THE ILLUMINATOR

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ལ་
Transliteration: la
I. <consonant letter> The twenty-sixth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = teeth; བྱེད་པ་ producer = tip of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = the tip of the tongue slightly touched to the teeth; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sounded. 2) When used…
ལྡང་བ་
Transliteration: ldang ba
I. <verb> v.i. ལྡངས་པ་/ ལྡང་བ་/ ལྡང་བ་/ ལྡོངས་/. "To get up from a position or place that one has been seated in". Hence "to arise", "to get up from", "to rise up", "to stand up". E.g., [TC] ཁྱེད་རང་ཕེབས་འཕྲལ་དུ་གདན་དེ་ནས་ཡར་ལྡངས་འདུག། "when it is time for you to go, you get up from the seat (and get ready to go)"; ཡར་ལྡོངས་ཤིག "arise!".
II. <verb> v.i. ལྡངས་པ་/ ལྡང་བ་/ ལྡང་བ་//. 1) Si…
རྗེན་
Transliteration: rjen
1) "Naked" as in nakedly seen; something which is fully visible because of having no coverings. 2) Naked, meaning the same as གཅེར་བུ་, without clothing or other covering. 3) Also used to mean "raw" as in raw meat or a raw situation.
ན་
Transliteration: na
I. <consonant letter> The twelfth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = སོ་སྣ་དང་བཅས་པ་ the teeth together with the nose; བྱེད་པ་ producer = ལྕེ་རྩེ་ the tip of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the tip of the tongue to the teeth; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effo…
མ་
Transliteration: ma
I. <consonant letter> The sixteenth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the lips; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the lips; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the two lips together; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sounded. 2) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-base, the c…