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…
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".
ཤིང་དྲུང་པ་
Transliteration: shing drung pa
<noun> "Sitting under a tree". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "vṛkṣhamūlikaḥ". 1) The name of one of སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve ascetic virtues q.v. Acc. [DGT] sitting under a tree means to make a practice of dwelling at the foot of a tree, i.e., to abandon all other dwelling places and make one's dwelling place at the foot of a tree. 2) A person following the practice of sitt…
རྗེས་གྲུབ་ཀྱི་མིང་
Transliteration: rjes grub kyi ming
<phrase> "A name produced according to (reason or the rules of etymology)". In Tibetan grammar, མིང་ names and the verbs derived from them are divided into མིང་གཉིས་ two types according to how they are derived.
This term refers to names that have been produced using རྗེས་གྲུབ་ the application of reason or etymology rather than འདོད་རྒྱལ་གྱི་མིང་ names that have been produced འདོད་རྒྱལ་ just …
རང་བཞིན་གནས་པའི་རིགས་
Transliteration: rang bzhin gnas pa'i rigs
<phrase> "The family which is naturally present". One of the རིགས་རྣམ་གཉིས་ two types of family, where "family" refers to the tathāgatagarbha. This is the type which is naturally present in the mind-stream of every sentient being. The other type is རྒྱས་འགྱུར་གྱི་རིགས་ "the family which becomes developed".
Other translations include: "naturally present affinity", "intrinsic potential", "lega…
ཁ་ཟས་སྤྱོད་ཚུལ་ཉེར་གཅིག་
Transliteration: kha zas spyod tshul nyer gcig
"Twenty-one modes of partaking of food". The fifth of the nine sub-categories of the ཉེས་བྱས་བརྒྱ་དང་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "One hundred and Twelve Faults" q.v. These are twenty-one ways in which a fully-ordained monk must not conduct himself when partaking of food.
སྟན་གཅིག་པ་
Transliteration: stan gcig pa
<noun> "One seat". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "ekāṣhanikaḥ". The name of one of སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve ascetic virtues q.v. Acc. [DGT] one seat means that one makes a practice of taking food for a meal while sitting in place with the thought that when one arises no more food will be accepted for that meal; this has the sense of restricting the amount of food that one e…
ཆོས་སྟོན་ཚུལ་ཉེར་དྲུག་
Transliteration: chos ston tshul nyer drug
<phrase> "Twenty-six modes of teaching dharma". The seventh of the nine sub-categories of the ཉེས་བྱས་བརྒྱ་དང་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "One hundred and Twelve Faults" q.v. These are twenty-six ways in which a fully-ordained monk must not comport himself when teaching the dharma.
ཀུན་རྫོབ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་
Transliteration: kun rdzob sems bskyed
<phrase> "Fictional arousing of the mind (of bodhicitta)". One of སེམས་བསྐྱེད་གཉིས་ the two types of arousing the mind of bodhicitta. This is a term from the ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ Pāramitā Vehicle. It refers to the specific arousing of the mind that is focussed on the thought to bring all sentient beings to enlightenment based on great compassion and loving kindness.
མིའི་རིགས་ནས་རིགས་སུ་སྐྱེ་བ་
Transliteration: mi'i rigs nas rigs su skye ba
<phrase> "Born into the family via the family of men". One of two types of རྒྱུན་ཞུགས་འབྲས་གནས་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་གཉིས་ "special abiders in the fruit of stream entry". Special abiders in the fruit of stream entry come into that family either from the gods of the desire realm or from མི་ men. This group comes from men.
དཀའ་ཆེན་
Transliteration: dka' chen
<noun> 1) "Kachen". The name of one of the levels of དགེ་བཤེས་ geshe degree at བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་ Tashi Lhunpo monastery. This is the highest level of degree and refers to someone with the highest level of study of the བཀའ་པོད་ལྔ་ "five groupings of the buddha-word" and the commentaries to them. See དཀའ་བཅུ་ "Kachu" for a lesser level. 2) See under དཀའ་ཆེན་བཅུ་གཉིས་.
ཤཱཀྱའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་
Transliteration: sh'akya'i rgyal po
<phrase> "King of the Śhākyas". 1) An epithet of Śhākyamuni Buddha. He was born into the Śhākya clan of Northern India and, as a buddha, become the ultimate king of that race. 2) Meaning the actual king of the Śhākya Clan of ancient India / Nepal. The king at the time of Śhākyamuni Buddha was his father, རྒྱལ་པོ་ཟས་གཙང་ King Shuddhodana. 3) An epithet of the twelfth of the རྫོགས་ཆེན་སྟོན་པ་…
