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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.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The worldly supreme dharma. The fourth nirvedhabhāgīya-s belonging to the prayoga stage immediately after which one enters into the darśana-marga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The worlds, or realms, of desire, form, and formlessness, which together constitute the Buddhist samsaric cosmos.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (The worst and physically lowest of the hells, where beings remain longer and suffer greater than any other hell)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (The wrathful activity of taking a being's life and delivering that being to a higher state of existence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (The wrathful aspect of the Buddha's wisdom and insight. He was Sanggye Yeshe's main tutelary deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (The yidam deity associated with enlightened form in the Eight Great Sādhana Teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (The yogic art of being able to walk extremely fast, covering a huge distance in a short time through control of the inner currents of energy.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The yogic art of being able to walk extremely fast, covering a long distance in a short time through control over the inner currents of energy.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (The youngest son of Trisong Deutsen, also known as Murub Tseypo. Protectors (srung ma) See Dharma protector.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (The zodiac divided into twenty-seven constellations)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (The ālayavijñāna or all-base consciousness … The ālayavijñāna or all-base consciousness is the eighth type of consciousness in the eight-consciousness model of the mind according to Yogācāra. It is comprised of two aspects: the seed part (''sa bon gyi cha''), which is the causal aspect that will produce future results, and the maturation part (''rnam smin gyi cha''), which is the resultant aspect of the produced experience.sultant aspect of the produced experience.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The ‘I shall know what has not been known … The ‘I shall know what has not been known ’faculty; the first of three outflow-free cognitive faculties which are:ājñātam-ājñāsyāmīndriya, ājñendriya and ājñātāvīndriya. These three faculties, in their essential nature, are constituted of manas, sukha, saumanasya, upekṣā, śraddhā, vīrya, smṛti, samādhi and prajñā. These nine are differentiated as the three distinctive faculties on account of the predominance that they exercise in the darśana-mārga, bhāvanā-mārga and aśaikṣa-mārga, respectively. The anājñātam-ājñāsyāmīndriya exercises predominance with regard to the cessation of the darśana-heya defilements. In the acquisition of the fruit of stream entry, it functions as the inductor (āvāhaka) of the visaṃyoga-prāpti, and constitutes the path of liberation.ns as the inductor (āvāhaka) of the visaṃyoga-prāpti, and constitutes the path of liberation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The ‘School of the elders’. The present-day Theravāda is a branch derived rom the lineage of the Sthaviravāda in ancient India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The ‘graspable’,the grasped (the ‘object’).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (The ‘lower/inferior vehicle’;a derogatory term used by the Mahāyāna to refer to the Buddhist schools which emerged in the Abhidharma period.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (The “Leather Mask of the Seven Steps”, or “Mask of the Se-spirit” commissioned by Zur Zangpopel)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (The “field,” “sphere,” “realm,” or ‘ eleme … The “field,” “sphere,” “realm,” or ‘ element in which (metaphorically, at least) one who has attained the ultimate resides, as contrasted with the “element” connected to the sensory fields that comprise ''samsara''. The term sometimes is synonymous with ''emptiness'' or ''dharmakāya'', and also refers to a ''gnosis'' attained when one becomes a ''buddha''.'' attained when one becomes a ''buddha''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (The “garland meter” of the Condensed Tantra, with twenty-one Sanskrit syllables per line. step index (''rkang’dzin''). Measurement index of a planet’s position; set at zero on the equinox.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary + (The “moving air” that flows within the cha … The “moving air” that flows within the channels of the vajra body, or anatomically the mobility of bodily constituents.Although srog (prāṇa) sometimes refers to the life-sustaining air that flows mainly through the right and left channels above the navel, in Kālacakra it is also a general term for the ten winds. Rlung as “wind” has been distinguished from meaning the element of air, even though the same word is used in Tibetan.n though the same word is used in Tibetan.)