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.
རྒྱུད་སྡེ་
Transliteration: rgyud sde
<noun> "Tantra section". Translation of the Sanskrit "tantrapiṭaka". 1) Meaning i) the tantras as a whole compared to the མདོ་སྡེ་ sūtras as a whole or ii) a specific class of tantras within the tantras as a whole, e.g., Kriyatantra or the inner tantras compared to the outer tantras, etc. 2) In the Nyingma system of tantra, it also means one of the མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་གའི་སྡེ་གཉིས་ two sections of Mahā…
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".
མོའུ་འགལ་གྱི་བུ་
Transliteration: mo'u 'gal gyi bu
<noun> "Son of Maudgalyā". Translation of the Sanskrit "maudgalyāputra". The name of one of the two foremost śhrāvaka disciples of the Buddha; see མཆོག་ཟུང་གཉིས་ the excellent pair. Also known as མཽདྒལྱ་ཡཱ་ན་ "Maudgalyāyana". Maudgalyāyana was one of the seven principal compilers of the Abhidharma piṭaka; see མངོན་པ་སྡེ་བདུན་ "the seven sections of Abhidharma".
དུར་ཁྲོད་པ་
Transliteration: dur khrod pa
<phrase> "Amidst charnel grounds". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "śhamāśhānikaḥ". The name of one of སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve ascetic virtues. Acc. [DGT] amidst channel grounds means to a practice of thinking "it doesn't matter where I die" and having thought so, to make one's dwelling place in charnel grounds alone, living in places where human corpses have been dumped.
ལེགས་པར་རྣམ་པར་ཕྱེ་པའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་
Transliteration: legs par rnam par phye pa'i chos 'khor
<noun> "The dharma wheel of precise distinctions". The buddha turned the wheel of dharma three times; see ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་རིམ་པ་གསུམ་ for an explanation. In the ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཐ་མ་ final turning of the wheel of dharma, the Buddha promulgated the dharma for the third time and taught matters that made a fine and final distinction between the བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ two truths.
ཇི་ལྟ་བ་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་
Transliteration: ji lta ba mkhyen pa'i ye shes
<noun> "The wisdom which knows reality as it is". Translation of the Sanskrit "yathavadjñāna". The aspect of a Buddha's wisdom that see the reality of all phenomena, which is just exactly as they really are, hence the name. This aspect of wisdom see the non-arising, the unborn, the empty feature of all phenomena.
The Buddha's wisdom generally speaking knows things in one of two ways; this is…
བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྒྱུད་གསུམ་
Transliteration: bla na med pa'i rgyud gsum
<phrase> 1) "Three (levels of) unsurpassed tantra". Meaning the three inner tantras of the རྙིང་མ་པ་ Nyingmapa, i.e., the three inner tantras of the ཐེག་པ་དགུ་ nine yānas. 2) "The three unsurpassed tantras" meaning the three sub-divisions of རྣལ་འབྱོར་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ unsurpassed yogatantra of the new tantras. They are: 1) ཕ་རྒྱུད་ "father tantra"; 2) མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra", and 3) གཉི…
གཞི་ཇི་བཞིན་པ་
Transliteration: gzhi ji bzhin pa
<noun> "Same base". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "yathā saṃstarika". The name of one of སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve ascetic virtues q.v. Acc. [DGT] same base means the practice of making a bed by spreading grass or leaves (Indian custom) for a first time then always making one's bed the same way again in the future, never forgetting how one did the first time.
མདོའི་སྡེ་
Transliteration: mdo'i sde
<noun> "Sūtra section". Translation of the Sanskrit "sūtravarga". 1) The sūtra section meaning one of the sections of གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve branches of the excellent speech", which are the conventional, recorded teachings of the Buddha. This is a section of discourses that form the general corpus of the teaching. 2) The "sūtra section" meaning all of the conventional teach…
ཕྱག་དར་ཁྲོད་པ་
Transliteration: phyag dar khrod pa
<noun> "Cast offs". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "pāṃśhukūlikaḥ". The name of one of སྦྱངས་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve ascetic virtues q.v. Acc. [DGT] cast offs means that one makes a practice of gathering rags found cast out on the rubbish heap, rags which are dirty, which might have been excreted on, and cleaning them, cutting them, and dying them to make one's clothes.
སྐྱེ་མཆེད་དྲུག་
Transliteration: skye mched drug
<phrase> "The six sources", "the six āyatanas". Translation of the Sanskrit "ṣhaḍāyatana". The six āyatanas are a crucial part of the process that drives sentient beings' cycling through births in deluded existence, being the fifth of the རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཚུལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve processes of dependent-related arising q.v. for more information. The āyatanas referred to here are the ན…
རྒྱུའི་ཀུན་སློང་
Transliteration: rgyu'i kun slong
<noun> "Causal motivation". One of the ཀུན་སློང་གཉིས་ two types of motivation q.v. This is a technical term regarding the taking of དགེ་ཚུལ་ śhrāmaṇera ordination. It is the motivation which causes someone to want to take the ordination. It is said that it must be a decided, determined motivation like a thirsty person needing to drink water and that it should not be a wishy-washy motivation…
