རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: rgyal ba rgya mtsho
Translation of the Sanskrit "Jinasagāra". The name of Avalokiteśhvara when appearing as a yidam form in བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་རྒྱུད་ unsurpassed yogatantra. The usual form is red and has one face and two arms. The deity is classified as མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra".
རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: rgya mtsho
<noun> "Lake", "ocean". Translation of the Sanskrit "sagara". The name given to any large body of water; it can refer to a lake or an ocean. It is used heavily in literature as a metaphor to indicate an abundance or vastness of something. E.g., ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ "ocean of wisdom".
རྒྱལ་བ་
Transliteration: rgyal ba
I. <verb> v.i. རྒྱལ་བ་/ རྒྱལ་བ་/ རྒྱལ་བ་//. "To obtain victory" hence "to be victorious", "to win", "to prevail" and in some contexts "to conquer". Opp. of འཕམ་པ་ "to be defeated", "to lose out" q.v. E.g., [TC] སུ་རྒྱལ་སུ་ཕམ་གྱི་འཐབ་འཛིང་། "a fight to see who will win and who will lose" i.e., "a fight to the end"; དགྲ་ལས་རྒྱལ་ཏེ་དགའ་སྟོན་བྱེད། "victorious over the enemy, they celebrated"; ར…
རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལྟ་བུ་
Transliteration: rgya mtsho lta bu
<phrase> "Ocean-like" or "like an ocean".
རྒྱལ་བ་པ་
Transliteration: rgyal ba pa
<noun> "Jain". An alternative name for the གཅེར་བུ་པ་ Nirgrantha sect and followers of it. It has become their most popular name.
རྒྱལ་མཚན་
Transliteration: rgyal mtshan
<noun> "Victory banner". Translation of the Sanskrit "dhvaja". A structure made out of cloths of various colours, similar in shape to an གདུགས་ Indian-style umbrella but with many layers of hangings that make for a long hanging altogether. It has a crest ornament or jewel which is the insignia of the person or tradition being represented. This རྩེ་ཏོག་ or རྩེ་ནོར་ crest ornament is used ext…
བསྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: bskal bzang rgya mtsho
<noun> "Kalsang Gyatso". [1708-1757]. The name of the seventh Dalai Lama.
རྒྱལ་མཚམས་
Transliteration: rgyal mtshams
<noun> Abbrev. of རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ས་མཚམས་ I.e., the "border of a kingdom" or other independent state / country.
རྒྱལ་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: rgyal zla ba
<noun> In Indian language "puṣhya". The name of the second of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the twelfth ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month. 2) In the original system for determining the month, which is the ancient Indian system defined in the འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ Vinaya sūtra, it is the month during which the star / constellation རྒྱལ་ rises with the full moon. (Tha…
འཁོར་བའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: 'khor ba'i rgya mtsho
<phrase> "The ocean of saṃsāra", "the ocean of cyclic existence". A common epithet in Buddhist works for cyclic existence used to indicate the extensiveness and difficulty of crossing over and being liberated from it. The image of ཚུ་རོལ་ "this shore" and ཕ་རོལ་ "the far shore" is used to represent being in cyclic existence and having reached freedom from it.
བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: blo gros rgya mtsho
<proper name> A man's name. 1) Skt. matisāgara; the name of a bodhisatva of the Buddha's time. 2) Commonly seen as a man's name in Tibet.
བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: bsod nams rgya mtsho
<noun> "Sonam Gyatso". [1543-1588] The name of the third ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་ Dalai Lama. This Dalai Lama was the first to receive the title ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་ Dalai Lama; his former incarnations were called the first and second Dalai Lamas after that. The title was bestowed by the Mongolian emperor of the time who was impressed with the wisdom of Sonam Gyatso.
བྱ་རྒྱལ་
Transliteration: bya rgyal
<phrase> "King of birds". The king of birds is the ཁྱུང་ Garuḍa. E.g., བྱ་རྒྱལ་ཁྱུང་ "king of birds, the Garuḍa".
རྒྱལ་བུ་
Transliteration: rgyal bu
<noun> "Prince"; lit. "king's son". It is the [Non-Hon] form of རྒྱལ་སྲས་ q.v.
རྒྱལ་མོ་
Transliteration: rgyal mo
<noun> "Queen". Translation of the Sanskrit "rani". The male term is རྒྱལ་པོ་ q.v.
རྒྱལ་མོ་ཚ་བ་རོང་
Transliteration: rgyal mo tsha ba rong
<noun> "Gyalmo Tshawa Rong". The name of a major district in East Tibet, within the Chinese province called སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་ Sezchuan.
ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: yon tan rgya mtsho
<noun> "Ocean of Good Qualities". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "guṇasāgara". 1) One of many སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ epithets of the buddha. 2) [1589-1616] The name of the fourth ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་ Dalai Lama. 3) One of several names of the first འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་ Jamgon Kongtrul who was also called Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye and Jamgon Kongtrul Yontan Gyatso.
རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོ་
Transliteration: rgya mtsho chen po
<noun> "Ocean" or "great ocean" or "sea" where the term usually refers to one of the large seas or oceans of this world.
འདུས་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: 'dus pa rgya mtsho
<phrase> "The ocean of participants" meaning the ocean-like extent of participants in a ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering. Secret mantra terminology of the རྙིང་མ་ old school regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering [AKR].
