རྒྱུད་ཚོད་
Transliteration: rgyud tshod
<noun> "Mental capacity", "mental level". Each person has their own ability to understand something which depends on (lit.) "the extent of their mind-stream's (capacity to see clearly or to understand)". E.g., [ZGT] ལྟ་བ་ནི་པཱ་བྱེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་སྒྲ་ལས། བལྟ་པས་རྒྱུད་ཚོད་དང་མཐུན་པར་མཐོང་བའི་དོན་ཏེ། "View, coming from the term "pavye", meaning "by looking, to see according to mind's capacity"".
ཁོལ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: khol rgyud
<phrase> "Servant's family line"; the family line of a ཁོལ་པོ་ menial, a servant, information which will indicate their social status.
རྒྱུད་གཞན་
Transliteration: rgyud gzhan
<phrase> 1) "Another mental continuum", i.e., someone else's, another person's mind-stream. 2) Abbrev. of རྒྱུད་གཞན་གྲུབ་པ་ q.v.
རིགས་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: rigs rgyud
<noun> Any given person's "ancestry"; their "lineage" or "family line".
སྲད་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: srad rgyud
<noun> "Sray Lineage". The name given to the formalized line of teachings that developed from the teachings of ཤེས་རབ་སེང་གེ་ who was one of the main disciples of ཙོང་ཁ་པ་ Tsongkhapa.
གཏམ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: gtam rgyud
<noun> "Story", "tale, "legend". A story (not meaning a fiction but meaning any verbal description of some event) of something that has been handed down. E.g., [OTT] འདིའི་གཏམ་རྒྱུད་ཞལ་སྔ་ནས་འབྱུང་བ་ནི་འདི་ཡིན་ཏེ། "Here is the story of this (tantra) as it has been passed down person to person".
Note that this term carries no sense of true or not, it is just a verbal report that has been hand…
ཕྱི་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: phyi rgyud
<noun> "Outer tantras". The རྙིང་མའི་ལུགས་ Nyingmapa system has two levels of tantras, ནང་རྒྱུད་ inner and outer. The outer tantras are also called the lower tantras. They correspond to the fourth, fifth, and sixth vehicles of the ཐེག་པ་དགུ་ nine vehicles q.v. for explanation and see ཕྱི་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་གསུམ་ "three sections of outer tantra" for listing.
དཀར་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: dkar rgyud
<noun> "White Mindstream". 1) In general meaning a virtuous mindstream. 2) One of two names for the འབྲུག་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ Drukpa Kagyu lineage which are a play on the more general name for བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་པ་ "the Kagyu Lineage" and which are used by Drukpa Kagyu authors to refer to their specific sub-sect of the Kagyu lineage. The other one is དཀར་བརྒྱུད་ q.v. This name means "the ones of white mi…
རྒྱུད་སྡེ་
Transliteration: rgyud sde
<noun> "Tantra section". Translation of the Sanskrit "tantrapiṭaka". 1) Meaning i) the tantras as a whole compared to the མདོ་སྡེ་ sūtras as a whole or ii) a specific class of tantras within the tantras as a whole, e.g., Kriyatantra or the inner tantras compared to the outer tantras, etc. 2) In the Nyingma system of tantra, it also means one of the མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་གའི་སྡེ་གཉིས་ two sections of Mahā…
སྙན་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: snyan rgyud
<noun> "Hearing lineage". Teachings which are only transmitted orally from teacher to student. There are a number of hearing lineages in the Tibetan tradition. Three well-known ones are the Kagyu བདེ་མཆོག་སྙན་རྒྱུད་ "Chakrasaṃvara Hearing Lineage", སྙན་རྒྱུད་ནོར་བུ་སྐོར་གསུམ་ "Three Cycles of Jewels of the Hearing Lineage", རས་ཆུང་སྙན་རྒྱུད་ "Rechung Hearing Lineage" q.v. One well-known one…
དོན་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: don rgyud
<phrase> "Fact lineage". 1) Usually an abbrev. of དོན་དམ་པའི་རྒྱུད་ meaning a lineage which teaches the ultimate fact. 2) Possibly a reference to a རྒྱུད་ tantra which expresses the superfactual or ultimate meaning.
གཞུ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: gzhu rgyud
<noun> "Bow-string"; the string of a གཞུ་ bow.
རྙིང་མའི་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: rnying ma'i rgyud
<phrase> "The old tantras" or "The Nyingma Tantras", the tantras that were brought into Tibet and translated in the སྔ་དར་ earlier spread of dharma. The name is in comparison to the གསར་མའི་རྒྱུད་ the "new tantras" q.v. These tantras as a whole are collected and preserved in the རྙིང་མ་རྒྱུད་འབུམ་ "Collected Nyingma Tantras" q.v.
གསར་མའི་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: gsar ma'i rgyud
<noun> "The New Tantras", the tantras that were brought into Tibet and translated in the ཕྱི་དར་ later spread of dharma. The name is in comparison to རྙིང་མའི་རྒྱུད་ the "old tantras" q.v.
དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: dbu ma rang rgyud
<noun> "The Svatāntra Madhyamaka". Translat. of the Sanskrit "svatāntra madhyamaka". The highest school of Buddhist philosophy in the sūtra Mahāyāna system is དབུ་མ་ the Madhyamaka. It has two main divisions; this is the lower of the two; the higher of the two is the དབུ་མ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་ Prasaṅgika Madhyamaka q.v. Jeffrey Hopkins suggests the name "Middle Way Autonomy School".
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བཤགས་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: bshags rgyud
<noun> "Laying Aside Tantra"; common abbrev. of དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་བཤགས་རྒྱུད་ The Laying Aside Tantra called Stainless. Also translated as "Confession Tantra".
རྒྱུད་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rgyud gnyis
<phrase> 1) Generally "both tantras", "the two tantras". 2) Specifically, "The two tantras" meaning the two main divisions of anuttarayogatantra which [DGT] gives as: 1) ཕ་རྒྱུད་ "father tantra" and 2) མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra". However, there are other divisions.
ཕྲེང་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: phreng rgyud
<phrase> "Rosary string", "māla string". The string / thread / cord used to string a ཕྲེང་བ་ māla / rosary together.
རང་རྒྱུད་པར་
Transliteration: rang rgyud par
<adj>phrase> With a meaning based in "autonomy" or "self-governing", it is used to indicate something that is going its own way, whatever that way might be. Similarly, it is used in the sense of something doing what it does in its own right.
སེམས་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: sems rgyud
<noun> "Mind stream". 1) The mind-stream itself with whatever qualities it has e.g., a well-tamed mind stream. 1) The continuity of the mind, the སེམས་རྒྱུན་ mental continuum.
