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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.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a stanza, esp. one of four eight-syllable pādas; as a unit of length of prose, 32 syllables.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a subtle divine state of samsaric existence, where sense of smell, sense of taste and sexual organs are absent, and physical suffering, mental distress and unwholesome mental factors such as attachment cannot arise)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (a sweet root used as a delicacy; sweet potato of Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (a symbolic representation in stone of the unity of the relative and ultimate nature of reality. Its base is a dome which is topped by symbols of the Guru's awakening.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a synonym for Ultimate Truth.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (a tantric recitation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (a tantric system based on Prajñāpāramitā a … a tantric system based on Prajñāpāramitā and introduced to Tibet by Dam-pa sangs-rgyas in which all attachment to one's self is relinquished. Ma-gcig Slab-sgron, an incarnation of Ye-shes mTsho-rgyal, was a central figure in the propagation of this teaching.igure in the propagation of this teaching.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a teacher, in certain instructional or ritual functions such as advising a translator or giving ordination (see also Preceptor).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary + (a term expressing the ultimate nature (''d … a term expressing the ultimate nature (''dharmatā'', Tib. ''chos nyid'') of all things (Skt. ''dharma'', Tib. ''chos''), conditioned (Skt. ''saṃskṛta''. Tib. '' 'dus byas'') and unconditioned (Skt. ''asamskṛta'', Tib. '' 'dus ma byas''), as being Empty of self-existence (Skt. ''svabhāva'', Tib. ''rang bzhin, rang gi ngo bo nyid'', i.e., aseity, hypostatized/reified existence, substantial existence). The term is an equivalent of absence of self-existence (Skt. ''niḥsvabhāvatā'') and non-substantiality (Skt. ''nairātmya'', literally "Selflessness"), and (in some degree) of other terms for the ultimately real. Emptiness is closely linked with origination/production in dependence (Skt. ''pratītyasamutpāda'') and the fact that things are produced in dependence (Skt. ''pratītyasamutpanna'') on causes and conditions (Skt. ''hetu-pratyaya''), such conditionship being in fact stated to be the ground or reason for their being Empty of self-existence. It is important to note that ''śūnyatā'' is itself stated to be Empty of self-existence. —''Śūnyatā'' is so to speak a dynamic enabling principle rather than a static and hypostatized (or reified) thing. See W 70: "All things obtain for him for whom this ''śūnyatā'' obtains; nothing at all obtains for him for whom ''śūnyatā'' does not obtain" (''prabhavati ca Sunyateyam yasya prabhavanti tasya sarvārthāḥ/prabhavati na tasya kiṃcin na prabhavati Sunyatdyasya''//) (Skt. ''pra-bhū-'' is here rendered by Tib. ''srid pa'')-, MMK xxiv.14: "All fits for him for whom ''śūnyatā'' fits; all does not fit for him for whom the Empty does not fit" (''sarvaṃ ca yujyate tasya śūnyatā yasyayujyate/ sarvarṃ na yujyate tasya iunyamyasya na yujyate//)'' (Skt. ''yujyate'' is here translated by Tib. ''rung ba'', and Skt. ''śūnyaṃ'' by Tib. ''stong pa nyid'' "Emptiness"); and MMK xxiv. 3 6: "In rejecting ''śūnyatā'' that is production in dependence you reject all worldly practices" (''sarvavyavahārāṃś ca laukikān pratibādhase/yat pratītyasamutpādaśaunyatāṃ pratibādhase''//). N.B. The term ''śūnyatā'' is usually to be distinguished from the word ''śūnyatā'', the state or quality of being Empty; cf. D. Seyfort Ruegg, ''The literature of the Madhyamaka school'', pp. 3n8 and 45n113. (In certain textual passages, e.g., ''MMK'' xxiv. 14d, ''śūnya'' appears to stand for ''śūnyatā'', and Tib. renders by ''stong pa nyid'') See Skt. ''śūnyatā''., Tib. ''stong pa nyid'' Skt. ''śūnyatā''., Tib. ''stong pa nyid'')
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a term referring to seven attributes of space—invulnerability, indestructibility, authenticity, incorruptibility, stability, unobstructedness and invincibility; one of the five buddha families, denoting the ground of being endowed with these attributes)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (a thick coarse blanket, commonly made out of yak bair.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (a tide given to the holder of the three kinds of discipline or vow.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (a tiny vegetable-like a sweet-potato, found in abundance under the ground in Tibet. It is one of the main ingredients of an auspicious chemar.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a title of deities.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a title of female Buddhas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (a title of male Buddhas)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (a traditional metaphor for the illusion-like nature of phenomena)
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 treasure teaching discovered by Chok-gyur Daychen Lingpa in the vicinity of Kongtrul's retreat center. The three practices of this cycle - Vajrasattva, Yangdak, and Vajra Dagger - were performed daily during the retreat.)
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 treasure teaching discovered by Drodul Lingpa.)
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 treasure teaching discovered by Guru Chöwang, is classified by Kongtrul in ''The Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings'' as an inner meditation on the ultimate, peaceful form of Guru Rinpochay.)
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 treasure teaching discovered by Jigmay Lingpa through three visions he had of Longchenpa. Kongtrul places this text within the section on Ati Yoga in ''The Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings''.)
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 treasure teaching discovered by Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, is a meditation that includes all of the deities of the Eight Great Configurations of Deities.)
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 treasure teaching discovered by Orgyen Laytro Lingpa, is classified by Kongtrul in ''The Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings'' as a meditation on the physically manifest body of enlightenment of the peaceful form of Guru Rinpochay.)
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 treasure teaching discovered by Sang-gyay Lingpa, is classified by Kongtrul in ''The Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings'' as a meditation on the physically manifest body of enlightenment of the peaceful form of Guru Rinpochay.)