འཇིག་རྟེན་བདུན་
Transliteration: 'jig rten bdun
<phrase> "The seven worlds".
I. The usual meaning is, as given in [DGT]: འགྲོ་བ་རིགས་དྲུག་ the six classes of migrators and བར་སྲིད་ཀྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ the world of bardo existence.
II. A less common meaning is ངན་འགྲོ་གསུམ་ the three bad migrations, འདོད་པའི་ལྷ་མི་ the gods and men of the desire realm, and གོང་མའི་ལྷ་གཉིས་ the two types of gods (form and formless realms). In other words, the five…
རྣམ་ཤེས་ཚོགས་བརྒྱད་དག་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ཚིག་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: rnam shes tshogs brgyad dag par byed pa'i tshig chen po brgyad
<phrase> "The eight great phrases that cause the purification of the eightfold group of consciousness". The name of a set of key points of Great Completion practice which are one summary of the main key points of the practice. Another, similar set is the རྡོ་རྗེའི་གད་མོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "The twelve great vajra laughters" q.v.
གཟུང་བ་
Transliteration: gzung ba
I. <verb> Fut. of འཛིན་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) "The grasped (object)", "The apprehended (object)". Translation of the Sanskrit "grāhya". In the schools of Buddhist philosophy which maintain that there are no objects external to mind—the སེམས་ཙམ་ Mind-only School and the tantric schools following it—the apprehending aspect of mind is called འཛིན་པ་ "the grasper" (q.v.) and the aspect of m…
བདག་ཏུ་སྨྲ་བ་ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་
Transliteration: bdag tu smra ba nye bar len pa
<phrase> "Appropriation which is advocating a self". This means to be totally involved in and pursuant of བདག་ཏུ་སྨྲ་བ་ a system which advocates the view that there is a real self. It is one of the four types of ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་ "appropriation" which set the stage for a further rebirth in cyclic existence. As such it is part of the ninth event of the twelve processes of རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་…
མིག་འཕྲུལ་
Transliteration: mig 'phrul
<noun> "Optical illusion", "visual trick". Something that appears to the eye but is not actually that way and is produced by some cause. It refers to any kind of "deceptive" visual appearance, a "visual trick". This could be but is not necessarily a magician's illusion (a magician's illusion is specifically referred to with སྒྱུ་མ་ q.v.) This is not the same as an hallucination or མིག་ཡོར་ …
ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
Transliteration: tshangs dbyangs rgya mtsho
<noun> "Tshang Yang Gyatso". The name of a རྟོགས་ལྡན་ Togden who was a principal student of the first ཚོགས་གཉིས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ Tsoknyi Rinpoche. He lived in Tsoknyi Rinpoche's large nunnery called གེ་བཅགས་དགོན་པ་ in Nangchen, Kham in the later part of the 19th century. He compiled the first Tsoknyi Rinpoche's collected works, a one volume collection mainly dealing with the ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་ཏིག་ min…
ལྟ་བ་མཆོག་ཏུ་འཛིན་པ་
Transliteration: lta ba mchog tu 'dzin pa
<noun> "Holding views to be supreme". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "dṛṣhṭaparāmarśhaḥ". One of the ལྟ་བ་ལྔ་ five wrong views described by the Buddha. Defined by [SKD] as འཇིག་མཐའ་གཉིས་ལོག་ལྟ་བཅས་གསུམ་དང་ལྟ་བ་དེའི་གནས་ཕུང་པོ་ལ་མཆོག་དང་དམ་པར་ཞེན་པ། "clinging to views both of the transitory and extremes together with wrong views as a third, and the places which those views are based on, t…
བྱིན་པ་རི་དྭགས་ཨེཎེཡའི་ལྟ་བུ་
Transliteration: byin pa ri dvags aeNeya'i lta bu
