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་ཏུ་སྤྱོད་པ་
Transliteration: kun tu spyod pa
I. <verb> v.t. see སྤྱོད་པ་ for tense forms. See below for meaning.
II. <gerundial>phrase> per the verb.
III. <phrase> Both སྤྱོད་པ་ q.v. and this term are general terms for conduct / behaviour. However, this one has a more specific sense. It means a particular style of behaviour, a style of behaviour that has been taken up for some reason. It is the particular form of conduct …
བམ་པོ་གཅིག་པ་
Transliteration: bam po gcig pa
"A single bundle". Many sutras begin with wording like this which is used to indicate the number of bundles of palm leaf manuscript involved in a sutra that was to be translated into Tibetan. In this case, the sutra consisted of a single bundle. In other cases there might be only a half bundle or might be two or more bundles. In the case where there was more than one bundle, the bundles would be …
བླ་གབ་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: bla gab med pa
<phrase> "Without shelter". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "ābhyavakāśhikaḥ". The name of one of སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve ascetic virtues q.v. Acc. [DGT] without shelter, i.e., with no cover overhead, means the practice of dwelling in unsheltered places, e.g., living on tops of houses which have no roof or covering on them.
མངོན་སུམ་གྱི་ཚད་མ་
Transliteration: mngon sum gyi tshad ma
<phrase> "Direct perception valid cognizer" / "direct valid cognizer". One of ཚད་མ་གཉིས་ the two main kinds of valid cognizers. There are མངོན་སུམ་གྱི་ཚད་མ་རྣམ་པ་བཞི་ four types of direct perception valid cognizer q.v. It is one of བློ་རིག་བདུན་ "the seven branches of (the subject of studying) the knowers of rational mind". See also དཔྱད་པ་གསུམ་ "the three analysers" of which direct percept…
བསེ་རུ་ལྟ་བུའི་རང་སངས་རྒྱས་
Transliteration: bse ru lta bu'i rang sangs rgyas
<noun> "Rhinoceros-like pratyekabuddha". Translation of the Sanskrit "khaḍga viṣhāṇa kalpaḥ pratyekabuddha". One of the རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རིམ་པ་གཉིས་ two types of pratyekabuddha who are distinguished by their approach to practice q.v. This pratyekabuddha is one of the དགེ་འདུན་ཉི་ཤུ་ "twenty saṅghas" q.v.
ཚད་མེད་འོད་
Transliteration: tshad med 'od
<noun> "Measureless Light". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "apramāṇābhāḥ". The name of the second of the three levels of abodes in the བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པ་ second dhyāna of the གཟུགས་ཁམས་ form realm. The radiance and brilliance of the gods here cannot be measured hence the name.
See the གཟུགས་ཁམས་ཀྱི་གནས་རིགས་བཅུ་བདུན་ "The Seventeen Abodes of the Form Realm" for a listing of all of the levels…
རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: rmad du byung ba'i chos kyi sde
<phrase> "Section of marvellous dharmas". The name of a section of the recorded teachings of the Buddha. This section is comprised of teachings which elucidate the inconceivable, wonderful, marvels of the qualities and realms of the arhats and bodhisatvas. See གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve branches of the excellent speech".
སྒྲུབ་སྡེ་
Transliteration: sgrub sde
<noun> 1) "Sadhana section". Translation of the Sanskrit "sādhanavarga". In the Nyingma system of tantra, one of the མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་གའི་སྡེ་གཉིས་ two sections of Mahāyoga: the sadhana section as opposed to the tantra section q.v. 1) "Practice centre" or "retreat centre". Used in contrast to བཤད་གྲྭ་ "study centre" or "college". A monastery in Tibet would usually have a place for study and a place …
རྒྱས་འགྱུར་གྱི་རིགས་
Transliteration: rgyas 'gyur gyi rigs
<noun> "The developing lineage". The seed of enlightenment which is within sentient beings according to the Mahāyāna teachings, is said in the text རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ to be of two types རིགས་རྣམ་གཉིས་. The developing lineage is that sentient beings accumulate merit and clear the obscurations, gradually manifesting the potential which exists naturally as the རང་བཞིན་གནས་པའི་རིགས་ q.v.
