ནད་རིགས་བཞི་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བཞི་
Transliteration: nad rigs bzhi brgya rtsa bzhi
<phrase> "The four hundred and four types of disease". The Tibetan medical system, when classifying disease, picks out four hundred and four root diseases.
རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་ཐེབས་རིགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: rdo rje rgyal thebs rigs bzhi
"The four vajra families of the conqueror's pavilion". Secret mantra terminology. They are the families of རྡོ་རྗེ་རིན་ཆེན་པདྨ་ལས་ vajra, ratna, padma, and karma.
མི་རིགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: mi rigs bzhi
<phrase> "The four castes of men". This refers to the རིགས་བཞི་ four castes of men as found in Hindu society of ancient India. [DGT] gives as: 1) རྒྱལ་རིགས་ "royal caste"; 2) རྗེ་རིགས་ "lordly caste"; 3) བྲམ་ཟེའི་རིགས་ "Brahmin caste"; 4) གདོལ་པའི་རིགས་ "menial caste". However, the last one he gives is actually a lesser sub-division of the real fourth caste which is the དམངས་རིགས་ "commoner…
སྐད་རིགས་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་
Transliteration: skad rigs chen po bzhi
<phrase> "The four major languages". In ancient India it was considered that there were four, major languages. See under སྐད་རིགས་བཞི་ "the four languages" for a listing.
འདོད་ཆགས་རིགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: 'dod chags rigs bzhi
<phrase> "The four kinds of desire" meaning the four kinds of desire that occurs between men and women. [DGT] gives as: 1) གཉིས་གཉིས་འཁྱུད་པའི་འདོད་ཆགས་ "the desire to conjugate"; 2) ལག་པ་བཅངས་པའི་འདོད་ཆགས་ "the desire to hold hands"; 3) རྒོད་པའི་འདོད་ཆགས་ "the desire to laugh"; 4) བལྟས་པའི་འདོད་ཆགས་ "the desire to gaze upon".
རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རིགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: rnal 'byor rgyud kyi rigs bzhi
<enum> "The four families of Yogatantra". [JKE] gives as: 1) དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་རིགས་ "the tathagata family"; 2) རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས་ "the vajra family"; 3) པདྨའི་རིགས་ "the padma family"; 4) རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རིགས་ "the jewel family".
འཕགས་པའི་རིགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: 'phags pa'i rigs bzhi
<enum> "The four āryas", "the four superior ones". [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) ཆོས་གོས་ངན་ངོན་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཆོག་ཤེས་པ་ "being content with some few clothes, whatever"; 2) བསོད་སྙོམས་ངན་ངོན་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཆོག་ཤེས་པ་ "being content with some few alms, whatever"; 3) གནས་མལ་ངན་ངོན་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཆོག་ཤེས་པ་ "being content with some dwelling, whatever"; 4) སྤོང་བ་དང་སྐོམ་པ་ལ་དགའ་པ་ "taking joy in abandonment".
རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: rgyal chen rigs bzhi
<noun> "The Four Classes of Great Kings". The name given to the first and lowest of the འདོད་ལྷ་རིགས་དྲུག་ six classes of gods in the འདོད་ཁམས་ desire realm which is composed of four sub-groups. They are also known as the རྒྱལ་ཆེན་སྡེ་བཞི་ "Four Orders of Great Kings". The abodes of the four classes are called རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིས་བཞི་ "The Four Strata / Levels of the Great Kings" q.v. They are loc…
རིགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: rigs bzhi
I. <phrase> "The four families", in reference to the four families surrounding the central family of a maṇḍala.
II. <phrase> "The four castes" of ancient India. The Hindu spiritual tradition of ancient India defines four castes of humans in accordance with the four parts of Brahma's body mentioned in their sacred writings, the Vedas. Each caste has its place very clearly defined in Hin…
རྒྱལ་ཆེན་བཞི་
Transliteration: rgyal chen bzhi
<noun> "The Four Great Kings". Translation of the Sanskrit "caturmahārāja". 1) Abbrev. of རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞི་ "Four Classes of Great Kings" which is the general name for the gods who occupy the lowest level of the six levels of god of the desire realm q.v. 2) "Four Great Kings". One of two names for the fourth and highest stratum of the རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིས་བཞི་ "four strata of the Great Kings" q.v.…
རིགས་དམན་
Transliteration: rigs dman
<phrase> "Low-caste" meaning a person of the གདོལ་པའི་རིགས་ q.v. lowest of the རིགས་བཞི་ four classes of India, the This is not pejorative where the term རིགས་ངན་ q.v. is.
རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞིའི་ལྷ་
Transliteration: rgyal chen rigs bzhi'i lha
<noun> "The gods (or a god) of the Four Great Kings". Meaning a god or the gods of the རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞི་ Four Classes of Great Kings which is the lowest level of the six levels of desire realm gods.
ཤ་ཟའི་སྐད་
Transliteration: sha za'i skad
<noun> "Flesh-eater's language". Translation of the Sanskrit "piśhachika", the name of the language of the ཤ་ཟ་ flesh-eaters q.v. It is one of the སྐད་རིགས་བཞི་ four languages of the Buddha's time in ancient India q.v.
རིགས་དམའ་བ་
Transliteration: rigs dma' ba
<adj>phrase> 1) "Lower caste" referring to someone of lower caste in the caste system of India (see རིགས་བཞི་ four castes) or "lower family" referring to someone who comes from a family recognized as lower in social grading. 2) "Lesser type / class" or "inferior grade" in reference to something of lower grade than something else.
སྡེ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་
Transliteration: sde dpon chen po
<noun> "Great Commanders". One of two names for the fourth and highest stratum of the རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིས་བཞི་ "four strata of the Great Kings" q.v. It is the abode of རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་ the Four Great Kings who are the commanders of the four orders i.e., of the རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞི་ "Four Classes of Great Kings". The other name for this level is རྒྱལ་ཆེན་བཞི་ "Four Great Kings" q.v.
བྲམ་ཟེའི་རིགས་
Transliteration: bram ze'i rigs
<phrase> "Brahmin caste". The name of one of the རིགས་བཞི་ four castes of the Hindu culture of ancient India. The Brahmins were the priestly caste who upheld the spiritual traditions and performed the spiritual functions of the culture. Brahmins could pursue their priestly function in any of several ways, e.g., see མི་བཅུ་བཞི་ "the fourteen humans".
རྒྱལ་རིགས་
Transliteration: rgyal rigs
<noun> "Warrior caste". Translation of the Sanskrit "kṣhatriya". The name of one of the རིགས་བཞི་ four castes of the Hindu culture of ancient India. The original Sanskrit has the meaning of "warrior class" which is how the term is usually translated. See also མི་བཅུ་བཞི་ "the fourteen humans" for a sub-division of royal types.
