opinions about his birth and death dates. opinions about his birth and death dates.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The third abode in the formless realm, dwelling on the thought "My perception is neither absent nor present!")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The third division of Ati Yoga, as arranged by Manjushrimitra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The third great Dharma king of Tibet. He s … The third great Dharma king of Tibet. He supported the standardization of new grammar and vocabulary for translation and the revision of old translations. He renewed old centers for learning and practice and invited many Buddhist scholars to Tibet. He was renowned for his devotion to the Dharma and is regarded as an incarnation of Vajrapani.s regarded as an incarnation of Vajrapani.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The third major Buddhist king of Tibet. He … The third major Buddhist king of Tibet. He lived in the eleventh century and instigated the systematization of Tibetan grammar and vocabulary for the purposes of translation of texts from Sanskrit. He was assassinated by his brother Lang Darma. He is said to have been a manifestation of the Bodhisattva Vajrapani.anifestation of the Bodhisattva Vajrapani.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The third of the Three Inner Tantras. Acco … The third of the Three Inner Tantras. According to Jamgőn Kongtrűl, it emphasizes the view that liberation is attained through growing accustomed to insight into the nature of primordial enlightenment, free from accepting and rejecting, hope and fear. The more common word for Ati Yoga nowadays is "Dzogchen." The Ati Yoga teachings first appeared in this world to Garab Dorje, in the country of Uddiyana, to the west of India. According to The Narration of the Precious Revelation of the Terma Treasures by Longchen Rabjam (pp. 87—88), the great master Padmasambhava described the teachings of Ati Yoga in the following way before imparting them to Yeshe Tsogyal: It is an instruction unlike any I have given in the past, the summit that transcends all of the nine gradual vehicles. By seeing its vital point, mind-made views and meditations are shattered. The paths and levels are perfected with no need for struggle. Disturbing emotions are liberated into their natural state, without any need for reform or remedy. This instruction brings realization of a fruition within oneself that is not produced from causes. It instantly brings forth spontaneously present realization, liberates the material body of flesh and blood into the luminous sambhogakaya within this very lifetime, and enables you to capture the permanent abode, the precious dharmakaya realm of spontaneous presence, within three years, in the domain of Akanishtha. I possess such an instruction and I shall teach it to you! See also Dzogchen; Great Perfection. you! See also Dzogchen; Great Perfection.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The third of the five paths, the stage at which a bodhisattva in medication gains a genuine experience of emptiness and attains the first of the ten levels.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The third of the five paths, which is the attainment of the first bhumi, liberation from samsara, and realization of the truth of reality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The third of the five paths; the stage at which a Bodhisattva in meditation gains a genuine experience of emptiness)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The third of the five paths; the stage of spiritual attainment in which one witnesses the true nature of reality for the first time, progressing to the level of a noble one. [TD 1222])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (The third of the five stages of the path t … The third of the five stages of the path to awakening. This path consists of the direct, nohconceptual realisation ofemptiness and the accomplishment of the seven limbs of awakening. On this stage, the veil of afflictions is removed and one reaches the first bodhisattva ground (''bhūmi, sa''), thus becoming an ārya.nd (''bhūmi, sa''), thus becoming an ārya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The third of the four empowerments in the anuttara yoga system, which introduces the unity of bliss and emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The third of the four empowerments.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The third of the four formless realms in which one dwells on the thought, "Nothing whatsoever!")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The third of the four stages of mahāmudrā meditation. The empty nature of all phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa: equally nonexistent, equally pure, naturally arising from the expanse of the ground, and not established as anything else. See GD146, VE 353.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The third of the four stages on the path o … The third of the four stages on the path of direct crossing over, in which the entire universe appears to be totally pervaded with rainbow light and blazing fire, and everything appears as bindus in which the five families of male and female peaceful and wrathful deities appear in union. This sage of spontaneous manifestation corresponds to the attainment of the eighth āryabodhisattva stage, known as Immovable.āryabodhisattva stage, known as Immovable.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The third of the four vidyadhara levels. The stage of the path of cultivation. The practitioner emerges from the luminosity of the path of seeing in the form of the wisdom body of the unified state of the path of training.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The third of the four visions in Dzogchen.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The third of the outer sections of tantra. It emphasizes meditation, the importance of the mind, in order to realize emptiness, without neglecting, however the external discipline of the body and speech.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The third of the ten bhumis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The third of the three aspects of sugatagarbha: essence, nature, expression.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The third of the three experiences of appearance, increase, and attainment.)