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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951/Glossary + (a fourth-rank official)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a fully-ordained Buddhist monk, observing 253 rules (or thereabouts))
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (a gem which grants the fulfillment of all one could desire; thus the Buddha is often called a wish-fulfilling gem.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a gesture of threat, pointing the forefinger.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (a gorilla-like animal found in Tibet and the adjoining Himalayan regions. This is probably what some adventurers have called yeti, the abominable snow man.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a grade of Tantric adept)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (a great Indian pandita who became the chie … a great Indian pandita who became the chief disciple of Garab Dorje. According to the historical scriptures, Manjushrimitra was a highly respected scholar at Nalanda Buddhist University in India. The fame of Garab Dorje as a proponent of a new system transcending cause and effect (i.e., the causal vehicles) reached Nalanda, and the panditas were outraged. They would not permit such a heretic to misguide people and sent a delegation to refute Garab Dorje, who lived in the kingdom of Uddiya to the northwest of Bodhgaya. Manjushrimitra confronted Garab Dorje and tried to defeat him in debate but failed. Now, with trust in the teachings beyond effort, cause, and effect, Manjushrimitra felt strong remorse at having tried to defeat the Great Perfection and wanted to cut off his own tongue in order to prevent further misdeeds. Garab Dorje read his mind and said, "You can purify your obscuration if you cause the correct Dzogchen teachings to flourish in this world, but not by cutting off your tongue even a thousand times." Manjushrimitra then composed the treatise known as ''Gomnyam Drukpa'', "Six Experiences of Meditation," and upheld the system of the Great Perfection. Later, his level of realization became equal to that of Garab Dorje.ation became equal to that of Garab Dorje.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a great vajrayana master and siddha of Indian Buddhism; Dudjom Lingpa was an emanation of Saraha)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a half-line of Skt verse (usually becoming a whole line in Tib. translation).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (a hare.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (a holder of the lineal tradition of the Mantrayana)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a karmically neutral state resulting from … a karmically neutral state resulting from a nonrecognition of intrinsic awareness and functioning as the ground (''zhi'') of all (''kun'') cyclic existence [all ground (cs); stratum of all things (KB); basis of all (NJ); fundamental structuring of all experience (PE); basis of samsara and nirvana, which is not unobscured (ws)]and nirvana, which is not unobscured (ws)])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a kind of ''preta'')
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a kind of ''vīṇā''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a kind of cloth worn by ''devas''; according to Dharmabhadra and Ch, 'five-coloured'.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a kind of demon or spirit that occupies dead bodies)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a kind of large drum.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (a king who follows the Dharma and performs the duty of providing the conditions in which every individual has the freedom to enter the spiritual quest of self-knowing. His sole aim is to become a master in his own right.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a large mythical bird, which eats snakes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (a layman who has taken the eight vows of restraint from self-indulgent immorality.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a learned Buddhist scholar or teacher.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a learned teacher in a monastery or the one who gives precepts of monastic ordination.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (a linear projection of the vision of unity which includes every element of mind. It is also a means to induce that same unity by the meditation upon the significance of its parts and their relationships.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a local spirit may challenge the yogi's stability in meditation by creating magical apparitions of varying degrees of intensity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a long collection of Chö songs composed by the third Karmapa and codified by Karma Chagmey.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a long mantra)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a magical creation or divinely manifested rebirth of a buddha or past enlightened master.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a master from Kharsha (Lahoul) in northern India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (a master of Nalanda university and the ordaining abbot of Shantarakshita. He was an exponent of the "upper school" of Svatantrika Madhyamika and the author of the celebrated ''Two Truths of the Middle Way''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a means to Liberation; in the 'Lotus Sūtra … a means to Liberation; in the 'Lotus Sūtra' (Sad-dharma-puṇḍarīka-sūtra) the various V. are compared to carts of different sizes. 'Both V.' (theg pa che chung, lit. 'the Great and Small V.') means the Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna, the latter being also called the V. of the Perfect Buddhas. 'The Supreme V.' (theg mchog) is Tantra, the Vajrayāna, strictly speaking included in the Mahāyāna. The three V., in the present book, are Hīnayāna, (non-tantric) Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna.na, (non-tantric) Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual/Appendix 4: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, and Practices Mentioned in the Retreat Manual + (a meditation practice from the Shangpa Ins … a meditation practice from the Shangpa Instruction Lineage, groups four deities into one meditation. Because the spiritual master is the central figure within the configuration, it is considered to be a practice of union with the mind of the spiritual master.ion with the mind of the spiritual master.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual/Appendix 4: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, and Practices Mentioned in the Retreat Manual + (a meditation practice within the Shangpa Instruction Lineage, groups five deities of the Highest Yoga Tantra into one meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (a meditational deity visualized and invoked in tantric practices with whom the practitioner learns to identify.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a member of the military or governing caste)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a mind apprehending an independently existent self-nature of a person or of ''dharmas''; the misconception of a truly-existing self.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (a minister.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary + (a mode of thinking and expression linked with many sūtras of the Mahāyāna (such as the Prajñāpāramitā collection) and with Nāgārjuna's "Scholastic Corpus" (Tib. ''rigs tshogs'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a monastery in Nangchen near Tana south of Lachab; the seat of Kyungtrul Kargyam.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a monastery or temple hall connected to a hermitage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a monkey-faced guardian of the Buddha's teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a mother-goddess, identified with Pārvatī, Durgā, etc.; it is prophesied that she will one day be reborn as the Buddha Umeśvara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a mythical river formed by the juice of the fruits of the immense ''jambu'' tree (rose-apple tree, ''Eugenia jambolana'') growing on Mount Meru, with golden sand)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a name for Nangchen.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (a native religion of Tibet, whose founder is said to be gShen-rab who came from either Ta-zig (which may be Persia) or Zhang-zhung, an area of western Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (a non-Buddhist school of materialist thinkers who denied the validity of the law of moral causation (karma).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (a non-conceptual stage in tantric practice; in the Perfecting Stage, the visualizations of the Development Stage dissolve into an experience of openness.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a painting on cloth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a particular manifestation of Jambhala, the god of wealth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a particular sitting position, some say one leg on top of the other with the soles almost hidden.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual/Appendix 4: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, and Practices Mentioned in the Retreat Manual + (a particularly wrathful form of Horse-Neck, the wrathful deity of the lotus buddha-family within the Eight Great Configurations of Deities.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a person from one of the regions in Kham.)