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གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་
Transliteration: gcan gzan che dgu
<phrase> "The nine great predatory beasts", "the nine great beasts of prey". A listing of nine of the fiercest and largest of the group of animals called གཅན་གཟན་ q.v. The nine are: 1) སེངྒེ་ lion; 2) སྟག་ tiger; 3) གཟིག་ leopard; 4) གུང་ gung; 5) སྤྱང་ཀི་ wolf; 6) སྤྲེའུ་ monkey; 7) ཝ་མོ་, fox; 8) དྲེད་མོང་ dremong; 9) དོམ་ bear.
སེང་གེ་
Transliteration: seng ge
<noun> The name of the animal "lion". From the Sanskrit "siṃha". The transliteration is more properly written as སེངྒེ་. Other approximations to the Sanskrit of སིངྷ་, སིང་ཧ་, སེངྷ་ and the less-well written སེང་ཧ་ are also seen in Tibetan texts. 2) The lion is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ "nine great beasts of prey". 3) The lion is also one of the animals that is a throne support…
དྲེད་མོང་
Transliteration: dred mong
<noun> "Dremong". The name of a small bear indigenous to the Northern areas of Tibet. The Dremong is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v.
The Dremong is well-known amongst Tibetans for its particularly brand of stupidity, a style of stupidity which has resulted in numerous Tibetan anecdotes and aphorisms. The Dremong preys particularly on marmots and a kind o…
དགུ་
Transliteration: dgu
<noun> 1) The number "nine". Written as the numeral " ༩ ". 2) "Several". In English for a medium number of things we say "several", in Tibetan they literally say "nine-al". However, this often has the other sense of "various", e.g. in འདོད་དགུ་ the meaning could be "several desires" but is also freq. "whatever is desired" i.e., "(their or his or whatever) various desires".
དགུ་བ་
Transliteration: dgu ba
<verb> v.i. དགུ་བ་/ དགུ་བ་/ དགུ་བ་//. For a human "to bend forward deferentially or submissively" or for something physical "to bend over / be bowed forward" in a similar shape". The verb is not the same as གུག་པ་ which has just the general meaning of "bending". It is also not the same as འདུད་པ་ which is the general (and transitive) verb for one person to bow to another person or thing. Ra…
ས་དགུ་
Transliteration: sa dgu
<enum> [JKE] gives as: 1) རིགས་ཀྱི་ས་ ""; 2) བརྒྱད་པའི་ས་ ""; 3) མཐོང་བའི་ས་ ""; 4) སྲབ་པའི་ས་ ""; 5) འདོད་ཆགས་དང་བྲལ་བའི་ས་ ""; 6) བྱས་པ་རྟོགས་པའི་ས་ ""; 7) ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ས་ ""; 8) རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ས་ ""; 9) བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས་ "".
རི་དགུ་
Transliteration: ri dgu
<enum> "The nine mountains". [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) ལྷུན་པོ་ "Sumeru", 2-8) གསེར་གྱི་རི་བདུན་ "the seven golden mountains"; 9) ཁོར་ཡུག་གི་ལྕགས་རི་ "the encircling iron mountain".