<phrase> "Shanks like those of the antelope Eneya". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "aiṇeyajaṅgha". One of the སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན་བཟང་པོ་སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གཉིས་ thirty-two marks of a great being. This refers to the shape of the lower half of a buddha's leg being straight and delicate like that of the antelope called in Sanskrit "aiṇeya". Note that it refers to the shanks of the leg, not the "c…
ལྟོགས་པ་
Transliteration: ltogs pa
I. <verb> v.i. ལྟོགས་པ་/ ལྟོགས་པ་/ ལྟོགས་པ་//. "To be hungry" i.e., to have the feeling that occurs when food is not eaten when needed. E.g., [TC] ལྟོགས་གྲང་གཉིས་མནར། "tormented with cold and hunger"; ལྟོགས་པ་ཟུངས་ཆད། "weak from hunger"; ལྟོགས་ནས་ཐབས་མེད་པ། "hungry without means to deal with it"; ལྟོགས་ནས་འཆི་ལ་ཁད་པ། "dying of hunger"; འགྲང་ལྟོགས་མི་ཤེས་མཁན། "a person who doesn't know cold …
བཞེད་པ་
Transliteration: bzhed pa
I. <verb> v.t. བཞེད་པ་/ བཞེད་པ་/ བཞེད་པ་/ བཞེད་/. 1) [TC] gives that this is the [Hon] of ཁས་ལེན་པ་ q.v. but that is not quite how it is used; it is used as the [Hon] of འདོད་པ་ in the sense of "to accept" a certain position. It has the sense of འདོད་ཚུལ་ what someone thinks is correct and hence what they accept as being so. This term is used both in a general secular sense e.g., གང་ཞུས་དེ་…
ཤངས་གཙང་བའི་དཔེ་བྱད་
Transliteration: shangs gtsang ba'i dpe byad
<phrase> "The minor mark of clean nose". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "anuvyañjani". Acc. [NDS] one of the སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་ eighty excellent marks of a great being q.v. [TC] gives as ཤངས་མཆོག་ཏུ་དག་པའི་དཔེ་བྱད་ "...supremely pure nose" with same meaning. It means that the nose of a buddha's body has become perfectly pure due his perfect accumulation of purity.…
གཞན་གྱི་དོན་
Transliteration: gzhan gyi don
<phrase> 1) "Other's sakes", "other's aims". One of the དོན་གཉིས་ two aims or objectives. This term is used in reference to activity done to aid other's purposes or aims as opposed to རང་གི་དོན་ the purposes or aims of oneself. This pair of terms is used heavily in the ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Vehicle where it is said that the path to buddhahood contains two aspects of practising to fulfil one's…
རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ་
Transliteration: rnam par grol ba
<noun> "Complete liberation". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "vimuktiḥ". 1) A term referring to the state of a enlightenment because it is completely liberated from all obscurations e.g., སྒྲིབ་པ་གཉིས་ the two types of obscuration. Note that this is a specific term of the Greater Vehicle literature. Because of its specific use, all of parts of the phrase are important; it must be transla…
སྔ་མ་ལྟར་
Transliteration: snga ma ltar
<phrase> Lit. "in accordance with the former, or earlier one. Usually seen in constructions where a former and ཕྱི་མ་ལྟར་ latter or later situation are being mentioned. Commonly seen when two different positions are being compared, e.g., [GSB] དེ་ལ་ལུགས་གཉིས་ཡིན། དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་བཀའ་གདམས་པ་རྣམས་སྔ་མ་ལྟར་འདོད་པ་ཡིན། འོ་སྐོལ་གྱི་བླ་མ་ཕྱི་མ་ལྟར་འདོད་པ་ཡིན། "There are two different systems re…
ཆོས་གྲྭ་ཆེན་མོ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: chos grva chen mo gsum
<phrase> "Three great (spiritual) institutions". These were established by ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་ King Tri Ralpachen q.v. 1) ཐོས་བསམ་བློ་སྦྱོང་གི་གྲྭ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ Twelve institutions for training in study and contemplation; 2) མཁས་བཙུན་སྟངས་འབུལ་གྱི་གྲྭ་དྲུག་ six institutions for scholastic and monastic activities; and 3) སྨྲ་བཅད་སེམས་་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གྲྭ་དྲུག་ six institutions for silent retreat.
