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སྐུ་མདོག་
Transliteration: sku mdog
<noun> [Hon] "Body colour", "colour of the body". 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".

དཀའ་བ་
Transliteration: dka' ba
I. <verb> v.i. དཀའ་བ་/ དཀའ་བ་/ དཀའ་བ་//. 1) "To be trying", "to try" in the sense of "ordeals bringing exhaustion, fatigue". E.g., [TC] ལུས་སེམས་གཉིས་ཀ་དཀའ་བ། "trying for both body and mind / it was an ordeal for body and mind / body and mind exhausted by the ordeal". 2) "To go through the difficulty / hardship / ordeal of". E.g., [TC] སྐད་ཅིག་མང་པོར་དཀའ་བས་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པར་འགྱུར། "entered …

གློག་
Transliteration: glog
<noun> 1) "Lightning". Sometimes meaning "lightning" per se and sometimes "flash of lightning". Lightning is used as one of the སྒྱུ་མའི་དཔེ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve analogies of illusion" q.v. 2) "Electricity". In modern times the term which originally only meant lightning has come to be used to mean "electricity" as well.

ཐེངས་
Transliteration: thengs
<preposition> "Times" or "time" e.g. in "five times and the first time". Hence also "occurrences", "occasions" meaning the number of times that something happens. When followed by a number "x", it means "x times". E.g., ཐེངས་གཅིག་ "one time / once"; ཐེངས་གཉིས་ "two times / twice"; ཐེངས་གསུམ་ "three times / thrice". E.g., ངས་ཐེངས་གཅིག་མཇལ་སོང་། "I have met him one time / once / on one occasi…

བདག་དང་གཞན་
Transliteration: bdag dang gzhan
<phrase> 1) "Self and others" meaning oneself and other beings. E.g., བདག་གཞན་དོན་གཉིས་ "the two aims, those of (one) self and (those of) others". 2) "Subject and object (in a transitive verb situation)". Used in grammatical works when discussing བདག་གཞན་ q.v.