ཡོངས་སུ་མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་
Transliteration: yongs su mya ngan las 'das pa
I. <verb> v.i. past of ཡོངས་སུ་མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདའ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> "Parinirvāṇa". Translation of the Sanskrit "parinirvāṇa". The final nirvāṇa of a buddha. It is མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་ a nirvāṇa that is an ཡོངས་སུ་ all-encompassing one because it is totally beyond both སྲིད་ཞི་གཉིས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་ extremes of cyclic existence of sentient beings and the nirvāṇa which is the quiescent peace of the arhats.…
ཡོན་ཏན་འོད་
Transliteration: yon tan 'od
<noun> "Virtuous Light". Translation of the Sanskrit "guṇaprabha". 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 Excellents Beautifying Jambuling". He was known for his mastery of the Vinaya and wrote commentaries on it that became standards, e.g., the śhāstra called འདུལ་བ་མདོ་རྩ་ The Root of the V…
ཉེར་ལེན་བཞི་
Transliteration: nyer len bzhi
<enum> "The four types of taking up". In the process of the twelve links of interdependent origination, which consists of causes and effects, ཉེར་ལེན་ "taking up" is one of the causes within the process. Four sub-categories can be identified. [JKE] gives as: 1) འདོད་པ་ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་ ""; 2) ལྟ་བ་ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་ ""; 3) བདག་ལྟ་ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་ ""; 4) ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་དང་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་མཆོག་འཛིན་ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་ "". S…
འདོམས་ཀྱི་སྦ་བ་སྦུབས་སུ་ནུབ་པ་
Transliteration: 'doms kyi sba ba sbubs su nub pa
<phrase> "Private organ is hidden in a sheath". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "koṣhagatvastiguhya". One of the སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན་བཟང་པོ་སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གཉིས་ thirty-two marks of a great being. The Tibetan lit. means "retracted out of view" which is the meaning of the Sanskrit guhya "secret".
ཟེར་སྒྲོས་
Transliteration: zer sgros
<noun> [Non-Hon] 1) Meaning a person's particular way of expressing themselves, their particular form of expression, the way that a person says it, as in "his way of talking". [Hon] is གསུང་སྒྲོས་. E.g., [TC] དེ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཟེར་སྒྲོས་གཏན་ནས་མེད། "that kind of talk / way of talking cannot be relied on"; ཟེར་སྒྲོས་ཙམ་ལས་མེད། "it is just a way of talking". 2) It is also used to mean a particular w…
རྒྱུད་སྡེ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: rgyud sde drug
<phrase> "The six sections of tantra". In the system of the གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras, the tantras of the Vajrayāna are usually divided into four sections; see རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞི་. In that system, the four sections are further divided into six as follows. The three outer tantras are given separately followed by the fourth section of the inner tantra, which has been divided into its thre…
ཞི་ཁྲོ་ལྷ་
Transliteration: zhi khro lha
<phrase> "Peaceful and wrathful deities". The earlier translation tantras held in the རྙིང་མའི་ལུགས་ Nyingma tradition of teachings has sets of teachings and related practices that concern the peaceful deities located in the heart and the wrathful deities located in the brain of humans, a total of one-hundred deities in all. See ཞི་བའི་ལྷ་ཞེ་གཉིས་ forty-two peaceful and ཁྲག་འཐུང་ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་བར…
དཔུང་མགོ་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཟླུམ་པ་
Transliteration: dpung mgo shin tu zlum pa
<phrase> "Shoulders very smoothly curved". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "susaṃvṛattaskandhya". One of the སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན་བཟང་པོ་སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གཉིས་ thirty-two marks of a great being. This means that the area over the shoulder joints is very smooth; that there are no lumps or bumps on the area of the shoulder joint. Some humans have quite lumpy bodies with bones projecting here and t…
ལུས་ཟུངས་
Transliteration: lus zungs
<noun> "Bodily constituents" or "body forces". In reference to the various subtle components which drive the body at the subtle level (not the coarse level of the gross body). E.g., [ZGT] ཡང་ལུས་ཟུངས་ཟླ་བའི་ཆ་ཡིས་འཕོས་པ་ལས། །ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་སྲིད་པའི་ལུགས་བཞིན་འཁོར། "Also, that the shifting of moon factor body constituent results in cycling through the twelve branches in direction of becoming…
ཨེ་ཀ་ཛ་ཏི་
Transliteration: ae ka dza ti
<noun> "Ekajati". Translit. of the Sanskrit "ekajati". 1) The name of a wrathful, female protector in the རྙིང་མ་པ་ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In particular, she is one of the protector of the རྒྱུད་བཅུ་བདུན་ seventeen tantras of the མན་ངག་གི་སྡེ་ innermost section of the Ati yoga cycle. 2) She is also one of the བཀའ་གདམས་པའི་སྒྲོལ་མ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "twelve Tārās of the Kadampas" q.v.
བདུན་མཐོ་བ་
Transliteration: bdun mtho ba
<phrase> "Seven upper (places)". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "saptotsada". Abbrev. of སྐུའི་གནས་བདུན་མཐོ་བའི་མཚན་བཟང་ "the excellent mark of seven upper places on the body" q.v. One of the སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན་བཟང་པོ་སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གཉིས་ thirty-two marks of a great being. This does not mean that there are "seven important" or "main features" or "seven protuberances" on a buddha's body as …
ཆོས་མངོན་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ་
Transliteration: chos mngon pa kun las btus pa
<noun> "The Compendium of Abhidharma". Translation of the Sanskrit "abhidharmasamuccaya". The name of one of the two compendia སྡོམ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ written by Asaṅga; the other is the ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསྡུས་པ་ "Mahāyāna samuccaya". In addition to these, Asaṅga wrote texts based on the teachings received from Maitreya; see the བྱམས་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྔ་ "Five Dharmas of Maitreya". [Pek] No. 5530, Vol. 112.
རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཚུལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba'i tshul bcu gnyis
<noun> "The twelve modes / processes of dependent-related origination / arising". Translation of the Sanskrit "dvādaśhāṅga pratītya samutpāda". The Buddha described the process of the arising of cyclic existence as a sequence of twelve events of རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ dependent-related origination q.v. These are a sequence of ཚུལ་ processes or modes in which the production of life in འཁ…
གྲུབ་དབང་
Transliteration: grub dbang
<noun> "Lord of Siddhas" or "Lord of Accomplished Ones". Phonetics "Drubwang". Abbrev. of གྲུབ་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ or གྲུབ་པའི་དབང་པོ་ which are phrases describing practitioners who are outstanding amongst highly accomplished practitioners. See དབང་ཕྱུག་ and དབང་པོ་ for more about the meaning. When used as an epithet, it is usually abbrev. to གྲུབ་དབང་.
Whereas, for example རྒྱལ་དབང་ is a title th…
