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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.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (a personification of the Unity of Bliss-Vo … a personification of the Unity of Bliss-Void. This unity becomes actualized in its pristine reality only very rarely. Yet because of the natural propensity to project the infirmities of a deluded mind upon incarnations in the spatio-temporal environment, even when a Buddha incarnates, he is barely recognized. Every Guru is a Buddha.barely recognized. Every Guru is a Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (a personification of the illuminated eleme … a personification of the illuminated elements of the Mind coming together in a violent composition in order to instruct the yogin in the nature of reality. Compassion is his essential feeling tone. However, to the fearful and uninitiated the Heruka may appear threatening and malicious. Kaliyuga, the end of time when the vibration of the universe has increased to the point of destruction, when discipline is no longer valued, when corruption and exploitation are the characteristics of politics and commerce and despair is all pervading.and commerce and despair is all pervading.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a petition chant to the guardians of the Dharma, especially those who protect the Dzogchen teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a posture, either sitting or standing, in which the left leg is bent more sharply than the right)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a powerful spirit and guardian of the Dharma; the Dharma protector of Samye.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (a practitioner following a spiritual discipline that "yokes" him or her to a specific path and practice; one who has mastered the practices of concentration and insight.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a protective deity guarding Buddhist teachings and practitioners against obstacles)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a protector of the Dharma.)

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 protector whose practices originally travelled from India to the Tibetan-speaking world through Kyungpo Naljor and the Shangpa Instruction Lineage. It has since become one of the most widely practiced protectors.)
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 protectress of the Ancient Instruction Lineage.)
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 protectress of the Ancient Instruction Lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a province in the northern part of Himachal Pradesh, India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a realm inhabited entirely by ''Ārya'' Bodhisattvas, where Buddhas teach in ''Saṃbhoga-kaya'' form.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a reed instrument close to the Persian shanai and one of the principal ritual instruments in Tibetan Buddhism.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary + (a representative of the line of Madhyamaka thought connected with Buddhapālita and Candrakīrti. See Skt. ''prāsaṅgika'', Tib. ''thal 'gyur ba'')
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary + (a representative of the line of Madhyamaka thought going back to Bhā(va)-viveka/Bhavya. See Skt. ''svātantrika'', Tib. ''rang rgyud pa'')
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951/Glossary + (a residential unit in a college of the Three Seats)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (a ritual instrument which represents the p … a ritual instrument which represents the penetrating power of compassion when confronted with the mean mask of ego. It is used in rituals of demonic harness. Before the Dharma can spread to the boundaries of the universe all traces of unregenerate energy must be trained to work in the single cause of playful responsiveness. The power of the Purba, one end shaped like a Vajra and the other like a dagger, is the means of cutting through the outer guise of selfishness and exposing the hollow impotence within. and exposing the hollow impotence within.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (a school of Buddhist philosophy formulated … a school of Buddhist philosophy formulated by Nāgārjuna, Chandrakīrti and others on the basis of the ''Perfection of Wisdom (prajñāpāramitā) Sutras'' of the Buddha. It emphasizes the voidness of all phenomena through a radical denial of any notions such as substance, essence, and inherent existence. Through understanding voidness one is freed from the ignorance that keeps one bound to samsara.ignorance that keeps one bound to samsara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a school of Tibetan Buddhism, most commonly referred to as "Chod" (literally, "cutting through"), founded by the Tibetan teacher Machig Labdron (མ་ཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་) in the twelfth century as an extension of the Zhijed teachings (''see'' Pacification school))
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a sentient being can be regarded as made up of eighteen e., three for each sense — visual object e., visual faculty e., visual consciousness e., etc. ... mental object e., mental faculty e., mental consciousness e.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a sentient being's basic state of mind; 'expanse of the all-ground' refers to the vastness of basic being.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a series of seven groups of qualities — thirty-seven in all — to be practised at successive stages of the Path. See Mppś III, chap. XXXI.)
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 series of teachings by Longchenpa on the Heart-Essence of Vimalamitra.)
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 set of six meditations that Niguma received directly from the Buddha Vajra Holder. These form the root of the Shangpa Instruction Lineage.)
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 set of six meditations that Sukasiddhi received directly from the Buddha Vajra Holder. These form part of the Shangpa Instruction Lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a shrine room, often small for the Dharma protectors.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a small hidden place in Bhutan.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (a small leather bag used for kneading tsampa dough. It is common in every house but is also the trademark of beggars.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (a small white round bone-like substance which appears in the hearts  of the great practitioners, and is often discovered in the ashes of the great tantric  lamas after they have been cremated.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a spiritual approach integrating principles of spiritual development into a practical system of application)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a spiritual approach that leads one away from the origin of suffering—the shravaka, pratyekabuddha and bodhisattva paths)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a staff surmounted by a freshly-severed head, a withered one and a skull, and a triple point, carried by Tantric adepts and representing the secret consort.)