འདོད་ལྷའི་གནས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: 'dod lha'i gnas gnyis
<phrase> "The two abodes of desire gods". There are འདོད་ལྷ་རིགས་དྲུག་ six types of gods in the desire realm. They have two different abodes: the gods of the two lowest levels live on Mt. Sumeru and those of the four highest levels live in the space around the peak of Mt. Sumeru.
སྟོང་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: stong gnyis pa
<noun> "Second order chiliocosm" or "second order thousand-fold (world system)". Abbrev. of སྟོང་གཉིས་པ་བར་མའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་ q.v. See སྟོང་ཆེན་པོའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་ "a great chiliocosm world system" for explanation.
Note that this is a "second order thousand-fold" world system not a "two-thousand-fold" world system. It is a world system containing 1000 to the power two single world sy…
གཞལ་བྱ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: gzhal bya gnyis
<enum> I. "The two things to be evaluated". [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) སྤྱི་མཚན་ "generally characterized" and 2) རང་མཚན་ "specifically characterized phenomena".
II. "The two things to be evaluated". [JKE] gives as: 1) སྤྱི་ "general" and 2) བྱེ་བྲག་ "specific".
III. "The two things to be evaluated". [JKE] gives as: 1) རྟག་པ་ "permanent" and 2) མི་རྟག་པ་ "impermanent".
སིམ་གདུང་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sim gdung gnyis
A phrase indicating the two opp. experiences of སིམ་པ་ pleasing, easy and གདུང་བ་ painful, suffering experiences. It is equivalent to བདེ་སྡུག་གཉིས་ which is usually translated as happy and sad / pleasant and unpleasant. The pair of terms here have a more colourful emphasis indicating the idea of a mind which is serene and filled with happiness versus one that is in distress.
ཀུན་རྫོབ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: kun rdzob gnyis
<phrase> "The two fictions". The ཀུན་རྫོབ་ fictional q.v., obscured situation of sentient beings is actually of two kinds [DGT]: 1) one which is correct at the level of the obscuration that it is part of called ཡང་དག་པའི་ཀུན་རྫོབ་ "correct fiction" and 2) the other and one which is incorrect even at that level called ལོག་པའི་ཀུན་རྫོབ་ "wrong fiction".
ཚོགས་གཉིས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་
Transliteration: tshogs gnyis rin po che
<phrase> "Tsoknyi Rinpoche". The name of great practitioner of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage whose first incarnation appeared in Kham, Tibet, in the middle of the nineteenth century. His rapid and very high level of accomplishment earned him the title གྲུབ་དབང་ཚོགས་གཉིས་ "Drubwang Tsoknyi".
གཉིས་ཤད་
Transliteration: gnyis shad
<noun> "Double stroke". Name of a punctuation mark. A double form of the basic punctuation mark called a ཤད་ "shay" or "stroke". Whereas a གཅིག་ཤད་ single shay is used to end the Tibetan equivalent of a sentence, the double shay is used to end much longer sections of text called དོན་ཚན་ section of meaning q.v. A double shay looks like this: །།
གྲུབ་མཐའ་འཛིན་པ་རྣམ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: grub mtha' 'dzin pa rnam gnyis
<phrase> "The two types of tenet-holders". From a Buddhist perspective, the two holders of tenets in India were: 1) ཕྱི་རོལ་པ་ "the outsiders"; and 2) ནང་པ་ "the insiders" i.e., non-Buddhists and Buddhists.
གྲུབ་མཐའ་སྨྲ་བ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: grub mtha' smra ba gnyis
<phrase> "The two (types of) proponents of tenets". This can have various meanings depending on context. 1) Same as གྲུབ་མཐའ་འཛིན་པ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ meaning Buddhist and non-Buddhist. 2) The holders of the Buddhist གྲུབ་མཐའ་འོག་མ་ and གྲུབ་མཐའ་གོང་མ་ lower and higher tenets. 3) The adherents to the tenets of any two differing schools of thought.
ཐབས་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རྫས་གཉིས་བསྣོལ་མར་སྟོབས་
Transliteration: thabs shes kyi rdzas gnyis bsnol mar stobs
<phrase> "Presenting the substances of skilful means and wisdom with crossed arms". Secret mantra terminology regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast offering.
རིམ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rim pa gnyis
<phrase> "Two stages". 1) The most common reference in Vajrayāna texts is the one given by [DGT]: 1) བསྐྱེད་པའི་རིམ་པ་ "development stage" and 2) རྫོགས་པའི་རིམ་པ་ "completion stage". 2) "Two stages". A second common reference in Vajrayāna texts is seen in [ZGT]: 1) ཐབས་ལམ་ "the path of skilful means" and 2) གྲོལ་ལམ་ "the path of liberation".
གཉིས་མེད་རྒྱུད་ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག་
Transliteration: gnyis med rgyud aa ti yo ga
<phrase> "Non-dual tantra, Atiyoga". In the རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system, the tantras are classified into outer and inner. The inner tantras are classified into three, Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga. These correspond to father, mother, and non-dual respectively, with ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག་ "Atiyoga" being classified as གཉིས་མེད་རྒྱུད་ "non-dual tantra". See also ཕ་རྒྱུད་མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་ག་ "Father tantra, Mahāyoga" a…
མི་རྟག་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mi rtag pa gnyis
<phrase> "Two (types of) impermanence". Impermanence is sometimes divided in Buddhist scripture into རགས་པ་ coarse i.e., that which is visible to / can be directly experienced by humans and ཕྲ་མོ་ subtle, that which cannot. For example, the change of seasons is visible but the moment to moment aging of the body is not.
འཇིག་རྟེན་རྣམ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: 'jig rten rnam gnyis
<enum> "The two types of world". 1) Meaning སྣོད་ཀྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ the container worlds and བཅུད་ཀྱི་སེམས་ཅན་ the sentient beings contained in them. 2) Meaning the world of this life and the worlds of future lives. Here "world" does not mean the outer world but has the second meaning from ancient Indian culture of the life experienced at the time.
ཀུན་རྫོབ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: kun rdzob byang chub kyi sems gnyis
<phrase> "The two types of fictional bodhicitta". The two types referred to are སྨོན་འཇུག་གི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ "aspiring and engaging bodhicittas" q.v. Often abbrev. to བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་གཉིས་ "two types of bodhicitta" and in some contexts "two-part bodhicitta", e.g., [BKM] བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་གཉིས་ལྡན་པ་ལ༔ བར་ཆད་ཀུན་གྱིས་ཉེ་མི་ནུས༔ "No obstacle can come near a person with two-part bodhicitta".
དབུ་མ་ཕྱི་ནང་ཕྲ་རགས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dbu ma phyi nang phra rags gnyis
<phrase> "The two Madhyamakas, outer and inner, coarse and subtle" meaning the two main types of Madhyamaka philosophy, 1) the coarse outer Madhyamaka of the Svatrantikas and the subtle inner philosophy of the Prasaṅgikas or 2) acc. followers of the Yogacara Madhyamaka, the coarse outer Madhyamaka of the Svatrantikas and Prasaṅgikas as opposed to the subtle inner Madhyamaka of the Yogacara …
ལམ་ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་ཐོད་རྒལ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: lam khregs chod thod rgal gnyis
<phrase> "The two paths of Thorough Cut and Direct Crossing". The two paths called ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་ Thorough Cut and ཐོད་རྒལ་ Direct Crossing that together contain the whole teaching of the ཡང་གསང་སྙིང་ཐིག་ innermost secret section of Great Completion.
