སྐད་གསར་བཅད་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: skad gsar bcad rnam pa gsum
"Three language revisions" or "three revisions to the (Tibetan) language". The Tibetan language went through three སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ "language revisions". In the second revision only there were changes to the grammar itself made for the ease of reading and writing. In all three revisions there were changes made to the vocabulary in general.
The first two revisions happened during the old phase of Buddh…
ཀ་མ་ལ་ཤཱི་ལ་
Transliteration: ka ma la sh'i la
<noun> "Kamalaśhīla". Translit. of the Sanskrit "kamalaśhīla". An Indian disciple of སློབ་དཔོན་ཞི་བ་འཚོ་ Āchārya Śhāntarakṣhita. Both master and student were masters of the Svatāntrika Madhyamaka view and both were རང་རྒྱུད་ཤར་གསུམ་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་གསུམ་ principal figures involved in putting forth that view. Kamalaśhīla was one of the སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ five great masters that visited Tibet …
པདྨ་སམྦྷ་ཝ་
Transliteration: padma sambha wa
<noun> "Padmasambhava". Translit. of the Sanskrit "padmasaṃbhava". Padmasaṃbhava was one of the སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ five great masters that visited Tibet in the 8th century A.D. at the request of the Tibetan king of the time, ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen. He was a great གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ siddha who was invited to Tibet when མཁན་པོ་བོདྷི་སཏྭ་ཞི་བ་འཚོ་ the Preceptor Bodhisatva Śhāntirakṣhi…
ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་རབ་དགུ་
Transliteration: lo ts'a ba rab dgu
<phrase> "The nine best translators". The king ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen established a very large translation project in Tibet during his reign. At this time, most of the existing Buddhist texts of other countries were translated into Tibetan. At that time there were over one hundred and sixty translators working at Samye. Nine of them were outstanding and were regarded as the best …
མཁན་ཆེན་བོདྷི་སཏྭ་
Transliteration: mkhan chen bodhi satva
<noun> "Khenchen Bodhisatva", "Great Preceptor Bodhisatva". [705-762] An epithet of the great Indian paṇḍita སློབ་དཔོན་ཞི་བ་འཚོ་ Āchārya Śhāntirakṣhita. He was one of the སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ five great masters that visited Tibet in the 8th century A.D. at the request of the Tibetan king of the time, ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen. He was a peaceful bodhisatva type who was able to o…
ཁྲི་གཙུག་ལྡེ་བཙན་
Transliteration: khri gtsug lde btsan
<noun> The enthroned name of a Tibetan king who was more commonly known as ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་ Tri Ralpachen q.v.
གནུབས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་
Transliteration: gnubs sangs rgyas ye shes
<noun> "Nub Sangyay Yeshe". Sangyay Yeshe of the Nub clan from Nub. He was one of the group of རྗེ་འབངས་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྔ་ "the twenty-five, Lord and subjects". He was a great scholar and one of the great translators in the time of ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Detsan. He was particularly known for holding the lineage of གསང་བ་འདུས་པ་ Guhyasamaja. He translated Guhyasamaja texts and wrote a set of …
མང་སྲོང་མང་བཙན་
Transliteration: mang srong mang btsan
<noun> "Mangsong Mangtsan". The name of an early Tibetan king. He was son and successor to the throne of the king called གུང་རི་གུང་བཙན་ Gungri Gungtsan.
