གྲུབ་ཆེན་ཨུ་རྒྱན་པ་
Transliteration: grub chen au rgyan pa
<noun> "Mahāsiddha Ugyenpa". One of several epithets of a man named རིན་ཆེན་དཔལ་ Rinchen Pal q.v.
ཨུ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: au rgyan
<noun> Tibetan equivalent of the ཟ་ཧོར་ Sahor term "Uddiyāna". 1) The place called Uddiyāna. 2) In reference to Guru Padmasaṃbhava who was from Uddiyāna. 3) A common name for a person in Tibet.
ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་
Transliteration: ao rgyan yul
<phrase> "The country of Orgyan" meaning the country called ཨུ་རྒྱན་ Uddiyana q.v.
དྷ་ན་ཀོ་ཤ་
Transliteration: dha na ko sha
<noun> "Dhanakosha". The name of a lake in the ancient country ཨུ་རྒྱན་ Uddiyana.
ཨིནྡྲ་བྷུ་ཏི་
Transliteration: aindra bhu ti
<noun> "Indrabhuti". Translit. of the Sanskrit "indrabhuti". A king of ཨུ་རྒྱན་ Uddiyāna after the time of the Buddha who figures prominently in the transmission of the tantras. There are various descriptions of who he is and the role he played. In [OTT] it gives that Vajrapaṇi manifested as Indrabhuti in order to ensure that all of the tantras stayed in this world without waning and disapp…
རྒྱན་པ་
Transliteration: rgyan pa
<verb> v.t. བརྒྱན་པ་/ རྒྱན་པ་/ བརྒྱན་པ་/ རྒྱན་/. "To adorn" something or someone with things ornaments or jewellery for the sake of beautifying it. Hence also "to ornament", "to beautify", and "to decorate", "to bedeck". E.g., [TC] རྒྱན་ཆ་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་བརྒྱན་པ། "adorned with various ornaments"; རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན་གྱིས་བརྒྱན་པ། "adorned with jewelled ornaments" or "bedecked with ornaments of pr…
རྒྱན་ཆ་
Transliteration: rgyan cha
<noun> A general term for anything used for beautification of something else. E.g., ornamentation, adornment(s). Jewellery is one kind of རྒྱན་ཆ་.
རྣ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: rna rgyan
<noun> Lit. "ear ornament"; "earring" of any kind.
ཀ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: ka rgyan
<noun> "Pillar decoration / ornamentation". The name given to the decoration or decorative designs worked onto the outer surface of a ཀ་བ་ pillar q.v.
ཕྲ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: phra rgyan
<noun> "Jewellery" but specifically meaning ornaments that are inlaid with ཕྲ་ jewels q.v.
སྣ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sna rgyan
<noun> "Nose ornament"; general name for any of the many, various types of nose ornament worn by Asian people, usually women.
ཞལ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: zhal rgyan
<noun> [Hon] poetic for ཁ་སྤུ་ "beard" or "moustache".
རྒྱན་པོ་
Transliteration: rgyan po
<noun> "A gambler" or "gambling". Gambling was most often done in Tibet in dice games, therefore, gambling in general is also referred to as playing dice. Also, རྒྱན་འགྱེད་པ་ "to gamble".
ཤོ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sho rgyan
<noun> "Dice wager"; the wager put down in a game of dice. Also see this meaning under རྒྱན་ "bet".
ཨོ་རྒྱན་པདྨ་
Transliteration: ao rgyan padma
<noun> "Orgyan Padma" a common Tibetan epithet of Padmasaṃbhava who was from of Uddiyana, usually called Orgyan in Tibet.
རྒྱན་བཞི་
Transliteration: rgyan bzhi
<noun> "The four ornaments". [DGT] gives as: 1) ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of discipline"; 2) ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of samādhi"; 3) ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of prajñā"; 4) གཟུངས་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of dhāraṇi".
སྐུ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sku rgyan
<noun> 1) [Hon] for རྒྱན་ or རྒྱན་ཆ་ meaning any kind of ornamentation placed on the body. 2) [Hon] for རྒྱན་ meaning the stake in betting games.
ཟུར་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: zur rgyan
<noun> Lit. "side ornament" but meaning a small text or piece of writing that functions as an addition to some major work. It does not mean "addendum" but refers to "additional material" on the same topic as a central work but that has been written in a separate place. In some cases, "ornamented in the margins" is the meaning conveyed.
