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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A succinct and powerful practical instruction, coming from the experience of the guru and the lineage. instruction, pointing-out (Tib. mdzub khrid, ngo sprod pa). An introduction to the nature of the mind.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary + (A superior being who has attained direct realization of ultimate reality. There are four kinds of ārya: śrāvaka ārya, pratyeka ārya, bodhisattva ārya and the fully enlightened ārya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A superior teacher. A master of the Dharma, capable of imparting both instruction (''luṅ'') and empowerment (''dbaṅ'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Enlightened Beings/Glossary + (A superior teacher. See entry for "guru.")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A supernormal ability or achievement The s … A supernormal ability or achievement The supreme siddhi is the perfect enlightenment of a buddha, while the eight common siddhis include: (1) the siddhi of celestial realms, the ability to dwell in celestial realms while still alive; (i) the siddhi of the sword, the ability to overcome any hostile army; (3) the siddhi of medicinal pills, the ability to become invisible by holding blessing pills in your hand; (4) the siddhi of fleet-footedness, by which you can walk around a lake in an instant by wearing boots you have blessed; (5) the vase siddhi, by which you can create a vessel that renders inexhaustible anything you put inside it, food or money for example; (6) the siddhi of yakṣas, the power to make yakṣas your servants; (7) the siddhi of ambrosia (Skt.amṛta),which gives you a lifespan as long as the sun and the moon, the strength of an elephant, and the beauty of a lotus, and makes you feel as light as cotton wool whenever you arise from your seat; and (8) the siddhi of the balm of clairvoyance, which, when applied to your eyes, allows you to see things beneath the earth, such as treasures and so on.th the earth, such as treasures and so on.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A sutra belonging to the third turning of the wheel of dharma. Translated into English and published as The Flower Adornment Scripture, vols. 1-3, translated by Thomas Cleary (Shambhala Publications, 1984-87).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A sutra belonging to the third turning of the wheel of Dharma. Published as The Flower Ornament Scripture, 3 vols., Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1984-1987.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A sutra belonging to the third turning of the wheel of the dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A sutra of the third turning of the wheel of the dharma. Used as basis for Yogachara and Chittamatra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mudra/Glossary + (A symbol in the wider sense of gesture or … A symbol in the wider sense of gesture or action. It is the inspiring colour of phenomena. Also it is a symbol expressed with the hands to state for oneself and others the quality of different moments of meditation, such as touching the earth with the right hand as a witness to Buddha's freedom from emotional and mental frivolousness . from emotional and mental frivolousness .)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary + (A symbol of the indestructible enlightened body, speech, mind, and primal wisdom.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A symbol of ultimate reality, with the seven attributes of invulnerability, indestructibility, reality, incorruptibility, stability, unobstructability, and invincibility. See CM 385; BM 337; GD 88-89; VE 63-64,188-89.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A symbolic description of dharmakaya being like a single sphere because it is devoid of duality and limitation and defies all edges of conceptual constructs that could be formed about it.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Great Image/Glossary + (A symbolic description of dharmakaya being like a single sphere because it is devoid of duality and limitation and defies all conceptual constructs that could be formed about it.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Deity Mantra and Wisdom/Glossary + (A symbolic implement that represents the severing of the three times)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A symbolic representation of the world, which is ritually offered; a representation of the pore abode of a deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A synonym for Buddhahood)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A synonym for buddha nature, the enlightened essence within all beings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (A synonym for buddha-nature (''tathāgatagarbha/sugatagarbha'', ''bde gshegs snying po/de gshegs snying po''). See the introduction for a discussion of the term ''garbha''.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A synonym for liberation from saṃsāra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Zurchungpa's Testament/Glossary + (A synonym for spiritual teacher)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A synonym for the "Confession of the Expanse of the View" (Tawa Longshag).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A synonym for the Great Perfection or Dzogchen.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A synonym for the Nyingma tradition, the "old school." See also Nyingma School.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A synonym for the Vajrayana.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary + (A synonym for the arhat’s nirvāṇa, the peace of cessation.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A synonym for the development stage; the practice of visualizing the form of the deity.