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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Tibetan poems, and various other forms of … Tibetan poems, and various other forms of expostulation, are often preceded by exclamatory words or phrases indicative of the general tone and content of what is being said. For example, Emaho is an expression of wonder, Ho of courage and determination, while Kyema and Kyehii express grief.ion, while Kyema and Kyehii express grief.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Tibetan term for a highly realized spiritual teacher, the equivalent of the Sanskrit word guru. In colloquial language, however, it is sometimes used as a polite way of addressing a monk.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Tibetan term for a highly realized spiritual teacher. In colloquial language it is sometimes used as a polite way of addressing a monk.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Tibetan translator and disciple of Padmasa … Tibetan translator and disciple of Padmasambhava. At first, he was an influential Bőnpo priest, but later he studied with Padmasambhava and also learned translation. Due to his miraculous power, he is said to have tamed a wild yak simply by a threatening gesture. He offered numerous Bőnpo teachings to Padmasambhava, who then concealed them as a terma treasure.o then concealed them as a terma treasure.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (Tibetan translator who, from 810 C.E. on, worked at Samye, the first monastery founded in Tibet by the king Thrisong Detsen (790-858). He was one of Padmasambhava's principal disciples and played a very important role in the Nyingma transmissions.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (Tibetan translators of the canonical texts who usually worked with  Indian paṇditas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Tibetan translators of the canonical texts who usually worked closely with Indian panditas. The title literally means "bilingual.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (Tibetan translators usually do not transla … Tibetan translators usually do not translate "chandoha" but transliterate it in Tibetan as ''tstshando ha'' or ''tshan do ha''. Dak Rampa (313) translates it as "deliberating on one's intention" ('dun rtog). Thubten Phuntsok (150) translates it as "commingling or intermingling" (bsdebs pa'am 'dres pa). In Revealing the Indestructible Vajra Secrets (381), Jamgön Kongtrul says: "There are the chandohas, where [yogins and yoginīs] bathe, and the nearby chandohas, where they sometimes bathe. That is the way the previous [masters] have explained [chandohas and nearby chandohas]. The lotsāwas, however, using the linguistic roots (byings don, dhātvartha) chanda, "intention" ('dun pa), and ūh "to conceive [or deliberate]" (rtogs pa), translated [chandoha] as "deliberating on one's intention." Thus they explain that [the chandohas] are where [yogins and yoginīs] always go to deliberate on their intentions regarding the dharma, and [the nearby chandohas] are where they sometimes go to deliberate."re where they sometimes go to deliberate.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Tibetan wine, usually made from barley grains.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Tibetan word translated here as ''Blazing Splendor''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Tibetan-style zombie; walking dead or a re-animated corpse. This unbelievable type of resurrection is believed to be a goblin that occupies a dead body, rather than the deceased spirit coming back to life in his own body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (Tibetan: Jan-chup Sem-pa, meaning the one who aspires to and is actually engaged in the path to Buddhahood for the sake of others.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (Tibetans tend to attribute many, if not most hindrances to demons, sentient beings of the ''preta'' class)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Tiger's Nest, sacred place of Padmasambhava above the Paro valley of Bhutan.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (Tilopa, the father of the Kagyu lineage, r … Tilopa, the father of the Kagyu lineage, received four sets of yogic practice from several gurus, which he in turn transmitted to his disciple, Naropa. These four transmissions are often said to be: the illusory body yoga, dream yoga, clear light or luminosity yoga, and tummo or candali yoga. These became the main source of the Six Yogas of Naropa. For a different account of the four transmissions, see Nalanda and Chogyam Trungpa, ''The Life of Marpa the Translator'', pp. xxxii-xxxiii. Marpa the Translator'', pp. xxxii-xxxiii.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Time.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Time.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Lamp to Illuminate the Five Stages/Glossary + (Tiny matter-based phenomena that occur nat … Tiny matter-based phenomena that occur naturally within the body, or are "created" through completion-stage meditation, and that are located at particular points in the body. The indestructible drop is always present, located in the heart cakra, and consists of the subtle wind and subtle mind. Other drops are visualized at various "tips" within the body.ualized at various "tips" within the body.