གཟུགས་མེད་ཀྱི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་བཞི་
Transliteration: gzugs med kyi snyoms 'jug bzhi
<phrase> "The four equilibria of formlessness", "the four samāhita of formlessness", "the four formless equilibria". Translation of the Sanskrit "arupya samāhita catuḥ". A set of four སྙོམས་འཇུག་ equilibria that take one of four increasingly subtle concepts as the object of mental absorbtion. The names of the four equilibria refer to the particular འདུ་ཤེས་ mental construct / cognition that…
ལུགས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: lugs gnyis
<phrase> "The two systems / ways / traditions". This could refer to any two ways of doing something but is used freq. to means ཆོས་ལུགས་དང་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ལུགས་གཉིས་ "secular ways and religious ways". It is also used when referring to ancient India to mean the ཕྱི་རོལ་པའི་ལུགས་དང་ནང་པའི་ལུགས་གཉིས་ "ways of the non-Buddhists (Hindus and others) and the ways of the Buddhists".
སྐུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sku gnyis
"The two kāyas" i.e., the two bodies of a Buddha. This is a division of a buddha into mind and form aspects. [DGT] gives as: 1) གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ "form body" and 2) ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ "reality body" (mind). See སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ for an explanation of the various kāyas of a buddha.
བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: bsam gtan gnyis pa
<noun> "Second Dhyana". 1) The name of the second of the four བསམ་གཏན་བཞི་ dhyāna meditation states. 2) The name of the second level of beings living in the གཟུགས་ཁམས་ form realm which corresponds to the second dhyāna on form. This level contains three abodes of beings, བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པའི་གནས་གསུམ་ "the three abodes of the second dhyāna", q.v.
གཟུགས་ངན་
Transliteration: gzugs ngan
<phrase> Any form that is unpleasant to perceive. Often used in reference to a person, hence e.g., "ugly", "unattractive", etc.
གཟུགས་མོ་
Transliteration: gzugs mo
<noun> The name of an animal. [SCD] gives: "a species of antelope said to live on the higher regions of the Himalayan range between 9 to 18 thousand feet above the level of the sea."
གཟུགས་པོ་
Transliteration: gzugs po
<noun> 1) Meaning the ལུས་པོ་ "body" but 2) can also refer to ཕུང་པོ་ "corpse".
གཟུགས་ཅན་
Transliteration: gzugs can
<noun> 1) A particular phenomenon that has གཟུགས་ form. 2) A term meaning all phenomena having form.
ཁམས་གོང་མ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: khams gong ma gnyis
<enum> The "two upper realms" or "two higher realms". Of the three realms that constitute existence, the འདོད་ཁམས་ is the lowest. The two realms above it i.e., གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ "form realm" and གཟུགས་མེད་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ "formless realm" are the two upper / higher realms.
མིང་དང་གཟུགས་
Transliteration: ming dang gzugs
<phrase> "Name and form". Translation of the Sanskrit "nāmarūpa". Name and form are a crucial part of the process that drives the cycling through births in deluded existence, being the fourth of the རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཚུལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve processes of dependent-related arising q.v. "Name and form" refers to an entire being by referring to the mental aspects that a sentient being ha…
ཚོགས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: tshogs gnyis
<phrase> "The two accumulations". Translation of the Sanskrit "saṃbharo dvividhaḥ". 1) The two accumulations are two sets of things that need to be fully accumulated in order to སངས་རྒྱས་ buddhahood. They are [DGT] [NDS]: 1) བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་ "the accumulation of merit" and 2) ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་ "the accumulation of wisdom". All of the practices of Buddhism are designed to accumulate these t…
