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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (yi dam;Yidam Deity;yidam deity;iṣṭadevatā; … yi dam;Yidam Deity;yidam deity;iṣṭadevatā;Yidams are the deities, buddhas, and bodhisattvas that form the unique support for the practices of the tantras. [TD 2565] There are a great variety of such deities, including the various classes of peaceful, wrathful, and semi-wrathful deities. Though these variations may have different appearances, this should not be taken to imply that they are fundamentally different, however. As Tenpe Nyima explains, "Though peaceful and wrathful deities may have slightly different bodies, colors, faces, hands, and so on, in terms of their compassion and enlightened activities there is no difference. They appear in accord with the inclinations of the disciple and there is no conflict between them." [KR 48] Ultimately, yidam practice is a skillful method that allows the practitioner to connect with his or her enlightened nature. For this reason, it is also important to keep the true nature of the yidam deity in mind. As Jigme Lingpa explains, "You must realize that it is Yout own mind, with its eightfold collection of consciousnesses, that arises as the form and wisdom of the deity. In its innate state, awareness itself is the enlightened mind - the fruitional form of the deity." [JL 235]he fruitional form of the deity." [JL 235])
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (yi dam;Yidam;yidam;A tantric deity, in male or female form, representing different aspects of enlightenment. Yidams may be peaceful or wrathful and are meditated upon according to the nature and needs of the individual practitioner.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (yi dam;Yidam;yidam;Meditational deity or " … yi dam;Yidam;yidam;Meditational deity or "chosen" deity. The second of the Three Roots, yidams are the central figures in the elaborate visualization practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism. These practices are done only with the blessing and guidance of a qualified lama. The yidam is called the root of accomplishment, as it is through doing these practices that realization is accomplished.ractices that realization is accomplished.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (yi dam;Yidam;yidam;Meditational deity or " … yi dam;Yidam;yidam;Meditational deity or "chosen" deity. The second of the Three Roots, yidams are the central figures in the elaborate visualization practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism. These practices are done only with the blessing and guidance of a qualified lama. The yidam is called the root of accomplishment, as it is through doing these practices that realization is accomplished.ractices that realization is accomplished.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Rayons de lune/Glossary + (yi dam;divinité de méditation/déité préférée)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lumière de diamant/Glossary + (yi dam;déité de méditation/ de prédilection;devatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Au Cœur de la compassion/Glossary + (yi dam;ishtadevata;Déité masculine ou féminine représentant l’Éveil, servant de support à la méditation et pouvant avoir un aspect paisible ou courroucé selon la nature et les besoins du pratiquant.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (yi dam;iṣṭadevatā;The Vajrayāna practitioner's personal or guardian deity. That special deity to whom one's mind is bound.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (yi dam;iṣṭadevatā;iṣṭadevatā;yidam;yidam;Personal deity)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Dose of Emptiness (1992)/Glossary + (yi dam;meditational deity;meditational deity)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (yi dam;meditational deity;meditational deity;iṣṭadevatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mipham's Beacon of Certainty/Glossary + (yi dam;meditational deity;meditational deity;iṣṭadevatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17 Vol. 2/Glossary + (yi dam;meditational deity;meditational deity;iṣṭadevatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Dose of Emptiness (1992)/Glossary + (yi dam;tutelary deity;tutelary deity)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (yi dam;tutelary deity;tutelary deity;ishtadevata;yidam;yidam;The main deity upon which a Vajrayana practitioner focuses.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (yi dam;yidam deity;yidam deity)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (yi dam;yidam deity;yidam deity;The Tibetan … yi dam;yidam deity;yidam deity;The Tibetan meaning is "commitment" but refers more accurately to the deity to which one has a commitment. The Sanskrit equivalent, istadeva or istadevatā, means "desired deity," emphasizing one's attraction to or choice of a deityg one's attraction to or choice of a deity)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (yi dam;yidam;yidam;A tantric deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/This Precious Life/Glossary + (yi dam;yidam;yidam;The energetic or expres … yi dam;yidam;yidam;The energetic or expressive aspect of enlightened mind in the form of a tutelary deity. In Tibetan Buddhism, the focus of one's formal practice might be one of hundreds of such deities. As tutelary deity, the yidam is a personal protector of one's practice and guide to enlightenment.one's practice and guide to enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (yi dam;yidam;yidam;The vajrayāna practitio … yi dam;yidam;yidam;The vajrayāna practitioner's personal deity, who embodies the practitioner's awakened nature. Yidam is explained as a contraction of yid-kyi-dam-tshig, samāyā of mind. Yidams are sambhogakāya buddhas, which are visualized in accordance with the psychological makeup of the practitioner. The student first develops intense devotion toward his gru. This relationship makes it possible for the student to experience intuitive kinship with the lineage and then with his yidam. Identifying with the yidam means identifying with his characteristic expression of buddha nature, free of distortions. Through seeing his basic nature in this universalized way, all aspects of it are transmuted into the wisdom of the spiritual path. This leads directly to compassionate action-skillful and lucid.