དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་བསྙད་པའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: dbyangs kyis bsnyad pa'i sde
<noun> "The section (of discourse) related in melody". The name of a section of the recorded teachings of the Buddha. This is a section of sung hymns and praises. See གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve branches of the excellent speech".
ཀུན་རྫོབ་བདེན་པ་
Transliteration: kun rdzob bden pa
<phrase> "Fictional truth". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "saṃvṛitisatyaṃ". Usually translated as "relative truth" or "superficial truth" but see ཀུན་རྫོབ་ for discussion.
One of the བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ two levels of truth; the other is དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་ superfactual truth q.v. This level of truth is the level of truth for dualistic minds which are deluded regarding the ultimate level of truth. Th…
ཉེ་དབང་
Transliteration: nye dbang
<phrase> [Mngon] meaning "someone close to (the Indian god) ལྷ་དབང་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་ Devendra Kauśhika (Indra). 1) An epithet of the great Indian god ཁྱབ་འཇུག་ Viṣhṇu. 2) Meaning ཉེ་དབང་སོ་གཉིས་ the thirty-two chiefs of the Gods of the Thirty-three who are the immediate subordinates of Indra, who is the chief of them all.
མཽདྒལྱ་ཡཱ་ན་
Transliteration: maudgalya y'a na
<noun> Translit. of the Sanskrit "maudgyalyayāna". The name of one of the two foremost śhrāvaka disciples of Śhākyamuni buddha. See མཆོག་ཟུང་གཉིས་ the excellent pair. Usually spelled in Tibetan literature as མོའུ་འགལ་གྱི་བུ་ or a variation thereon.
ཉི་དྲོས་
Transliteration: nyi dros
<phrase> 1) The morning time period when the day begins to warm up after the first period following sunrise. If sunrise is at 6 a.m. then it is about 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. 2) "Morning" the name of the two hour period from the sunrise on given as one of the དུས་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve watches of a day in the Vinaya and corresponding to the meaning in 1).
བཞི་ཤད་
Transliteration: bzhi shad
<noun> "Quadruple stroke". A quadruple form of the basic punctuation mark called a ཤད་ "shay" or "stroke". A quadruple shay is used to end very long sections of text called དོན་ཚན་ཆེན་མོ་ great sections of meaning q.v. A quadruple shay is not written as four shay like this: །།།། but as two གཉིས་ཤད་ double shay separated by a several spaces like this: །། །།.
རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: rtogs pa brjod pa'i sde
<noun> "Section of Narrations of Realization". The name of a section of the recorded teachings of the Buddha. This is a section of discourses in which the Buddha narrates his own journey to enlightenment. See གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve branches of the excellent speech". See also རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ་ q.v.
རྔ་མོང་
Transliteration: rnga mong
<noun> 1) The animal called "camel". [TC] lists its synonyms as འཁོར་ལོའི་མགྲིན་པ་, དགའ་བྱེད་, མཆུ་འཕྱང་, མང་པོ་སྦྲེལ་, རླུང་གཉིས་འཐུང་, རླུང་ལ་དགའ་བ་, ལུས་ཅན་. 2) Name of a mountain in Tibet [TC].
གཞའ་གསང་
Transliteration: gzha' gsang
<noun> [Old] Acc. [ULS] and [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs 1) གཡུང་དྲུང་ "swastika". 2) [LGK] additionally gives འཕྲིན་ལས་ q.v. 3) [TC] additionally gives ཕྱི་ནང་གཉིས་ "outer and inner".
ཕྱིང་པ་བ་
Transliteration: phying pa ba
<noun> "Felt robes". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "nāmantikaḥ". The name of one of སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve ascetic virtues q.v. Acc. [DGT] felt robes means that one makes a practice of wearing only clothes or (monks) robes made of woollen felt.
ཐོ་རངས་
Transliteration: tho rangs
<phrase> 1) "Dawn". The name of one of the twelve divisions of the period of a complete day. The earliest part of the dawn. See under ནམ་ལངས་ for more. 2) "Dawn" 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 first period of dawn; if sunrise is at 6 a.m. it is from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.
