ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: theg pa chen po gnyis
<phrase> "The two Great Vehicles". The Mahāyāna consists of exoteric and esoteric teachings. The former are the sūtra teachings and the latter are the tantra teachings. These are then considered as two sub-vehicles of the ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Vehicle q.v. for more.
ཁ་ཞེ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: kha zhe gnyis
<phrase> Without mind thinking one thing to itself yet saying something else with the mouth. It can be hypocrisy or fundamental dishonesty or lack of sincerity. E.g, ཁ་ཞེ་གཉིས་མེད་ཀྱི་སྒོ་ནས་ཡང་ཡང་བརྗོད་ན། "to recite (a prayer) again and again without hypocrisy or with complete sincerity".
རྟེན་ཅན་གྱི་དབང་པོ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rten can gyi dbang po gnyis
<enum> "The two organs of those with support" meaning the organs of the beings with the support a human body that enable the body to be distinguished as either male or female: 1) ཕོ་དབང་ the male organ and མོ་དབང་ the female organ.
སེམས་ཙམ་པ་རྣམ་བརྫུན་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sems tsam pa rnam brdzun gnyis
<enum> "The two Mind-only False Aspectarians". [JKE] gives: 1) དྲི་བཅས་ "with stains"; 2) དྲི་མེད་ "without stains".
བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: bsam gtan gnyis pa
<noun> "Second Dhyana". 1) The name of the second of the four བསམ་གཏན་བཞི་ dhyāna meditation states. 2) The name of the second level of beings living in the གཟུགས་ཁམས་ form realm which corresponds to the second dhyāna on form. This level contains three abodes of beings, བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པའི་གནས་གསུམ་ "the three abodes of the second dhyāna", q.v.
འགྲོ་བ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: 'gro ba gnyis
<phrase> "The two migrations" or "the two (types of) migrator". The six classes of migrators can be summed up as having either [DGT] ངན་འགྲོ་ a bad migration or བདེ་འགྲོ་ a happy migration. The bad migrations are the three bad migrations of birth in the hell, preta, or animal realms. The happy migrations are the three migrations of birth in the human, asura, or god realms.
དགེ་འདུན་སྡེ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dge 'dun sde gnyis
<phrase> "The two classes of Buddhist community". One of several divisions of the Buddhist community. This divides the community into: 1) those who are monastics, holding the vows of individual emancipation, and 2) those who are not monastics but are tantrikas, holding the vows of the secret mantra vehicle.
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཛད་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas kyi mdzad pa bcu gnyis
<phrase> "Twelve deeds of a buddha". Buddhas who appear in the world as a supreme nirmanakaya that turns the wheel of dharma are said to perform a total of twelve, major acts. See རྒྱལ་བའི་མཛད་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ q.v.
བདེན་པ་གཉིས་དབྱེར་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: bden pa gnyis dbyer med pa
<phrase> "Inseparable / inseparability of the two truths" meaning the inseparability of the བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ two truths taught by the Buddha. The two truths are an artificial division of reality into two versions; one truth is reality as it is seen by ordinary beings and the other truth is reality as it is seen by superior beings. This division is made for the sake of teaching sentient beings, …
རེག་བྱ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: reg bya gnyis
<phrase> "The two touchables". The two touchables are the two main types of རེག་བྱ་ physical sensation that the body can experience according to Abhidharma literature. For the two, see རེག་བྱ་འཇམ་རྩུབ་ "rough and soft touchables". A more exhaustive list is found in རེག་བྱ་བཅུ་གཅིག་ "the eleven touchables".
ཨཱ་ལི་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: a'a li gnyis pa
<phrase> "The second vowel". A term found in Tibetan grammar texts meaning the second of the four, defined vowels (see ཨཱ་ལི་བཞི་) of the Tibetan alphabet. It is the vowel called ཞབས་ཀྱུ་ "zhabkyu". The four vowels are listed under the Tibetan name for the four vowels, དབྱངས་བཞི་ q.v.
གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པ་གསུང་བ་
Transliteration: gnyis su med pa gsung ba
<noun> "Advocate of Non-duality". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "advayavadi". One of many སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ epithets of the buddha.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་བདག་འཛིན་གཉིས་
Transliteration: chos kyi bdag 'dzin gnyis
<enum> "The two types of self-grasping of phenomena". [JKE] gives as: 1) ཆོས་ཀྱི་བདག་འཛིན་ལྷན་སྐྱེས་ "co-emergent self-grasping of phenomena"; and 2) ཆོས་ཀྱི་བདག་འཛིན་ཀུན་བཏགས་ "imputed ...".
ཤིང་རྟའི་སྲོལ་འབྱེད་གཉིས་
Transliteration: shing rta'i srol 'byed gnyis
<phrase> "The two who set great traditions in motion" or "The two establishers of main systems". The two are ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ Nāgārjuna and ཐོག་མེད་ Asaṅga who were the originators of the two major systems of thought (chariots) which carried the Buddha's teaching successively down into the future. The two systems established by them are the ཤིང་རྟའི་སྲོལ་གཉིས་ q.v.
སོར་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sor gnyis
<noun> 1) "Two fingerwidths"; the measurement of the width of two fingers. 2) "Two fingers". The name of the seventh of the ten behaviours that were deemed unacceptable at the second council at Vaiśhālī; see རུང་བ་མ་ཡིན་པའི་གཞི་བཅུ་ "ten unacceptable grounds".
གཉིས་སྟོང་
Transliteration: gnyis stong
I. <noun> Meaning abbrev. of སྟོང་ཕྲག་གཉིས་, the number two thousand.
II. <noun> Phrase meaning "empty of the two" i.e., empty of the two types of self. This term is usually seen in the སེམས་ཙམ་ Mind-only system where it refers specifically to the emptiness of གཟུང་བྱ་ and འཛིན་བྱེད་ the grasped at object and the grasping subject both of which are regarded as consciousness.
ཞྭ་དམར་ནག་གཉིས་
Transliteration: zhva dmar nag gnyis
<noun> "The two wearers of a hat, one red and one black". This refers to the Karmapa of the ཀརྨ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition and his regent Zhamarpa who alternated for many incarnations as the holders of the Karma Kagyu tradition. The Karmapa has a special black hat and the Zhamarpa has a special red hat.
