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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The wheel, gem, queen, minister, elephant, general and horse. 912)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (The wheel, or round, of existence. The sta … The wheel, or round, of existence. The state of being unenlightened, in which the mind, enslaved by the three poisons of attachment, hatred, and ignorance, passes uncontrolled from one state to another through an endless stream of psychophysical experiences that are all characterized by suffering. ''See also'' Six realms; Three worlds.ng. ''See also'' Six realms; Three worlds.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The wheel, or round, of existence; the sta … The wheel, or round, of existence; the state of being unenlightened in which the mind, enslaved by the three poisons of desire, anger, and ignorance, evolves uncontrolled from one state to another, passing through an endless stream of psychophysical experiences, all of which are characterized by suffering.l of which are characterized by suffering.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (The wheel-turning king. The name given to … The wheel-turning king. The name given to a special kind of exalted being who has dominion over a greater or smaller part of the three-thousandfold universe, so called because he is said to possess a great wheel-shaped weapon with which he subdues his enemies. According to traditional cosmology, such beings appear only when the human life span surpasses eighty thousand years. By analogy, the word is also used as a title for a great king. is also used as a title for a great king.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (The wheel-turning king. The name given to … The wheel-turning king. The name given to a special kind of exalted being who has dominion over a greater or smaller part of the three-thousandfold universe, so called because he is said to possess a great wheel-shaped weapon with which he subdues his enemies. According to traditional cosmology, such beings appear only when the human life span surpasses eighty thousand years. By analogy, the word is also used as a title for a great king. is also used as a title for a great king.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary + (The wholesome forces and tendencies accumulated from virtuous actions of body, speech and mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The wide stone pathway that is a pilgrimage route encircling the Jokhang, the central temple of Lhasa, where the most sacred statue of the Buddha, the Jowo, is enshrined.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The widely renowned mahayoga tantra of the Old School of the Early Translations. See Gyurme Dorje's forthcoming translation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The widely renowned tantra of the Early Translation, which is the chief of the Eighteen Maha Yoga Tantras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The widely renowned tantra of the Early Tr … The widely renowned tantra of the Early Translations which, according to Jam-gőn Kongtrŭl, is the chief of the Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras, exalted above them all like the banner of victory. The first text in the Nyingma Gyūbum, vol. PHA. A great number of commentaries on this tantra is found in the Nyingma Kama collection.a is found in the Nyingma Kama collection.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (The wind element, or breath.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The winds circulating within the human body, which have the nature of the five elements: the life-upholding, the downward-clearing, the upward-moving, the equally-abiding, and the pervading wind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (The winds or currents of energy that flow through the channels, or nadis, of the subtle body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (The wisdom arising from the subtle consciousness characterized by great bliss focused upon the ultimate truth of phenomena.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The wisdom being is one of the three being … The wisdom being is one of the three beings set forth in development stage practice, that which is visualized in the heart center of the samaya being. Dza Patrul explains, "At the heart center of each of the assembly of deities you are meditating on, visualize a wisdom being that resembles the deity it inhabits, though bereft of ornamentation and implements." [SS 422] While this is the most common presentation, according to Kongtrül, meditating on the wisdom being can occur in other forms as well. It can involve visualizing a form that resembles the samaya being, as explained above, yet it can also entail meditating on a deity with a form, color, face, and arms that are different than the samaya being, or meditating on a symbolic implement that arises from the seed syllable. [TK 3, 209]arises from the seed syllable. [TK 3, 209])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (The wisdom mind of a buddha. A synonym for ''dharmakāya''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (The wisdom of enlightenment. In the Vajrayana, "five wisdoms," taken together, represent the enlightened mind like five facets of a jewel.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The wisdom of knowing the nature as it is and the wisdom of perceiving all that exists. Knowledge of conventional and ultimate phenomena.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The wisdom resulting from hearing (''thos pa'i shes rab''), reflecting on (''bsam pa'i shes rab''), and meditating on the teachings (''sgom pa'i shes rab'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The wisdom which is the unity of awareness and emptiness introduced through the fourth empowerment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (The wisdom which is the unity of bliss and emptiness of the third empowerment and which is used to introduce the true wisdom of the fourth empowerment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (The wisdom-activity of enlightenment, transcending all dualistic conceptualization. One's being is spontaneously wise, without needing to seek for it. The Tibetan term means "primordial knowing.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (The wish for all sentient beings to have happiness and its causes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The wish to attain buddhahood, the enlightened state, for the sake of all sentient beings.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The womb of the buddha mind.