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བཅུད་ཀྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་
Transliteration: bcud kyi 'jig rten
<phrase> "The contained world". One of འཇིག་རྟེན་གཉིས་ the two types of world q.v. It refers to the worlds of sentient beings and is paired with the term སྣོད་ཀྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ meaning the "container world" i.e., the world(s) that are the habitats of sentient beings who are contained within in them. When the two are put together, as they often are in the term སྣོད་བཅུད་ it becomes "container a…

སྡེ་སྣོད་
Transliteration: sde snod
<noun> "Basket". Translation of the Sanskrit "piṭaka". The Sanskrit means a large basket which is used to contain one thing. Hence, the common translation is "basket". The term is mainly used in regard to the principal collections of the Buddha's teachings. E.g., སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ་ "the three baskets"; སྡེ་སྣོད་གཉིས་ "the two baskets"; སྡེ་སྣོད་བཞི་པ་ the fourth basket.

ཆུ་བོ་
Transliteration: chu bo
<noun> "River" of a large size. Since this is often used metaphorically to indicate a stream of teaching, thought, instruction, etc., this can also mean "stream" in that context. E.g., བཀའ་ཕྱག་ཆུ་བོ་གཉིས་འདྲེས་ "the two streams of Kadampa and ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ Mahāmudrā merged".

མོས་པས་སྤྱོད་པའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་
Transliteration: mos pas spyod pa'i sems bskyed
<phrase> "The arousal of mind of intentional conduct". One of སེམས་བསྐྱེད་བཞི་ four categories of the སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ཉེར་གཉིས་ twenty-two arousals of mind q.v. This category corresponds to the types of bodhicitta aroused by practitioners who are on the མོས་པས་སྤྱོད་པའི་ས་ level of intentional conduct. There are མོས་པས་སྤྱོད་པའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་བཞི་ four types of arousal of bodhicitta in this categ…

པུས་མོའི་ལྷ་ང་
Transliteration: pus mo'i lha nga
<noun> "Knee-cap"; the part that causes a bulge at the front of the པུས་མོ་ knees. E.g., [KDZ] དེས་པུས་མོའི་ལྷ་ང་ས་ལ་བཙུགས་ནས་ལག་གཉིས་ཐལ་མོ་སྦྱར་ཏེ། "He knelt down then, placing his hands in añjali...".

ནམ་ཕྱེད་
Transliteration: nam phyed
<phrase> 1) "Midnight" itself. 2) "Late night"; the period of late night up to midnight. If sunrise is at 6 a.m. then it is about 10 p.m. to 12 p.m. midnight. 3) "Midnight" 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).