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དུས་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dus tshod bcu gnyis
<phrase> "The twelve watches of a day". This is a division of the period of a whole day into twelve watches; the division appears in the Vinaya of the Buddha. The twelve, with descriptive meanings, not translations are: 1) ནམ་ལངས་ daybreak; 2) ཉི་ཤར་ sunrise; 3) ཉི་དྲོས་ morning; 4) ཉི་ཕྱེད་ midday; 5) ཕྱེད་ཡོལ་ early afternoon; 6) ཉི་མྱུར་ late afternoon; 7) ཉི་ནུབ་ sunset; 8) ས་སྲོས་ even…
འབྱུང་འགྱུར་གྱི་རེག་བྱ་ཉེར་གཉིས་
Transliteration: 'byung 'gyur gyi reg bya nyer gnyis
<enum> "The twenty-two tangibles of touch"; the Abhidharma enumerates seven and twenty-two tangible sensations as the རེག་བྱ་ objects of the body's sense of touch. For the seven see འབྱུང་འགྱུར་གྱི་རེག་བྱ་བདུན་. They are (as written in the Abhidharma) [JKE]: 1) འཇམ་པ་ "smoothness"; 2) རྩུབ་པ་ "roughness"; 3) ཡང་བ་ "lightness"; 4) ལྕི་བ་ "heaviness"; 5) མཉེན་པ་ "suppleness"; 6) ལྷོད་པ་ "rela…
གནས་བསྐལ་གྱི་དུས་བཞི་
Transliteration: gnas bskal gyi dus bzhi
<phrase> "The four eras of a persisting kalpa". A གནས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་ persisting kalpa q.v. has four eras to it: [NDS] 1) རྫོགས་ལྡན་གྱི་དུས་ "complete era / age"; 2) གསུམ་ལྡན་གྱི་དུས་ "three-part era"; 3) གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་དུས་ "two-part era / age"; 4) རྩོད་ལྡན་གྱི་དུས་ "strife era / age".
[DGT] gives the abbrev. forms: 1) རྫོགས་ལྡན་ "complete"; 2) གསུམ་ལྡན་ "three-fold"; 3) གཉིས་ལྡན་ "two-fold"; 4) …
ཀ་
Transliteration: ka
I. <consonant letter> The first 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 throat; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the throat; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = inner connection of the throat; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and un-sounded. 2) i) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-base…
ཅི་ཙམ་
Transliteration: ci tsam
<phrase> "How much", "just how much" and in some contexts "how far". When a question is being asked, for example about the difference between two or more things, the use of this phrase is usually equivalent to the English "exactly" or "just exactly". E.g., [GSB] ཉམས་དང་རྟོགས་པ་གཉིས་ལ་ཁྱད་ཅི་ཙམ་བདོག could be translated as "Just how much difference is there between experience and realization?…
ནོར་གཞི་
Transliteration: nor gzhi
<noun> Meaning the thing over which a mistake is made. E.g., [TC] གསེར་དང་ར་གན་གཉིས་ལ་ནོར་གཞི་ཡོད། "gold and brass both are the basis of a mistake (i.e., can be mistaken for each other)".
གསུམ་ཆ་
Transliteration: gsum cha
<noun> 1) The general meaning is one piece of something which has been divided into three. The fraction "a third"; for one-third སུམ་ཆ་གཅིག་; for two-thirds སུམ་ཆ་གཉིས་ for three-thirds སུམ་ཆ་གསུམ་ etcetera.