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Tanha +

The thirst for life. Desire to live and clinging to life on this earth. This clinging is that which causes rebirth or reincarnation. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tanjur +

A collection of Buddhist works translated from the Sanskrit into Tibetan and Mongolian. It is the more voluminous canon, comprising 225 large volumes on miscellaneous subjects. The ''Kanjur'', which contains the commandments or the “Word of the Buddha ”, has only 108 volumes. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tanmatras +

The types or rudiments of the five Elements; the subtile essence of these, devoid of all qualities and identical with the properties of the five basic Elements — earth, water, fire, air and ether; i.e., the ''tanmâtras'' are, in one of their aspects, smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tanner, H. S. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Tantra +

Lit., “rule or ritual”. Certain mystical and magical works, whose chief peculiarity is the worship of the ''female'' power, personified in Sakti. Devî or Durgâ (Kâlî, Siva’s wife) is the special energy connected with sexual rites and magical powers‐''The worst form of black '' ''magic or sorcery''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tantrika +

Ceremonies connected with the above worship. Sakti having a two‐fold nature, white and black, good and bad, the Saktas are divided into two classes, the Dakshinâchâris and Vâmâchâris, or the right‐hand and the left‐hand Saktas, i.e., “white” and “black” magicians. The worship of the latter is most licentious and immoral. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tao +

The name of the philosophy of Lao‐tze. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Taoer +

The female Typhon, the hippopotamus, called also ''Ta‐ur, Ta‐op‐oer'', etc. ; she is the ''Thoueris'' of the Greeks. This wife of Typhon was represented as a monstrous hippopotamus, sitting on her hind legs with a knife in one hand and the sacred knot in the other the ''pâsa '' of Siva). Her back was covered with the scales of a crocodile, and she had a crocodile’s tail. She is also called ''Teb'', whence the name of Typhon is also, sometimes, ''Tebh''. On a monument of the sixth dynasty she is called “the nurse of the gods”. She was feared in Egypt even more than Typhon. (See [[Typhon]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tao‐teh‐king +

Lit., “The Book of the Perfectibility of Nature” written by the great philosopher Lao‐tze. It is a kind of cosmogony which contains all the fundamental tenets of Esoteric Cosmo genesis. Thus he says that in the beginning there was naught but limitless and boundless Space. All that lives and is, was born in it, from the “Principle which exists by Itself, developing Itself from Itself”, i.e., ''Swabhâvat''. As its name is unknown and it essence is unfathomable, philosophers have called it Tao (''Anima Mundi''), the uncreate, unborn and eternal energy of nature, manifesting periodically. Nature as well as man when it reaches purity will reach rest, and then all become one with Tao, which is the source of all bliss and felicity. As in the Hindu and Buddhistic philosophies, such purity and bliss and immortality can only be reached through the exercise of virtue and the perfect quietude of our worldly spirit; the human mind has to control and finally subdue and even crush the turbulent action of man’s physical nature; and the sooner he reaches the required degree of moral purification, the happier he will feel. (See Annales du Musée Guimet, Vols. XI. and XII.; ''Etudes sur lie Religion des Chinois'', by Dr. Groot.) As the famous Sinologist, Pauthier, remarked: “Human Wisdom can never use language more holy and profound ”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tapas +

“Abstraction”, “meditation”. “To perform ''tapas''” is to sit for ''contemplation''. Therefore ascetics are often called Tâpasas. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tapasa‐taru +

The ''Sesamum Orientate'', a tree very sacred among the ancient ascetics of China and Tibet. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tapasvi +

Ascetics and anchorites of every religion, whether Buddhist, Brahman, or Taoist. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Taphos +

Tomb, the sarcophagus placed in the Adytum and used for purposes of initiation. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tapo‐loka +

The domain of the fire‐devas named Vairâjas. It is known as the “world of the seven sages ”, and also “the realm of penance ”. One of the Shashta‐loka (Six worlds) above our own, which is the seventh. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tappan, Cora L. V. +

American trance-medium, later known as Tappan-Richmond, who began lecturing as a teenager under her maiden name Scott and became a prominent Spiritualist speaker across the United States; from 1873 she lectured to enthusiastic audiences in England as well. Zirkoff notes that her trance-delivered lectures and poetry were considered unusually eloquent and coherent compared to other trance-mediums of the period. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#528|1:528]][[SMW::on]]). De Zirkoff identifies her later name as Tappan-Richmond and refers readers to ''Collected Writings'', volume I, page 528. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#532|3:532]][[SMW::on]]). +

Tara +

The wife of Brihaspati (Jupiter), carried away by King Soma, the Moon, an act which led to the war of the Gods with the Asuras. Târâ personifies mystic knowledge as opposed to ritualistic faith. She is the mother (by Soma) of Buddha, “Wisdom ”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tarachand, Jehangir Cursetji +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol3|vol. 3]] (1881–1882). +

Taraka +

Described as Dânava or Daitya, i.e., a “Giant‐ Demon”, whose superhuman austerities as a yogi made the gods tremble for their power and supremacy. Said to have been killed by Kârttikeya. (See'' Secret Doctrine'', II., 382.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Taraka Raja Yoga +

One of the Brahminical Yoga systems for the development of purely spiritual powers and knowledge which lead to Nirvâna. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Tarakamaya +

The first war in Heaven through Târâ. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +