ཀླུ་ཁང་
Transliteration: klu khang
<noun> "Naga temple". 1) A general name for small temples built to appease local nāgas. These are usually like a miniature house, a few feet high, on a pedestal. 2) Specifically, the name of the nāga temple built behind the Potala in Lhasa. It was built by the 6th Dalai Lama.
ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ཡབ་སྲས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་
Transliteration: klu sgrub yab sras kyi gzhung
Lit. "the textual tradition of Nāgārjuna, fathers and sons" but meaning the texts and the way that the texts present the particular system belonging to Nāgārjuna and the successive holders of his lineage and their students.
ཀླུ་བདུད་
Transliteration: klu bdud
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "nāgamāra". 1) A term indicating particularly malicious ཀླུ་ nāgas who causes a class of serious diseases called མཛེ་ནད་. 2) The name of a medicinal plant which is considered to be useful in treating the kinds of diseases caused by nāgas, planetary influences. These diseases are always typified by blistering and / or swelling on the skin.
ཀླུ་ཡི་དབང་པོ་དགའ་བོ་
Transliteration: klu yi dbang po dga' bo
<phrase> "Chief of the Nāgas, Nanda". An epithet of the nāga called དགའ་བོ་ Nanda q.v. This phrase is used in Nyingma literature when he is being regarded as the leader of the Nāgas and as such has been included in the ཕྱི་ཡི་སྡེ་བརྒྱད་ eight outer classes q.v.
ཀླུ་རྒྱལ་དགའ་བོ་
Transliteration: klu rgyal dga' bo
<phrase> "King of the Nāgas, Nanda". Translation of the Sanskrit "nando nāgarāja". (Some dictionaries such as [RYD] have copied a spelling error in from their source, an Indian printing of the Mahāvyutpatti; they give the headword as ཀླུ་རྒྱལ་དགའ་བ་ and give the Sanskrit as "nāgarājananda". However that is mistaken; the correct Sanskrit and Tibetan are shown here". 1) In general, Nanda is o…
ཀླུ་ཤིང་
Transliteration: klu shing
<noun> "Nāga Tree". The name of a shrub also known as "Drama Tree" ཤིང་གྲ་མ་ in Tibetan. Acc. [TC] "the trunk is thin and has leaves and thorns on it. The wood is pale and soft. It is used as a medicine. It is used as one of the woods that is fed to a Sang བསང་ done for Nāgas."
The wood is the sceptre held by one of བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བརྒྱད་ the eight bodhisatvas.
ཀ་དྲུའི་བུ་
Transliteration: ka dru'i bu
<noun> "Son of Kadru". Acc. [GCD] the name of a certain ཀླུ་ nāga.
ནནྡ་ཀཱིརྟི་
Transliteration: nanda k'irti
<noun> "Nandakīrti. Translit. of the Sanskrit "nandakīrti". The name of one of ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ Āchārya Nāgārjuna's disciples.
དུང་སྐྱོང་
Transliteration: dung skyong
<noun> "Saṅkhapāla". Translation of the Sanskrit "saṅkhapāla". The name of one of the ཀླུ་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱད་ eight Nāga Kings.
ཀརྐོ་ཊ་
Transliteration: karko Ta
<noun> "Karkoṭa". Translit. of the Sanskrit "karkoṭa". The name of one of the ཀླུ་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་ eight great nāgas q.v.
ནོར་རྒྱས་བུ་
Transliteration: nor rgyas bu
<noun> "Vāsuki". Translation of the Sanskrit "vāsuki". The name of one of the ཀླུ་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱད་ eight Nāga Kings.
ནཱ་གཱ་རྫུ་ན་
Transliteration: n'a g'a rdzu na
<noun> "Nāgārjuna". Translit. of the Sanskrit "nāgārjuna". Translated into Tibetan with ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ q.v.
སྟོབས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་
Transliteration: stobs kyi rgyu
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "karkoṭaka". The name of one of the ཀླུ་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱད་ eight Nāga Kings.
འཚོ་བའི་མདོ་
Transliteration: 'tsho ba'i mdo
<noun> "The Sūtra on Sustenance". An extensive medicine text by ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ Āchārya Nāgārjuna on the four seasons and བཅུད་ལེན་ Chulen, etc.
ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་
Transliteration: klu sgrub
<noun> "Nāgārjuna". A great master of the Buddhist tradition regarded as one of the འཛམ་གླིང་མཛེས་པའི་རྒྱན་དྲུག་ "Six Ornaments Beautifying Jambuling". He was born of a Brahmin family in the region called Vedarva in South India approximately 400 years after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa. He studied all of the sūtras and tantras from an early age, becoming very expert in them. He took ordination …
སངས་རྒྱས་བསྐྱངས་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas bskyangs
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "buddhapalita". The name of a principal disciple of Nāgārjuna (see also ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་ཐུགས་སྲས་བདུན་ "The seven heart-sons of Nāgārjuna"). He was a great scholar who upheld ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ Nāgārjuna's system of Madhyamaka. He wrote a commentary on the རྩ་བ་ཤེས་རབ་ Mulaprajñā, established the system of the དབུ་མ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་བ་ Madhyamaka Prasaṅgika based on the rea…
གདོན་ནད་
Transliteration: gdon nad
<phrase> "Don diseases". One of the ནད་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་ "the eight branches of disease" q.v. These are the diseases that are visited upon humans by the malign influences of non-human beings, such as ལྷ་ gods, ཀླུ་ nagas, pretas, and so on.