<br> Peaceful yidams inspire the student's gentleness, awakening openness. Semiwrathful yidams are the union of passion and anger in the transcendental sense-simultaneous magnetizing and destroying as an expression of the awakened state. Wrathful yidams are associated with the dynamic energy of "vajra anger," the primordial compassion that cuts through hesitations of idiot compassion and disbelieving in one's buddha nature. The male yidam (peaceful: bhagavat;semiwrathful: ḍāka;semiwrathful and wrathful: heruka) signifies awakened energy, skillful means, and bliss. The female yidam (peaceful: bhagavatī;semiwrathful and wrathful: ḍākinī) signifies compassion, emptiness, and prajñā. This emptiness is fundamental accommodation and ultimate fertility. Through union with the heruka, the ḍākinī can give birth to enlightenment.uka, the ḍākinī can give birth to enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (yi dam;yidam;yidam;devata,istadevata;A deity representing enlightenment, in a male or female, peaceful or wrathful form, that corresponds to the practitioner's individual nature. The yidam is the source of accomplishments)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nāgārjuna's Reason Sixty with Chandrakīrti's Reason Sixty Commentary/Glossary + (yi dam;ཡི་དམ་;archetypal deity;archetypal deity;iṣṭadevatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (yi dam;ཡི་དམ་;meditational deity;meditatio … yi dam;ཡི་དམ་;meditational deity;meditational deity;iṣṭadevatā;In Buddhist ''tantra'', the “chosen deity” who becomes the principal focus of ones meditation practice. The meditational deity may be chosen by the practitioner or the practitioner chosen by the deity;in most cases, one must receive confirmation from ones guru that the deity is the one with which one has a true affinity.he one with which one has a true affinity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Wisdom Nectar/Glossary + (yi dam;ཡི་དམ་;wisdom deity;wisdom deity)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Debate in Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (yi dvags kyi rten can gyi so so'i skye bo;common being having the basis of a hungry ghost;common being having the basis of a hungry ghost)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (yi dvags;Famished spirits or hungry ghosts, one of the six classes of beings in samsara.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (yi dvags;Hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Tantric Distinction/Glossary + (yi dvags;Hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (yi dvags;PRETAS;Hungry ghosts, spirits tormented by lack of nourishment. The pretas constitute one of the six classes of beings in samsara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (yi dvags;Preta;Also known as hungry ghost or spirit: a class of beings whose attachment and miserliness in previous lives result in constant hunger and the frustration of their desires.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (yi dvags;Preta;Also known as hungry ghost or spirit: a class of beings whose attachment and miserliness in previous lives result in constant hunger and the frustration of their desires.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (yi dvags;Preta;Famished spirits, one of the six classes of beings in samsara.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/In Praise of Tara/Glossary + (yi dvags;Preta;lit. 'departed', i.e. the s … yi dvags;Preta;lit. 'departed', i.e. the spirit of a dead person, one of the six destinies of samsaric beings, often called 'hungry ghosts' because of their main form of suffering. They are of many kinds;those that dwell in our world are normally invisible to humans, but may be seen by animals.ble to humans, but may be seen by animals.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Au Cœur de la compassion/Glossary + (yi dvags;Préta;«Esprit affamé». L’un des trois mondes inférieurs du samsara. Les êtres y souffrent d’une faim, d’une soif et d’une frustration constantes qui résultent de leur attachement et de leur avarice passés.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17 Vol. 2/Glossary + (yi dvags;anguished spirit;anguished spirit;preta)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Rayons de lune/Glossary + (yi dvags;esprit avide/famélique/affamé)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Song of Lodro Thaye: A Vajra Song on Mahamudra by Jamgon Kongtrul/Glossary + (yi dvags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (yi dvags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Study and Practice of Meditation/Glossary + (yi dvags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Study and Practice of Meditation/Glossary + (yi dvags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Everlasting Rain of Nectar/Glossary + (yi dvags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Debate in Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (yi dvags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (yi dvags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta;P … yi dvags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost;preta;Pretas inhabit one of the three lower realms of saṃsāra. They suffer the obsession of hunger and craving. It is said that even if they came upon a lake of pure fresh water, due to their heavy karmic obscurations, they would experience it as an undrinkable pool of pus. Pretas are depicted with very large bellies and very thin necks.th very large bellies and very thin necks.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (yi dvags;preta;A spirit whose existence is dominated by insatiable hunger, thirst, and craving.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (yi dvags;pretas;Also known as hungry ghosts or spirits: a class of beings whose attachment and miserliness in previous lives result in constant hunger and the frustration of their desires)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā (Callahan)/Glossary + (yi dvags;ཡི་དབ༹གས་;hungry ghost;hungry ghost)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (yi dwags;One of the six classes of existen … yi dwags;One of the six classes of existence, these beings suffer from continuous hunger and thirst. The Sanskrit literally means "departed" and is inspired by the pitṛ, or ancestral spirits of India, who, without descendants to make the regular traditional offerings to them, are tormented by hunger and thirsto them, are tormented by hunger and thirst)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jewels from the Treasury/Glossary + (yi dwags;hungry ghost;hungry ghost)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (yi dwags;yidak;yidak;Hungry ghosts.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Journey and Goal/Glossary + (yi ge 'khor lo tshogs chen gyi sa;Supreme Assembly of the Circles of Letters,level of;supreme assembly of the circles of letters,level of)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Āryadeva's Lamp That Integrates the Practices/Glossary + (yi ge bral,yi ge med pa;unspoken,syllable-less;unspoken,syllable-less;anakṣara)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism/Glossary + (yi ge bzhi la mi sdad pa gsum;three moveme … yi ge bzhi la mi sdad pa gsum;three movements with reference to the four syllables;three movements with reference to the four syllables;According to Khetsun Zangpo Rinpoche, this refers to the destabilisation of the three syllables ''OṂ, ĀḤ and HŪṂ within the central channel of the body when the inner heat rises from the syllable VAṂ during the practice of inner heat (''gtum-mo''). 548 practice of inner heat (''gtum-mo''). 548)