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འདུ་འབྲལ་
Transliteration: 'du 'bral
<phrase> "Meeting and parting" or "union and separation". 1) A term like ཆེ་ཆུང་ where two opposing terms are joined together to give a sense of degree. Although འདུ་འབྲལ་ literally means meeting and parting, it actually means "degree of being together with" or "degree of being in possession of". The two opposites of coming together and parting function in any kind of relationship existing …
སྟག་ལུང་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: stag lung bka' brgyud
<noun> "Taglung Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of lesser of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools". Founded by སྟག་ལུང་ཐང་པ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་ལྡན་ Taglung Thangpa Tashi Palden.
ཀརྨ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: karma bka' brgyud
<noun> "Karma Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of great of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools". The tradition originated with དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པ་ Dusum Khyenpa who was one of the main disciples of སྒམ་པོ་པ་ Gampopa.
འཚམ་པ་
Transliteration: 'tsham pa
I. <verb> v.t. བཙམས་པ་/ འཚམ་པ་/ བཙམ་པ་/ ཚོམས་/. This verb has the general sense of reducing someone else, doing something to get them out of the way. It can refer to physical or verbal actions done to another. E.g., "to speak derogatorily to someone who is perceived as a nuisance or inferior, or who is to be gotten out of the way"; "to mock", "to denigrate", "to insult", "to jeer at", "to s…
ཤུག་གསེབ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: shug gseb bka' brgyud
<noun> "Shugseb Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of lesser of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools" q.v. Founded by གྱེར་སྒོམ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་སེང་གེ་ Yergom Tshultrim Senge.
ཕག་གྲུ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: phag gru bka' brgyud
<noun> "Phagdru Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of great of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools". The tradition originated with ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་ Phagmo Drupa who was one of the main disciples of སྒམ་པོ་པ་ Gampopa.
དྭགས་པོ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: dvags po bka' brgyud
<noun> "Dakpo Kagyu". The lineage that followed on from Gampopa. Strictly speaking, it refers to the specific Kagyu lineage that comes from དྭགས་པོ་པ་ Gampopa which is a Kagyu lineage in its own right and not one of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ Four Great and Eight Lesser Kagyu lineages. However, it is also used to mean the Kagyu lineages in general that followed on from Gampopa, especi…
ཚལ་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: tshal pa bka' brgyud
<noun> "Tshalpa Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of great of བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools". The tradition originated with བླ་མ་ཞང་ Lama Zhang who was one of the main disciples of སྒམ་པོ་པ་ Gampopa.
འབའ་རོམ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: 'ba' rom bka' brgyud
"Barom Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of great of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools". The tradition originated with འབའ་རོམ་དར་མ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ Barom Darma Wangchug who was one of the main disciples of སྒམ་པོ་པ་ Gampopa.
གཡའ་བཟང་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: g-ya' bzang bka' brgyud
<noun> "Yazang Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of lesser of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools" q.v. Founded by ཟྭ་ར་སྐལ་ལྡན་ཡེ་ཤེས་སེང་གེ་ Zvarawa Kalden Yeshe Senge.
རེས་
Transliteration: res
1) The term རེས་ q.v. with the བྱེད་སྒྲ་ agentive case marker added to it. E.g., རེ་རེས་བྱེད་ "done by each one". 2) Abbrev. of རེ་མོས་ q.v. The term is joined to other terms to give the sense of alternation, changing back and forth, or going by turns. 2) Abbrev. of རེས་འགའ་ meaning "sometimes", and with the sense of periodically. E.g., [TC] རེས་དགོད་རེས་ངུ་ "sometimes laughing, sometimes crying"…
ཆུང་བ་
Transliteration: chung ba
<adj> "Smaller / lesser". Comparative form of ཆུང་ཆུང་ "small, little" and the opp. of ཆེ་བ་ "greater, larger". The sequence is ཆུང་ཆུང་ "small", ཆུང་བ་ "smaller", and ཆུང་ཤོས་ "smallest".
I. Used to indicate relative size / amount / strength in general. 1) Meaning that which is "smaller", "lesser" in degree, size. 2) Meaning ཉུང་བ་ i.e., smaller or lesser in amount". 3) Meaning ཞན་པ་ "weake…
ཁྲོ་ཕུ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: khro phu bka' brgyud
<noun> "Trophu Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of lesser of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools". Founded by the disciple of འགྲོ་མགོན་ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་ Drogon Phagmo Drupa called རིན་པོ་ཆེ་རྒྱལ་ཚ་ "Rinpoche Gyaltsa" and his disciple ཁྲོ་ཕུ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་བྱམས་པ་དཔལ་ Trophu Lotsawa Jampa Pal.
ཆོད་
Transliteration: chod
I. <verb> Imp. of གཅོད་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) Something used as a divider. 2) A "cut" of some type as in ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་ "the Thorough Cut. 3) In the constructions ཆོད་ཆེ་བ་ and ཆོད་ཆུང་བ་ meaning something which is effective, that works well, and not so well, respectively.
ཞང་གཡུ་བྲག་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་གཡུང་དྲུང་
Transliteration: zhang g-yu brag pa brtson 'grus g-yung drung
<name> "Zhang Yudrug Tsondru Yungdrung". [1123-1193]. One of the main disciples of Phagmo Drupa and founder of བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ one of the four great and eight lesser Kagyu lineages. Often referred to as ཞང་བླ་མ་ Zhang Lama or ཞང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ Zhang Rinpoche. He was famous for fighting religious wars which he did until the Karmapa of the time told him to stop.
འབྲུག་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Transliteration: 'brug pa bka' brgyud
<noun> "Drukpa Kagyu". The name of a branch of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism; it is one of lesser of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་ "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools". The disciple of ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་ Phagmo Drupa called གླིང་རྗེ་རས་པ་ Lingje Repa passed his teachings to གཙང་པ་རྒྱ་རས་ Tsangpa Gyare. The former is considered as the father of the school and the la…
བགོ་བ་
Transliteration: bgo ba
I. <verb> v.t. བགོས་པ་/ བགོ་བ་/ བགོ་བ་/ བགོས་/. 1) "To put on" clothes or any other thing which is worn by someone or something else. Various verbs are used acc. context in English. E.g., [TC] ལུས་ལ་གོ་བགོས། རྟ་ལ་སྒ་བསྟད། "clothed themselves and saddled up the horses (as they prepared to go)"; གོས་བགོས། "to put on clothes". Used in Buddhist language to indicate the putting of karmic traces …
འགྲིག་པ་
Transliteration: 'grig pa
<verb> v.i. འགྲིགས་པ་/ འགྲིག་པ་/ འགྲིག་པ་//. Transitive form is སྒྲིག་པ་ q.v. The general meaning is "to be put together in a way that is suitable, acceptable, sufficient, appropriate to, matching, fitting the situation". 1) Like the English "to be all right", and the English colloquial, "to be fine", "to be right for / with", and the American coll. "to be OK". E.g., [TC] མ་བསྒྲིགས་རང་འགྲིག…