སངས་རྒྱས་གོ་ཆ་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas go cha
<name> "Buddha Armour", translation of the Sanskrit "buddhavarma". This is the name of an Indian master who wrote a text called སེམས་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་བརྟག་པའི་འགྲེལ་ "Commentary Examining Mind and Wisdom".
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ས་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas kyi sa
<phrase> "The ground / bhūmi of a buddha". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "buddhabhūmi". The ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Vehicle teachings have different ways of describing the levels of the path of a bodhisatva and the resulting level(s) of a buddha. Generally a Buddha is said to have one bhūmi, called ཀུན་ཏུ་འོད་ཀྱི་ས་ "the bhūmi of the Total Light" q.v. as mentioned in ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་ས་བཅུ་གཅིག་…
ནང་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་པ་
Transliteration: nang pa sangs rgyas pa
<phrase> "An insider, a Buddhist". Meaning a person who is ནང་པ་ an insider because of following the buddha. E.g., ནང་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་གྲལ་དུ་ཆུད། "you will have entered the ranks of the insider Buddhists".
སངས་རྒྱས་འབྲིང་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas 'bring
<noun> "Middling buddha". An epithet of རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ pratyekabuddhas. They are so-called because they are not the equal of a ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ truly fully enlightened buddha of the Great Vehicle yet are higher than ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་སངས་རྒྱས་ śhrāvaka buddhas of the (same) Lesser Vehicle.
སངས་རྒྱས་ཐོད་པ་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas thod pa
<noun> "Buddha-skull". Translation of the Sanskrit "buddhakapala". The name of a tantra cycle and the associated yidam belonging to the མ་རྒྱུད་ mother tantra section of the བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ anuttaratantra division of the གསར་མ་ new-translation tantra system.
སངས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas rdo rje
<noun> "Sangyay Dorje". The name of a brilliant scholar of the འབྲུག་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ who lived in the seventeenth century. He wrote many commentaries on various subjects. He was regarded as so brilliant the he was later given the title མཁས་དབང་ "Expert of experts".
བསྐྱངས་པ་
Transliteration: bskyangs pa
<verb> Past of v.t. སྐྱོང་བ་ q.v. E.g., "preserved", "protected", "nurtured", etc.
སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas ye shes
<noun> "Sangyay Yeshe". A moderately common Tibetan person's name. 1) Referring to གནུབས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ q.v. 2) Other people in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition or in Tibet.
ཕ་དམ་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་
Transliteration: pha dam pa sangs rgyas
<noun> "Phadampa Sangye". The name of a great Indian master whose system of dharma was called ཞི་བྱེད་ Pacifier. One of his heart disciples was མ་ཅིག་ལབ་ཀྱི་སྒྲོན་མ་ Machig Labdron, q.v.
སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas snying po
<phrase> "Buddha-core". Translation of the Sanskrit "buddhagarbha". One of several alternative names for the དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ tathāgatagarbha. Note that སྙིང་པོ་ here really means the birthplace, the place where buddha comes from.
སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས་ལྔ་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas rigs lnga
<phrase> "The five buddha families". They are: 1) སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས་ Buddha Family; 2) རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས་ Vajra Family; 3) རིན་ཆེན་རིགས་ Ratna Family; 4) པདྨ་རིགས་ Padma Family; 5) ལས་རིགས་ Karma Family.
The respective རིགས་བདག་ lords of these five families are: 1) རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་ Vairochana; 2) མི་བསྐྱོད་པ་ Akṣhobya; 3) རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ Ratnasaṃbhava; 4) འོད་དཔག་མེད་ Amitabha; and 5) དོན་གྲུབ་ A…
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas kyi sku
<phrase> "Body / bodies of a buddha". Translation of the Sanskrit "buddhakāya". A buddha does not have a "body" in the conventional sense. However, so that sentient beings can gain an understanding of what a buddha is, a buddha is said to have སྐུ་ (the Tibetan term for the Sanskrit) "kāya", which means "aspects" and which is mostly translated as "bodies".
In the Buddhist teachings in genera…
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྲས་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas kyi sras
<noun> "Buddha son" an epithet used in the Great Vehicle for བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ bodhisatvas.
NOTE: This should not be changed to "buddha daughter" or "buddha son and daughter" or something like that because, within the Great Vehicle sutras to which this term belongs, it is explicitly explained that the bodhisatvas are sons of the buddha and there is an extensive literature which requires the …
སངས་རྒྱས་དངོས་སུ་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas dngos su
<phrase> "Actually the buddha". Used in phrases like བླ་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་དངོས་སུ་བསམ། "think that the guru is actually the buddha".
བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་སྟོང་
Transliteration: bskal pa bzang po'i sangs rgyas stong
<phrase> "The thousand buddhas of the good kalpa". A general phrase used to indicate the one thousand and two buddhas that Śhākyamuni Buddha predicted would appear in this particular བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོ་ good kalpa.
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas kyi rang bzhin
<phrase> "Buddha-nature" another name of དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ tathāgatagarbha, the inner nature of the mind of sentient beings that is equivalent to and allows the beings to become a buddha.
