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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (temple in Lhasa; contains one of the two most famous Buddha statues in all of Tibet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (ten aspects of the Omniscience of a Buddha, understanding karmic causes etc. See p. 407, n.10.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (terma revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa related to the protectors of the Dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (terma that is brought forth after having been revealed in the past, even centuries before.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (terma treasure of Chokgyur Lingpa that contains a supplication to Padmasambhava famous under the same name.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (terma treasure revealed by Guru Chöwang.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (terma treasure revealed in full public.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (that result of an action which consists of a particular state of rebirth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (the "Lord who Sees." Name of the Bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all the Buddhas. Avalokiteshvara, sometimes called Avalokita, is the Sambhogakaya emana-tion of the Buddha Amitabha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the "long lineage" of the Nyingma school, the canonical scriptures, which has been transmitted in an uninterrupted way from master to disciple since Padmasambhava and before.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the "practice center" where the traditional three-year retreat takes place.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Uttara Tantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature/Glossary + (the "three baskets." These are the sūtras (the narrative teachings of the Buddha), the vinaya (a code for monks and nuns) and the abhidharma (philosophical background of the dharma).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the ''Tantra on the Essence of Secrets'', which is the most vital of all the tantras in the Old School (Nyingma) of Tibetan Buddhism.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the ''Three Sections of the Great Perfecti … the ''Three Sections of the Great Perfection''; after Garab Dorje established the six million four hundred thousand tantras of Dzogchen in the human world, his chief disciple, Manjushrimitra, arranged these tantras into three categories: the Mind Section emphasizing luminosity, the Space Section emphasizing emptiness, and the Instruction Section emphasizing their inseparability. They represent the most profound or subtle spiritual literature present in this world.piritual literature present in this world.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the ''vajra'' cross-legged position, like the 'lotus position' of Hindu ''yoga'' but reversed.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the 'Adamantine Vehicle' — also called the Mantra Vehicle, or Tantra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the 'Bodies' of a Buddha, usually counted … the 'Bodies' of a Buddha, usually counted as three, see pp. 272—3. Sometimes, to make four ''Kāyas'', the ''Dharmakāya'' is divided into two, the ''Jñāna-dharma-kāya'' or ''Dharmakāya'' of Wisdom-knowledge and the ''Svābhāvikakāya'' or 'Natural Body', respectively the Buddha's Mind and its Ultimate Nature.the Buddha's Mind and its Ultimate Nature.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the 'Great Vehicle' — the way of a Bodhisattva, and the schools that emphasize it in their teaching.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the 'Lesser Vehicle' — the Buddhist practices of those who have taken Refuge in the Three Jewels but are not and do not aspire to be Bodhisattvas, and the schools advocating such an attitude)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (the 'Lotus-born' Guru of Odiyan; his eight major manifesta- tions are: Padma 'byung-gnas, Padma rgyal-po, rDo-rje gro-lod, Nyi-ma 'od-zer, Sākya seng-ge, Seng-ge sgra-sgrog, Blo-ldan mchog-sred, and rDo-rje 'chang.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (the Bon practice of offering the skin of another living being to disease-causing demons to effect a cure; the skin is the substitute or ransom for the man.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Life of Gampopa/Glossary + (the Buddha or awakened teacher, the Dharma or teachings, and the Sangha or community of fellow practitioners. These three form the essential basis for successful spiritual practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Buddha's Omniscient Mind)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Buddha, Dharma and Saṅgha Refuges.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the Chinese name for communists.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Folk Tales of Tibet/Glossary + (the Doctrine of Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (the Emptiness which takes Form in order to instruct and bring the highest bliss to the Guru. She rarely takes human form but is in constant attendance upon the yogin.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Family of Amitābha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Family of Amoghasiddhi)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the Great Dakini of Tsurphu; consort of the fifteenth Karmapa. Her reincarnation, Khandro Rinpoche, lives in Himachal Pradesh, India, but teaches around the world.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary + (the Great Perfection approach of Buddhist … the Great Perfection approach of Buddhist practice, so called because the modes of samsara, nirvana and the spiritual path are "perfect" (''dzog'') within this approach, which is "great" (''chhen'') because it functions as the common ground of all spiritual approaches; the third of seven terms referring to the Great Perfection teachings as explained to Dudjom Lingpa by Ekajati [already self-perfected state (DZP); absolute completeness (KB); total completeness (PE)]ompleteness (KB); total completeness (PE)])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the Jowo Rinpoche or Jowo Shakyamuni in the Jokhang, the main temple of Lhasa originally called Rasa Trulnang Temple. This statue is said to have been made while Buddha Shakyamuni was still alive and personally blessed by him.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the Karmapa incarnation line. Chokgyur Lingpa predicted the names of the first twenty-five. The present is the seventeenth.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Law of the Buddhas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the Lotus-Born master who brought Vajrayana to Tibet in the eight century; also referred to as Guru Rinpoche, the precious teacher. For more details on this master's life, see ''The Lotus-Born''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Perfection of Wisdom, esp. as a branch of literature and study; (''sher phyin ma''): the Perfection of Wisdom as a female deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (the Sambhogakāya aspect of Akṣobhya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Saviouress, She Who Takes (beings) Across (the Ocean of ''Saṃsāra''); also means 'Star'.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Southern Continent of Indian mythical … the Southern Continent of Indian mythical geography, often identified with the Indian subcontinent; but from the point of view of the characteristics of its human inhabitants, all this Earth is classed as Jambudvīpa. I have usually translated it as 'India' or 'our world' according to the context.' or 'our world' according to the context.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (the Teaching of the Buddha; the truth, the true law; individual things, elements, or phenomena are all referred to as dharmas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Ultimate Mode of Being of all things)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Universal Law, the fact that phenomena do not exist as they are apprehended by consciousness adhering to their true existence. The ''Dharmadhātu'' Wisdom is the Wisdom-knowledge directly cognizing this)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the Vedic god of fire, guardian of the south-eastern direction)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (the Yana, or vehicle, using the science of vibration to illuminate the path. Vibration includes the entire range of feeling between the motionless centre and the tumultuous periphery, only a fraction of which can be perceived by the ear.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the accumulations of merits and of Wisdom-knowledge that one must gather by practising the Perfections so as to achieve Enlightenment)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (the all-pervasive primordial Buddha from whom radiates the five Dhyānibuddhas; the representation of dynamic energy that brings form into  existence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (the aspect of consciousness that is aware only of the consciousness itself. It is asserted by the Chittamatra school and refuted by the Madhyamaka school.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (the bodhisattva embodying the boundless compassion of full enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (the books of 'sacred knowledge' — hymns and rituals — of the Aryans who invaded India c. 1700 BC, completed by about 800 BC.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (the capital of Nepal.)