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ཕྱག་བྱེད་པ་
Transliteration: phyag byed pa
I. <verb> see v.t. བྱེད་པ་ for tense forms. Similar to ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་ and meaning to make a salutation of some kind. The term is derived from the ancient Indian custom of putting one's hands to another's feet to show respect and so on. The term can be used in the abstract sense of paying homage and in the physical sense of saluting, touching the hands to the feet, and so on. E.g., དེ་ལྟར་ཕྱག་བྱ…

སེམས་བྱུང་ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་གཅིག་
Transliteration: sems byung lnga bcu nga gcig
<noun> "Fifty-one Mental Events". The Buddha elucidated many kinds of སེམས་བྱུང་ mental events. The ཆོས་མངོན་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ་ Abhidharmasamuccaya lists them as a group of fifty-one which are arranged in six categories. The fifty-one mental events are divided into six categories: ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བ་ལྔ་ "the five omnipresent mental events"; ཡུལ་ངེས་བྱེད་ལྔ་ "the five object-determining factors"; ར…

བྱེད་ལས་
Transliteration: byed las
<noun> 1) "Function", "use". More generally, it is the capacity for work that something has, i.e., the function that it can perform. In another sense it is the "use" of something, what it can do, what it is useful for. It can also be translated successfully by saying, "(it) operates to", e.g., བྱེད་ལས་ཁམས་གསུམ་གྱི་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་སྤོང་བ་ "it operates to abandon the afflictions of the three realm…

ལྟ་བྱེད་
Transliteration: lta byed
<noun> "That which does the looking". One of several terms derived from the verb ལྟ་བ་ "to look" based on transitive verb theory. This refers to that thing which does the action of looking; it is the agent that does the action. There are two forms of expressing the agent, this is the non-personified form. The personified form is ལྟ་མཁན་ "the looker" q.v. for explanation and examples.