ཐབས་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: thabs rnam pa gsum
<phrase> "The three types of means". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "upāyastrividhaṃ". Skilful means in the ཐབས་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ pāramitā of means is explained as being of three types. Acc. [NDS] they are: 1) སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཁོང་དུ་ཆུད་པ་ "including all sentient beings"; 2) སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་དོན་ཀུན་ཏུ་བསྒོམ་པ་ "always meditating for the welfare of sentient beings"; 3) ཤིན་ཏུ་མྱུར་བའི་བདེ་བ…
ཟག་པ་དང་བཅས་པ་
Transliteration: zag pa dang bcas pa
<phrase> "With outflows", "having outflows". Translation of the Sanskrit "sāsrava". Commonly abbrev. to ཟག་བཅས་; most related listings are under that. Opp. is ཟག་པ་མེད་པ་ q.v.
A specific technical term of Buddhism meaning that a given situation has outflows. Outflow means that, from the undisturbed primordial mind, the various afflictions have "flowed out". This is commonly translated as bei…
བདག་སྣང་
Transliteration: bdag snang
<noun> "Own appearances" also translated as "subjective appearances". One of a pair of terms, the other is གཞན་སྣང་ "others' appearances". Within Buddhism, the subject of self and others' appearances becomes exceptionally profound. Without some realization of selflessness it cannot really be understood. Roughly speaking, own appearances are the སྣང་བ་ appearances that one mind-stream has wh…
སྤྱི་བརྟོལ་
Transliteration: spyi brtol
<phrase> "Just spouting" or "just sounding off". The act of just spouting about things you don't really know about, pretending to be an expert. [RYD] gives "shameless" however that is mistaken; a person doing this might be shameless in their behaviour, but that is not the meaning of the word. The word also has the sense of being bull-headed; that you don't listen or think or taken anything …
བཏང་སྙོམས་
Transliteration: btang snyoms
<noun> Generally meaning the mental attitude of "neutrality" / "equanimity", i.e. the attitude in which there is neither liking nor disliking.
I. "Neutral". Specifically, in reference to ཚོར་བ་བཏང་སྙོམས་, the "neutral feeling" which is one of the ཚོར་བ་གསུམ་ three types of feeling in the skandha of feeling. In this case, it means neither pleasant nor painful, neutral.
II. "Equanimity". Transl…
རྗེས་དྲན་ལྔ་
Transliteration: rjes dran lnga
<phrase> "The five recollections". In the Kadampa tradition this is the name for a set of five མན་ངག་ foremost instructions: 1) སྐྱབས་གནས་བླ་མ་དྲན་པ་ remembrance of the place of refuge being the guru; 2) ལུས་ལྷའི་རང་བཞིན་དྲན་པ་ remembrance of the body being the nature of the deity; 3) ངག་བཟླས་བརྗོད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་དྲན་པ་ remembrance of the speech being the nature of (mantra) recitation; 4) འགྲོ…
འཁྲུལ་འཁོར་
Transliteration: 'khrul 'khor
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "yantra". 1) "Yogic exercises". The name given to yogic exercises which are used to work with the subtle body, usually to make it pliable so that realization is more easily attained. There are many different traditions of these practices in Tibetan Buddhism. See also རྣལ་འབྱོར་ "yoga". 2) The Sanskrit term can also mean "machine" or "gadget". However, when…
གང་ཞིག་
Transliteration: gang zhig
<pronoun> One of several སྤྱི་སྒྲ་ terms of generality derived from གང་ q.v. It is written following something plural and shows one member, unspecified, of the larger group. It gives the meaning that, of the larger group, "the particular one which" or "the specific one which", "the one which" or just an unspecified one of the group i.e., "one which".
