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- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (This is one part of a twofold visualizatio … This is one part of a twofold visualization process found in the Mahāyoga teachings of the Nyingma School. In this stage of practice, all the phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are transformed through a complex visualization process in which the central deities of the maṇḍala "give birth" to the deities in the retinue. [LT 460]h" to the deities in the retinue. [LT 460])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (This is reasoning that investigates the absolute or ultimate status of phenomena, employing the four or five Madhyamika arguments.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (This is reasoning that investigates the absolute or ultimate status of phenomena, employing the four or five Madhyamika arguments.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This is synonymous with Cittamātra, the tradition based on the teachings of Maitryanātha, Asaṅga, and Vasubandhu, with an emphasis on all phenomena as being a mental experience. It remains a strong influence on the Kagyü tradition. See also Cittamātra)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This is synonymous with Indrabhūti, but it … This is synonymous with Indrabhūti, but it does not refer to only one person. In the Guhyasamāja tradition he is the King of Oddiyāna, who first received these teachings. There was also an Indrabhūti who studied under Tilopa. Another Indrabhūti was the King of Zahor, which is variously identified as the eastern region of present-day Bihar and with the Kangra valley in Northwest India.with the Kangra valley in Northwest India.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This is the "second turning of the Dharma … This is the "second turning of the Dharma wheel" and includes such Mahayana sutras as the perfection of wisdom sutras, and the earlier sutras on emptiness that feature the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī prominently. Though the subjects are varied, including such sutras as those on Amitābha and his pure realm, this group of sutras is seen as emphasizing emptiness as represented by the Madhyamaka texts of Nāgārjunaented by the Madhyamaka texts of Nāgārjuna)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This is the "third turning of the Dharma w … This is the "third turning of the Dharma wheel" and includes such sutras as those that emphasize that all phenomena are manifestations of the mind and that all beings possess a buddha nature. These sutras, though numerous and varied, tend to be represented by Asaṅga—who revealed some of these sutras from visions of bodhisattva Maitreya—and by the Yogacāra traditiontva Maitreya—and by the Yogacāra tradition)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (This is the code of monastic discipline fo … This is the code of monastic discipline for monks. It consists of the five precepts: (1) no killing, (2) no stealing, (3) no sexual activity, (4) no lying, and (5) no intoxicants, as well as five further restrictions designed specifically for members of the ordained Sangha: (6) no eating after noon, (7) no adorning the body with anything other than monastic robes, (8) no participating or attending public entertainments, (9) no sleeping in high or luxurious beds, and (10) no touching or using money, gold, or silver. touching or using money, gold, or silver.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This is the consciousness containing the latencies through which the results of karma arise from life to life. It is accepted only by the Mahāyāna schools (Madhyamaka and Cittamātra).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (This is the first of the three absorptions … This is the first of the three absorptions. According to Jigme Lingpa, this absorption relates to reality itself - the empty, luminous nature of mind. It also purifies the death state, the belief in permanence, and the formless realm. [JL 221] Tenpe Nyima describes the actual practice of this absorption as follows: "Start out by relaxing your mind from within; don't follow after any deluded thoughts. Mind itself is empty, yet aware - a bare reality beyond anything you can think or say. Settle for a moment in this simplicity ... This is the absorption of suchness." He further notes that this absorption is also known as "the practice of great emptiness," "the vajralike absorption," and "the absorption of emptiness." [KR 25]and "the absorption of emptiness." [KR 25])
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (This is the highest achievement of the rai … This is the highest achievement of the rainbow body, in which one becomes enveloped in light and disappears into the nature of light, or else one is encompassed by a shroud of light that covers the sky with rainbows and clouds, and then disappears into rainbow colors., and then disappears into rainbow colors.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (This 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 "view" or "perspective.")
