བུམ་པའི་ཁྱིམ་
Transliteration: bum pa'i khyim
<phrase> "The house of the vase". The eleventh of སྐར་ཁྱིམ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve houses of the zodiac. The same as "The house / mansion of Aquarius (the water bearer)".
སོ་སོར་ཐར་པའི་རིགས་བདུན་
Transliteration: so sor thar pa'i rigs bdun
<phrase> "The seven types of (approach to) individual emancipation". This is not the "seven types of vows of individual emancipation" but the seven types of people who travel the path of individual emancipation. The types are differentiated by the level of vow that they take. [DGT] gives as: 1-2) དགེ་བསྙེན་ཕ་མའི་སྡོམ་པ་གཉིས་ "layman and laywoman"; 3-4) དགེ་ཚུལ་ཕ་མའི་སྡོམ་པ་གཉིས་ "male and f…
རྨིག་པ་ཁ་དབྲག་
Transliteration: rmig pa kha dbrag
<phrase> "Cleaved hooves"; general name for animals who are hooved and whose hooves are cleaved into two. See also རྨིག་གཉིས་མ་.
དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་
Transliteration: don dam bden pa
<phrase> "Superfactual truth". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "paramārthasatyam". The higher of བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ two levels of truth taught by the Buddha.
སྒྱུ་མའི་དཔེ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sgyu ma'i dpe bcu gnyis
<phrase> "The twelve analogies of illusion". Phenomena are empty yet vividly apparent. They are described as appearing in an illusory way. There are twelve analogies of this empty yet illusory appearance given in the prajñāpāramitā sūtras dealing with emptiness.
[DGT] gives the twelve as: 1) སྒྱུ་མ་ "illusion"; 2) སྨིག་རྒྱུ་ "mirage"; 3) དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ "gandharva city"; 4) འཇའ་ཚོན་ "rain…
རབ་བྱུང་གི་སྡོམ་ལྡན་ལྔ་
Transliteration: rab byung gi sdom ldan lnga
<phrase> "The five ordained persons". This refers to the five types of ordained people (in the Sarvastivada tradition of the Vinaya). They are: 1-2) དགེ་སློང་ཕ་མ་གཉིས་ male and female fully ordained person; 3) དགེ་སློབ་མ་ female trainee for full ordination; and 4-5) དགེ་ཚུལ་ཕ་མ་གཉིས་ male and female novice ordained person.
རྟེན་འབྲེལ་གྱི་དཔེ་ཆོས་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rten 'brel gyi dpe chos bcu gnyis
<enum> "The twelve items of dependent-related arising". These are the twelve depictions of the twelve links of dependent-related arising that the Buddha ordered Śhariputra to have painted. [JKE] gives as: 1) རྒས་མོ་ལོང་བ་ "an blind old woman"; 2) རྫ་མཁན་ "a potter"; 3) སྤྲེའུ་ "a monkey"; 4) གྲུ་གཟུངས་ "a boatman"; 5) ཁང་གསར་རྫོགས་པར་གྲུབ་པ་ "a new house freshly built"; 6) ཕོ་མོ་འཁྱུད་པ་ "m…
སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sbyangs pa'i yon tan bcu gnyis
<enum> "The twelve ascetic virtues". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "dvādaśh dhūtagūṇa". Note the literal meaning is "the twelve good qualities to be trained in". [DGT] explains that the twelve can be divided into three main sections as follows. There are: 1) ཟས་ three for food; 2) གོས་ three for clothes, and 3) གནས་མལ་ six for places of dwelling and resting.
Acc. [NDS] [DGT] [JKE] they a…
ཟག་མེད་ཀྱི་ལས་
Transliteration: zag med kyi las
<phrase> "Karma without defilement". One of the ལས་གཉིས་ two types of karma when karma is divided into 1) ཟག་བཅས་ཀྱི་ལས་ defiled and 2) ཟག་མེད་ཀྱི་ལས་ undefiled.
འདུལ་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོ་
Transliteration: 'dul 'dzin chen po
<phrase> "A great holder of the Vinaya"; in reference to a person who is a great upholder of the Vinaya teaching of the Buddha. E.g., འདུལ་འཛིན་མཆོག་གཉིས་ q.v.
ཉན་ཐོས་མཆོག་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: nyan thos mchog brgyad
<phrase> "The eight supreme śhrāvakas". The ten closest śhrāvaka disciples of the buddha with the exception of the two very closest ones, ཉན་ཐོས་མཆོག་གཉིས་ "the two supreme śhrāvakas" q.v.
