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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A master of Nalanda University and the ordaining abbot of Shantarakshita. He was an exponent of the "upper school" of Svatantrika Madhyamaka and the author of the celebrated ''Two Truths of the Middle Way''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A master of high attainment in the Vajrayana. The Eight Great Vidyadharas were tantric siddhas from India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (A master of the Chittamatra tradition and … A master of the Chittamatra tradition and disciple of Dignaga, whom he followed as the abbot of Nalanda. He was a brilliant scholar and logician and was one of the teachers of Dharmakirti. He composed commentaries on the works ofVasubandhu and also on Aryadeva's ''Four Hundred'', which have been preserved in Chinese translation.ave been preserved in Chinese translation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (A master of the Chittamatra tradition and … A master of the Chittamatra tradition and disciple of Dignaga, whom he followed as the abbot of Nalanda. He was a brilliant scholar and logician and was one of the teachers of Dharmakirti. He composed commentaries on the works ofVasubandhu and also on Aryadeva's ''Four Hundred'', which have been preserved in Chinese translation.ave been preserved in Chinese translation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A master of the Drukpa Kagyü School.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (A master of the Shangpa lineage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Luminous Mind/Glossary + (A master of the Shangpa lineage. See Shangpa-Kagyu.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A master of the lower school of the Svatantrika Madhyamika.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A master or preceptor, usually monastic.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A master who lived in the nineteenth century and was a teacher of Shukseb Jetsun and a student of the first Dodupchen Rinpoche.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A material meritorious action.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A matrix of meditative practices designed to purify the mind, accumulate merit, and bring enlightenment)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A matter that is proximate to ugh (agglomerated matter); <br>i.e., the space element.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A meal-offering verse; chanted after the homages to the ten names of buddha. 104n. 29)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A measurement described in the Abhidharma literature as being eight "shouting distances" (rgyang grags), each of which are five hundred "bow fathoms" (gzhu 'dom). It is said to correspond to approximately 4.5 miles.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A meditation state characterized by attachment, especially to bliss, clarity, and non thought, and lacking insight into the emptiness of a self-entity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Cultivating A Compassionate Heart/Glossary + (A meditational deity, one of a number of Buddhas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A meditative practice designed to bring fo … A meditative practice designed to bring forth realization of emptiness, with a side effect of generating intense heat arising from the navel cakra. Great, empty awareness, devoid of activity, the fire of primordial consciousness, the union of bliss and emptiness, which blazes as a display of the power of the five facets of primordial consciousness. See VE183-90.of primordial consciousness. See VE183-90.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A meditative practice established in Tibet … A meditative practice established in Tibet and Bhutan by Padampa Sangyé's main disciple, Machik Lapdrön (1055-1149), in which one imaginatively offers up one's entire being as a means to realizing the empty nature of all phenomena, severing all clinging to the appearances of the three realms, and realizing that all gods and demons are none other than one's own appearances. See GD116-27, VE 153-60. own appearances. See GD116-27, VE 153-60.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A meditative stabilization that involves undistracted, deep concentration when one's attention is exceptionally clear and focused one-pointedly. Many different kinds of samadhis are described in the sutras.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A meditator takes birth as a rūdra, a type … A meditator takes birth as a rūdra, a type of demon, by firmly and clearly visualizing himself or herself as a wrathful deity— while having no realization of emptiness and no motivation of compasion. It can also mean the conceptual grasping by which one reifies the distinctions of outer, inner, and secret phenomena.ons of outer, inner, and secret phenomena.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A member of Nalanda university and the cel … A member of Nalanda university and the celebrated author of the Bodhicharyavatara (The Way of the Bodhisattva). He upheld the view of the Prasangika Madhyamika in the tradition of Chandrakirti. Shantideva was also the author of the ''Shiksasamuccaya'', a compendium of citations on discipline, which forms a valuable collection of texts that have otherwise been lost.on of texts that have otherwise been lost.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A member of a class of nonhuman beings said to be nourished on smells. They are renowned for their beauty and generally associated with music.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A member of the Vedic caste of merchants.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A member of the Vedic royal caste.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A member of the priestly caste in Indian society)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A member of the priestly caste in Indian society.