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• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary  + (lit. the land of rose-apples. The southern continent of the four situated around Mount Meru. Jambudvipa is the human world in which we live.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary  + (lit. the loving one. The tenth-ground Bodhisattva now residing as the Buddha's regent in the heaven of Tushita. When the age of Shakyamuni ends, Maitreya will manifest in the world as the fifth Buddha of this fortunate kalpa. ''See also'' fortunate kalpa.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary  + (lit. the state beyond suffering. As a blan … lit. the state beyond suffering. As a blanket term, this indicates the various levels of enlightenment attainable in both the Shravakayana and Mahayana, namely, the enlightenment of the Shravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Buddhas. It should be noted, however, that when nirvana, or enlightenment, is understood simply as emancipation from samsara (the goal, in other words, of the Hinayana), it is not to be understood as buddhahood. As expounded in the Mahayana, buddhahood utterly transcends both the suffering of samsara and the peace of nirvana. Buddhahood is therefore referred to as "nonabiding nirvana" (''mi gnas myang 'das''), in other words, a state that abides neither in the extreme of samsara nor in that of peace.e extreme of samsara nor in that of peace.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary  + (lit. thought-free wisdom. Primordial knowledge divested of all discursive activity.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary  + (lit. three wheels. Conceptions of the inherent existence of the object, the subject, and the action itself.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Food of Bodhisattvas/Glossary  + (lit. thus gone, an epithet of Buddha or buddhahood.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary  + (lit. treasure-revealer. Reincarnations of the accomplished disciples of Guru Padmasambhava, who discover and reveal the spiritual treasures concealed by him and his consort Yeshe Tsogyal.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary  + (lit. treasure. Teachings and blessed substances concealed principally by Guru Padmasambhava, to be revealed later, at a time when they would be more beneficial for the world and its inhabitants.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary  + (lit. unsurpassable tantra. The fourth and … lit. unsurpassable tantra. The fourth and highest class of the tantra according to the fourfold classification of the tantras preferred in the New tradition. It corresponds to the three inner tantras (maha, anu, and ati) as contrasted with the three outer tantras (kriya, charya, and yoga) of the sixfold Nyingma classification.ga) of the sixfold Nyingma classification.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2001)/Glossary  + (lit. wheel of time. One of the main tantra … lit. wheel of time. One of the main tantras practiced by the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is celebrated for the unique cosmological system that it expounds and is closely associated with the hidden realm of Shambhala, the king of which was the first to receive this teaching from the Buddha. to receive this teaching from the Buddha.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/White Lotus (Mipham)/Glossary  + (lit. wheel or channel-wheel. A configurati … lit. wheel or channel-wheel. A configuration of spokes or petal-like channels resembling a wheel, which is supported by the central channel. Depending on the tantra, four or six chakras are mentioned. The dharmachakra is the channel-wheel situated at the level of the heart.-wheel situated at the level of the heart.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “Dharma body.” Also called absolute dimension. The emptiness aspect of buddhahood.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “Gentle and Glorious.” The bodhisattva who embodies the buddhas’ knowledge and wisdom.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “Love.” One of the Buddha’s eight closest bodhisattva disciples. As the future Buddha, he presently resides in the Tuṣita heaven.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “Mighty Lord.” A general Indian name for a creator god.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Distinguishing the Views/Glossary  + (lit. “One thus gone” or “One gone to suchness” - an epithet of the complete Buddha.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “all-concealing truth.” The apparent truth perceived and taken as real by the deluded mind, which conceals their true nature. See also ultimate truth.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “beyond suffering” or “the transcende … lit. “beyond suffering” or “the transcendence of misery.” While this can be loosely understood as the goal of Buddhist practice, the opposite of saṃsāra or cyclic existence, it is important to realize that the term is understood differently by the different vehicles. The nirvāṇa of the Lesser Vehicle, the peace of cessation that an arhat attains, is very different from a buddha’s “nondwelling” nirvāṇa, the state of perfect enlightenment that transcends both saṃsara and nirvāṇa. that transcends both saṃsara and nirvāṇa.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “childish.” Ordinary beings who are spiritually immature.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “continuity” or “continuum.” Also tra … lit. “continuity” or “continuum.” Also translated as “stream of being,” or simply “mind.” This term denotes that aspect of an individual that continues from one moment to the next and from one life time to the next, and which therefore includes the individual’s stock of positive and negative deeds along with their positive and negative habitual tendencies.positive and negative habitual tendencies.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “firm, stable.” Used widely in the ''Sūtralāṃkāra'' as an epithet for a bodhisattva.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “individual liberation.” The collective term for the different forms of Buddhist ordination and the irrespective vows, as laid down in the Vinaya.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “levels of the noble ones.” The ten levels of realization reached by bodhisattvas on the paths of seeing, meditation, and no more learning. In some classifications additional levels are added.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “mind-only.” The teaching that the ob … lit. “mind-only.” The teaching that the objects of the senses do not exist outside the mind and are simply projections of the mind. This doctrine was propagated in particular by the followers of the Yogācāra school. Its proponents are known as Cittamātrin (Tib. ''sems tsam pa'').wn as Cittamātrin (Tib. ''sems tsam pa'').)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “one who feeds on smells.” A kind of … lit. “one who feeds on smells.” A kind of spirit that feeds on scents. Gandharvas are also classed as inhabitants of the lowest gods’ realms, where they are renowned for their musical skills. The name is used as well for beings in the intermediate state: since they inhabit a mental body, they feed not on solid food but on odors. they feed not on solid food but on odors.)

• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “one who has gone to bliss.” An epithet of a buddha.)

• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “one who has vanquished the enemy” (t … lit. “one who has vanquished the enemy” (the enemy being defilements). A practitioner of the Lesser Vehicle (that is, a listener or solitary realizer) who has attained the cessation of suffering, i.e., nirvaṇa, but not the perfect buddhahood of the Great Vehicle.e perfect buddhahood of the Great Vehicle.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “pure.” The name given to a number of gods in the world of form.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “six gatherings of consciousness” (signifying the gathering of a sense object, a sense organ, and a consciousness). The consciousnesses related to vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mentation.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “taming.” The section of the Buddha’s teaching that deals with discipline, and in particular with the vows of monastic ordination.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “that cannot be mentioned” or “cannot … lit. “that cannot be mentioned” or “cannot be praised.” This term covers every kind of action that results in suffering and not only the most serious kinds of wrong doing. Shameful deeds are divided into those that are naturally negative and those that are negative in that they involve breaches of vows.ive in that they involve breaches of vows.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “union (''’byor'') with the natural state (''rnal ma'').” A term for spiritual practice.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle/Glossary  + (lit. “wheel.” Cyclic existence, the endless round of birth, death, and rebirth in which beings suffer as result of their actions and defilements.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Mother of Knowledge/Glossary  + (lit.'Ever-weeping'; a great Bodhisattva in
the Prajñāpāramitā literature who manifested great fortitude in attempting to
 obtain the Prajñāpāramitā teachings during the time of the Buddha Dharmodgata.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'a superior being', one who has attained a direct perception of Ultimate Truth.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'one who has gone to bliss,' an epithet for a Buddha.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'one who has overcome the foe', namely one who has overcome the foe of disturbing conceptions and has attained liberation from cyclic existence. In chapter nine this term refers specifically to the Hinayana Arhat.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'the all good one'the name of a Bodhisattva.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'the heart of earth', the name of a Bodhisattva.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'the heart of space', the name of a Bodhisattva.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'the holder of the vajra', the name of the Bodhisattva of Power.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'the lord of the world', the name of the Bodhisattva of Compassion.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'the lotus holder', another name for Avalokiteshvara.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life/Glossary  + (lit: 'the smooth melodious one, the name of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/The Legend of the Great Stupa/Glossary  + (literally meaning Great Gem, usually trans … literally meaning Great Gem, usually translated as Precious One, this title is used to address the Lama in whom one has placed one's trust during the initial stages of practice. Also used to address monastic ofĺrciaries. Sadhana, a ritual text which provides the model during meditational practice for mature total involvement. Sadhana is the effort through practice necessary to achieve a constant illuminated state along the Path of Dharma.lluminated state along the Path of Dharma.)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary  + (literally, "(one) gone to suchness"; an epithet for a buddha, often Shakyamuni Buddha)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary  + (literally, "Accomplishment of Meaning"; among the buddhas of the five families, the green buddha associated with the northern direction; the name denotes the self-occurring nature of all aspects of reality)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary  + (literally, "Bearer of the Vajra"; the dharmakaya buddha embodying the ultimate nature of mind; the form manifested by Shakyamuni when teaching tantra)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary  + (literally, "Blissful (Realm)"; pure realm associated with the buddha Amitabha and the western direction)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary  + (literally, "Dense Array"; the pure realm associated with the buddha Vairocana and the central direction)
• Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Buddhahood Without Meditation/Glossary  + (literally, "Distinct Manifestation"; among the buddhas of the five families, the one associated with the central direction; the name denotes the positive qualities of the nature of mind becoming fully evident)