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (Title used to refer to a recently discovered treasure revelation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (To accomplish the Way; used for Shakyamuni Buddha's enlightenment. 106n. 41)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (To actualize the great display of all phenomena included in saṃsāra and nirvāṇa by realizing the mode of being of the ground. See 141, VE114.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (To avoid giving rise to non virtuous qualities, to abandon the ones that have arisen, to give rise to virtuous qualities, and to avoid letting the ones that have arisen degenerate. They are perfected on the medium stage of the path of accumulation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (To be abandoned on the path of meditation: coarsecoarse, medium-coarse, subtle-course, coarse-medium, medium-medium, subtle-medium, coarse-subtle, medium-subtle, and subtle-subtle.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (To be strongly attached to something, reifying and grasping at it without realizing its emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (To be sung’, the second of the dvādaśāṅga- … To be sung’, the second of the dvādaśāṅga-dharma-pravacana. It Originally referred to an uddāna (summary) verse mnemonically summarizing the names of the (ten) preceding sūtra-s during the first Council. It has subsequently come to denote a repetition verse summarizing what has been said in the preceding prose.n verse summarizing what has been said in the preceding prose.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (To demonstrate.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (To desire the attainment of complete enlightenment while focusing on the welfare of others. [TD 1869])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (To disparage the master; to transgress the … To disparage the master; to transgress the three levels of vows; to be hostile to vajra brothers and sisters; tOForsake loving kindness on behalf of sentient beings; to abandon the enlightened mind; to disparage one's own doctrine or that of others; to divulge secrets to the immature; to abuse the FIVE COMPONENTS which are primordially pure; to be prejudiced about phenomena which are in any case intrinsically pure; to lack compassion for evil beings, especially those who harm the doctrine; to apply conceptualisation to ineffable nature; to belittle those who have faith; to violate the commitments that have been undertaken; and to disparage women, the source of discriminative awareness. The source is Aśvaghoṣa's ''Mūlāpattisaṃgraha'', as quoted by Lessing and Wayman, ''[[Mkhas Grub Rje's Fundamentals of the Buddhist Tantras]]'', (p. 328). 361 Grub Rje's Fundamentals of the Buddhist Tantras]]'', (p. 328). 361)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (To do a vajrayana practice one must receive the empowerment from a qualified lama. One should also receive the practice instruction (Tib. ''tri'') and the textual reading (Tib. ''lung'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (To eliminate certain flaws that can occur … To eliminate certain flaws that can occur in development stage practice, peaceful deities should be visualized as being soft, well proportioned, firm, supple, youthful, clear, radiant, attractive, and possessing an intense presence. [JL 233] In ''Notes on the Development Stage'', Tenpe Nyima equates these nine traits with, respectively: 1) the purification of pride, 2) the purification of anger, 3) the purification of desire, 4) the purification of envy, 5) the purification of stupidity, 6) the elimination of ignorance, 7) the unfolding of wisdom, 8) the complete presence of the marks and signs of enlightenment, and 9) superior qualities. "The first five," he writes, "are essential qualities, while the latter four are qualities related to [particular] attributes." [KR 43]lated to [particular] attributes." [KR 43])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (To feel appropriate delight and enjoyment … To feel appropriate delight and enjoyment when participating in practice; a Buddhist term for the joy of engaging in beneficial activity, including ceremonies and other formal practice activities. It is derived from the Lotus Sutra, chapter 18 "The Merit of Appropriate Joy," which describes the zuiki of the bodhisattva upon hearing the Dharma or upon seeing others' good deeds or resultant happiness. In the sutra, the bodhisattva Maitreya says in agatha, "After the World-Honored One's passage into extinction, / If there is one who hears this scripture / And if he can rejoice appropriately [zuiki], / How much happiness shall he obtain?" 203n. 151much happiness shall he obtain?" 203n. 151)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (To give a label or name to an object. To give meaning to an object.