བརྟན་མ་
Transliteration: brtan ma
<noun> "Tenma". Translation of the Sanskrit "sthāvarā". The name given to a specific group of twelve, female spirits who were bound under oath by Padmasambhava to protect Tibet. See བརྟན་མ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "twelve Tenma" q.v.
ཀརྐ་ཊའི་ཁྱིམ་
Transliteration: karka Ta'i khyim
<noun> "The house / mansion of the crab / cancer". Note that the term ཀརྐ་ཊ་ is a translit. of the Sanskrit "karkaṭa" q.v. The fourth of སྐར་ཁྱིམ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve houses of the sun's zodiac.
སྭག་ལྷྭམ་
Transliteration: svag lhvam
<noun> [Kham][Dialect] "Svag Boots". The name of a particular type of Tibetan boot where the toes are curled up. Seen in the iconography of Gesar of Ling; for example, from a Gesar of Ling sadhana: ཞབས་གཉིས་སྭག་ལྷྭམ་གསོལ་་་ "wearing svag boots (on each foot)".
སྒྲིབ་པ་ལྔ་
Transliteration: sgrib pa lnga
<noun> "The five obscurations". These are a group of factors taught by the Buddha as the main hindrances to developing one-pointed samādhi. [DGT] gives them as: 1) རྒོད་འགྱོད་གཉིས་ "excitement and regret both"; 2) གནོད་སེམས་ "harmful mind"; 3) རྨུགས་པ་དང་གཉིད་གཉིས་ "dullness and drowsiness both"; 4) འདོད་པ་ལ་འདུན་པ་ "orientation towards desire"; 5) ཐེ་ཚོམ་ "doubt".
དུས་ཚིགས་ལྔ་
Transliteration: dus tshigs lnga
<phrase> "The five seasonal periods". [DGT] gives and explains them as follows: 1) དགུན་གྱི་དུས་ "winter period"; 2) དཔྱིད་ཀྱི་དུས་ "spring period"; 3) དབྱར་གྱི་དུས་ "summer period"; 4) དབྱར་ཐུང་ངུའི་དུས་ "short summer period"; 5) དབྱར་རིང་པོའི་དུས་ "long summer period". དང་པོ་ནི། ཧོར་ཟླ་བཅུ་པའི་བཅུ་དྲུག་ནས་གཉིས་པའི་བཅོ་ལྔའི་བར་རོ། གཉིས་པ་ནི། ཧོར་ཟླ་གཉིས་པའི་བཅུ་དྲུག་ནས་དྲུག་པའི་བཅོ་ལྔའི་བར…
ཡི་དྭགས་གསུམ་
Transliteration: yi dvags gsum
<enum> "The three (types of) preta". [DGT] gives as: 1) ཕྱིའི་སྒྲིབ་པ་ཅན་ "those having external obscurations"; 2) ནང་གི་སྒྲིབ་པ་ཅན་ "those having internal obscurations"; and 3) གཉིས་ཀའི་སྒྲིབ་པ་ཅན་ "those having both obscurations".
ཆུ་སྲིན་གྱི་ཁྱིམ་
Transliteration: chu srin gyi khyim
<noun> "The house of the makora". The tenth of སྐར་ཁྱིམ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve houses of the zodiac. The same as "The house / mansion of Capricorn (the goat)". Note the Tibetan names this house after the Indian fabled monster the ཆུ་སྲིན་ Makora.
རྟག་པའི་མཐའ་
Transliteration: rtag pa'i mtha'
<noun> "The extreme of permanence". One of མཐའ་གཉིས་ the two extremes q.v. Also called the "extreme of eternalism" in contrast to the other extreme which is the extreme of nihilism. This corresponds to the conceptual view of things being ཡོད་པ་ (solidly) existent.
རྒྱ་ཆེན་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྲོལ་
Transliteration: rgya chen spyod pa'i srol
<phrase> "The system of vast conduct". One of the ཤིང་རྟའི་སྲོལ་གཉིས་ two main streams of teaching of the Mahāyāna teachings that went to Tibet q.v.
བཏགས་མིང་
Transliteration: btags ming
<noun> "Designated name". In grammar, an altern. name for རྗེས་གྲུབ་ཀྱི་མིང་ names produced according to (reason or the rules of etymology) q.v. This term is in contradistinction to དངོས་མིང་ "actual name" q.v. These are further divided into བཏགས་མིང་གཉིས་ two types q.v.
རྒྱལ་བའི་མཛད་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rgyal ba'i mdzad pa bcu gnyis
<phrase> "The twelve deeds of a Conqueror". Usually in reference to the twelve major deeds performed by a མཆོག་སྤྲུལ་ supreme emanation body i.e., the body of a buddha who descends into the world in order to teach. There are different listings of the twelve deeds. When Buddha Śhākyamuni appeared in the world, the twelve deeds shown by him were [DGT]: 1) དགའ་ལྡན་གྱི་གནས་ནས་འཕོ་བ་ "Coming fro…
ཞི་བའི་ལྷ་ཞེ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: zhi ba'i lha zhe gnyis
<noun> "The forty-two peaceful deities". The early translation tantras in Tibet contain several tantric systems made up of ཞི་ཁྲོ་ peaceful and wrathful deities, e.g., in the system that gives rise to the Tibetan Book of the Dead. These systems have two main maṇḍalas of ཁྲག་འཐུང་ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་བརྒྱད་ fifty-eight wrathful herukas q.v. and forty-two peaceful deities referred to here.
The forty-two p…
དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: dus kyi 'khor lo
<noun> "Wheel of Time". Translation of the Sanskrit "kālachakra". The full name དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ in Tibetan is freq. abbrev. to དུས་འཁོར་ q.v. for more entries.
Kālachakra is a system of tantra that was taught by the Buddha to the King of Shambhala. See under དུས་འཁོར་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ for a brief history.
The གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras categorize the tantras and yidam practices associate…
ཞལ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: zhal gcig
<phrase> "One face". Usually seen in Buddhist secret mantra liturgies where the body of a deity is being described. E.g., སྐུ་མདོག་སྔོན་པོ་ཞལ་གཅིག་ཕྱག་གཉིས་ "body blue in colour, with one face, two arms".
ནང་གི་རྟེན་འབྲེལ་
Transliteration: nang gi rten 'brel
<phrase> "Inner dependent relationship". This refers to practising the རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "twelve links of dependent relationship" by taking the body, rather than external phenomena, as the subject of the meditation.
