འཆེལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'chel ba
I. <verb> Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs འཆད་པ་ "to explain" q.v.
II. <noun><adj> Acc. [ULS] and [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, ཞེན་པ་ "attachment" q.v. [TC] correspondingly gives དགའ་བ་དང་ཞེན་ཆགས་པ་ "to like and be attach…
འཆུར་བ་
Transliteration: 'chur ba
<verb> 1) Altern. way of writing the pres. of བཅུར་བ་ q.v. 2) Acc. [TC] [Old] of སླེབས་པ་ q.v.
འཆིར་བ་
Transliteration: 'chir ba
<verb> v.t. བཅིར་བ་/ འཆིར་བ་/ བཅིར་བ་/ ཆིར་/. Similar in meaning to འཚིར་བ་ q.v. "To squeeze" with the senses "to squeeze / to wring / to press out". E.g., ཤིང་ཏོག་བཅིར་ནས་ཁུ་བ་བཏུང་། "squeezed the juice from the fruit then drank it". E.g., [TC] གྱོན་ཆས་བཀྲུས་ནས་ཆུ་འཆིར་བ། "wringing the water out of the clothes after washing them"; སོ་སྨན་བཅིར་བ། "squeezed out the toothpaste".
འཆིང་བ་
Transliteration: 'ching ba
I. <verb> v.t. བཅིངས་པ་/ འཆིང་བ་/ བཅིང་བ་/ ཆིངས་/. "To bind". There are several verbs in Tibetan with the meaning of "tie or bind". E.g., དཀྲི་བ་ means to bind around, wrap around; འཁྱིག་པ་ has the general sense of using a tie to tie something; etc. This has the particular sense of fettering something, putting bonds on it. Hence "to bind", "to bind up", "to fetter", and "to put into bondage…
ལམ་རིམ་གྱི་ཆེ་བ་བཞི་
Transliteration: lam rim gyi che ba bzhi
<enum> "The four greatnesses of the stages of the path". Atīśha, the inventor of the genre of "stages of the path to enlightenment" style of teaching in Tibet, said that this style of teaching was hall-marked by having four greatnesses. [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) བསྟན་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་འགལ་མེད་དུ་རྟོགས་པའི་ཆེ་བ་ "the greatness which is realizing that all the teachings are non-contradictory"; 2) གསུང་རབ…
སྣང་བ་
Transliteration: snang ba
I. <verb> v.i. སྣང་བ་/ སྣང་བ་/ སྣང་བ་//. 1) "To appear" meaning anything that comes into appearance because of either i) becoming known by mind or ii) being known visually. E.g., [TC] ཉི་ཟླ་སྐར་གསུམ་མཉམ་དུ་སྣང་བའི་དུས་སྐབས་ཀྱང་ཡོད། "there is a circumstance in time when sun, moon, and stars simultaneously appear"; ལམ་སྟོན་སྒྲོན་མེ་ནས་འོད་ཆེན་སྣང་བ། "a great light appeared from the lamp light…
