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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (an animal native to Tibet. It is a beast o … an animal native to Tibet. It is a beast of burden renowned for its strength, stamina and surefootedness. Its meat is very tasty and its hide is very useful for making bags and drums. With its horn people make snuff cases and tool handles, etc. Its tail hair is very strong and make good ropes and provides good strings for guitar and piwang, an instrument like a lute.tar and piwang, an instrument like a lute.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (an ascetic, a practitioner of ''yoga'', i.e. of Tantra; esp. one who engages in sexual and other Tantric practices incompatible with keeping monastic vows. Fem. yoginī.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (an attendant in charge of receiving guests.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (an eccentric meditator and doctor who passed away in Nepal in the '80s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (an enormous footprint of the Buddha, in Śrī Laṅkā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (an esoteric discource attributed to the Buddha; a way to enlightenment which makes use of mantra, visualization, and the control of subtle physical energies; the adamantine vehicle to enlightenment (vajrayāna).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (an exclamation used in Chö practice; same as PHAT but with different pronunciation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (an explanatory commentary that extracts the essential meanings of the tantras; the scriptural basis of anuyoga)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (an important realization gained on entry to the eighth Bodhisattva Stage)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (an offering visualized as the entire universe, as well as the arrangement of offerings in tantric ritual, often placed as a circular, ornate plate. To present a teaching "as a maṇḍala offering" shows the utmost respect for the recipient.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (another name for Buddha Shakyamuni.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual/Appendix 4: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, and Practices Mentioned in the Retreat Manual + (another name for Six-Armed Protector.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual/Appendix 4: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, and Practices Mentioned in the Retreat Manual + (another name for Vajra Dagger.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (another name for Vajrayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual/Appendix 4: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, and Practices Mentioned in the Retreat Manual + (another name of Gentle Splendor (Manjushri), one of the eight great bodhisattvas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (any beings who have not yet attained Buddhahood.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual/Appendix 4: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, and Practices Mentioned in the Retreat Manual + (apparently a goddess of wealth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perles d'ambroisie Volume III/Glossary + (appellation du bouddha qui peut être interprétée de différentes façons. En bref, « aller» vaut pour « réaliser » et « ainsi » pour « ainsité » : est bouddha, parfaitement éveillé, celui qui a réalisé l’ainsité, ou l’état naturel de toutes choses.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Visions of Unity/Glossary + (apprehended and apprehender with different substances with respect to external objects ''phyi rol gyi don la ltos pa'i gzung 'dzin rdzas gzhan'')
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perles d'ambroisie Volume III/Glossary + (apprentissage qui, dans le contexte de l’esprit d’Éveil, vise à renverser l’habitude de ne considérer que son intérêt personnel pour donner la plus grande importance au bien-être et au bonheur des autres.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (are: The ''Buddhajataka'' or the ''Jataka … are: The ''Buddhajataka'' or the ''Jataka Tales'', the collection of stories of the Buddha's former lifetimes; one excellent English version is ''The Hungry Tigress: Buddhist Legends and Jataka Tales'' as told by Rafe Martin, Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1990. The ''Dharmapada'' (Pali: ''Dhammapada''); numerous fine translations are available in English. The ''Bodhisattvacharyavatara'', by Shantideva; several translations exist in English, including, ''A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life'', translated by Stephen Batchelor. The ''Shikshasamuchaya''; the ''Bodhisattvabhumi''; and the ''Shravakabhumi''.isattvabhumi''; and the ''Shravakabhumi''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (area southwest of, but close to, Lhasa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (area to the far west of Tibet, presently in India, north of Kashmir.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perles d'ambroisie Volume III/Glossary + (arhat qui s’est libéré du samsâra en étudiant la production interdépendante sans l’aide d’un maître, réalisant ainsi l’inexistence du soi de l’individu et une partie de l’inexistence du soi des choses.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perles d'ambroisie Volume III/Glossary + (arme d’Indra, indestructible et pouvant tout détruire, symbole de l’immuable nature de l’esprit, ou des méthodes de la compassion unies à la connaissance de la vacuité symbolisée par une clochette.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951/Glossary + (army commander)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (as a Tantric implement, symbolizes the Wisdom that directly comprehends Emptiness. It is held in the left hand (female side), while the ''vajra'' is held in the right)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (as adjective connotes adamantine, diamond, indestructible; specifically it means of or pertaining to Vajrayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (ascetic practices concerned with food, dress, speech, body, mind, teaching, benefitting others, and compassion.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (at once the all-pervasive realm of the unb … at once the all-pervasive realm of the unborn and the incarnate form who is inseparable from that realm. In the Tantras this double meaning is implied. The Guru only manifests in human form if disciples, ignorant of the source of all knowledge and compassion, exist to reify him.wledge and compassion, exist to reify him.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (at the time of death of a practitioner who … at the time of death of a practitioner who has reached the exhaustion of all dualistic clinging through the Dzogchen practice of Tögal, the five gross elements which form the physical body, dissolve back into their essences, five-colored light. Sometimes the only remainder is the hair and the nails are left behind. In the chapter on Accomplishment, ''Rainbow Painting'', Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche gives a fascinating account of an old nun attaining rainbow body in the shed of a benefactors house, [epk] in the shed of a benefactors house, [epk])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perles d'ambroisie Volume III/Glossary + (au niveau individuel, cinq ensembles forma … au niveau individuel, cinq ensembles formant la base de ce que l’on prend pour un « moi » : formes (corps et phénomènes d’ordre physique), sensations, représentations, formations karmiques (ou facteurs de composition) et consciences. On les qualifie de «pollués» ou «impurs» parce qu’ils résultent du karma et des émotions négatives.ultent du karma et des émotions négatives.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perles d'ambroisie Volume III/Glossary + (au nombre de cinq, six ou huit : les cinq … au nombre de cinq, six ou huit : les cinq consciences sensorielles-visuelle, auditive, olfactive, gustative et tactile; auxquelles s’ajoute parfois la «conscience mentale» (yid kyi rnam par shes pa, manovijñana), dont les objets sont les informations fournies par les consciences sensorielles; les textes du Cittamatra et les tantras considèrent en plus la «conscience liée aux émotions négatives» (nyon yid, manas), qui a pour objet la huitième conscience qu’elle prend pour un soi, et la conscience fondamentale (kun gzhi’i rnam shes, alayavijñana), qui intègre les six premières consciences sous l’aspect des semences dont elle forme la continuité.es semences dont elle forme la continuité.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (authentic/true; one of the seven vajra attributes of space and the true nature of being)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (authorization to study a scripture by listening to it being read aloud.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perles d'ambroisie Volume III/Glossary + (autre nom du bodhisattva Avalokita, personnification de la grande compassion de tous les bouddhas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (awakened mind, buddha(hood); also, one of the five buddha families, denoting the ground of being whereby the distortions of habitual patterns are cleared away in basic space and the context of pristine awareness and positive qualities unfolds)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (awareness (''shey'') that is atemporal and … awareness (''shey'') that is atemporal and pristine (''ye''), having always been the true nondual nature of mind [primordial wisdom (BM, NJ, PC); wisdom (DZP, RW); existential awareness (FRC); pristine cognition (KB); ever fresh awareness (PE); timeless awareness (PT); primal wisdom (SL, WPT); wakefulness (VH)]primal wisdom (SL, WPT); wakefulness (VH)])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (barbarian, one ignorant of Sanskrit.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (because mantras play such a key role in its practice, Tantra or Vajrayāna is often called Mantra, or the M. Vehicle. Their nature is discussed in many books, such as Lama Govinda's.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (begins with Dharma Wangchuk of Barom, a disciple of Gampopa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (beings living in the desire realm in cloud-like castles; they are  known for their beautiful music.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (beings of the form of women, of many types from witches and fiends, through various grades of guardians of the Doctrine, to fully Enlightened deities)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (beings of the underworld and the waters, c … beings of the underworld and the waters, classed as animals. They generally live in the form of snakes, but many can change into human form and they are often depicted as human from the waist up with a serpent's tail below. They are supposed to control the weather, especially rain.d to control the weather, especially rain.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (belongs to the cycle of Kilaya, which is one of the seven sets of revelations among the ''Sevenfold Profundity'', a terma treasure revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa. "Dagger" stands for Kilaya. This practice was also performed at Tsurphu.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (besides the Bodhisattva vows and (in the h … besides the Bodhisattva vows and (in the higher classes of Tantra) the Tantric vows, one receiving a Tantric empowerment has to take numerous pledges, which must be kept purely if the practice is to be successful. See Tsong-ka-pa, ''The Yoga of Tibet'', 69—76; Beyer, 406-7.'The Yoga of Tibet'', 69—76; Beyer, 406-7.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (bhāvanā Tranquility cultivation/meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (birth from a womb, from an egg, from moist heat, or miraculously)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (birth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (birthplace of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche near the Life-Lake of Yeshe Tsogyal (Tsogyal Lhatso), situated at Drakda some 20 km from Samye.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (bodhisattva of compassion, often depicted with four arms.)