རྫོགས་ཚིག་
Transliteration: rdzogs tshig
<noun> "Completing word". Grammar term. One of three synonyms; the other two terms which mean the same are སླར་བསྡུ་ "Concluder" and ཟླ་སྡུད་ "coupled concluder" q.v. Of the three synonyms this one is the most commonly used term these days, even though སླར་བསྡུ་ concluder is the original term coined in the ལུང་དུ་སྟོན་པ་རྩ་བ་སུམ་ཅུ་པ་ Thumi Saṃbhoṭa's first of eight grammatical treatises. S…
རྣམ་གླིང་པཎ་ཆེན་
Transliteration: rnam gling paN chen
<noun> "Namling Panchen". The name of a great Tibetan grammarian of the 17th century. These days, the three great Tibetan grammarians of the past are spoken of in the formulation ཞྭ་རྣམ་བྲ་གསུམ་ "the three—Zhva, Nam, and Dra". He is the second of the three, the others being ཞྭ་ལུ་ལོཙྪ་བ་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་བཟང་པོ་ Zhvalu Lotsawa and བྲ་ཏི་དགེ་བཤེས་ Drati Geshe.
ཀུན་ནས་དཀྲིས་པ་
Transliteration: kun nas dkris pa
I. <verb> v.t. see དཀྲིས་པ་ for tense forms. "To entangle", "to ensnare". Lit. to completely tie up and hold back.
II. <noun> "Snare" / "entanglement". Translation of the Sanskrit "paryavasthana". Noun form is usually written as ཀུན་དཀྲིས་ q.v. See ཀུན་ནས་དཀྲིས་པ་བརྒྱད་ "the eight snares" for explanation. The term should not be confused with ཀུན་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བ་ "enmeshments" which has a si…
ཉམ་ཐག་པ་
Transliteration: nyam thag pa
<adj> 1) Referring to anything done with little strength to it, done in a weak way. E.g., [TC] ཉམ་ཐག་པའི་སྐད་ཀྱིས་ངུ་བ། "sobbed / cried quietly"; ཉམ་ཐག་པའི་ང་རོ་འབྱིན་པ། "brought forth a weak roar / cry". 2) Not have much strength of body. This is used in many different contexts and generally has the sense of being weak, poor, pathetic, destitute and unable.
ཀུན་སྤངས་
Transliteration: kun spangs
I. <verb> with སྤངས་ as the past tense of སྤོང་བ་ meaning either ཀུན་སྤངས་པ་ "abandoned all" or ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤངས་པ་ "totally abandoned".
II. <phrase> 1) [Mngon] "Renunciant"; epithet of a person who has abandoned all worldly things and has left the world to do spiritual practice. It could mean a hermit but not necessarily. Some "renunciant" were wanderers. 2) "All-abandoned" a name of the m…
ཆུ་བོ་ཆེན་པོ་
Transliteration: chu bo chen po
<phrase> 1) Similar to ཆུ་བོ་ and meaning any "large river". 2) Meaning "the great river" of samsara, whose powerful current carries beings along, preventing them from crossing to its other shore and leaving it behind. E.g., ཆུ་བོ་ཆེན་པོས་དེད་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་གཟིགས་གྱུར་ "(the Buddha who) has become someone who looks on migrators driven by the great river".
See also ཆུ་བོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་ "the four gre…
བྱིང་པོ་
Transliteration: bying po
<adj> Form of བྱིང་བ་. For something to be sinking downwards. 1) "Sinking (down)". Often used as a description of the mind. In the practice of ཞི་གནས་ shamatha meditation, there are two main obstacles during the practice. One is for the awareness to be sinking, meaning that it is going down from a fully aware state to a more dull state, which can range from slight dullness through drowsines…
ཁྲོ་བོ་བཅུ་
Transliteration: khro bo bcu
<noun> "The Ten Wrathful Ones". Translation of the Sanskrit "daṣha krodhā". These are the wrathful deities in the various locations of the physical body according to Buddhist tantra. Acc. [NDS] they are: 1) གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་ [Skt. yamāntaka] "Slayer of the Lord of Death"; 2) ཤེས་རབ་མཐར་བྱེད་ [Skt. prajñāntaka] "prajñā Eliminator"; 3) པདྨ་མཐར་བྱེད་ [Skt. padmāntaka] "Lotus Eliminator"; 4) བགེགས…
ཆུ་བོ་རབ་མེད་
Transliteration: chu bo rab med
I. <phrase> "Fordless / unfordable / uncrossable river" or "river without crossing"; a river which cannot be crossed by walking through it. Same as ཆུ་ཀླུང་རབ་མེད་ q.v.
