གབ་སྦས་
Transliteration: gab sbas
<phrase> Abbrev. of གབ་པ་ and སྦས་པ་. See གབ་སྦས་གཉིས་ for the meaning.
རྡོ་རྗེའི་གད་མོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rdo rje'i gad mo chen po bcu gnyis
<phrase> "The twelve great vajra laughters", the name of a set of key points of Great Completion practice which are one summary of the main key points of the practice. Acc. [TYL] it the major summary like this of key points. Another, similar set is རྣམ་ཤེས་ཚོགས་བརྒྱད་དག་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ཚིག་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད་ "the eight great phrases that cause the purification of the eightfold group of consciousness…
ཁ་ན་མ་ཐོ་བ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: kha na ma tho ba gnyis
<phrase> "Two kinds of wrong-doing". The term for wrong-doing here is ཁ་ན་མ་ཐོ་བ་ q.v. When that is analysed, there are two types [DGT]: 1) རང་བཞིན་གྱི་ཁ་ན་མ་ཐོ་བ་ natural wrong-doing; and 2) བཅས་པའི་ཁ་ན་མ་ཐོ་བ་ associated wrong-doing. The former means some wrong-doing done without a vowed restraint in relation to the bad action and the latter means some wrong-doing done that has a vowed re…
འཁོར་འདས་ཀྱི་འབྱུང་ལྡོག་ཕྲུགས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: 'khor 'das kyi 'byung ldog phrugs gnyis
<phrase> "The twofold forward and reverse approaches to saṃsāra and nirvāṇa". This refers to the set of events that lead forward into saṃsāra and the reverse set of those events that lead out of it into nirvana. Sutra says that the forward set of events is མ་རིག་པའི་རྐྱེན་གྱིས་འདུ་བྱེད། འདུ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རྐྱེན་གྱིས་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ། "by the condition of ignorance there are formations and by the cond…
མཁྱེན་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mkhyen pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two (enlightened) knowledges / ways of knowing", "the twofold / two kinds of knowledge". The way that the wisdom of the enlightened mind of a buddha knows things is summed up as two ways of knowing [DGT]: 1) ཇི་ལྟ་བ་མཁྱེན་པ་ "the knowledge of things as they are" and 2) ཇི་སྙེད་པ་མཁྱེན་པ་ "the knowledge of things in their extent". The former knows reality just exactly as it is …
ལས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: las gnyis
<enum> "The two karmas".
I. [DGT][JKE] give as: 1) སེམས་པའི་ལས་ "karma which is mental process" and 2) བསམ་པའི་ལས་ "karma due to mental process". These two are defined in the ཆོས་མངོན་མཛོད་ Abhidharmakoṣha. The first means karma which is created due to what happens in mind and the second means karma which is created due to the body (which comes because of thinking something first).
II. [JKE] …
རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རིམ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rang sangs rgyas kyi rim pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two levels of Pratyekabuddha". There are two types of pratyekabuddha according to their approach to practice. 1) བསེ་རུ་ལྟ་བུ་ "rhinoceros-like"; and 2) ཚོགས་དང་སྤྱོད་པ་ "going in society".
The rhinoceros-like pratyekabuddha is so-called because he abjures contact with all others, lives in solitude (like a rhinoceros), finds the path for himself, and practices it on his own unt…
བདེན་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: bden pa gnyis
I. <phrase> "The Two Truths". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "dve satya". The two truths are the standard formulation which encapsulate the entire Buddhist teaching. Using the popular translations, the two truths are [DGT]: 1) ཀུན་རྫོབ་བདེན་པ་ "the fictional truth" and 2) དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་ "the superfactual truth".
Fictional truth is the reality experienced by, i.e., the truth for beings who…
ལྷག་བཅས་ལྷག་མེད་ཀྱི་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: lhag bcas lhag med kyi dgra bcom pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two arhats, with and without remainder". A person who has become an arhat has abandoned all of the afflictions. There are two types of such arhat: one still has a remainder, which is the སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཉེར་ལེན་གྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ skandhas which attract suffering; the other has abandoned even the five skandhas which attract suffering and hence has no remainder. The first is called ལྷག་བཅས་ད…
གཉིས་མེད་
Transliteration: gnyis med
<noun> "Non-dual", "non-duality" meaning without duality. Translation of the Sanskrit "advita". Note that this term is a མེད་དགག་ non-affirming negation; it not only discounts "two" but discounts all other possibilities as well, including, e.g. "one". See གཉིས་མིན་ "not two" for the non-affirming negation and further notes.