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (This is the main right energy channel, blu … This is the main right energy channel, blue in color. It intersects with the central channel at the tip of the sex organ. As it ascends, it separates slightly to the right of the central channel and rejoins it at the navel. From the navel to the crown it runs parallel and adjacent to the central channel. At the crown it separates again to the right and terminates at the right nostril. </br>:The right channel is related to the sambhogakaya in its pure state, and to the conflicting emotion of anger or aversion in its afflicted state. See also ''lalana''. its afflicted state. See also ''lalana''.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This is the mode of perceiving by non-conc … This is the mode of perceiving by non-conceptual subjective perception, through any one of the six sense consciousnesses. It perceives whatever appears to it without any process of elimination, in contrast to conceptual subjective mind, which produces a generic image of the object by a process of elimination and is thus known as “eliminative engager.”nd is thus known as “eliminative engager.”)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This is the mode of perceiving engaged in … This is the mode of perceiving engaged in by the conceptual mind in order to produce an image of its object. For example, the concept of tree is arrived at by eliminating non-tree. It is said that what we perceive directly through the conceptual mind is a generic image of an object rather than the specifically characterized object itself. specifically characterized object itself.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (This is the navel chakra (nirmana-chakra i … This is the navel chakra (nirmana-chakra in Sanskrit) and is the source of creative power. Tummo practice is cented ([[sic]]) at the navel chakra, the center of creative spiritual force through which one can achieve tremendous realization. The navel chakra is also the easiest door through which to bring the energy-winds from the rest of the body into the central channel.rest of the body into the central channel.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This is the non-Buddhist Hindu philosophical school which asserts that things are produced from themselves.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Hevajra Tantra I/Glossary + (This is the one item for which it is scarc … This is the one item for which it is scarcely practicable to give index- references, for the whole of the Hevajra-tantra is concerned with yoga, both in the sense of 'union' and that of the schemes, rites and practices, which should produce realization of that union. This tantra teaches the supreme type of yoga (anuttarayoga), which is the final identification and unifying of the macrocosm in the body of the yogin. The main technical terms used have their equivalents in the Hathayoga tradition (see P. C. Bagchi, 'Some Technical Terms of the Tantras', Calcutta Oriental Journal, vol. i, no. 2, Nov. 1933, pp. 75-88). Given a more limited meaning, yoga refers to union with one's chosen divinity; one may note in this respect the terms samāhitayoga, 'concentrated yoga', and nirantara- yoga, 'continuous yoga' (p. 89 fn.). This is, however, but one of the means which will lead to the supreme yoga.means which will lead to the supreme yoga.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (This is the practice cave of Guru Rinpoche, where he gave many of the instructions found in Dakini Teachings (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1990).)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (This is the second of the FOUR STYLES of a … This is the second of the FOUR STYLES of appraisal of the secret mantra texts which (1) counters regret for entering into the sūtras, etc. (''mdo-sogs-la zhugs-pa'i 'gyod-pa zlog-pa''); (2) counters regret for entering the inner mantras, etc. (''sngags-nang-pa-la zhugs-pa'i 'gyod-zlog''); and (3) conveys the general meaning of the [[creation stage]] (''bskyed-rim-pa'i spyi-don''). 292-3[creation stage]] (''bskyed-rim-pa'i spyi-don''). 292-3)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (This is the seed or essence of tathata (suchness) and is also called buddha essence or enlightened essence.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (This is the seed or essence of tathata (suchness) and is also called buddha essence or enlightened essence.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (This is the seventh group of spirits who t … This is the seventh group of spirits who took possession of Tibet in archaic times. Their names are Nyenya Pangkye (''gnyan-gYa' spang-skyes''), Karting Namtsho (''gar-ting nam-tsho''), Lenglen Lamtsangkye (''gleng-lan lam-tsang-skyes''), Rutho Karkye (''ru-tho gar-skyes''), Shedo Kartingne (''she-do kar-ting-nas''), Me Pemakye (''me padma skyes''), Sange Trhülpoche (''gsang-ge 'phrul-po-che''), Trangwa Trangmagur (''drang-ba drang-ma-mgur'') and Kötong Namtsha (''bkod-stong nam-tsha''). 949ong Namtsha (''bkod-stong nam-tsha''). 949)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This is the term given to afflictive emotions and their seeds, which obscure sentient beings from attaining liberation)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This is the third of the four classes of t … This is the third of the four classes of tantras following the action (kriyā) and performance (caryā) tantras. Compendium of Truths, the principal yoga tantra, presented itself as a method for liberation, unlike the earlier practices that used ritual and mantra for worldly goalst used ritual and mantra for worldly goals)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (This is the transcendent knowledge of the variety of reality.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (This is transcendent knowledge of the true nature of reality, not as it appears to individuals in saṃsāra.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This land where the tantras were promulgat … This land where the tantras were promulgated and preserved—which is also called the land of dākinīs—has a quasi-mythical status in relation to the Tibetan tradition. It has, however, been identified as the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Udyana in the Swat Valley of northwest Pakistan, though there is no evidence for the practice of higher tantras there. More recent research has brought attention to the region of Orissa (renamed Odisha in November 2010) on the eastern coast of India, which has had a number of variant names but was known as Oddiyāna up to at least the fourteenth century. It was a center for the practice of the higher tantras and was the region where many Buddhist tantras, such as Kalācakra, originated. Lake Chilika, the second largest lagoon in the world, matches the legend of Oddiyānas lake. pandita. A title given to an individual recognized for his or her learning. It has entered the English language as pundit, which is the Hindi formanguage as pundit, which is the Hindi form)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (This level of rainbow body occurs after one's body and mind have separated and one dissolves into the nature of rainbows and light without leaving behind any trace of one's aggregates.