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དགེ་བ་ཅན་
Transliteration: dge ba can
<noun> "Virtuous". Translation of the Sanskrit "kośhala". The name of a town in North of ancient India.

ཐོག་མར་དགེ་བ་
Transliteration: thog mar dge ba
<phrase> "The goodness of the beginning". One of a three-part formulation. The buddha Śhākyamuni, after he had been teaching for some time, called his monks together and told them that they should now go out to the villages and teach the dharma. He pointed out to them that the dharma of the buddha was always good and said that it was good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good at th…

ཐོག་མ་མེད་པའི་ཆོས་ཁམས་དགེ་བ་
Transliteration: thog ma med pa'i chos khams dge ba
<name> "The virtuous beginningless dharma element". One of many names for the tathāgatagarbha. "Virtuous" because it has all the good qualities of buddhahood in it with none of the afflictions of samsara and "beginningless" because of being buddhahood without beginning or end. Expressing the Names of Mañjuśhrī says:
Buddhahood without beginning or end,
The original buddha without any bias (to…