ཐོས་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་
Transliteration: thos pa las byung ba
<phrase> "Arising from hearing". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "śhrutamayī". Comm. abbrev. of ཐོས་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་ཤེས་རབ་ "prajñā arising from hearing" q.v.
མི་ལ་ཐོས་པ་དགའ་
Transliteration: mi la thos pa dga'
<noun> "Mila, Pleasing to Hear". One of several epithets of མི་ལ་རས་པ་ Milarepa. This epithet arises because, it is said, Milarepa sang songs and was wonderful to listen to as he sang.
ཐོས་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་ཤེས་རབ་
Transliteration: thos pa las byung ba'i shes rab
<phrase> "prajñā arising from hearing". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "śhrutamayīprajñā". One of the ཤེས་རབ་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་ "the three types of prajñā" q.v.
འདི་སྐད་བདག་གིས་ཐོས་པ་དུས་གཅིག་ན་
Transliteration: 'di skad bdag gis thos pa dus gcig na
<phrase> "I heard these words / heard this said at one time". Although there are other translations of this phrase, the wording given most closely parallels the wording and intent of this phrase. The phrase originally was in Sanskrit, though note that it is not the same as "evaṃ śhruti". This phrase is used to introduce many Buddhist sutras. It is intended to verify that what follows is an …
མང་དུ་ཐོས་པ་
Transliteration: mang du thos pa
I. 1) <verb> "To hear much". 2) Someone who has heard much, has much hearing.
II. <name> "Bahuśhrūtiya" or "Ones who Have Much Hearing", the name of the fourth of seven Buddhist schools that came from the Sarvāstivāda school. One of སྡེ་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ eighteen schools q.v. Their lineage is from kśhatriya Rāhula-subhadra whom the Bhagavat acclaimed as the one foremost at respecting the tr…
ཉན་ཐོས་སྡེ་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: nyan thos sde pa bco brgyad
<phrase> "The eighteen schools of the Śhrāvakas". After the Buddha passed away, his śhrāvaka disciples split into four basic groups. These four groups had their own factions, making a total of eighteen schools or groups that the śhrāvaka disciples split into following the Buddha's passing. See under རྩ་བའི་སྡེ་པ་བཞི་ "the four basic schools" for a listing.
ཉན་ཐོས་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་
Transliteration: nyan thos dgra bcom pa
<phrase> "Śhrāvaka arhat". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrāvaka arhat". The name given to beings who have obtained the arhat fruition of the ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ Śhrāvaka vehicle, the lesser of the two kinds of arhat of the ཐེག་པ་དམན་པ་ Hīnayāna vehicle.
བླ་ན་མེད་པ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: bla na med pa drug
<enum> 1) མཐོང་བ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ ""; 2) ཐོས་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ ""; 3) རྙེད་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ ""; 4) བསླབ་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ ""; 5) རིམ་གྲོ་བ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ ""; 6) རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ "".
ཉན་ཐོས་སྡེ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: nyan thos sde pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two (philosophical) schools of the Śhrāvakas". There are four main, philosophical schools of thought in conventional Buddhism (i.e. in the sūtra teachings); see གྲུབ་མཐའ་སྨྲ་བ་བཞི་ "the four proponents of tenets". Two belong to the ཐེག་དམན་ Lesser Vehicle and two belong to the ཐེག་ཆེན་ Greater Vehicle. The two of the Lesser Vehicle correspond to two main schools of thought amo…
ཐོང་བ་
Transliteration: thong ba
<verb> v.i. ཐོང་བ་/ ཐོང་བ་/ ཐོང་བ་//. Transitive form is གཏོང་བ་ q.v. A verb which has the same meaning as the transitive གཏོང་བ་ but does not have a transitive agent and action. The following example from [TC] shows its use in conjunction with the transitive form to make its use clear. In each part of the example, the transitive form is used first and this intransitive form follows it: གཞན…
ཚུལ་བཞིན་དུ་སོ་སོར་རྟོག་པ་
Transliteration: tshul bzhin du so sor rtog pa
<phrase> "To properly discriminate". E.g., [HUC] ཆོས་ཐོས་པ་དང་། ཚུལ་བཞིན་དུ་སོ་སོར་རྟོག་པ་དང་། "hears dharma and properly discriminates it".
ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་
Transliteration: nyan thos kyi theg pa
<phrase> "The Śhrāvaka Vehicle", "the vehicle of the Śhrāvakas", "the vehicle of the hearers". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "śhrāvakayānam". This is the ཐེག་པ་དགུ་ first of the nine vehicles or the lower of two sub-divisions of the ཐེག་པ་དམན་པ་ Lesser Vehicle q.v. which itself is the first of the ཐེག་པ་གསུམ་ three vehicles of Tibetan Buddhism. The practitioners who follow this vehicle …
ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: thos bsam sgom pa'i shes rab gsum
<phrase> "The three prajñās of hearing, contemplating, and meditation (or cultivation)". Commonly spoken of as ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་གསུམ་ "the three, hearing, contemplating, and meditating".
This is a formulation given by the Buddha of the three kinds of prajñā necessary to tread the Buddhist path in general. [NDS] gives them as: 1) ཐོས་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ "arising from hearing"; 2) བསམ་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ "arisi…
ཉན་ཐོས་
Transliteration: nyan thos
<noun> "Śhrāvaka", "hearer". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrāvaka". The disciples of the Buddha who followed the teachings of the ཐེག་པ་དམན་པ་ Lesser Vehicle were of two kinds: Śhrāvakas and རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ Pratyekabuddhas. The Śhrāvakas listened to the teaching and taught it to others, the Pratyekabuddhas having heard the teaching went off and obtained their realization in solitary practice.…
ཉན་ཐོས་ལ་ཡོད་པ་དང་རྗེས་སུ་མཐུན་པའི་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་གྱི་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་བཅུ་སོ་བདུན་
Transliteration: nyan thos la yod pa dang rjes su mthun pa'i rnam mkhyen gyi rnam pa gsum bcu so bdun
<enum> [JKE] gives: 1) དྲན་པ་ཉེ་བར་བཞག་པ་བཞི་ ""; 2) ཡང་དག་པར་སྤོང་བ་བཞི་ ""; 3) རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་རྐང་པ་བཞི་ ""; 4) དབང་པོ་ལྔ་ ""; 5) སྟོབས་ལྔ་ ""; 6) བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་ ""; 7) འཕགས་ལམ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་ "".
འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: 'jig rten gyi chos brgyad
<enum> "The eight worldly dharmas", "the eight worldly things". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "aṣhṭau lokadharmaḥ". A group of four pairs of opposites which the Buddha said were all worldly approaches that only led to further worldly engagement and which hence were to be eschewed. In each pair there is one thing that beings all try to obtain and its opposite which they all try to avoid.…
བསྔགས་པའམ་བསྔགས་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ་
Transliteration: bsngags pa'am bsngags pa ma yin pa
<phrase> "Has the approval or disapproval of …". A standard phrase in the Buddhist sutras. E.g., [MP2] བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྔགས་པའམ། བསྔགས་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ཐོས་ཀྱང་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལ་བསམ་པ་ངེས་པ་ཡིན། "Maitreya, for this, whether a bodhisatva mahāsatva hears the approval or disapproval of buddha, he is definite in his intent for unsurpassed, truly …
འཁོར་ལོ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: 'khor lo gsum
<noun> 1) "The three chakras". See འཁོར་ལོ་ "chakra" and རྩ་འཁོར་ལོ་གསུམ་ "the three chakras of the channels". 2) "The three spheres / wheels". The spheres of study, meditation, and work. These are the spheres of a Buddhist practitioner's life. See also འཁོར་ལོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་ "the four great wheels". [DGT] gives as: 1) ཀློག་པ་ཐོས་བསམ་གྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ "reading, the sphere of hearing and contemplati…
བསྟན་བཅོས་དགུ་
Transliteration: bstan bcos dgu
<enum> "The nine treatises". [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) དོན་མེད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ "treatises of no meaning"; 2) དོན་ལོག་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ "treatises of incorrect meaning"; 3) དོན་དང་ལྡན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ "treatises having meaning"; 4) ངན་གཡོའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ "treatises that move others to evil"; 5) བརྩེ་བྲལ་གྱི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ "treatises divorced from love"; 6) སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྤོང་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ "treatises connected…
