ཕྲེང་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: phreng rgyud
<phrase> "Rosary string", "māla string". The string / thread / cord used to string a ཕྲེང་བ་ māla / rosary together.
བཤགས་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: bshags rgyud
<noun> "Laying Aside Tantra"; common abbrev. of དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་བཤགས་རྒྱུད་ The Laying Aside Tantra called Stainless. Also translated as "Confession Tantra".
དོན་རྒྱུད་ཉི་མ་
Transliteration: don rgyud nyi ma
<name> "Dongyu Nyima". The name of the eighth ཁམས་སྤྲུལ་ Khamtrul Rinpoche of the Kham Drukpa Kagyu.
གཉིས་མེད་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: gnyis med rgyud
<phrase> "Non-dual tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "advititantra". 1) The གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras categorize the tantras and yidam practices associated with the བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ anuttarayoga section into three different types: 1) མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra"; 2) ཕ་རྒྱུད་ "father tantra"; and 3) གཉིས་མེད་རྒྱུད་ "non-dual tantra". Unlike the mother and father tantras, the n…
དུག་རང་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: dug rang rgyud
<phrase> [AKR] gives: "having a mind which is solidly poison (affliction)".
རྒྱུད་བཤད་པ་
Transliteration: rgyud bshad pa
I. <verb> v.t. past tense. "To explain the tantras".
II. <phrase> "Explanation(s) of the tantras". This does not mean explanation of the practice rituals and the texts associated with them but of the tantras themselves. "Explanation of the tantras" gives a student an explanation of the theory of the practice of རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ་ Vajrayāna using the root texts of the Vajrayāna which are ca…
གཞུའི་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: gzhu'i rgyud
<noun> "Bow string", the string of a bow.
རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: rtsa ba'i rgyud
<noun> "Root tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "mūlatantra". Normally, a particular tantra cycle will have several tantras to it. One will be the རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ root tantra that condenses the whole meaning of the cycle; for example, in the Mahāyoga tantra cycle of the Nyingma tradition, it will refer to the guhyagarbha tantra and in the Atiyoga tantra cycle of the Nyingma tradition, it wi…
བྱ་བའི་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: bya ba'i rgyud
<noun> "Action Tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "kriyatantra". In the old translation school, the first of the six levels of tantra and the first of the three outer tantras. In the གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation schools, the first of the རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞི་ four levels of tantras and the first of the three lower tantras. The name is given for the fact that this level of tantra places a great emp…
ལུ་གུ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: lu gu rgyud
<noun> 1) In general, a "string" or "chain" of things; something that holds together, perhaps loosely, but in a continuous kind of way. The meaning is derived from the image of sheep grazing across hills; sheep usually stay close together and appear in connected groups / chains across the hills. Note that [SCD] is completely mistaken in the comments regarding this term; it gives that ལུ་གུ་…
