གཉིས་ཚིག་
Transliteration: gnyis tshig
<noun> "Dual plural". Tibetan grammar, following Sanskrit grammar, recognizes singular, dual plural, and multiple (more than two plural). The dual plural is marked specifically by placing the phrase assistive དག་ after the མིང་ grammatical name or མིང་དོན་ name equivalent that is to be made plural. See མང་ཚིག་ "plural" for the details of the singular, dual, and multi-plural cases of Tibetan…
ཉེར་ལེན་གཉིས་
Transliteration: nyer len gnyis
<phrase> "The two taking up's". In the process of the twelve links of interdependent origination, which consists of causes and effects, ཉེར་ལེན་ "taking up" is one of the causes within the process. Two sub-categories can be identified: དངོས་ཀྱི་ཉེར་ལེན་ "actual" and བརྒྱུད་པའི་ཉེར་ལེན་ "indirect" causes of "taking up". See also ཉེར་ལེན་བཞི་ "four types of taking up".
གཉིས་ཀའི་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: gnyis ka'i rgyud
<noun> "The tantra of both kinds". Translation from the Sanskrit of "ubhāyatantra". A name given in the Nyingma school to the second tantra of the lower tantras since it combines the view and practices of both the first and third (final) of the lower tantras. In the newer translations, it is called སྤྱོད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ caryatantra q.v. The name is different between new and old translation schoo…
ཐ་སྐར་གྱི་བུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: tha skar gyi bu gnyis
<noun> "The two sons of Aśhvini". A general name for both the ninth and tenth of the thirty-three chiefs of the gods of སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གསུམ་ The Thirty-Three. They are: 9) ཐ་སྐར་གྱི་ལྷ་ "Aśhvini Deva" and 10) གཞོན་ནུའི་ལྷ་ "Youthful Deva".
མཐའ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mtha' gnyis
<noun> "The two extremes". [DGT] gives them as: 1) རྟག་པའི་མཐའ་ "the extreme of permanence"; and 2) ཆད་པའི་མཐའ་ "the extreme of nihilation". Commonly abbrev. to རྟག་མཐའ་ and ཆད་མཐའ་. The first corresponds to the conceptual view of things being ཡོད་པ་ (solidly) existent and the second to the conceptual view of things being མེད་པ་ non-existent. See also མཐའ་བརྒྱད་ the eight extremes.
ཟིན་པ་དང་མ་ཟིན་པ་གཉིས་ཀའི་སྒྲ་
Transliteration: zin pa dang ma zin pa gnyis ka'i sgra
<phrase> "Sounds which (have a cause that is both) embraced and un-embraced (elements)". This refers to sounds that are produced with both animate and inanimate components, as with a drum being beaten by a human. See ཟིན་པའི་འབྱུང་བ་ for explanation.
རྒྱུ་འབྲས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rgyu 'bras kyi theg pa gnyis
<noun> "The two vehicles of cause and effect". In general, all the vehicles of the Buddhist tradition can be classified as either རྒྱུའི་ཐེག་པ་ cause vehicles or འབྲས་བུའི་ཐེག་པ་ effect vehicles. The former teach causes that lead to a later enlightenment; the latter teach the effect or result of enlightenment itself. The former are all of the vehicles of the sūtra system and the latter are …
གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་
Transliteration: gnyis su med pa'i ye shes
<phrase> "Non-dual wisdom". One translator gives "indivisible wisdom" but that is incorrect. The term means "non-dualistic wisdom" i.e., wisdom which is seeing གཉིས་མེད་ non-duality.
Note that all ཡེ་ཤེས་ wisdoms are only ever non-dual knowers; this term simply emphasizes that the wisdom being discussed in context either is concerned with non-duality in particular or really is non-dualistic.…
མཁན་པོ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mkhan po gnyis
<phrase> "The two Upādhyayas / Preceptors". There are two kinds of preceptor in the Buddhist monastic system. [DGT] gives as: 1) རབ་བྱུང་གི་མཁན་པོ་ "Ordination Upādhyaya" and 2) བསྙེན་རྫོགས་ཀྱི་མཁན་པོ་ "Approaching Completion Upādhyaya". They correspond to the preceptor who gives any of the ordination vows and the preceptor who gives the vows of fully-ordained monks and nuns respectively.
རོ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: ro bcu gnyis
<enum> "The twelve tastes". [JKE] gives as the རོ་དྲུག་ six tastes plus: 1) ཡིད་དུ་འོང་བ་ "delightful"; 2) ཡིད་དུ་མི་འོང་བ་ "not delightful"; 3) གཉིས་ཀ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ "neither"; 4) ལྷན་ཅིག་བྱེད་པ་ "both together"; 5) སྦྱར་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ "coming due to contact"; 6) གྱུར་བ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ "coming due to change".
བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པའི་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་
Transliteration: bsam gtan gnyis pa'i yan lag bzhi
<enum> "The four branches of the second dhyāna". [JKE] gives as: 1) ནང་རབ་ཏུ་དང་བ་ ""; 2) དགའ་བ་ ""; 3) བདེ་བ་ ""; 4) སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་པ་ "".
སྒྲིབ་པ་སྤངས་པའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sgrib pa spangs pa'i sems bskyed gnyis
<noun> "Two arousals of mind of abandonment of obscuration". The first is the bodhicitta aroused by the saṃbhogakāya, the second is the bodhicitta aroused by the dharmakāya of a nirmāṇakāya. They are: 1) ཆུ་རྒྱུན་ལྟ་བུའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ "arousal of mind like a flowing river"; 2) སྤྲིན་ལྟ་བུའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ "arousal of mind like a cloud".
ཡིད་གཉིས་ཟ་བ་
Transliteration: yid gnyis za ba
<verb> v.i. see ཡིད་གཉིས་ and also ཟ་བ་ meaning III. "To be in two minds" about something". Although this does mean "to be doubtful about" it should not be translated that way. The phrase ཐེ་ཚོམ་ཟ་བ་ matches the English "to be doubtful or to entertain doubts" where this phrase matches the English "to be in two mind about". Moreover, the two things are often seen on the same phrase, so it is…
མཆོད་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mchod pa gnyis
"The two kinds of offering". There are two kinds of offering that can be made to the དཀོན་མཆོག་ Three Jewels and they are enumerated in two different ways.
I. 1) ཟང་ཟིང་གི་མཆོད་པ་ worship by the offering of various material things and 2) སྒྲུབ་པའི་མཆོད་པ་ worship made by the offering of practice.
II. 1) དངོས་འབྱོར་གྱི་མཆོད་པ་ worship where material offerings are made and 2) ཡིད་སྤྲུལ་གྱི་མཆོད་པ་ wo…
སྙོམས་འཇུག་གཉིས་
Transliteration: snyoms 'jug gnyis
<enum> "The two equilibria". This refers to the two levels at the end of the two series of equilibria which are [DGT] [JKE]: 1) འགོག་པའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ "the equilibrium of (a śhrāvaka's) cessation" and 2) འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ "the equilibrium of no samjñā". The first is the final equilibrium of the series of equilibria on the Lesser Vehicle Buddhist path. The second is the highest possi…
དག་པ་གཉིས་ལྡན་
Transliteration: dag pa gnyis ldan
<phrase> "Possessing the two purities". The fruitional state of the dharmakāya is reached by removing the two-fold obscurations on it—the obscuration of the afflictions and the obscuration of the knowable. When it has been reached, it is therefore said to have the two purities of having removed the two obscurations. E.g., དྲི་མ་དང་བྲལ་བའི་དག་པ་གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་ཆོས་སྐུ་ "dharmakāya, possessor of…
གཉིས་སྣང་
Transliteration: gnyis snang
<phrase> "The appearance(s) of duality" or "dualistic appearance(s)". 1) In general, the appearance of duality that happens in a mind-stream which is seeing dualistic appearances instead of reality. E.g., འཁྲུལ་ཤེས་པའི་གཉིས་སྣང་ "the dualistic appearances of confused consciousness". E.g., [BKM] འོད་གསལ་གཏུམ་མོས་གཉིས་སྣང་བག་ཆགས་བཅོམ། "Luminosity Fierce Heat destroys the latencies of dualisti…
འདུ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: 'du shes kyi phung po bcu gnyis
<enum> [JKE] gives as: 1) མིག་གི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་ ""; 2) རྣ་བའི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་ ""; 3) སྣའི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་ ""; 4) ལྕེའི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་ ""; 5) ལུས་ཀྱི་འདུན་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་ ""; 6) ཡིད་ཀྱི་འདུས་ཏེ་རེག་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་ "".
བློ་ལ་གཉིས་སུ་དབྱེ་ཚུལ་
Transliteration: blo la gnyis su dbye tshul
<enum> "The ways of dividing rational mind into twos". [JKE] gives as: 1) རྟོག་པ་དང་རྟོག་མེད་ "with concept and without concept"; 2) ཚད་མ་དང་ཚད་མིན་ "valid cognition and not"; 3) འཁྲུལ་པ་དང་མ་འཁྲུལ་པ་ "confused and not"; 4) རྟོགས་པ་དང་མ་རྟོགས་པ་ "realisation and not".
