དུས་མཚན་མ་
Transliteration: dus mtshan ma
<noun> "Kālaratri". Translation of the Sanskrit "kālaratri". The name of a Hindu goddess who is also included in the Buddhist pantheon as a protector. E.g., She is also one of the བཀའ་གདམས་པའི་སྒྲོལ་མ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "twelve Tārās of the Kadampas" q.v.
ཟབ་མོ་ལྟ་བའི་སྲོལ་
Transliteration: zab mo lta ba'i srol
<noun> "System of the Profound View". One of the ཤིང་རྟའི་སྲོལ་གཉིས་ two main streams of teaching of the Mahāyāna teachings that went to Tibet q.v. This is the stream of teaching that emphasizes emptiness and which came through Nāgārjuna.
ཉི་ཤར་
Transliteration: nyi shar
<noun> 1) "Sunrise" itself. 2) The period of time around sunrise. 3) "Sunrise" the name of the two hour period from the sunrise given as one of the དུས་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve watches of a day in the Vinaya e.g., if sunrise is at 6 a.m. then it would be the period from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.
བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་
Transliteration: brgya phrag
<noun> "One hundred" but meaning one hundred as a set. 1) One hundred-fold as in ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "twelve, one hundred-fold good qualities" q.v. 2) "Hundreds" either i) in the arithmetic sense of hundreds by count or ii) in the manifold sense of hundreds—just as we would say in English "there were hundreds of them".
སྲོད་འཁོར་
Transliteration: srod 'khor
<noun> "Night" the name of the two hour period when night has actually set in after the first period of evening. It is given as one of the དུས་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve watches of a day in the Vinaya. If the sunrise is at 6 a.m. it corresponds to the period from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
སྒྲ་བརྙན་
Transliteration: sgra brnyan
<noun> [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, བྲག་ཆ་ "echo". An "echo" is one of the སྒྱུ་མའི་དཔེ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve analogies of illusion" q.v.
རྒྱལ་བ་དང་པོ་
Transliteration: rgyal ba dang po
<noun> "First Victory". A name for the 3rd and 18th days of the lunar month; see རྒྱལ་བ་ for explanation. The terms དཀར་ཕྱོགས་ "light phase" and ནག་ཕྱོགས་ "dark phase" are used to differentiate them; དཀར་ཕྱོགས་རྒྱལ་བ་དང་པོ་ "first victory of the light phase" refers to the 3rd day and ནག་ཕྱོགས་རྒྱལ་བ་གཉིས་པ་ "first victory of the dark phase" refers to the 18th day.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་བདག་མེད་
Transliteration: chos kyi bdag med
<phrase> "Selflessness of phenomena / dharmas", "lack of a self of phenomena / dharmas". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "dharma nairātmyaṃ". One of the བདག་མེད་གཉིས་ two types of lack of self explained in Buddhism q.v. This refers to the absence of a self in a phenomena other than a being (person). The other refers to གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་མེད་ absence of a self in a person.
སྐྱེས་རབས་ཀྱི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: skyes rabs kyi sde
<noun> "The Section of Life Stories", "The Section of Jatakas". One of the གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve sections of the Buddha's teachings, the section of collected stories that he told of his various previous lifetimes as he trod the path to enlightenment.
ཉི་མྱུར་
Transliteration: nyi myur
<phrase> 1) "Afternoon"; the period of later afternoon when the day is now closing. If midday is at 12 a.m. then it is about 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 2) "Afternoon"; the name of the two hour period given as one of the དུས་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve watches of a day in the Vinaya and corresponding to the meaning in 1).
གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་མེད་
Transliteration: gang zag gi bdag med
<phrase> "Selflessness of persons", "lack of a self of persons". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "pudgala nairātmyaṃ". One of the བདག་མེད་གཉིས་ "two types of lack of self" explained in Buddhism q.v. This refers to the absence of a self in a person. The other refers to ཆོས་ཀྱི་བདག་མེད་ absence of a self in all other phenomena q.v.
བསམ་གཏན་གྱི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་བཞི་
Transliteration: bsam gtan gyi snyoms 'jug bzhi
<enum> "The four samāhitas of dhyāna". [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) བསམ་གཏན་དང་པོའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ "the samāhita which is the first dhyāna"; 2) གཉིས་པའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ "the samāhita which is the second"; 3) གསུམ་པའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ "the samāhita which is the third"; 4) བཞི་པའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ "the samāhita which is the fourth".
གླང་པོ་ཆེ་
Transliteration: glang po che
<noun> The animal "elephant". Translation of the Sanskrit "hasti". Freq. abbrev. to གླང་ཆེན་. The elephant is one of ཁྲི་དྲུག་འགྱོགས་ "supports of the six thrones" q.v. In Ancient Indian literature, and in Tibetan literature following it, there were many allegorical names for an elephant; [TC] gives a partial list: འཁོར་ལོའི་རྐང་; མཆེ་བ་སྟོབས་ལྡན་; གཉིས་འཐུང་; སྟོབས་ལྡན་; ཐིག་ལེ་ཅན་; ནགས་ཚལ…
