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བཤོལ་བ་
Transliteration: bshol ba
<verb> v.t. བཤོལ་བ་/ བཤོལ་བ་/ བཤོལ་བ་/ ཤོལ་/. 1) "To postpone" either temporarily or indefinitely and also "to defer" temporarily, "to put off". E.g., [TC] ཉིན་གསུམ་བཤོལ་བ། "to postpone for three days"; བཤོལ་ཐེབས་པ། "postponed / deferred"; ལས་འགན་བཤོལ་བ། "to defer a responsibility; ཕྱིར་འཐེན་གྱི་བཤོལ་བཏབ་ནས་ཐེབས་པ། "postponed due a request for a postponement"; བཤོལ་ཀྱང་མ་བཞུགས་པར་རང་གི་གྲོག…
འམ་
Transliteration: 'am
<ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connector> One of a group of eleven connectors in grammar.
Placement: The group are ཕྲད་གཞན་དབང་ཅན་ dependent connectors. When one of these connectors is required, the appropriate one must be chosen from the group. The appropriate one depends on the ending letter of the preceding word. If the preceding word ends in letter འ་ or has no ending, this connector འམ་ must be used.…

གཅིག་དང་དུ་མ་
Transliteration: gcig dang du ma
<phrase> "One and many" or "singular and multiple" or "singularity and multiplicity". Amongst other things, it is the name of the first of the གཏན་ཚིགས་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ five types of reasoning of the དབུ་མ་ Madhyamaka, called the reasoning གཅིག་དང་དུ་བྲལ་ beyond one and many q.v. E.g., from Padma Karpo's Notes on Mahāmudrā གསུམ་པ་གཅིག་ཐ་དད་ཀྱི་སྒོ་ནས་དཔྱད་པ་ནི། སེམས་འདི་གཅིག་པུ་ཞིག་གམ། དུ་མ་ཞིག །…
དཀར་པོ་ཆིག་ཐུབ་
Transliteration: dkar po chig thub
<noun> Lit. "The one thing good for all" but meaning "universal panacea" or "the one good thing that is effective against / will cure / all", "the universal cure". 1) The name of an སྔོ་སྨན་ annual green used as a medicinal herb. 2) Another name for another annual green used as a medicinal herb: the white form of ཐང་ཕྲོམ་. 3) Sometimes used as to describe other things that are on the positi…
གླེགས་བམ་གྱི་རྒྱ་རིམ་པ་བདུན་
Transliteration: glegs bam gyi rgya rim pa bdun
<phrase> "The seven levels of mark of a volume". These are the seven levels of mark used so that no confusion will arise about any given book. 1) དོན་མི་འཁྲུག་པ་ཚེག་གི་རྒྱ་ the mark of a ཚེག་ tsheg because it delimits words and hence prevents confusion about the meaning of words. 2) ཚིག་རྐང་མི་འཁྲུག་པ་ཤད་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་ the mark of a ཤད་ shay because it delimits lines and hence prevents confusion …
བདོག་པ་
Transliteration: bdog pa
I. <verb> v.i. བདོག་པ་/ བདོག་པ་/ བདོག་པ་//. For something "to be present, to exist" in a certain place. Like འདུག་པ་ or ཡོད་པ་ q.v. E.g., [TC] བདོག་པ་བདོག "there are goods" or "there are existent things"; བདོག་པའི་དངོས་པོ། "things that exist"; གཙང་པོར་ཉ་བདོག "there are fish in the Tsangpo River"; ཉེས་སྐྱོན་གང་དུ་བདོག "where are the faults? (meaning show me, where are these faults that you s…
དཀར་པོའི་ཆོས་བཞི་
Transliteration: dkar po'i chos bzhi
"The four white (/ positive) dharmas". In the ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Vehicle these are explained as the four things that prevent the degeneration of བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ bodhicitta. 1) སྲོག་གམ་ཐ་ན་བཞད་གད་ཀྱི་ཕྱིར་ཡང་ཤེས་བཞིན་གྱི་རྫུན་མི་སྨྲ་བ་ "abandoning consciously telling lies at the cost of one's life or even for a joke"; 2) སེམས་ཅན་ལ་གཡོ་སྒྱུ་མེད་པར་བསམ་པ་དྲང་པོར་གནས་པ་ "helping sentient beings st…
ལམ་
Transliteration: lam
I. <noun> 1) A place for travelling both material and abstract, i.e., "path", "way", "road", "street", etc. This includes the meaning of "path" common in Buddhist usage, translating the Sanskrit "mārga". 2) Method or way of doing something, like ལུགས་. I.e., an "-ology". E.g., རིགས་ལམ་ lit. "path of reasoning" meaning "logic". 3) System or established way e.g., རྙིང་ལམ་ "old way" or "early …
འདུག་པ་
Transliteration: 'dug pa
I. <verb> v.i. འདུག་པ་/ འདུག་པ་/ འདུག་པ་//. Note that this usage of the term is classified as a verb in Tibetan grammar. "To stay" or "to be present" i.e., equivalent to སྡོད་པ་ and གནས་པ་. E.g., [TC] ཕྲན་སྔར་རྒྱུན་ལྟར་འདི་གར་འདུག་ཡོད། "I am here as always (just as I have regularly been before)"; ཁོ་ཚོ་གདན་ལ་འདུག་སྟེ་གཏམ་ཤོད་པ། "they sat on the rug and are chatting (telling their stories)".…