སྒོ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sgo rgyan
<noun> "Door ornament". Something placed, usually above, a door as a ornament for it.
ཟུར་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: zur rgyan
<noun> Lit. "side ornament" but meaning a small text or piece of writing that functions as an addition to some major work. It does not mean "addendum" but refers to "additional material" on the same topic as a central work but that has been written in a separate place. In some cases, "ornamented in the margins" is the meaning conveyed.
དབུ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: dbu rgyan
<noun> [Hon] for མགོ་རྒྱན་. 1) This has freq. been translated as "a crown" however, that is not always correct. The terms refers to any of several kinds of "head ornament", including the top-most jewel ornament placed in bound up hair. 2) "Crown". A particular style of crown which is one of ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་བཅུ་གསུམ་ "the thirteen adornments of the saṃbhogakāya" and one of ཡུམ་གྱི་…
ལིང་ལིང་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: ling ling rgyan
<noun> "Ling ling ornament". The name of one of the twenty-eight སྒྲའི་རྒྱན་ term ornaments defined in poetry. A ling ling ornament is specifically the type of term that has no specific meaning but just adds a ལིང་ལིང་ nice sound (like tinkling) to the words.
ཚིག་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: tshig rgyan
<noun> "Word ornament", "word enhancers", "ad-words". The name of a particular part of speech in Tibetan grammar which has no equivalent in English grammar. It is one of three, related parts of speech: ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connectors; ཚིག་གྲོགས་ phrase assistives; and ཚིག་རྒྱན་ phrase ornaments q.v.
Word ornaments derive their name from the fact that all of them ornament i.e., provide additional …
མགོ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: mgo rgyan
<phrase> General term for any ornamentation of the head but see also the [Hon] form དབུ་རྒྱན་.
རྒྱན་བཞི་
Transliteration: rgyan bzhi
<noun> "The four ornaments". [DGT] gives as: 1) ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of discipline"; 2) ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of samādhi"; 3) ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of prajñā"; 4) གཟུངས་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of dhāraṇi".
སྐུ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sku rgyan
<noun> 1) [Hon] for རྒྱན་ or རྒྱན་ཆ་ meaning any kind of ornamentation placed on the body. 2) [Hon] for རྒྱན་ meaning the stake in betting games.
གཙུག་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: gtsug rgyan
<noun> "Crown ornament" or "crowning ornament" also "crest ornament". Something sitting right on the crown of the head or in the space above the crown. E.g., for saṃbhogakāya deities, it can refer to the ornament pinned into the very top of the topknot of hair, usually a jewel on a golden base that has a pin that is placed down into the hair. E.g., for a person or a saṃbhogakāya deity it ca…
མགུལ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: mgul rgyan
<noun> 1) "Necklace". The name of a particular type of necklace. This is one of three lengths of necklace that were worn by women and also by nobility of both sexes in Ancient India. i) This same necklace is one of ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་བཅུ་གསུམ་ the thirteen adornments the ornaments worn by the saṃbhogakāya forms of the ཡི་དམ་ personal meditation deities. See under རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན་བརྒ…
མཛེས་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: mdzes rgyan
<phrase> "Beautiful ornament".
སྐེད་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sked rgyan
<noun> "A sash or other ornament worn at the waist".
རྒྱན་སྡུད་
Transliteration: rgyan sdud
<phrase> "Ornament and inclusion". Grammar term. The combined name of the two functions performed by the set of three ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connectors ཀྱང་, འང་, and ཡང་. See ཀྱང་ for the definition of the connectors. The two functions performed by the connectors are different but related, they are called 1) རྒྱན་ "ornamentation" and 2) སྡུད་ "inclusion". Note that the range of usage of these thr…
རྒྱན་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rgyan gnyis
<enum> "The two ornaments" meaning the two works of Asaṅga called ornaments: 1) མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་ Ornament of The Sūtras and 2) མངོན་རྟོགས་རྒྱན་ Ornament of Realization q.v.
