རྟགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: rtags bzhi
<enum> "The four signs". [JKE] gives as: 1) སྨིག་རྒྱུ་ལྟ་བུ་ "...like a mirage"; 2) དུ་བ་ལྟ་བུ་ "...like smoke"; 3) སྲིན་བུ་མེ་འཁྱེར་ལྟ་བུ་ "...like fireflies"; 4) མར་མེ་འབར་ལྟ་བུ་ "...like a butterlamp". These are four visual appearances that accompany the winds entering the central channel and the concommitant direct perception of emptiness.
རིགས་བཟང་
Transliteration: rigs bzang
<phrase> "Good family" or "excellent family".
རིགས་བདག་
Transliteration: rigs bdag
<phrase> 1) "Lord of the family" i.e., the principal figure of a particular buddha family. E.g., see སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས་ལྔ་ for the lords of the five families. 2) "Lord of the families" meaning someone who has complete mastery of enlightenment and hence who is the principal over all the enlightened families. This term is often used as an epithet of the guru.
རྫས་ཡོད་བཞི་
Transliteration: rdzas yod bzhi
<enum> "The four substantially existents" or "the four that exist substantially. [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) རིགས་པས་གྲུབ་པའི་རྫས་ཡོད་ substantially existent because of its type; 2) བརྟན་པ་མི་འགྱུར་བའི་རྫས་ཡོད་ substantially existent because of stability, non-changing-ness; 3) དོན་བྱེད་ནུས་པའི་རྫས་ཡོད་ substantially existent because it is able to perform a function; 4) རང་རྐྱ་ཐུབ་པའི་རྫས་ཡོད་ s…
རིགས་བརྒྱ་
Transliteration: rigs brgya
<phrase> "The one hundred families" i.e., the one hundred buddha families. See ཞི་ཁྲོ་ལྷ་ "peaceful and wrathful deities".
ར་བ་བཞི་
Transliteration: ra ba bzhi
"The four first months". Each of the four Tibetan months is divided into three parts corresponding to an initial, middle, and ending month. The first months of the four seasons are: 1) དཔྱིད་ར་བ་ the first month of spring; 2) དབྱར་ར་བ་ the first month of summer; 3) སྟོན་ར་བ་ the first month of autumn; དགུན་ར་བ་ the first month of winter.
རིགས་འདྲ་བ་
Transliteration: rigs 'dra ba
<phrase> Things which are of "similar type", or "similar class".
འཐབ་བྲལ་སོགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: 'thab bral sogs bzhi
<phrase> "The four—Free From Conflict and so on". A term which refers to the four highest of the འདོད་ལྷ་རིགས་དྲུག་ six god realms in the desire realm which are distinguished from the two lower realms because of not having to fight with the asuras. See also འཐབ་བྲལ་ "Free From Conflict".
རིགས་ཆད་
Transliteration: rigs chad
<phrase> "Cut off family". A term used to refer to those who are not able to progress on some path, e.g., one of the paths of enlightenment. The Buddha explained a number of cut-off families.
རྐང་བཞི་
Transliteration: rkang bzhi
<noun> [Mngon] 1) "Quadruped". The general name for four-footed beings, animals. 2) An epithet for བཞི་མདོ་ which is one of བྱེད་པ་བཅུ་གཅིག་ eleven calculators of astrology.
རིགས་ངན་
Transliteration: rigs ngan
<phrase> Lit. "bad caste" but meaning "low caste" pejoratively.
རིགས་ལམ་
Transliteration: rigs lam
<noun> Lit. "the path of reasoning" or "the way of reasoning" and like རྨི་ལམ་ which is correctly translated simply by "dream" rather than "path of dreaming", this means and is translated correctly with "logic" meaning the whole subject of using reasoning. E.g., རིགས་ལམ་ལ་བརྟན་ཏེ། "relied on logic" or perhaps "relied on the use of reasoning" but not "relied on reasoning". Note that this par…
རིགས་ལྔ་
Transliteration: rigs lnga
<phrase> Translation of the Sanskrit "pañca-kula". 1) The five lineages in the context of the five types of གང་ཟག་ person. See རིགས་ཅན་ལྔ་. 2) The five families in the context of སངས་རྒྱས་རིགས་ལྔ་ the five buddha families q.v.