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (This life, samsaric existence, ones own aims, and the self.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (This life, the stages of dying, the dharmadhātu, becoming" one’s next rebirth, dreaming, and meditative absorption.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (This lineage dates back to Marpa Lotsawa ( … This lineage dates back to Marpa Lotsawa (1012-1099), who made three journeys to India and studied at the feet of numerous masters, the principal one being Nāropa. Marpa's principal disciple, Milarepa (1040-1123), was one of the most famous yogis and poets of all Tibet. Milarepa's two principal disciples were Rechungpa and Gampopa. The patronymic of the Dagpo lineage is one of Gampopa's names. Gampopa's four principal disciples made up the four major branches of the school (see Kagyu). The main branch is the Karma-Kagyu, or Kamtshang-Kagyu, lineage, founded by the first Karmapa, Tusum Khyenpa (1110-1193). In addition to the Karmapas, his lineage is primarily made up of the Shamarpas and the Tai Situpas.e up of the Shamarpas and the Tai Situpas.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (This lineage is transmitted through the awareness-holders by means of symbols or gestures; according to this text it goes from Manjushrimitra up to and including Vimalamitra.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This may be defined as conventionally correct superficial reality.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This may refer to any circle or circular a … This may refer to any circle or circular arrangement, but in Buddhism it most frequently refers to an arrangement of deities, with a central deity in the center and including the palace they are situated within and around. Three dimensional representations of these are made, but more familiar is a two-dimensional diagram, that uses certain established procedures for representing three dimensions. These diagrams are intended as aids for the visualization of the deities and palaces and are not themselves the objects of meditation, apart from when they serve as the locus for the deity in empowermentsas the locus for the deity in empowerments)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (This may refer to the flower of the blue lotus (Nila udumbara) or of the cluster fig tree (Ficus racemosa), whose flowers are hidden within the fig and hence symbolize rarity.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This mountain is the center of the flat disc of the world according to classical Buddhist cosmology)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Esoteric Instructions/Glossary + (This obscure term refers to the total rele … This obscure term refers to the total release of knots in the channels, of pains and so forth in the channels, and of attachment to various experiences. It refers to definitive techniques for the elimination of these hindrances so that they are permanently removed.nces so that they are permanently removed.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (This occur within seven days after the cle … This occur within seven days after the clear light of death arises, when the material elements of the body become smaller and smaller, until finally the material body dissolves into elementary particles, such that only the residues of one's hair and nails remain.e residues of one's hair and nails remain.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (This present aeon, in which one thousand buddhas will appear, lasting no less than 160 million years.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This realm includes all existences from the lowest hell to Māras paradise, One can only be reborn in higher realms through the power of meditation)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This refers both to the view held by certa … This refers both to the view held by certain heretic or non-Buddhist schools that karma and results, varieties ofthe spiritual path, realized persons, enlightenment, etc. do not exist at the relative level, and also to the conceptual thought which conceives that something which previously existed “inherently” has ceased forever.y existed “inherently” has ceased forever.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (This refers to Vajradhara, who is said to be the dharmakāya level of the sambhogakāya. The five jinas or tathāgatas are more purely sambhogakāya emanations. Hence, Vajradhara is the sixth.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (This refers to a teaching that was given when disciples were not yet ready to hear a more profound explanation, and therefore it is open to other levels of interpretation. It is paired with the term "definitive meaning.")
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (This refers to all conceptually designated … This refers to all conceptually designated objects, including the notion of a self, dualistic appearances, and anything appearing as an object. The term is also translated as "imaginary nature," "imputed nature," or "imaginary identity." See Kongtrul 2007a, 180–81 and 255–57; and Kongtrul 2012, 563–74.–81 and 255–57; and Kongtrul 2012, 563–74.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (This refers to compassion, that is, the counterpart of the wisdom of emptiness. By extension, it refers to all kinds of action and training performed with the attitude of bodhichitta.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (This refers to compassion, the counterpart of the wisdom of emptiness. By extension, it refers to all kinds of action and training performed with the attitude of bodhichitta.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This refers to pacification of obscurations, a feature of analytical cessation or liberation.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (This refers to phenomena which perform a function. Functional phenomena are impermanent and compounded.)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (This refers to refuge in the THREE PRECIOUS JEWELS. 69, 728)
- Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (This refers to the "first turning of the D … This refers to the "first turning of the Dharma wheel" and includes all the sutras and Vinaya of the earliest Buddhist schools. The teaching of the four truths, which is the teaching the Buddha gave to his first five pupils in Sarnath, is considered representative of these teachingsnsidered representative of these teachings)