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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (Six realms;six realms;The experience of be … Six realms;six realms;The experience of beings in saṃsāra is traditionally schematized into six general categories, referred to as realms or worlds, in which the mind abides as the result of previous actions, or karma. None of these states is satisfactory, though the degree of suffering in them differs from one to another. The three higher, or fortunate, realms, where suffering is alleviated by temporary pleasures, are the heavens of the celestial beings, or devas;the realms of the Āsuras, or demigods;and the world of human beings. The three lower realms, in which suffering predominates over every other experience, are those of the animals, the hungry ghosts, and the hells.animals, the hungry ghosts, and the hells.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (Six realms;six realms;The three lower real … Six realms;six realms;The three lower realms (hell realm, hungry ghost realm, and animal realm) and three higher realms (human realm, jealous god realm, and god realm) of samsaric existence. Since the god and asura (jealous god) realms are often considered as one, the six realms are sometimes referred to as five realms. are sometimes referred to as five realms.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (Skillful Means;skillful means;It is not ba … Skillful Means;skillful means;It is not based purely on ego-inclined common sense. If one relates to open space, then his way of perceiving the display of apparent phenomena is colourful and inspiring, so that he doesn't hesitate to deal with the situation. He simply sees the open situation, the way of unconditioned appropriate response to the nowness. Skilful means is the active masculine principle on the feminine ground of prajfia.inciple on the feminine ground of prajfia.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Smritijnana;Indian master-scholar who entered Tibet early in the eleventh century.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (Sog yul;definition=The Tibetan name for Mongolia.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Sogyal Rinpoche;sogyal rinpoche;incarnation of the treasure revealer Lerab Lingpa, based in France;author of ''The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Solu Khumbu;solu khumbu;district in the northeastern mountains of Nepal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Songtsen Gampo,King;songtsen gampo,king;(6 … Songtsen Gampo,King;songtsen gampo,king;(617-698) — first great Dharma King, who prepared the way for transmission of the teachings;regarded as an incarnation of Avalokiteshvara. He married Princess Bhrikuti of Nepal and Princess Wen Cheng of China who each brought a sacred statue of Buddha Shakyamuni to Lhasa. Songtsen Gampo built the first Buddhist temples in Tibet, established a code of laws based on Dharma principles, and had his minister Tönmi Sambhota develop the Tibetan script. During his reign the translation of Buddhist texts into Tibetan began.tion of Buddhist texts into Tibetan began.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (Special insight (Vipashyana);special insight (vipashyana);A wisdom thoroughly discriminating phenomena. When conjoined with meditative quiescence, it enables one to analyze the meditation object and simultaneously remain single-pointedly on it.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (Spirit;spirit;An unenlightened being born in the hungry ghost or demi-god (asura) realms. Spirits may be helpful or harmful.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (Spiritual powers;spiritual powers;siddhi;S … Spiritual powers;spiritual powers;siddhi;Spiritual powers are traditionally divided into supreme and common. Included in the common are magical powers such as telepathy, the ability to fly, clairvoyance, and so on. The supreme spiritual powers refer to the development of perfect wisdom, enlightenment itself.t of perfect wisdom, enlightenment itself.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (Spiritual powers;spiritual powers;siddhi;S … Spiritual powers;spiritual powers;siddhi;Spiritual powers are traditionally divided into supreme and common. Included in the common are magical powers such as telepathy, the ability to fly, clairvoyance, and so on. The supreme spiritual powers refer to the development of perfect wisdom, enlightenment itself.t of perfect wisdom, enlightenment itself.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Spontaneous Fulfillment of Wishes;spontaneous fulfillment of wishes;terma treasure of Chokgyur Lingpa that contains a supplication to Padmasambhava famous under the same name.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (Stabilizing meditation;stabilizing meditation;A type of meditation used to develop concentration. It involves training the mind to rest single-pointedly on its object of meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (Sthaviravāda;The ‘School of the elders’. The present-day Theravāda is a branch derived<br> rom the lineage of the Sthaviravāda in ancient India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Rules for Nuns according to the Dharmaguptakavinaya. Part III/Glossary + (Sthūlanandā;偸羅難陀)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Rules for Nuns according to the Dharmaguptakavinaya. Part III/Glossary + (Sthūlanandā;偸蘭難陀)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (Stupa;A form of sacred architecture representing the pure presence of the Buddha and embodying essential principles of the body, speech, mind, qualities, and actions of enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (Stupa;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/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Stupa;stupa;dome-shaped monument housing relics of the Buddha or an accomplished master.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (Subhaginī;A teacher of Tilopa, also known as Sumati.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Subjugator of All Appearance and Existence;subjugator of all appearance and existence;one of the names of Padmasambhava.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (Sudatta;(6th cent. B.C.E.) Also known as Anthapindika ["Giver of Food to the Unprotected"]. He was a wealthy patron of Shakyamuni Buddha in Shravasti who built the Jetavana vihara (monastery) in the Jeta garden for the order of monks.