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མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་གསུམ་
Transliteration: mnyam pa nyid gsum
<enum> "Threefold equality". The three ways in which all buddhas are equal. [JKE] gives as: 1) ཚོགས་བསགས་པ་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་ "equal in their accumulation of the accumulations"; 2) ཆོས་སྐུ་ཐོབ་པ་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་ "equal in having obtained dharmakāya"; 3) གཞན་དོན་བྱེད་པ་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་ "equal in working for the aims of others". The first means that they have all, equally accumulated all of the ཚོགས་གཉིས་ two ac…
རྣམ་གྲངས་པའི་དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་
Transliteration: rnam grangs pa'i don dam bden pa
<phrase> "Assessed superfactual truth". One of the two types of superfactual truth asserted conventionally by the Yogacara-Svatāntrika Madhyamaka system. Assessed superfactual truth has been assessed by rational mind where རྣམ་གྲངས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་དོན་དམ་ unassessed superfactual truth has not, i.e., it has been known in direct perception. See "the two superfactual truths" དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ for …
ནམ་ལངས་
Transliteration: nam langs
<noun> "Day break". 1) In general, "day is coming", the time when the senses realize that there is light in the sky and that sunrise is on its way. 2) In Indian astrology and other places, the period of a day is broken into དུས་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve parts based on the human sense of the progression of the day. This one is the period when the night is really ending and the day is coming. In s…
བུད་ཤིང་
Transliteration: bud shing
<phrase> "Firewood". The term actually means wood that will make a fire blaze up. Hence it has two usages. 1) General name for any kind of wood that will used for making a fire, "firewood", "kindling", etc. 2) General name for wood which is added onto a fire to make it blaze up further. This meaning is sometimes seen in Buddhist literature where the distinction of meaning "wood to make the …
པ་
Transliteration: pa
I. <consonant letter> The thirteenth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the lips; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the lips; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the two lips together; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and un-sounded. 2) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-base, t…
སྡོམ་
Transliteration: sdom
<noun> 1) The arachnid called "spider". 2) Section of a text. 3) A summation of anything, many things brought into one place. This can include such as "index" and "table of contents" in a book. It can also be "a summary" e.g., in the སྡོམ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ q.v. 4) The arithmetic procedure "addition". Also see the equivalent term སྣོན་.
སིམ་
Transliteration: sim
A basic intertsheg of the Tibetan language with the meaning of a mental state of serenity, contentment, full happiness, and ease. It is the opp. to གདུང་བ་ to have a mind that is distressed, troubled. See སིམ་གདུང་གཉིས་ for more of a sense of the meaning. It is combined with various other མིང་ grammatical names or ཚིག་ཕྲད་ connectors to give words that contain its meaning e.g., སིམ་པ་ q.v.
བྱ་
Transliteration: bya
I. <verb> Part of བྱ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> The name for the class of animal called "bird". The word is often written after another word to indicate a specific kind of bird e.g., རྨ་བྱ་ "peacock", ཆུ་བྱ་ "water fowl". 2) "Bird". The name of the eighth year in the astrological system of ལོ་སྐོར་བཅུ་གཉིས་ a cycle of twelve years where each year is named by an animal.
མ་རྒྱུད་ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་
Transliteration: ma rgyud aa nu yo ga
<phrase> "Mother tantra, Anuyoga". In the རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system, the tantras are classified into outer and inner. The inner tantras are classified into three, Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga. These are then classified as father, mother, and non-dual tantra respectively. Thus, ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་ "Anuyoga" is classified as མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra". See also ཕ་རྒྱུད་མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་ག་ "Father tantra, Mahāyoga…
སྟོང་བར་མའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་
Transliteration: stong bar ma'i 'jig rten gyi khams
<phrase> "A middle (order) chiliocosm world system" or "middle order thousand-fold world system". The same as སྟོང་གཉིས་པ་ "second order chiliocosm" q.v.
This is the second of three numerical orders of world-systems. The second order is the middling of the three, hence it gets the name here. See སྟོང་ཆེན་པོའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་ "great chiliocosm world system" for explanation.
ཁ་ཤགས་
Transliteration: kha shags
<noun> "Summit", "meeting", "forum" "forum for talk", "discussion", "presentation of views (by discussion)", "panel", "presentations of arguments (in a legal or similar situation". A general term for the various situations where two (or more) parties deliberately come together to discuss their grievances or views and come to a resolution or agreement. This is used for individuals and for go…
འགྲོ་བའི་ཚུལ་ཉི་ཤུ་
Transliteration: 'gro ba'i tshul nyi shu
<phrase> "Twenty modes of going". The second of the nine sub-categories of the ཉེས་བྱས་བརྒྱ་དང་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "One hundred and Twelve Faults" q.v. These are twenty ways in which a fully-ordained monk must not comport himself when moving about. [TC] gives the list as ལུས་ངག་མ་བསྡམས་པ་དང་། གོས་ཚགས་ལེགས་པར་མ་བགོ་བ་དང་། ཅ་ཅོ་དང་བཅས་པ་དང་། མིག་གཡས་གཡོན་དུ་ལྟ་བ་དང་། གཉའ་ཤིང་གང་ལས་རིང་དུ་ལྟ་བ་དང་། མགོ་…
གཤོག་པ་
Transliteration: gshog pa
I. <verb> v.t. བཤགས་པ་/ གཤོག་པ་/ གཤག་པ་/ གཤོགས་/. This verb means to cut into something and through it, cleaving it into pieces. Hence "to split apart / break into pieces" and "to cut apart / up", "to cleave", "to slice up". In the case of paper, cloth, and so on "to rip apart" and "to shred". E.g., [TC] རྡོ་དུམ་བུར་བཤགས་པ། "split the rock into pieces"; གྲིས་བཤགས་པའི་རྨ། "the place where he…