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་…
སྦྲ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sbra rgyan
<name> of a flower. The flower grows at least in the Kham area. It grows in moist areas, like on the མདའ་ of valleys in the highlands where a river from the snow melt of the higher peaks runs. It has a trumpet shape, and is white and brilliant blue. It grows in clusters to about five inches from the ground. The whole meadow will be covered in it by the end of summer, imparting a beautiful b…
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 …
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.
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".
སྒོ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sgo rgyan
<noun> "Door ornament". Something placed, usually above, a door as a ornament for it.
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.
རྣ་རྒྱན་ཨ་ལོང་
Transliteration: rna rgyan aa long
<noun> "Earing". A large earing made of precious metals.
ཨུ་པའི་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: au pa'i rgyud
<noun> "Upa Tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "ubhaya tantra". In the old translation school, the second of the six levels of tantra and the first of the three outer tantras. It is equivalent to the སྤྱོད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ Caryātantra of the གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation schools q.v. but is called this name specifically in the Nyingma tradition.