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (To know qualitatively and quantitatively (ji lta ba dang ji snyed pa'i mkhyen pa). See glossary: qualitative and quantitative knowledges.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (To know.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (To let the mind rest on an object of contemplation. Alternatively, to maintain the flow of the view.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (To perform an action or karma. Actions leave traces in the alaya and will subsequently fructify in the sense of bringing forth experiential effects.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wondrous Dance of Illusion/Glossary + (To refrain from (1) drinking alcohol, (2) eating after noon, (3) dancing, (4) jewelry, (5) high beds, and (6) accepting gold and silver.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (To regard form as self, as a possession of self, as in the self, or as that in which the self is; and analogously for the remaining four components of feeling, perception, habitual tendencies and consciousness. 347)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (To relinquish any unvirtues that have alre … To relinquish any unvirtues that have already arisen (mi dge ba skyes pa spong ba), to not give rise to any unvirtues that have not arisen (mi dge ba ma skyes pa mi bskyed pa), to give rise to virtues that have not yet arisen (dge ba ma skyes pa bskyed pa), and to increase already arisen virtues (dge ba skyes pa spel ba). GTCD.n virtues (dge ba skyes pa spel ba). GTCD.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (To reverse, to turn around.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (To specific disciples it is taught that th … To specific disciples it is taught that the profound nature of all phenomena is emptiness, free from arising, cessation, and every other form of conceptual projection, and that the actual condition and nature of things is one of luminosity, beyond anything that can be thought or put into words. The definitive meaning is this nature, as well as the scriptures that teach it and their related commentaries. [TD 655]t and their related commentaries. [TD 655])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (To study thoroughly. Also diversity or mul … To study thoroughly. Also diversity or multiplicity. Also the community dharma meeting with the teacher to receive instruction, sometimes with questions and responses. There are various different kinds of san meetings, depending on where and when it is held, e.g., chōsan in the morning, bansan in the evening, shōsan in the abbot's room, and daisan in the dharma hall. 52n. 17om, and daisan in the dharma hall. 52n. 17)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (To take refuge, as in taking refuge in buddha. 195n. 100)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (To view what is impermanent as permanent, what is painful as blissful, what is tainted as pure and what is non-self as self. n. 173)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Together with the retinue.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Tongue.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Tooth stick; a willow twig whose end was chewed and softened so as to be used like a modern toothbrush for ritual teeth care. Its length was between four and sixteen fingers' width. 79n. 23)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Topsy-turviness, erroneousness. E.g.: taking what is duhkha for sukha, śūnya for aśūnya, anitya for nitya, anātman for ātman.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (Torma is Tibetan for a ritual offering cak … Torma is Tibetan for a ritual offering cake usually made of barley flour and butter and often elaborately designed and subject to detailed explanations. The Indian precedent, the bali, was simply a baked circle of bread, and so the uses of the word torma in English translations of the canon are somewhat anachronistic. However, they can be taken in a general sense to mean a ritual food offering. Trāyastriṃśa. "Thirty-three" paradise. Situated upon the summit of Meru, it is the realm of Indra. The name "thirty-three" alludes to the number of deities living in that paradise number of deities living in that paradise)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (Torma is one of the primary offerings foun … Torma is one of the primary offerings found in the Secret Mantra tradition, where, along with medicine and rakta, it is one of the inner offerings. Though there are various divisions of torma, the outer torma offering consists of "the choicest types of edibles heaped upon a vessel of precious substances," which, as Jamgön Kongtrül explains, embodies "the indivisibility of basic space and wisdom." [LW 129] Explaining the significance of torma in different contexts, Dilgo Khyentse writes, "Generally speaking, torma should be viewed as the maṇḍala in the context of approach and accomplishment, as sense pleasures in the context of making offerings, as the deity in the context of empowerment, and as the spiritual accomplishments at the conclusion of a practice." [WC 743]at the conclusion of a practice." [WC 743])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Torment.)