རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་
Transliteration: rnga bo che chen po'i mdo
<noun> "The Great Drum Sūtra". Full name in Sanskrit "ārya mahābherihārakaparivarta nāma Mahāyāna sūtra". Name of a sūtra from the Mahāyāna sūtra section; and in Tibetan, འཕགས་པ་རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལེའུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མདོ་. Translated by the Indian preceptor བིདྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ་ Vidyākaraprabha and the Tibetan lotsāwa བནྡེ་དཔལ་གྱི་ལྷུན་པོ་ Bande Palgyi lhunpo, and revised and finalized by …
བྱེ་བྲག་པའི་ཚིག་དོན་དྲུག་
Transliteration: bye brag pa'i tshig don drug
<phrase> "The six meanings of the specifying words". [DGT] gives as: 1) རྫས་ "substance"; 2) ཡོན་ཏན་ "quality"; 3) ལས་ "action"; 4) སྤྱི་ "generality"; 5) བྱེ་བྲག་ "specific"; 6) འདུ་བ་ "gathering".
བསམ་གཏན་གསུམ་པའི་ཡན་ལག་ལྔ་
Transliteration: bsam gtan gsum pa'i yan lag lnga
<enum> "The five branches of the third dhyāna". [JKE] gives as: 1) དྲན་པ་ ""; 2) ཤེས་བཞིན་ ""; 3) བཏང་སྙོམས་ ""; 4) བདེ་བ་ ""; 5) སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་པ་ "".
ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: thos bsam sgom pa'i shes rab gsum
<phrase> "The three prajñās of hearing, contemplating, and meditation (or cultivation)". Commonly spoken of as ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་གསུམ་ "the three, hearing, contemplating, and meditating".
This is a formulation given by the Buddha of the three kinds of prajñā necessary to tread the Buddhist path in general. [NDS] gives them as: 1) ཐོས་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ "arising from hearing"; 2) བསམ་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ "arisi…
མང་པོས་བཀུར་བའི་སྡེ་པ་
Transliteration: mang pos bkur ba'i sde pa
<noun> 1) "The Mahā Sammitīya School" or "The School of (the ones who follow) Greatly Respected". The Śhrāvaka disciples of the Buddha separated into རྩ་བའི་སྡེ་པ་བཞི་ four basic schools of thought after the Buddha passed away q.v. This is the name of one of the schools. Each of the four schools had sub-schools. This one had མང་པོས་བཀུར་བའི་སྡེ་པ་གསུམ་ three sub-schools, all of which were c…
ལྟར་སྣང་
Transliteration: ltar snang
<adj>phrase> Lit. "only appearing to be so" but with the main meaning of "not the real one" and following that, "not true", "not valid". Often seen in logic when describing an argument, etc., that looks like a valid form but which is really only a facsimile thereof, i.e., which is not valid. 1) "Semblance", "facsimile", "resemblance". 2) "Counterfeit", "simulated", "seemingly...". E.g., …
ཕུབ་མའི་ཞབས་ཀྱི་འཇབ་ཆུ་
Transliteration: phub ma'i zhabs kyi 'jab chu
<saying> "Water passing undetected beneath the hay (stack) or (pile of) straw". A saying used in Buddhist meditation instruction. In Tibetan farming culture, grain is first cut in the field, then the grain is separated from the straw, and then from the ཕུབ་མ་ chaff. When the grain grasses are first cut, they are bundled into stooks and stood up in the fields and later the straw from the har…
ཀློང་ཁྲ་བོ་
Transliteration: klong khra bo
"The Multi-coloured Space". The ཀློང་གི་སྡེ་ Space Section of རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Completion is described as having three (sometimes four) divisions. "Multi-coloured Space" is the third division. The classic short description of this sub-division is ཀློང་ཁྲ་བོ་སྣ་ཚོགས་སུ་སྨྲ་བ་ "the variegated Space Section which propounds diversity".
སྦྱོང་བྱེད་
Transliteration: sbyong byed
<phrase> "Purifier", "remover", "that which does the purification / removal". <noun> Abbrev. of སྦྱོང་བར་བྱེད་པ་ which, as defined by the verb theory presented in the རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པ་ Application of Gender Signs means exactly "that thing which does the purification when a process of purification is being performed" i.e., when there is a process of purification / removal of any kind, t…
དྲང་སྲོང་ལྷུང་པ་
Transliteration: drang srong lhung pa
<noun> "Ṛiṣhis Dropping". The name in English of "Ṛiṣhipartana", one of the 36 sacred places of Buddhists in ancient India, which is a spot near the Deer Park in modern Sarnath, near Benares, where Buddha first preached the dharma. Jamgon Kongtrul in his ཤེས་བྱ་མཛོད་ Treasury of Knowledge mentions that the Buddha first turned the wheel of dharma in the area of Vārāṇasi, at Ṛishipartana, in …
བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་
Transliteration: byang chub kyi phyogs chos
<phrase> "Dharmas of the enlightenment side". This is a standard phrase of the Great Vehicle. Usually in reference to the བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་བདུན་ "thirty-seven dharmas of the enlightenment side". E.g., [HUC] བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་ཆོས་རྣམས་ལས་མི་ཉམས། ཡོངས་སུ་མི་ཉམས་ཏེ། ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཡང་ལས་ཁ་ན་མ་ཐོ་བ་མ་མཆིས་ཤིང་ཚེ་གཞན་དུ་ཡང་བྱེ་བྲག་ཏུ་མཆི་བར་འགྱུར་བ་ "How will (a bodhisatva householder s…
མཚམས་སྦྱོར་ལྷག་བཅས་ཀྱི་སྒྲ་
Transliteration: mtshams sbyor lhag bcas kyi sgra
<noun> "Juncture continuative term". The name given in Tibetan grammar to a ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connector when it is functioning in conjunction with a verb to indicate continuation. This is the one term available for describing a large category of possibilities. For example, a most common use is as follows. Tibetan is not an inflected language, therefore there are no participle forms of verbs, …
ཡས་བསུ་མས་སྐྱེལ་
Transliteration: yas bsu mas skyel
<saying> The act of "the evening out / up" of two things in a pair (such as better and worse, greater and lesser, shorter and longer, etc.). The evening out can be a matter of changing one's idea about things or actually doing something to even things out. E.g., [TC] རིང་ཐུང་ཡས་བསུ་མས་སྐྱེལ་གྱིས་གཅིག་པ་བཟོ་བ། "to make the lengths of things the same by evening them up".
སྨན་བཞི་
Transliteration: sman bzhi
<enum> "The four medicines". The འདུལ་བ་ Vinaya explains four types of medicine. [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) དུས་རུང་གི་སྨན་ "medicine to be taken at the allowed times"; 2) ཐུན་ཚོད་ཀྱི་སྨན་ "medicine to be taken at the prescribed times"; 3) ཞག་བདུན་པའི་སྨན་ "medicine to be taken for seven days"; 4) འཚོ་བཅངས་ཀྱི་སྨན་ "medicine to be taken for the time needed to restore health".
དབུ་མ་པ་
Transliteration: dbu ma pa
<noun> "Middle Way Follower", "follower of the Middle Way. Translation of the Sanskrit "madhyamika". The name given to someone who follows the དབུ་མ་ Madhyamaka or Middle Way system of philosophy. Such a person is one of གྲུབ་མཐའ་སྨྲ་བ་བཞི་ "the four proponents of tenets" q.v. There are three main types of Madhyamaka view and hence three main types of followers of it: see དབུ་མ་པ་གསུམ་ "Thr…