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Perfect or Perfected? Rongtön on Buddha-Nature/Glossary + (A synonym for what Rongtön calls ''causal … A synonym for what Rongtön calls ''causal buddha-nature'', the potential for awakening present in all beings. It comprises two aspects: the mind's cognitive aspect and its ultimate nature or emptiness. Two types of gotra are distinguished in this text: the gotra naturally present in all beings (''prakṛtiṣṭha'') and the gotra developed in those who are actively engaged in the path (''samudānīta'').vely engaged in the path (''samudānīta'').)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection: Heart of the Great Perfection/Glossary + (A system of practice introduced into Tibet in the twelfth century by the Indian bodhisattva Padampa Sangyé.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A system of teachings providing the means for traveling the path to enlightenment. There are three main vehicles: Shravakayana, Pratyekabuddhayana, and Bodhisattvayana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A system of teachings which is the basic view of vajrayana practice according to the Sarma schools.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (A system of thirty-seven factors practiced on the paths of accumulation, joining, seeing, and meditation, by means of which progress is made toward enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind/Glossary + (A system of thirty-seven factors practiced on the paths of accumulation, joining, seeing, and meditation, by means of which progress is made toward enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Introduction to the Middle Way/Glossary + (A system of thirty-seven factors practiced on the paths of accumulation, joining, seeing, and meditation, by means of which progress is made toward enlightenment.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Gathering of Brilliant Moons/Glossary + (A system or tradition of practice.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Profound Inner Principles/Glossary + (A system that "assigns a different vowel t … A system that "assigns a different vowel to each of the days of the month, and calculates its effect on individuals and nations." www.tibetanmedical-astro.com. This is discussed in the Kālachakra Tantra, chapter 1, section 10. See Kongtrul 2012, 356, 826–27n894, and 827n895.ngtrul 2012, 356, 826–27n894, and 827n895.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions/Glossary + (A systematic breakdown of an individual into five psychophysical "heaps": form, sensations, identifications, mental actions, and consciousnesses)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Music in the Sky/Glossary + (A tan trie practice for realizing the natu … A tan trie practice for realizing the nature of a particular deity, who is the focus of the text. It usually begins with the preliminaries of taking refuge and generating bodhichitta, then moves to the main section of visualizing the deity and reciting its mantra, and closes with dissolution of the image and dedication.h dissolution of the image and dedication.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A tantra and a vajrayana system taught by Buddha Shakyamuni and later preserved in the kingdom of Shambhala.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2003)/Glossary + (A tantra and associated deity that became one of the major practice lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. It is known for its unique system of cosmology and association with the hidden realm of Śambhala and its lineage of kings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Machik's Complete Explanation (2013)/Glossary + (A tantra and associated deity that became one of the major practice lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. It is known for its unique system of cosmology and association with the hidden realm of Śambhala and its lineage of kings.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A tantra belonging to Kriya Yoga, also kno … A tantra belonging to Kriya Yoga, also known as ''Meaningful Lasso Tantra''. Ananda (kun dga' bo) One of the ten close disciples of the Buddha and his personal attendant, who recited the sutras at the First Council and served as the second patriarch in the oral transmission of the Dharma.ch in the oral transmission of the Dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A tantra belonging to Kriya Yoga, known to all Tibetan Buddhists as Jampal Tsenjő. Translated by Alex Wayman as Chanting the Names of Manjushri, Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1985.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A tantra belonging to the Sadhana Section of Mahayoga, focused on the section of Mundane Worship.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A tantra focused on Avalokiteshvara; belongs to Kriya Yoga and is also known as Amogha Pasha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Mirror of Mindfulness (1989)/Glossary + (A tantra of anuttara yoga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Lamp of Mahamudra/Glossary + (A tantra of the New Schools, which sets forth the system of mahamudra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Rain of Wisdom/Glossary + (A tantra of the anuttara tantra)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary + (A tantra taught by the historical Buddha S … A tantra taught by the historical Buddha Shakyamuni to Chandrabhadra (zla ba bzang po), king of Shambhala, who was an emanation of the Bodhisattva Vajrapani. It belongs to the nondual class of Anuttara tantras and presents a complete path to enlightenment, together with an elaborate system of cosmology.her with an elaborate system of cosmology.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Lotus-Born/Glossary + (A tantra with a similar title is found in the Nyingma Gyűbum, vol. KA.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary + (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.)