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ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: chos kyi rgya mtsho
<noun> "Dharma Ocean". Translation of the Sanskrit "dharmasagara". 1) A name of persons in general. 2) The name of one of the greatest Tibetan teachers of the twentieth century, The Eleventh Trungpa Rinpoche from Surmang, who spent most of his life properly introducing Buddha dharma to the West. 3) Descriptive term, e.g., "an ocean of dharma".

ལན་ཚྭའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: lan tshva'i rgya mtsho
<phrase> 1) "Salty ocean". The name of one of the རོལ་པའི་མཚོ་ oceans q.v. surrounding the four continents in a world system with Mt. Meru at its centre. 2) "Salt ocean", "salty sea", "salt lake", "briny ocean" etc., the general name for any body of water whose water is salty, e.g., the major oceans of our planet.

མེས་རྒྱལ་
Transliteration: mes rgyal
<phrase> Abbrev. of མེས་པོའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ lit. meaning "ancestral kingdom", "kingdom of the forefathers / ancestors". The term has the sense of "this kingdom of mine, the kingdom of the forefathers that I belong to as well". These days it is usually a translation of the Communist Chinese term meaning "(the Chinese) Motherland".