ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ་
Transliteration: phyogs kyi glang po
<noun> "Dignāga". Translation of the Sanskrit "dignāga". A great master of the Buddhist tradition of about the 6th century A.D. It is commonly stated that he is the means by which the lineage of pramāṇa was propagated fully. However, there are two lineages of pramāṇa, his being the most commonly known. His main text is the ཚད་མ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ་ "Compendium of Pramāṇa" q.v. His writings were a…
ཆེ་ལོང་
Transliteration: che long
<adj> "Roughly", "broadly", "mprecisely". This term is used in relation to things heard or known to indicate an imprecise or coarse or no more than broad understanding or expression of the matter. E.g., [TC] གོ་བ་ཆེ་ལོང་ཙམ་ལས་ལེན་མི་ཐུབ་པ། "Could not grasp it except for a very rough or (imprecise) understanding of it", གསུང་རྩོམ་ནང་ནས་ཆེ་ལོང་ཙམ་བསྡུས་པ། "It was included only very roughly wi…
དྲི་མ་ལྷན་གཅིག་སྐྱེས་པ་
Transliteration: dri ma lhan gcig skyes pa
<phrase> "Unified smell". In the definition of the objects of smell in the first aggregate of form, smell is divided into two types: དྲི་མ་ལྷན་གཅིག་སྐྱེས་པ་ unified smells and དྲི་མ་སྦྱར་བ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ mixed smells. Unified smells are those which might have multiple smells or not but which are known as a single smell.
ཇི་བཞིན་པ་
Transliteration: ji bzhin pa
<phrase> Abbrev. of ཇི་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན་པ་ "the state of (something) being just as it is". Acc. [MGR] it means གང་འདྲ་ཏག་ཏག་ཡིན་པ་ "exactly how (something) is". E.g., [FEG] སེམས་ལས་འདས་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཇི་བཞིན་པར་བཞུགས་པས་ན། "wisdom beyond mind is situated (there) just exactly as it is."
སྒྲུབ་པ་
Transliteration: sgrub pa
I. <verb> v.t. བསྒྲུབས་པ་/ སྒྲུབ་པ་/ བསྒྲུབ་པ་/ སྒྲུབས་/. Intransitive form is འགྲུབ་པ་ q.v. Translates various Sanskrit terms. 1) [TC] glosses the primary meaning of this terms as བྱེད་པ་ q.v. though the primary meaning has the specific sense "to do something in order to accomplish / produce / get / bring about something" hence "to accomplish" is often the meaning. For example, (in this no…
ལས་བཞི་
Transliteration: las bzhi
<noun> "The four karmas". In the development stage section of deity practice of the Secret Mantra Vehicle, one trains in ཕྲིན་ལས་ enlightened activity for the benefit of others through what are known as "the four karmas" i.e., "the four activities". These are four different styles of relating to energy. They are ཞི་བ་ "pacification / pacifying"; རྒྱས་པ་ "enrichment / enriching"; དབང་བ་ "mag…
འགྲུབ་པ་
Transliteration: 'grub pa
<verb> v.i. གྲུབ་པ་/ འགྲུབ་པ་/ འགྲུབ་པ་//. Transitive form is སྒྲུབ་པ་ q.v. 1) For something "to have happened or come about" because something has been done, accomplished, produced. Hence also, "to be accomplished", "to be done", "to be produced". (Note that the idea of "complete" is represented by the verb རྫོགས་པ་). E.g., [TC] ཡུན་རིང་བར་དུ་དཀའ་ལས་ཆེན་པོ་བྱས་ཏེ་གཞི་ནས་རེ་འདོད་ལྟར་འགྲུབ་ཐ…
བཞེངས་པ་
Transliteration: bzhengs pa
I. <verb> v.t. བཞེངས་པ་/ བཞེངས་པ་/ བཞེངས་པ་/ བཞེངས་/. [Hon] for གསར་དུ་བཟོ་བ་ (meaning 1) of བཟོ་བ་ "to create something" and "to construct / build", and also for སྐྲུན་པ་ "to produce / publish". E.g., the building of any important physical structure (e.g., those connected with Buddha dharma) is stated with this verb rather than བཟོ་བ་ or རྒྱབ་པ་. E.g., དགོན་པ་བཞེངས་ "built a gonpa"; ཆོས་རྟ…
མུ་སྟེགས་
Transliteration: mu stegs
<noun> "Tīrthika". Translation of the Sanskrit "Tīrthika".
The original Sanskrit means someone who has arrived on at the edge of a body of water and is about to step off into the water; a common reference is to the steps that led down to and into the water tanks of ancient India. (Water tanks were and still are a common part of life in India; they are excavated places lined with stone and wi…
ཕ་མཐའ་
Transliteration: pha mtha'
<phrase> "Far limit", "an extreme", "end-point" Abbrev. of ཕ་ཡི་མཐའ་. The ཕ་ is often just an intensifier of the basic meaning མཐའ་ "limit" and sometimes the whole term can just be translated with "limit" or "an extreme". However, it is a little different and has the sense of a specific end, a borderline where something stops, an actual end. E.g., སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་མཛད་པ་དང་འཕྲིན་ལས་ནམ་མཁའི…
པདྨ་ལས་འཁྲུངས་
Transliteration: padma las 'khrungs
<adj>phrase> "Lotus-born" or "born of / from a lotus". Used to refer to beings who have taken a རྫུས་ཏེ་སྐྱེས་པ་ miraculous type of birth in general and were born from a lotus in particular. E.g., both འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་ Āryadeva and པདྨ་སམྦྷ་ཝ་ Padmasaṃbhava had this kind of miraculous birth.
ལས་སླ་པོ་
Transliteration: las sla po
<adj> "Easy", "simple" meaning not difficult, not hard, or not complex. The opp. of ཁག་པོ་ q.v. E.g., ནང་སྦྱོང་ལས་སླ་པོ་ "easy homework".
ལས་ནག་པོ་
Transliteration: las nag po
<phrase> "Black karma" or "bad karma". Opp. of ལས་དཀར་པོ་ q.v. 1) The general name for an action of body speech or mind that plants a མི་དགེ་བ་ non-virtuous karmic seed. E.g., see མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ་ "the ten non-virtues" all of which are bad karmic actions. 2) The general name for any non-virtuous karma seed(s) that has been planted.
