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• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary  + (drang ba'i don;provisional meaning;provisional meaning;neyārtha;(a surface, intentional, meaning requiring hermeneutical interpretation in a further sense;the opposite of definitive meaning). See Skt. ''neyārtha'', Tib. ''drang ba'i don'')
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary  + (drang ba'i don;surface meaning;surface mea … drang ba'i don;surface meaning;surface meaning;neyārtha;(a provisional, intentional, meaning requiring hermeneutical interpretation in a further sense;the opposite of definitive/deep meaning). See Skt. ''neyārtha'', Tib. ''drang ba'i don''. Cf. intentional (''ābhiprāyika'')i don''. Cf. intentional (''ābhiprāyika''))
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary  + (drang don dang nges don;Expedient and defi … drang don dang nges don;Expedient and definitive meaning;expedient and definitive meaning;neyar-tha,nitartha;The "expedient meaning" refers to conventional teachings on karma, path, and result, which are designed to lead the practitioner to the "definitive meaning," the insight into emptiness, suchness, and buddha nature.to emptiness, suchness, and buddha nature.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary  + (drang don dang nges don;expedient and defi … drang don dang nges don;expedient and definitive meanings;expedient and definitive meanings;neyartha,nitharta;The expedient meaning refers to conventional teachings on the Four Noble Truths, karma, path, and result, which are designed to lead the practitioner to the definitive meaning, the insight into emptiness, suchness, and buddha-nature.to emptiness, suchness, and buddha-nature.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary  + (drang don;Expedient Meaning;expedient mean … drang don;Expedient Meaning;expedient meaning;The teachings of expedient meaning are, for example, the instructions on the Four Noble Truths, the aggregates, the dhatus, and so forth, which insofar as they do not express the ultimate truth are of provisional validity only. They are nevertheless indispensable in that their purpose is to lead beings gradually on the path, bringing them to greater understanding and final accomplishment. Contrasted with the ultimate or definitive meaning (''nges don'').mate or definitive meaning (''nges don'').)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary  + (drang don;Expedient Meaning;expedient mean … drang don;Expedient Meaning;expedient meaning;The teachings of expedient meaning are, for example, the instructions on the Four Noble Truths, the aggregates, the dhatus, and so forth, which insofar as they do not express the ultimate truth are of provisional validity only. They are nevertheless indispensable in that their purpose is to lead beings gradually on the path, bringing them to greater understanding and final accomplishment. Contrasted with the ultimate or definitive meaning (''nges don'').mate or definitive meaning (''nges don'').)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary  + (drang don;Expedient Meaning;expedient meaning;expedient meaning;expedient meaning;The teachings on conventional meaning designed to lead the practitioner to the "definitive meaning.")
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary  + (drang don;Expedient meaning;expedient mean … drang don;Expedient meaning;expedient meaning;Teachings, for example on the four noble truths, the aggregates, dhatus, and so forth, which, insofar as they do not express the ultimate truth, are of provisional validity only. They are nevertheless indispensable in that their purpose is to lead unrealized beings gradually along the path, bringing them to greater understanding and final accomplishment.er understanding and final accomplishment.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Dharmadhātu/Glossary  + (drang don;expedient meaning;expedient meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Dharmadhātu/Glossary  + (drang don;expedient meaning;expedient meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Straight from the Heart/Glossary  + (drang don;expedient meaning;expedient meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Center of the Sunlit Sky/Glossary  + (drang don;expedient meaning;expedient meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Center of the Sunlit Sky/Glossary  + (drang don;expedient meaning;expedient meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (drang don;expedient teachings;expedient teachings;Teachings intended to lead unrealized beings toward the truth of the ultimate (or definitive) teachings.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cutting Through Appearances/Glossary  + (drang don;inteipretable/requiring interpretation;inteipretable/requiring interpretation;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary  + (drang don;interpretable meaning;interpretable meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Recognizing Reality/Glossary  + (drang don;interpretable;interpretable;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Recognizing Reality/Glossary  + (drang don;interpretable;interpretable;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary  + (drang don;meaning,provisional;meaning,provisional;neyārtha;The symbolic, relative, or contextual meaning, as opposedtQ th e definitiveultimate, or absolute meaning.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary  + (drang don;neyārtha;drangdön;drangdön;Provisional truth or meaning.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mipham's Beacon of Certainty/Glossary  + (drang don;provisional meaning/teaching;provisional meaning/teaching;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Dose of Emptiness (1992)/Glossary  + (drang don;provisional meaning;provisional meaning)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Foundations of Buddhist Study and Practice/Glossary  + (drang don;provisional meaning;provisional meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Frameworks of Buddhist Philosophy/Glossary  + (drang don;provisional meaning;provisional meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17 Vol. 2/Glossary  + (drang don;provisional meaning;provisional meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra Vol. 1/Glossary  + (drang don;requiring interpretation / interpretable;requiring interpretation / interpretable;neyārtha)

• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Meditation on Emptiness (1996)/Glossary  + (drang don;requiring interpretation;requiring interpretation;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Two Truths in the Mādhyamika Philosophy of the Ge-luk-ba Order of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary  + (drang don;requiring interpretation;requiring interpretation;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Unique Tenets of the Middle Way Consequence School Dissertation/Glossary  + (drang don;requiring interpretation;requiring interpretation;neyārtha)

• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Rayons de lune/Glossary  + (drang don;sens provisoire (interprétable/expédient))
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lumière de diamant/Glossary  + (drang don;sens provisoire;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nāgārjuna's Reason Sixty with Chandrakīrti's Reason Sixty Commentary/Glossary  + (drang don;དྲང་དོན་;interpretable meaning;interpretable meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary  + (drang don;དྲང་དོན་;provisional meaning;pro … drang don;དྲང་དོན་;provisional meaning;provisional meaning;neyārtha;The Buddha's discourses are divided into two categories: those of provisional meaning and those of definitive meaning (''nīartha;nges don''). Sūtras of provisional meaning are expedient means designed to lead students temporarily on the path. Their purport should not be taken as definitive. In this text, the teaching that there are beings with a cut-off gotra is a statement of provisional meaning meant to shake up the minds of certain disciples who would otherwise make no effort on the path. Sutras of definitive meaning express the final intention of the Buddha. Here, the teachings that all beings have buddha-nature or that emptiness is the true nature of all phenomena are of definitive meaning. The ''Saṃdhinirmocanasutra'', a foundational text for the Yogācāra tradition, addresses this question explicitly, attempting to resolve apparent contradictions in the teachings. Which statements are to be classified as provisional and which as definitive remains a point of contention between the various schools of thought.on between the various schools of thought.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā (Callahan)/Glossary  + (drang don;དྲང་དོན་;provisional meaning;provisional meaning)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Two Truths Debate/Glossary  + (drang don;དྲང་དོན་;provisional meaning;provisional meaning;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Au Cœur du Ciel, Vol II./Glossary  + (drang don;དྲང་དོན་;sens provisoire;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Au Cœur du Ciel, Vol II./Glossary  + (drang don;དྲང་དོན་;sens provisoire;neyārtha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary  + (drang nges;drang-ngé;drang-ngé;Provisional and definitive teachings.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Visions of Unity/Glossary  + (drang nges;དྲང་ངེས་;interpretive and definitive;interpretive and definitive)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary  + (drang srong bha shi ta;Bhashita;One of the Indian Dzogchen lineage masters, a disciple of Kukkuraja and the teacher of Dagnyima.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahāyāna Sūtra/Glossary  + (drang srong chen po;great sage;great sage;mahāṛṣi)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahāyāna Sūtra/Glossary  + (drang srong chen po;great sage;great sage;mahāṛṣi)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahāyāna Sūtra/Glossary  + (drang srong chen po;great sage;great sage;mahāṛṣi)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahāyāna Sūtra/Glossary  + (drang srong chen po;great seer;great seer;mahāṛṣi)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhism's Journey to Tibet/List of Names  + (drang srong chen po;དྲང་སྲོང་ཆེན་པོ་;Maharishi)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgon Kongtrul's Retreat Manual/Appendix 4: Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Deities, and Practices Mentioned in the Retreat Manual  + (drang srong dri med;Lokatri;lokatri;a fierce form of the bodhisattva Vajra-in-Hand (Vajrapani;Chagna Dorjay, phyag na rdo rje.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhism's Journey to Tibet/List of Place Names  + (drang srong lhung ba ri dwags kyi nags;དྲང་སྲོང་ལྷུང་བ་རི་དྭགས་ཀྱི་ནགས་;Deer Park,Descent of the Sages;deer park,descent of the sages)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahāyāna Sūtra/Glossary  + (drang srong lhung;ṛṣipatana;ṛṣipatana;ṛṣipatana)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahāyāna Sūtra/Glossary  + (drang srong lhung;ṛṣipatana;ṛṣipatana;ṛṣipatana)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahāyāna Sūtra/Glossary  + (drang srong lhung;ṛṣipatana;ṛṣipatana;ṛṣipatana)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary  + (drang srong;Rishi;(i) "Seer," inspired Vedic sage, brahmanical ascetic with magical powers. (2) Title for someone who has attained the power of truthful speech, so that whatever he says comes true.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary  + (drang srong;Rishi;Name given to the great … drang srong;Rishi;Name given to the great sages of Indian mythology, endowed with great longevity and magical powers, who were instrumental in the creation, or reception, of the Vedas. In the Buddhist context, this word is usually translated as sage, hermit, or saint.ally translated as sage, hermit, or saint.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Ornament of Stainless Light/Glossary  + (drang srong;Sage,reciter of the vedas;sage,reciter of the vedas;ṛṣi;Sage, reciter of the vedas. Literally, “straight, upright,” often in the sense of their words having “the power of truth,” which wereused like mantras to bring about desired results.)