By definition it can refer to both person…
ཅོག་རོ་ཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
Transliteration: cog ro klu'i rgyal mtshan
<noun> "Chogro Lui Gyaltsen". The name of a translator who was particularly important in the translation of the བཀའ་བསྟན་ Buddhist scriptures into Tibetan. He was one of the ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་རབ་དགུ་ nine best translators at the time of ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེའུ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen and later, at the time of that king's grandfather, was also one of the greatest translators at the time of King Ralpachen. He…
སྐལ་མཉམ་པ་
Transliteration: skal mnyam pa
I. <noun> 1) "Those of the same lot" meaning those having equivalent circumstances, those of equal lot. See also སྐལ་མཉམ་ q.v. 2) "Equal Lot". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "sabhagātā". One of the ལྡན་མིན་འདུ་བྱེད་བཅུ་བཞི་ fourteen non-associated formatives. This refers to sentient beings who have been born at the same level and hence share a similar world.
II. <adj> Of the "same l…
ཁྲུམས་སྟོད་
Transliteration: khrums stod
<noun> The name of a star, a corresponding constellation, and the associated lunar month. In Sanskrit, it is called "pūrvabhadrapadā" or "earlier bhadrapada". It receives its name later because it is one of two bhadrapada stars in the one lunar months and appears after the other, called ཁྲུམས་སྨད་ "later bhadrapadā".
According to Western sources [MWS] it is "Alpha Pegasi". In the Indian syst…
སྨོན་ལམ་
Transliteration: smon lam
I. <noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "praṇidhāna". 1) "Aspiration(s)" in the sense of good wishes for good things to come in the future. Hence usually translated as "prayer(s) of aspiration". E.g., སྨོན་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ "the aspiring bodhicitta". Most formal Buddhist practices have a concluding section that begins with བསྔོ་བ་ dedications of merit and ends with སྨོན་ལམ་ prayers of aspirat…
བསླབ་པ་
Transliteration: bslab pa
I. <verb> Future of v.t. སློབ་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> "Main training" meaning a main course of training that has to be undertaken to accomplish any given discipline. Translation of the Sanskrit "śhikṣhā". E.g., the Buddha described the whole path that he was teaching as comprised of three "main trainings". Although this is often translated with just the word training, it carries the full we…
ཐེག་ཆེན་སྒྲུབ་པ་བཅུ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: theg chen sgrub pa bcu gsum
<enum> [JKE] gives as: 1) ངེས་འབྱེད་ཆ་མཐུན་བཞིན་ ""; 2) མཐོང་ལམ་ ""; 3) སྒོམ་ལམ་ ""; 4) གཉེན་པོའི་སྒྲུབ་པ་ ""; 5) སྤོང་བའི་སྒྲུབ་པ་ ""; 6) དེ་དག་ཡོངས་སུ་གཏུགས་པའི་སྒྲུབ་པ་ ""; 7) ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་བརྩེའི་སྒྲུབ་པ་ ""; 8) སློབ་མ་ཐུན་མོང་མིན་པའི་སྒྲུབ་པ་ ""; 9) གཞན་དོན་གོ་རིམ་དུ་བྱེད་པའི་སྒྲུབ་པ་ ""; 10) ཡེ་ཤེས་རྩོལ་བ་མི་མངའ་བའི་སྒྲུབ་པ་ "".
ཉེ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་
Transliteration: nye ba'i nyon mongs pa
<phrase> Lit. "the subsidiary afflictions". The various ཉོན་མོངས་ afflictions that cause ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ total afflictedness of the mind are divided into the རྩ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ root (i.e.,) main afflictions and the ཉེ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ secondary or subsidiary afflictions. The subsidiary afflictions are defined as ཉོན་མོངས་ afflictions that drive sentient beings in cyclic existence but whic…
ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: cho 'phrul rnam pa gsum
<noun> "Three types of miraculous feats (of a buddha)". Translation of the Sanskrit "trividhaṃ prātiharyam". These are a buddha's ability to perform miraculous feats at the level of body, speech, and mind respectively and are also known as སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་གསུམ་ "the three miraculous feats of a buddha". Acc. [NDS] they are: 1) རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་ "miraculous feats of miracles"; 2) …