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2005)/Glossary + (A member of the priestly caste in Indian society.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend (2013)/Glossary + (A member of the priestly caste in Indian society.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A member of the priestly caste of ancient … A member of the priestly caste of ancient India; this term often indicates hermits and spiritual practitioners. It should be noted that the Buddha rejected the caste system and proclaimed on several occasions that the true Brahmin is not someone so designated through an accident of birth, but one who has thoroughly overcome defilement and attained freedom. ''See also'' Four castes.ttained freedom. ''See also'' Four castes.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A member of the priestly class in the Vedic caste system of India.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A mental function of every sentient being that serves as the basis for the emergence of all discursive thoughts, and which transforms thoughts into the objects of all appearances.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A mental process that arises in conjunction with consciousness, by means ofwhich one engages in various ways with the objects of apprehension.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A metaphor for the qualities of a buddha. The term ornament refers to those excellent qualities, and the term wheel refers to the all-encompassing, inexhaustible nature of the outer, inner, and secret qualities.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A metaphysical Self/Soul whose existence is upheld by<br> the Brahmanical schools.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A method of textual analysis adopted by th … A method of textual analysis adopted by the panditas of Nalanda and used by Tibetan scholars. It consists of a sequence of five topics: the author of the treatise (''mdzad pa po''), its scriptural source (''lung gang nas btus''), its general philosophical tendency (''phyogs gang du gtogs''), its condensed meaning (''bsdus don''), and its purpose (''dgos ched'').s don''), and its purpose (''dgos ched'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Meeting the Great Bliss Queen/Glossary + (A mind intent on achieving enlightenment for the sake of others.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Meeting the Great Bliss Queen/Glossary + (A mind's natural and clear awareness of itself, a state identified for '''Great Completeness''' practitioners so that they can discover it in the course of their training)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A minister in the government.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A minister of King Trisong Deutsen; also spelled Dershey Trelchung (sder bzhed sprel chung).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A minister of King Trisong Deutsen; also spelled Gyaltsa Lhanang (rgyal tsha lha snang).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lady of the Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A minister of the king Songtsen Gampo. After studying in India, he composed the grammar of the Tibetan language and devised the alphabet.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A miraculous display made for the sake ofothers by one who has accomplished such power through meditation.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A mischievous male spirit of a class of spirits born of the union of the ''rgyal po'' and '' 'gong po''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings/Glossary + (A misconception of holding what does not exist to exist.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle/Glossary + (A mode of thinking and expression linked in particular with certain sūtras teaching the ''tathāgatagarbha'', with the ''Ratnagotravibhāga-Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra'', and with Nāgārjuna's "Hymnic Corpus" (Tib. ''bstod tshogs'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (A monastery.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A monastic center of southern India, located in the present-day state of Madras. Nāgārjuna is among the well-known Buddhists who visited there.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems/Glossary + (A monk from the Chinese Buddhist tradition.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community/Glossary + (A monk's robe-a large, rectangular wrap, since the time of Shakyamuni traditionally sewed together by monks following a particular pattern and ritual sewing practice. Originally the okesa was made from discarded rags, dyed uniformly. 39, 53n. 22,70)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A monument enshrining the relics of a budd … A monument enshrining the relics of a buddha or realized master. There are many different kinds, but stupas usually have a square base with a round midsection topped by a spire. They symbolize the mind of the Buddha and are often major sites of pilgrimage, such as the Baudhanath Stupa outside Kathmandu, Nepal.Baudhanath Stupa outside Kathmandu, Nepal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Vagabond/Glossary + (A monument often containing relics of Budd … A monument often containing relics of Buddhist saints, as well as mandalas, hundred of thousands of mantras, sacred books, and earth from various sacred places. Stupas symbolize the enlightened mind of the buddhas, while statues symbolize the enlightened body and books symbolize the enlightened speech. There are many kinds ofstupas, which are all built according to well-defined proportions. It is said that they bring great benefit to the land where they are built and contribute to reducing conflicts, famines, and other causes of suffering throughout the world. causes of suffering throughout the world.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A mountain in the Yarlung valley of Central Tibet, where the first king of Tibet is said to have descended from the sky.)