མཆོད་པ་
Transliteration: mchod pa
I. <verb> v.t. མཆོད་པ་/ མཆོད་པ་/ མཆོད་པ་/ མཆོད་/. Translation of the Sanskrit "pūjāna". 1) "To do pūjā". See the definition of "pūja" below. 2) [Hon] The normal honorific for offering food / clothing to another is བཞེས་པ་. However, མཆོད་པ་ is sometimes used instead an altern. or sometimes super-honorific. E.g., [TC] ཞལ་ལག་མཆོད་པ། "to eat food"; ན་བཟའ་མཆོད་པ། "to wear clothes"; དབུ་ཞྭ་མཆོད་མ…
ཞལ་ཟས་
Transliteration: zhal zas
<noun> 1) [Hon] for "food". 2) Used as a name for "food offering" made in Buddhist rituals. One of the མཆོད་པ་བརྒྱད་ eight offerings.
ཇ་མཆོད་
Transliteration: ja mchod
<noun> "Tea offering". The liturgy / prayer done during a larger Buddhist ceremony to offer tea before drinking it.
མེ་མཆོད་
Transliteration: me mchod
<noun> "Fire offering"; general name for all kinds of worship done with offerings made to a fire. The offerings are usually prescribed substances. The practice derives from the ancient Indian practice of Homa. E.g., see སྦྱིན་སྲེག་.
མཆོད་མེ་
Transliteration: mchod me
<noun> "Offering-lamp". A lamp used for offering. In Tibet, this would usually have been a butter lamp of some sort. However, in ancient India and Nepal it would have been an oil lamp. In many contexts a less literal translation would suffice, e.g., "he offered lamps, flowers, etc., to the deity".
བླ་མཆོད་
Transliteration: bla mchod
1) Meaning མཆོད་ཡུལ་གྱི་བླ་མ་ a lama / monk / priest in charge of offerings and worship. 2) Abbrev. of བླ་མ་མཆོད་པ་ q.v.
མཆོད་ལྷ་
Transliteration: mchod lha
<phrase> "Offering devas".
ལག་མཆོད་
Transliteration: lag mchod
<noun> "Hand offering". Secret mantra ritual terminology. This is a specific type of offering done in connection with deity practice in which one makes an offering in reference to one's personal skull cup.
མཆོད་ཆས་
Transliteration: mchod chas
<phrase> "Offering things", etc., the various utensils, such as bowls, and so on, used when making offerings.
མཆོད་ཆང་
Transliteration: mchod chang
<noun> [Hon] of ཆང་ q.v.
མཆོད་ཁང་
Transliteration: mchod khang
<noun> "Offering chapel" a room, rooms, or temple hall primarily used for making མཆོད་པ་ puja / offerings q.v.
མཆོད་ཀོང་
Transliteration: mchod kong
<noun> A small vessel for holding offerings. The ritualized form in Tibet was usually metal, with a stand underneath and a cup-shaped vessel on top. The original style in India was a very shallow bowl that was filled with oil and had a wick draped into the oil and over the edge of the bowl. The Tibetan-style vessel is commonly used for making offering lamps but is also used for holding othe…
མཆོད་ཐབས་
Transliteration: mchod thabs
<phrase> General name for ritual texts that have a rite for doing offerings.
མཆོད་གནས་
Transliteration: mchod gnas
<noun> The place to which worship is offered / to which pūja is made. E.g., the recipient of an offering, the deity which is the object of worship, the Three Jewels in Buddhist worship. This term has been translated as meaning the official who does offerings or worship but that is incorrect.
མཆོད་ཁྲི་
Transliteration: mchod khri
<noun> A stand or table used as the place where offerings are placed, for example during complex rituals such as empowerments. Same as མཆོད་ལྕོག་ and མཆོད་སྟེགས་q.v.
གཙང་མཆོད་
Transliteration: gtsang mchod
<phrase> "Pure offering". Secret mantra terminology regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering. The pure offering is the offering made to the deities and which is kept apart from the བཙོག་པ་ impure portion which is offered later to the lesser beings.
མཆོད་ཆོག་
Transliteration: mchod chog
<phrase> "Pūja rituals", "Pūja ceremonies". Abbrev. of མཆོད་པའི་ཆོ་ག་ meaning religious rituals or ceremonies connected with offering to the higher principles of the religion concerned. This term could be used with respect to Hindu pūja as much as it could for Buddhist pūja. See the term མཆོད་པ་. It is sometimes translated as worship though the real meaning is worship via offering.
ཕྱག་མཆོད་
Transliteration: phyag mchod
I. Abbrev. of ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་ and མཆོད་པ་འབུལ་བ་ the act of "making prostrations and giving offerings". 1) Literally to make prostrations and give offerings. 2) The general name for the class of rituals in which one prostrates and makes offerings.
II. [Hon] of ལག་མཆོད་ q.v.
དུང་མཆོད་
Transliteration: dung mchod
<phrase> "Conch Offering". Same as དུང་ཆོས་ q.v.
