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སྒྲ་གཅན་འཛིན་
Transliteration: sgra gcan 'dzin
"Rahūla". Translation of the Sanskrit "rāhula". 1) <name> A common person's name in Sanskrit. 2) The name of the son of ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་ Buddha Śhākyamuni. He was one of the ten closest ཉན་ཐོས་ śhrāvaka disciples of the Buddha, known as being foremost of those who were respectful towards the teaching. 3) The name of one of the འཕགས་པའི་གནས་བརྟན་བཅུ་དྲུག་ Sixteen Ārya Sthaviras q.v. His abode was…
རྒྱལ་བྱེད་ཚལ་ན་གནས་པའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: rgyal byed tshal na gnas pa'i sde
<name> "Jetavanīya" or "the group who dwell in Jetavana Grove". The name of one of the groups of གནས་བརྟན་པའི་སྡེ་པ་གསུམ་ "the three schools of the Sthaviras" q.v. One of སྡེ་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ eighteen schools q.v. Their lineage is from the Elder Mahākāśhyapa of the brahmin caste, whom the Bhagavat acclaimed as the one foremost at the good qualities of training. They spoke the Prakrit language, …
བ་ཀུ་ལ་
Transliteration: ba ku la
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "vakula" (some Tibetan texts give bakula or bakkula but they it seem to be a standard Tibetan mis-rendering of both the initial consonant and an un-necessary doubling of the second consonant). 1) One of the འཕགས་པའི་གནས་བརྟན་བཅུ་དྲུག་ Sixteen Ārya Sthaviras q.v. His abode was the northern continent of Uttarakuru (Unpleasant Sound). 2) The name of a t…
ཉན་ཐོས་རྩ་བའི་སྡེ་བཞི་
Transliteration: nyan thos rtsa ba'i sde bzhi
<phrase> "The four root divisions of the Śhrāvakas"". There were four major divisions of the śhrāvaka school with a total of eighteen divisions among them. [DGT] gives the four as: 1) ཐམས་ཅད་ཡོད་པར་སྨྲ་བ་ "Those who advocated that all exists"; 2) ཕལ་ཆེན་པའི་སྡེ་པ་ "The Mahāsaṅgikas (the majority division)"; 3) གནས་བརྟན་པའི་སྡེ་པ་ "The Sthaviras (the elders division)"; 4) མང་པོས་བཀུར་བའི་སྡེ…
འཇིགས་མེད་རི་ལ་གནས་པའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: 'jigs med ri la gnas pa'i sde
<name> "Abhayagirivādin" or "the group who dwelled on Fearless Mountain". The name of one of the groups of གནས་བརྟན་པའི་སྡེ་པ་གསུམ་ "the three schools of the Sthaviras" q.v. One of སྡེ་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ eighteen schools q.v. Their lineage is from the Elder Mahākāśhyapa of the brahmin caste, whom the Bhagavat acclaimed as the one foremost at the good qualities of training. They spoke the Prakrit …
གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་ཆེན་ན་གནས་པའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: gtsug lag khang chen na gnas pa'i sde
<name> "Mahāvihāravasina" or "the group who dwelled in a great vihāra". The name of one of the groups of གནས་བརྟན་པའི་སྡེ་པ་གསུམ་ "the three schools of the Sthaviras" q.v. One of སྡེ་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ eighteen schools q.v. Their lineage is from the Elder Mahākāśhyapa of the brahmin caste, whom the Bhagavat acclaimed as the one foremost at the good qualities of training. They spoke the Prakrit la…
མི་ཕྱེད་པ་
Transliteration: mi phyed pa
I. <verb> negative of ཕྱེད་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "abhedya". The name of one of the འཕགས་པའི་གནས་བརྟན་བཅུ་དྲུག་ Sixteen Ārya Sthaviras q.v. His abode was the Himalayas where he lived with one thousand other arhats.
III. <noun><adj> Translation of the Sanskrit "abhedya". "Non-declining", "unalterable". Tibetan sources usually gloss it as meaning མི་འགྱ…
དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་
Transliteration: dpal bzang po
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrī bhadra". 1) "Good Glory", the name of one of the འཕགས་པའི་གནས་བརྟན་བཅུ་དྲུག་ Sixteen Ārya Sthaviras q.v. His abode was the island of Yamuṇa. 2) "Good Glory", the name of a disciple of Nāropa and friend of Marpa who is recorded in Marpa's biography. 3) "Good Glory", a general name that is derived from the Indian way of naming and appended by Tibetans …
བཟང་པོ་
Transliteration: bzang po
I. Translation of the Sanskrit "bhadra". 1)<adj> "Fine", "excellent", "good", E.g., མི་བཟང་པོ་ "a good person", "a fine man". 2) <name> According to the Sanskrit (not the Tibetan), as the name of a person and has the possible meanings: Blessed; Auspicious; Prosperous; Good; Gracious; Wholesome; Happy.
II. <noun> 1) "Bhadrika". Translation of the Sanskrit "Bhadrika". The name of o…
དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་
Transliteration: dge ba'i bshes gnyen
<noun> "Spiritual friend". Translation of the Sanskrit "kalyāṇamitra". Common abbrev. as དགེ་བཤེས་ also q.v. 1) A general term for a spiritual teacher who advises you and assists you. In the three vehicle teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, the Spiritual Friend is placed as the general name for a teacher in the Mahāyāna tradition, with the གནས་བརྟན་ "elder" being the general name for a teacher i…
བརྟན་པ་
Transliteration: brtan pa
I. <verb> Past and fut. of རྟོན་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) Meaning སྐར་མ་བརྟན་པ་ the pole star of the northern hemisphere. 2) "The inanimate" meaning the worlds that beings live in as opposed to གཡོ་བ་ the animate beings who live in them; see བརྟན་པ་དང་གཡོ་བ་ "animate and inanimate". See also the equivalent term ཕྱི་སྣོད་ "outer container".
III. <adj> That which is "stable, steady, fir…
གནས་
Transliteration: gnas
I. <verb> Part of གནས་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> This term has a very wide range of meanings in Tibetan and also translates a number of Sanskrit nouns, though commonly "sthāna". It is very hard to give a complete set of definitions in English because of the sheer variety of English terms that fit the various usages. However, the basic sense is of a "place", "location", "locale", "site", "spot"…
བསྟན་པ་གནས་པ་
Transliteration: bstan pa gnas pa
<phrase> "Presence of the teaching" or "the teaching is present"; one of the གཞན་འབྱོར་ལྔ་ five external conditions needed for a precious human rebirth. It refers to the teaching of a buddha still being present in the world. If the teaching is not present then dharma cannot be practised.
བརྟན་པོ་
Transliteration: brtan po
<adj> "Steady", "firm", "stable". 1) In general meaning something that is steady and cannot change to a less desirable situation. 2) In some contexts this means "secure" or "safe" e.g., དངུལ་དངུལ་ཁང་དུ་བཅོལ་ན་བརྟན་པོ་ཆགས་ཀྱི་རེད། "if you deposit your money in a bank, it will be safe". 3) In some contexts it means "reliable". E.g., ཁོ་མི་བརྟན་པོ་རེད། "he is a reliable person".