II. <noun> [Mngon] "River Without Ford / Fordless River". [Mngon] 1) Epithet for the ཡི་དྭགས་ preta realm / birth in the preta realm. 2) Translation of the Sanskrit "nadī vaitaraṇi". The name of the fourth of the ཉེ་འཁོ…
ཉེ་བའི་ལྔ་སྡེ་
Transliteration: nye ba'i lnga sde
<phrase> "The group of five who were close". A second group of five early disciples of the Śhākyamuni Buddha, who he taught on the road to Rajgriha. See འཁོར་ལྔ་སྡེ་བཟང་པོ་ for the first group of five. [DGT] gives the group of five who were close as: 1) གྲགས་པ་ "Kīrti"; 2) དྲི་མེད་ "Vimala"; 3) གང་པོ་ "Paurṇa"; 4) བ་ལང་བདག་ "Gavāmpati"; 5) ལག་བཟང་ "Subahu".
དགེ་བསྙེན་དྲུག་
Transliteration: dge bsnyen drug
<phrase> "The six laypersons". According to the འདུལ་བ་ Vinaya, a དགེ་བསྙེན་ layman in the Buddhist tradition is a person who has taken the refuge vow and one or more of the five layman's vows. Laymen can be divided into དགེ་བསྙེན་གསུམ་ six categories q.v. or three categories. When divided into six, they are as follows. The first level takes only refuge and no vows of personal liberation. T…
སྒྲུབ་བྱ་
Transliteration: sgrub bya
<phrase> "That to be accomplished", that to be established, that to be proved". This term is defined grammatically as the སྒྲུབ་པར་བྱ་བ་ that which is on the side of the object in a transitive action of སྒྲུབ་པ་ accomplishment q.v. It means exactly "that which will end up being accomplished by doing the action སྒྲུབ་པ་ of accomplishment.
1) In general, it means what will be accomplished, pro…
བསྐང་བཤགས་
Transliteration: bskang bshags
<noun> "Amendment-confession" or "appeasement-confession". Abbrev. of བསྐང་བ་ and བཤགས་པ་ each of which q.v. Secret mantra terminology; this is the name of a ritual in which one corrects broken connections with deities and protectors by appeasing them through making certain offerings and admitting and laying aside (confessing) one's errors. In the རྙིང་མ་ old school's secret mantra it is th…
བྲ་ཏི་སུམ་རྟགས་
Transliteration: bra ti sum rtags
<phrase> "The Thirty and Gender Signs of Drati". The name given to two grammar texts composed by the great grammarian བྲ་ཏི་དགེ་བཤེས་ Drati Geshe q.v. in the eighteenth century. The first was a commentary on སུམ་ཅུ་པ་ The Thirty called ཀུན་བཟང་དགོངས་གསལ་ "The Intent of the (second grammar of) Samantabhadra Made Clear" and the second a commentary on རྟགས་འཇུག་ Guide to Gender Signs called རྟ…
སུན་འབྱིན་པ་
Transliteration: sun 'byin pa
I. <verb> v.t., see འབྱིན་པ་ for tense forms. This compound verb has the basic sense "to cause something else to be reduced in some way". 1) i) In logic, the opp. of སྒྲུབ་པ་ and similar in meaning to དགག་པ་ q.v.; "to refute / repudiate / disprove". Note that it not only means to "refute" but "to do away with" as well. E.g., [TC] e.g., [TC] གཞན་ལུགས་ལ་སུན་འབྱིན་བྱེད་པ། "to attempt to refute…
འཛིན་པ་
Transliteration: 'dzin pa
I. <verb> v.t. བཟུང་བ་/ འཛིན་པ་/ གཟུང་བ་/ ཟུང་/.
1) Meaning "to take hold of", "to grasp", "to grip", "to seize onto" something. i) General usage, e.g., [TC] ཁས་བླངས་ནས་དམ་པོར་འཛིན་པ། "having given his word, he held tightly to it"; ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་ལག་པས་བཟུང་བ་དེ་དམ་པོར་ཟུང་ཞིག "Hold tightly onto what you have in your hand". ii) "To grasp" onto a self. Translation of the Sanskrit "graha". Used exte…