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The wondrous temple complex built by King … The wondrous temple complex built by King Trisong Deutsen (790—844) and consecrated by Guru Rinpoche. Situated in Central Tibet close to Lhasa, it was the center of the early transmission. It is also known as Glorious Samye, the Unchanging and Spontaneously Accomplished Temple.ing and Spontaneously Accomplished Temple.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The wooden cabinets at the foot of each tan in the sōdō, with two large shelves for monks to store their bedding and some personal items. 77n. 13)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (The word ''samadhi'' can be understood acc … The word ''samadhi'' can be understood according the Buddhist inter pretation as "concentration" or "unification of mind." The Tibetan translation, ''ting gne dzin'' (ting nges 'dzin), means "holding on to what is profound and certain," referring to a deep and perfectly focused meditation. One also speaks of tsechik ting nge dzin (rtse gcig ting nges 'dzin), or "single-pointed concentration".'dzin), or "single-pointed concentration".)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (The word ''seat'' is used to designate a g … The word ''seat'' is used to designate a group of deities. The three seats are usually listed as the seat of the buddhas and bodhisattvas, the seat of the female embodiments of pure awareness and the goddesses, and the seat of the male and female wrathful beings. Sometimes the three are listed as the buddhas, the bodhisattvas, and the wrathful beings.the bodhisattvas, and the wrathful beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (The word Dōgen uses for a sleeping mat, called futon in modern Japan. 78n. 18)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The word nāḍī can mean any tube or pipe as … The word nāḍī can mean any tube or pipe as well as the physical veins and arteries of the body, but in this work it generally refers to the network of subtle channels, analogous to the nervous system, through which flow the winds that are mentally manipulated as part of tantric practice. Although earlier commentaries emphasized that the channels were simply visualizations without a physical existence, later Tibetan tradition attempted to conjoin these with the medical tradition, with inconclusive resultsdical tradition, with inconclusive results)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The word sky treasury has the connotation of inexhaustible wealth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The word vajra refers to the "thunderbolt, … The word vajra refers to the "thunderbolt," the indestructible and irresistible weapon that first appears in Indian literature in the hand of the Vedic deity Indra. In Tibetan Buddhism, vajra is most often used as a modifier to indicate something related to the tantric path, as it symbolizes the swiftness and power of that path and the indestructibility of its animating reality, the dharmakāyay of its animating reality, the dharmakāya)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The word vāyu can mean air or wind, or eve … The word vāyu can mean air or wind, or even the god of the air. In the context of the higher tantras it can simultaneously mean the external element of air, the breath, and the winds or energies that flow through the body that cause digestion, defecation, and so on. These grosser winds can be transformed into wisdom winds thorugh[[sic]] completion-stage practices[sic]] completion-stage practices)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The works of Indian masters that develop, systematize, or clarify the original teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The world and sentient beings; whatever can be experienced, the five elements, and has the possibility of existence, the five aggregates.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (The world as it appears when perception is conditioned by verbal conventions. The term "reality" emphasizes the fact that, owing to its relative self-consistency, it does appear to be a valid reality to ordinary beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The world in which we live. Literally, "the Land of Rose Apples," the continent south of Mount Meru.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (The world of desire, the world of form and the world of formlessness. Alternatively (Tib. 'jig rten gsum, sa gsum, srid gsum): the world of gods above the earth, that of humans on the earth, and that of the nagas under the earth)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (The world of desire, the world of form, and the world of formlessness. Alternatively (Tib. ''‘jig rten gsum, sa gsum, srid gsum''): the world of gods above the earth, that of humans on the earth, and that of the nāgas under the earth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The world of desire, the world of form, and the world of formlessness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (The world of desire, the world of form, and the formless world (see chart on pp. 184-185). Alternatively ( 'jig rten gsum, sa gsum, srid gsum), the world of gods above the earth, that of humans on the earth, and that of the nagas under the earth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (The world of desire, the world of form, and the formless world (see chart on pp. 184-185). Alternatively ( 'jig rten gsum, sa gsum, srid gsum), the world of gods above the earth, that of humans on the earth, and that of the nagas under the earth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (The world of desire.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (The world of desire.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The world of humans and animals inhabiting the earth's surface, the realm of the gods and spirits in the heavens above or the upper airs, and the kingdom of the nagas, etc., in the subterranean regions. Translated also as "three levels of the world.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (The world of humans and animals inhabiting the earth's surface, the realm of the gods and spirits in the heavens above, and the kingdom of the nagas and so on in the subterranean regions.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (The world system of Mount Sumeru and the four continents multiplied a thousand times a thousand times a thousand, adding up to one billion.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (The world's third highest mountain. On the border of Nepal and Sikkim.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (The worldly paths are the paths of accumulation and preparation. The transcendent paths are the paths of seeing, meditation, and beyond training.)