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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,<br> 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.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Torpor-drowsiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Torpor.)

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

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Au Cœur de la compassion/Glossary + (Toute forme sous laquelle se manifeste un bouddha ou un bodhisattva pour guider les êtres selon leurs perceptions. Voir «Trois corps».)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Traditional or canonical texts; scriptural authority. —► āptāgama.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Traditionally the highest rank in the hierarchy of monks' supervisors in Japanese temples. 108n. 64)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (Traditionally, a practitioner goes through … Traditionally, a practitioner goes through five stages or paths to enlightenment. These are The Path of Accumulation (Skt. sambhāramārga) which emphasizes purifying one's obscurations and accumulating merit. The Path of Junction or Application (Skt. prayogamārga) in which the meditator develops profound understanding of the four noble truths and cuts the root to the desire realm. The Path of Insight or Seeing (Sk. darśanamārga) in which the meditator develops greater insight and enters the first bodhisattva level. The Path of Meditation (Skt. bhāvanamārga) in which the' meditator cultivates insight in the 2nd through 10th bodhisattva levels. And the Path of Fulfillment (Skt. aśaiksammārga) which is the complete attainment of buddhahood. is the complete attainment of buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Trainee; referring to the ārya-s who are not artha-s; pertaining to the<br> trainee.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Training factors.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Training.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Trainings in ethical discipline (''tshul khrims''), concentration (''ting nge 'dzin''), and wisdom (''shes rab''). The three trainings form the basis of the Buddhist path.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (Trainings in ethical discipline, concentration, and discriminating knowledge. The three trainings form the basis of the Buddhist path.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Tranquility and insight, the two fundamental aspects of meditative praxis.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (Transcendent generosity, discipline, patie … Transcendent generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom, together with transcendent means, aspirational prayer, strength, and gnosis. Each of these ten is practiced predominantly on one of the ten bodhisattva levels—generosity on the first level, discipline on the second, and so forth. They are termed “transcendent” because their practice involves realization ofthe view of emptiness.olves realization ofthe view of emptiness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (Transcendent generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (Transcendent generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (Transcendent generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (Transcendent knowledge, direct realization of emptiness, and thus the Mother of all the Buddhas. Referred to also as wisdom that has gone beyond.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Transcending; transcendence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Transference of consciousness. According to the Great Perfection, the unsurpassed transference is the realization of the pristine domain of the absolute space of phenomena, the sugatagarbha. See CM 434,448; VE 418,470-78.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (Transference, usually refers to the practi … Transference, usually refers to the practice of purposefully transferring the consciousness right at the moment of death to a pure land or desirable state. The practitioner trains in doing this during his or her lifetime. It is an integral aspect of the Chöd practice.s an integral aspect of the Chöd practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (Transference, usually refers to the practi … Transference, usually refers to the practice of purposefully transferring the consciousness right at the moment of death to a pure land or desirable state. The practitioner trains in doing this during his or her lifetime. It is an integral aspect of the Chöd practice.s an integral aspect of the Chöd practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Transformation-thought.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Transformation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Transformational; pertaining to the psychic ability to transform)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Transformed.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Drinking the Mountain Stream (2004)/Glossary + (Transhistorical buddha who is the source of the Kagyu lineage and teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (Transient, anomalous psychological and/or … Transient, anomalous psychological and/or somatic experience triggered by authentic meditative practice. The normal response to such experiences is to reify them, in which case they may become chronic problems. To allow them to self-release, one must simply be discerningly present with them, without reifying them or grasping to their inherent existence as "I" or "mine."their inherent existence as "I" or "mine.")