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (Suffering (Dukkha);suffering (dukkha);Any dissatisfactory condition. It doesn't refer only to physical or mental pain, but includes all problematic conditions.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (Sugatas;Buddhas who have destroyed the source of passion within themselves and having traversed the ocean of life enter the Bliss of Nirvana.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (Sumeru;see Meru.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Summary of Logic;summary of logic;scholastic text composed by Mipham.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jewels from the Treasury/Glossary + (Superior Body;superior body;pūrvavideha)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Unique Tenets of the Middle Way Consequence School Dissertation/Glossary + (Superior;superior)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary + (Surface Reality;surface reality;saṃvṛtisat … Surface Reality;surface reality;saṃvṛtisatya;Often rendered relative "truth" or conventional "truth," even though this is not a truth in the strict sense of the property of a proposition, etc.;but the translation of ''satya = bden pa'' by Reality is itself somewhat conventional and does not resolve all the philosophical issues involved. In Madhyamaka thought, ''saṃvṛtisatya'' is reality in a limited way only;see Candrakīrti, MABh vi.23, 28 and PPMVxxiv. 11. Cf. D. Seyfort Ruegg, ''Two prolegomena'', pp. 187n52 and 194n65. It is, then, only in a restricted, and even problematic, sense that it is possible to speak of a ''two''-truth—or even of a ''two''-reality—theory in Madhyamaka (as distinct from a two-level theory). In the purified cognitive sight of ''āryas'', ''saṃvṛtisatya'' is presented, i.e., apprehended, as ''saṃvṛti[mātra] = kun rdzob [tsam]'', mere Surface. Cf. ''Two prolegomena'', pp. 194ff. In Madhyamaka, the theory of Surface-level Reality has the effect of "saving appearances/the phenomena" (sôzein ta phainomena, ''salvare phaenomena''). Cf. transactional-pragmatic. See Skt. ''saṃvṛtisatya'', Tib. ''kun rdzob kyi bden pa'';compare Tib. ''snang stong''kyi bden pa'';compare Tib. ''snang stong'')
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Surmang Tentrul;surmang tentrul;learned and accomplished master at Surmang Namgyal Tse;later gave most of the ''New Treasures'' to the sixteenth Karmapa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Surmang monastery;surmang monastery;(Zurmang), refers in ''Blazing Splendor'' to the Namgyal Tse in east Nangchen near Tsikey monastery.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Sutra and Tantra;sutra and tantra;Sutra refers to the teachings of both Hinayana and Mahayana;Tantra refers to Vajrayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Sutra system;sutra system;exoteric teachings belonging to Hinayana and Mahayana that regard the path as the cause of enlightenment, as opposed to the esoteric, tantric teachings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary + (Sutra;scriptures which entome the exoteric … Sutra;scriptures which entome the exoteric sermons of the Buddha Shakyamuni (known as Gautama before his successful meditation upon the Vajrasana) and are used to describe any devotional and supplicative material which has been written by the incarnations of the Buddha Guru Padma Sambhava.nations of the Buddha Guru Padma Sambhava.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (Sutra;sutra;A teaching of the Buddha;a Buddhist scripture. Sutras are found in all Buddhist traditions.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (Sutras;sutras;The teachings given by Shākyamuni Buddha, memorized by his disciples, and subsequently written down.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (Sutrayana;''See'' Mahayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In the Presence of Masters/Glossary + (Sutrayana;All the practices of Hinayana and Mahayana that are taught in the sutras of these two conventional, pretantric vehicles.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (Svatantrika;Translated as "the Autonomy sc … Svatantrika;Translated as "the Autonomy school," since it propounds the use of independent syllogisms to enable an individual to see that phenomena are not inherently existent and, further, that their true nature is emptiness. It belongs to the Rangtong school of the Madhyamaka tradition.ngtong school of the Madhyamaka tradition.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Swayambhu;one of the three main stupas of the Kathmandu valley.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Sönam Yeshe of Tsangsar;sönam yeshe of tsangsar;former life of Chimey Dorje, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's father;founder of Lhalam monastery in Nangchen.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Blazing Splendor/Glossary + (Söntar Chönchok;söntar chönchok;teacher of Chimey Dorje and close friend of Samten Gyatso.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Rules for Nuns according to the Dharmaguptakavinaya. Part III/Glossary + (Sāketa;婆祇陀)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (Sākya;the clan into which the Buddha was born;their lands in northern India  bordered on Nepal. The Sākyas were destroyed by neighboring peoples during the  Buddha's lifetime.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (Sākyamuni;lit. 'the Sage of the Sakyas';name of the Buddha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Echoes of Voidness/Glossary + (Sāṃkhya;Enumerator;a non-Buddhist school asserting twenty-five categories of objects of knowledge.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (Sāṃkhya;This is the non-Buddhist Hindu philosophical school which asserts that things are produced from themselves.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary + (Sūtra;discourses given by the Buddha on the Dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night/Glossary + (Sūtrayāna;The Mahāyāna has two subsections: the Sūtrayāna, that is, the teachings based on the sūtras and propounding the practice of the six pāramitās, and the Mantrayāna, the teachings and practices based on the tantra texts.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhism's Journey to Tibet/List of Names + (TA ki ma mi rus pa'i rgyan can;ཊཱ་ཀི་མ་མི་རུས་པའི་རྒྱན་ཅན་;Dakini Wearer of Human Bone Ornaments;dakini wearer of human bone ornaments)