ཕ་རྒྱུད་མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་ག་
Transliteration: pha rgyud ma h'a yo ga
<phrase> "Father tantra, Mahāyoga". In the སྔ་འགྱུར་ old translation tantras of the རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system, the tantras are classified into outer and inner. Of those, the inner tantras are classified into three, Mahāyoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga and those are equated with father, mother, and non-dual respectively. Thus, མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་ག་ "Mahāyoga" is classified as ཕ་རྒྱུད་ "father tantra". See also …
འདོད་རྒྱལ་གྱི་མིང་
Transliteration: 'dod rgyal gyi ming
<noun> "A name (derived on the basis) of one's own wishes". In Tibetan grammar, མིང་ names and the verbs derived from them are divided into མིང་གཉིས་ two types of names, according to how they are derived. This term refers to names that are འདོད་རྒྱལ་ "just made up" as someone sees fit i.e., which are not derived according to reasoning or the rules of etymology. It is in contradistinction to…
ཕུང་གསུམ་པ་
Transliteration: phung gsum pa
<phrase> "The third heap" "or "the third possibility". A term of Great Completion. It is explained by Khenpo Drala of Dzogchen Monastery like this.
༄། །ཕུང་གསུམ་པ་ནི་གཉིས་ཀའི་མཐའ་ལ་མ་ལྷུང་བའི་བར་ལ་ཟེར། དཔེར་ན་ཐོག་མའི་སྤྱི་གཞི་དེ་ལ་རང་ངོ་རིག་པའི་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་མེད་པའི་ཆ་ནས་མྱང་འདས་ཀྱང་མིན་ལ། འཁྲུལ་བ་རང་མཚན་པ་དངོས་ད་ལྟ་མེད་པའི་ཆ་ནས་འཁོར་བ་ཡང་མིན་པའི་ཕུང་གསུམ་པ་སྟེ་དེ་གཉིས་ཀ་མིན་པའི་གཞན་པའོ།།
"It is …
བདེ་འགྲོ་
Transliteration: bde 'gro
<noun> "Happy migrations". Translation of the Sanskrit "sugati". There are six classes of migrators in cyclic existence. Three of them have very difficult states of birth and three have relatively easy states of birth. The three bad destinies or migrations are ངན་འགྲོ་གསུམ་ "three bad migrations" and the three easy ones are བདེ་འགྲོ་གསུམ་ "three happy migrations" q.v.
Note that the term བདེ་…
ཤཱ་རི་པུཏྲ་
Transliteration: sh'a ri putra
<noun> "Shari's Son", "Śhāripūtra". Translit. of the Sanskrit [MVP] "śhāriputra". The name of one of the མཆོག་ཟུང་གཉིས་ two foremost arhat-disciples of Buddha who is included also in the ten closest ཉན་ཐོས་ śhrāvaka disciples of the Buddha. He was one of the seven principal compilers of the Abhidharma piṭaka; see མངོན་པ་སྡེ་བདུན་ "the seven sections of Abhidharma".
ཤཱཀྱ་འོད་
Transliteration: sh'akya 'od
<noun> "Śhākya Light", "Śhākyaprabha". In Sanskrit "śhākyaprabha". The name of a great Indian master who was one of the Two Excellent Ones: see འཛམ་གླིང་མཛེས་པའི་རྒྱན་དྲུག་མཆོག་གཉིས་ "Six Ornaments and Two Excellent Ones Beautifying Jambuling". He was renowned for his superior knowledge of the འདུལ་བ་ Vinaya and wrote several texts which were regarded as definitive handbooks on the Vinaya.
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསྡུས་པ་
Transliteration: theg pa chen po bsdus pa
<noun> "The Compendium of The Great Vehicle". The name of a text by Asaṅga. Translation of the Sanskrit "Mahāyāna saṃgraha". One of the two སྡོམ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ "compendia" written by Asaṅga; the other is the Abhidharma-samuccaya. For texts by Asaṅga based on the teachings received from Maitreya, see the བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་ "Five Dharmas of Maitreya".