This term is heavily used in Buddhist philosophy. It indicates the s…
ལུང་མ་བསྟན་གྱི་ལྟ་བ་བཅུ་བཞི་
Transliteration: lung ma bstan gyi lta ba bcu bzhi
<enum> "The fourteen things that went unstated". There were fourteen questions that were posed to the Buddha which went unanswered. The Buddha sat and gave no reply. Since he gave no indication one way or the other, these things are ལུང་མ་བསྟན་ "unstated" or "undetermined". Acc. [DGT] they are as follows. Note that an alternative rendering is found under ལུང་མ་བསྟན་གྱི་དངོས་པོ་བཅུ་བཞི་ "The…
གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་དུས་
Transliteration: gnyis ldan gyi dus
<noun> 1) "Two-fold era". Translation of the Sanskrit "dvāparayugam". The name of the third of གནས་བསྐལ་གྱི་དུས་བཞི་ the four ages that occur for humans during the existence of a human world. The name means that the age is reduced in quality and has only two of four possible good attributes to it compared to the first age which has all four complete. Humans of this time are only able to mai…
བསམ་གཏན་ས་དགུ་
Transliteration: bsam gtan sa dgu
<enum> "The nine levels of dhyāna". [DGT] gives as: 1) བསམ་གཏན་དང་པོའི་ཉེར་བསྡོགས་མི་ལྕོགས་མེད་པ་; 2) བསམ་གཏན་དང་པོའི་དངོས་གཞི་ཙམ་པོ་བ་; 3) དེའི་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་; 4) 5) བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པའི་ཉེར་བསྡོགས་དང་དངོས་གཞི་གཉིས་; 6) 7) བསམ་གཏན་གསུམ་པའི་ཉེར་བསྡོགས་དང་དངོས་གཞི་གཉིས་; 8) 9) བསམ་གཏན་བཞི་པའི་ཉེར་བསྡོགས་དང་དངོས་གཞི་གཉིས་.
བསམ་གཏན་གྱི་སྐྱོན་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: bsam gtan gyi skyon brgyad
<phrase> "The eight faults of dhyāna". These are eight things which cause dhyāna to be flawed. [DGT] gives as: 1-2) རྟོག་དཔྱོད་གཉིས་ "coarse and fine analysis"; 3-4) བདེ་སྡུག་གཉིས་ "happy and unhappy"; 5-6) ཡིད་བདེ་མི་བདེ་གཉིས་ "mind happy and unhappy"; 7-8) དབུགས་དབྱུང་རྔུབ་གཉིས་ "inbreath and outbreath".
སྒྲིབ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sgrib pa gnyis
<noun> "The two obscurations". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "āvaraṇa dvitidhaḥ". In Buddhism, when the various factors which obscure the mind from seeing reality are added up, they are most often divided into two major types of obscuration. [NDS] gives: 1) ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སྒྲིབ་པ་ "afflictional obscuration(s)"; 2) ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་པ་ "cognitional obscuration(s)".
The former are the coarse ob…
དབྱེ་གཞི་
Transliteration: dbye gzhi
<noun> The thing or principle used as the yardstick when making a དབྱེ་བ་ differentiation. E.g., when determining how བདེན་གཉིས་ the two truths should be distinguished, the བདེན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་དབྱེ་གཞི་ will be the basis upon which the differentiation will be made.
གཉིས་མེད་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: gnyis med rgyud
<phrase> "Non-dual tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "advititantra". 1) The གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras categorize the tantras and yidam practices associated with the བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ anuttarayoga section into three different types: 1) མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra"; 2) ཕ་རྒྱུད་ "father tantra"; and 3) གཉིས་མེད་རྒྱུད་ "non-dual tantra". Unlike the mother and father tantras, the n…
མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་རྣམ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mya ngan las 'das pa rnam pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two kinds of nirvāṇa". These are the nirvāṇas of the ཐེག་པ་དམན་པ་ Lesser Vehicle and of ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ the Great Vehicle. The ཐེག་དམན་གྱི་མྱང་འདས་ nirvāṇa of the Lesser Vehicle is a lesser level of realization compared to the ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་མྱང་འདས་ nirvāṇa of the Great Vehicle. The nirvāṇa of the Lesser Vehicle is སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ་ individual liberation for the person who attains it. …
དུས་འཁོར་ལས་བཤད་པའི་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dus 'khor las bshad pa'i 'phrul 'khor bcu gnyis
<phrase> "The twelve asanas as explained in Kālachakra". [DGT] gives as: 1) སྒྱོགས་ཀྱི་འཁྲུལ་འཁོར་; 2) གླུ་; 3) གྲི་གུག་; 4) གུར་; 5) ལྕགས་མདའ་; 6) རལ་གྲི་; 7) མེའི་འཁྲུལ་འཁོར་; 8) རླུང་གི་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར་; 9) ཤིང་རྟའི་ཚད་; 10) ཁང་བཟང་; 11) ཁྱོགས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད་; 12) ཆུ་གྱེན་དུ་འདྲེན་པའི་འཁྲུལ་འཁོར་.
