ཆེད་དུ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: ched du brjod pa'i sde
<noun> "The section of utterances". The name of a section of the recorded teachings of the Buddha. This is a section of discourses that were expressed according to a particular need. It is characterized by aphorisms and so is sometimes called the section of aphorisms. See གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve branches of the excellent speech".
སྣོད་ཀྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་
Transliteration: snod kyi 'jig rten
<phrase> "The container world". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "bhajanalokaḥ". One of འཇིག་རྟེན་གཉིས་ the two types of world q.v. This refers to the physical, outer world which is the container or environment within which sentient beings live. This term is paired with the term བཅུད་ཀྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ meaning the "contained world" i.e., the sentient beings who are contained in the world(s). W…
ཚོགས་བསགས་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་པ་
Transliteration: tshogs bsags yan lag bdun pa
<phrase> "The seven limb worship which gathers the accumulations". A longer name for any liturgy of the ཡན་ལག་བདུན་པ་ seven limb type q.v. Tibetan Buddhism explains that it is a particular effective means for accumulating the ཚོགས་གཉིས་ two accumulations because each of the seven limbs covers a crucial point in the accumulation of merit and abandonment of སྒྲིབ་པ་ obscuration.
ཉི་ཕྱེད་
Transliteration: nyi phyed
<phrase> 1) "Midday" itself. 2)"Midday", "late morning"; the period of morning up to midday. If sunrise is at 6 a.m. then it is about 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. 3) "Midday" 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). 4) "Half a day"; abbrev. of ཉི་མ་ཕྱེད་ཀ་.
སྨིག་རྒྱུ་
Transliteration: smig rgyu
<noun> A "mirage" i.e., seeing water in the distance where this is none due to heat rays e.g., in a desert. It is not the same as མིག་ཡོར་ a visual abberation or མིག་འཕྲུལ་ an optical illusion. A mirage is one of སྒྱུ་མའི་དཔེ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve analogies of illusion" q.v. and one of འོད་གསལ་རྟགས་བཅུ་ "the ten signs of luminosity".
ཟབ་མོའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་རྣམ་པ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: zab mo'i chos nyid rnam pa brgyad
<enum> [JKE] gives as: 1) སྐྱེ་བ་བཟང་མོ་ ""; 2) དགག་པ་ཟབ་མོ་ ""; 3) དེ་ཉིད་ཟབ་མོ་ ""; 4) ཆོས་ཟབ་མོ་ ""; 5) ཤེས་པ་ཟབ་མོ་ ""; 6) ཉམས་ལེན་ཟབ་མོ་ ""; 7) གཉིས་སྟོང་ཟབ་མོ་ ""; 8) ཐབས་མཁས་ཟབ་མོ་ "".
འཁྱག་པ་
Transliteration: 'khyag pa
I. <verb> v.i. འཁྱགས་པ་/ འཁྱག་པ་/ འཁྱག་པ་//. "To become cold". Note that འཁྱགས་པ་རྒྱག་པ་ is "to freeze". Often used to mean that one is feeling cold in the body, hence also "to feel cold". E.g., [TC] ལུས་འཁྱགས་ནས་འདར་བ། "he got cold and shivered"; འཁྱགས་ལྟོགས་གཉིས་མནར། "pained with cold and hunger".
II. <noun> Sometimes by mistake for འཁྱགས་པ་ "ice".
དད་པའི་རྗེས་འབྲང་
Transliteration: dad pa'i rjes 'brang
<phrase> "Faith follower". One of the རྒྱུན་ཞུགས་ཞུགས་པ་གཉིས་ two types of enterer into stream-entry and one of the དགེ་འདུན་ཉི་ཤུ་ "twenty saṅghas". A person of dull faculties who simply follows only other's teaching and thus attains direct realization of the truth.
དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་
Transliteration: dri za'i grong khyer
<phrase> "City of the gandharvas", "gandharva city". In ancient Indian culture, དྲི་ཟ་ Gandharvas were fairy-like beings who lived on smells and inhabited fabulous cities that glimmered in space like an apparition. Thus, the term is used as one of སྒྱུ་མའི་དཔེ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve analogies of illusion" q.v.
གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་པར་བསྟན་པའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: gtan la phab par bstan pa'i sde
<noun> "The section of teaching through determination". The name of a section of the recorded teachings of the Buddha. This is a section of discourses that were taught in the particular style of determining things exactly. See གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve branches of the excellent speech".
རྣམ་གྲངས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་
Transliteration: rnam grangs ma yin pa'i don dam bden pa
<phrase> "Unassessed superfactual truth". One of the two types of superfactual truth asserted conventionally by the Yogacara-Svatāntrika Madhyamaka system. རྣམ་གྲངས་པའི་དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་ "assessed superfactual truth" is the one known by rational mind q.v. "Unassessed superfactual truth" is the one known directly by wisdom. See "the two superfactual truths" དོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ for more.
སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ་
Transliteration: smra ba'i seng ge
<phrase> [Mngon] "Lion of Speech / exposition". Translation of the Sanskrit "vādisiṃha". 1) General epithet for those who are excellent at exposition, such as erudite scholars. 2) One of many སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ epithets of the buddha. 3) Specifically, one of the རྣམ་འཕྲུལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve manifestations of Guru Rinpoche.
བསམ་གཏན་ས་དྲུག་
Transliteration: bsam gtan sa drug
<enum> "The six levels of dhyāna". [JKE] gives as: 1) བསམ་གཏན་དང་པོའི་ཉེར་བསྡོགས་མི་ལྕོགས་མེད་ ""; 2) བསམ་གཏན་དང་པོའི་དངོས་གཞིའི་ཙམ་པོ་བ་ ""; 3) བསམ་གཏན་དང་པོའི་དངོས་གཞི་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་ ""; 4) བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པའི་དངོས་གཞི་ ""; 5) བསམ་གཏན་གསུམ་པའི་དངོས་གཞི་ ""; 6) བསམ་གཏན་བཞི་པའི་དངོས་གཞི་ "".
ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྗེས་འབྲང་
Transliteration: chos kyi rjes 'brang
<phrase> "Reality follower". One of the རྒྱུན་ཞུགས་ཞུགས་པ་གཉིས་ two types of enterer into stream-entry and one of the དགེ་འདུན་ཉི་ཤུ་ "twenty saṅghas". A person of sharp faculties who does not rely on teaching but on his own investigation and thus, following the truth of reality, attains direct realization of it.
འཁྲིག་པ་
Transliteration: 'khrig pa
<noun> 1) The general term in classical texts to indicate sexual activity between a male and female of any species. There are many other terms used in special contexts or used more euphemistically. This term is the direct way of saying "sexual intercourse", "copulation". 2) "Couple". The name of one of སྐར་ཁྱིམ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve houses of the zodiac; the equivalent of "Gemini".
ཕྱེད་དང་
Transliteration: phyed dang
<phrase> This construction followed by a number indicates that there is the number of items indicated by the second number but that one item is there by a half. E.g., ཕྱེད་དང་གཉིས་ means one and a half; ཕྱེད་དང་བཞི་ means three and a half. Sometimes this needs to translated less literally, for example, in ཀཱ་ལི་ཕྱེད་དང་བརྒྱད་སྡེ་ནི། [NSN] is best translated "The kāli in eight groups one a h…
སྐྱེས་པའི་རབས་ཀྱི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: skyes pa'i rabs kyi sde
<noun> "Section of stories from the succession of lives". Also known in English as the "Jataka Tales" and "Birth Tales". The name of a section of the recorded teachings of the Buddha. This is a section of discourses that related previous lives of the Buddha. See གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve branches of the excellent speech".
ལྷུང་བཟེད་སྤྱོད་ཚུལ་བཅུ་བཞི་
Transliteration: lhung bzed spyod tshul bcu bzhi
<phrase> "Fourteen modes of using the begging bowl". The sixth of the nine sub-categories of the ཉེས་བྱས་བརྒྱ་དང་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "One hundred and Twelve Faults" q.v. These are fourteen ways in which a fully-ordained monk must not use the begging bowl.
དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: de lta bu byung ba'i sde
<noun> "Section of parables". Translation of the Sanskrit "itivṛṭaka varga". The name of a section of the recorded teachings of the Buddha. One of the གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "twelve branches of the excellent speech" q.v. This is a section of discourses in which the Buddha teaches, in the form of parables, that such and such happened.
