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རྒ་ཤི་
Transliteration: rga shi
<phrase> Abbrev. of རྒ་བ་ and ཤི་བ་. Translation of the Sanskrit "jarāmāraṇa". 1) "Aging and death" or "old-age and death" in general. 2) Specifically, "aging and death" or "old-age and death" is one of the principal features of the process of sentient beings' cycling through deluded existence. It is always the end of coming into existence and hence is the twelfth and final of the རྟེན་ཅིང་…

མགྱོགས་པོ་
Transliteration: mgyogs po
<adv> Equivalent to མགྱོགས་པ་ and having the same meaning as མྱུར་བ་. 1) "Quickly", "rapidly", "swiftly". E.g., མགྱོགས་པོ་བྱས་ནས་ཕྱིན་སོང་། "did it quickly then left". 2) "Soon" e.g., ངས་མགྱོགས་པོ་ཡོང་གི་ཡིན། "I will come soon".

ཟུར་མིག་
Transliteration: zur mig
<noun> The name given to a look done out of the corner of the eyes either due to attraction, such as in a flirtatious glance or due to playful charm. The verb form is made by mixing this noun phrase with the verb ལྟ་བ་ to look. E.g., ཟུར་མིག་ལྟ་ "to look askance".

བྱ་སྤྱོད་
Transliteration: bya spyod
<noun> "Actions", "activities", "behaviour"; what someone actually does as they go about their business. [Hon] is མཛད་སྤྱོད་. Some translators give as meaning བྱ་བ་དང་སྤྱོད་པ་ "actions and behaviour" but that is incorrect. The term means བྱ་བའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ i.e., what one actually does (with one's body, speech, and / or mind).

ལྗགས་བཀོད་
Transliteration: ljags bkod
<noun> [Hon] for བཀོད་པ་ q.v. in the sense of verbal instructions that delineate or lay out or set out how something should be done. E.g., [TC] ལས་ཀ་བྱེད་ལུགས་བྱེད་སྟངས་ཀྱི་ལྗགས་བཀོད་གནང་བ། "To lay out (verbally) the way that the work should be done".

བསྐྱར་གསོ་
Transliteration: bskyar gso
<noun> The act of "restoration". Meaning to return something again to its former use or glory, etc. This is slightly different from ཉམས་གསོ་བ་ which has the sense only of renovation of a physical situation. This term has the sense not only of restoring buildings but restoring the whole situation, bringing it back to life again.

འདོད་པས་ལོག་པར་གཡེམ་པ་
Transliteration: 'dod pas log par g-yem pa
I. <verb> v.i. see གཡེམ་པ་ for tense forms. "To engage in sexual misconduct due to desire". To engage is this behaviour is to engage in one of མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ་ the ten non-virtues; see below.
II. <noun> "Sexual misconduct due to desire", one of the མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ་ ten non-virtues; it is the second of the three non-virtues of body. Sexual misconduct is defined in various ways in Buddhist tex…

སིམ་གདུང་བར་མ་
Transliteration: sim gdung bar ma
"Pleasant, distressing, and in-between". This phrase is used as an more colourful alternative to the classical formulation of the three types of ཚོར་བ་ experience is བདེ་སྡུག་བཏང་སྙོམས་ "pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral".

རེག་བྱ་བཅུ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: reg bya bcu gcig
<enum> "The eleven touchables". The eleven touchables are the eleven types of physical sensation that the body can experience according to Abhidharma literature. The list of eleven is intended as a thorough breakdown of the contents of touch as the ཡུལ་རེག་བྱ་ object of ལུས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་ the body consciousness.
[DGT] [NDS] [JKE] give as: 1) ས་ [Skt. pṛthvī] "earth"; 2) ཆུ་ [Skt. āpaḥ] "w…

འབད་རྩོལ་
Transliteration: 'bad rtsol
<phrase> "Effort-filled endeavour". Abbrev. of འབད་པའི་རྩོལ་བ་, it has the འབད་པའི་ gives an intensified idea of the effort involved in the endeavour. Whereas རྩོལ་བ་ alone is a specific effort made to accomplish a specific purpose, i.e., a particular endeavour, this combined term gives a sense of strong exertion with the endeavour. In practice འབད་རྩོལ་ and རྩོལ་ are essentially the same, …

ཉེས་ལྟུང་
Transliteration: nyes ltung
<phrase> This term is usually defined as ཉེས་པའི་ལྟུང་བ་ "fault's downfall(s)". i) One explanation of this term is that it means faults made which result in downfalls to a lower birth. Faults are bad actions in general karmically speaking; faults plant bad karmic seeds which result in falling down into lower births later. ii) Another explanation is that the downfalls means downfalls of brea…

ལུས་ཀྱི་སྣོད་དྲུག་
Transliteration: lus kyi snod drug
<enum> "The six containers of the body". Tibetan medical term for organs that act as containers during the digestion and secretion of food in the body. [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) རྒྱུ་མ་ "small intestines"; 2) ལོང་ཀ་ "large intestines"; 3) ཕོ་བ་ "stomach"; 4) གཉེ་མ་ "rectum"; 5) ལྒང་པ་ "(urinary) bladder"; 6) མཁྲིས་པ་ "gall-bladder".
[TC] gives as: ཕོ་བ་ "stomach"; རྒྱུ་མ་ "small intestines"; ལ…

ཅེ་
Transliteration: ce
<ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connector> One of a group of three phrase connectors ཅེ་, ཞེ་, and ཤེ་ q.v.
Placement: They are ཕྲད་གཞན་དབང་ཅན་ dependent connectors. When one of them is required, this one is placed after names ending with ག་, ད་, བ་, and ད་དྲག་ forceful endings, too.
Meaning: They mean ཟེར་བ་ "to say" and བཤད་པ་ "to state, explain" and are used to demarcate statements that have been made. T…