སྐུ་ལེགས་པར་བརྒྱན་པ་
Transliteration: sku legs par brgyan pa
<phrase> "His body nicely adorned (with the thirty two marks of a great being)". Often used as one of many descriptions of a tathāgata.
Note the following: it is standard in Buddhist texts to speak this way: [MPP] སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གཉིས་པོ་དག་གིས་སྐུ་ལེགས་པར་བརྒྱན་པ། དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་པོ་དག་གིས་སྐུ་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ། "his body nicely adorned with the thirty-two marks of great…
དཔུང་པའི་མགོ་ཟླུམ་པའི་མཚན་བཟང་
Transliteration: dpung pa'i mgo zlum pa'i mtshan bzang
<phrase> "The excellent major mark of nicely-rounded shoulders". One of the སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན་བཟང་པོ་སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གཉིས་ thirty-two marks of a great being. This is sometimes mistakenly translated as "broad shoulders" because of misunderstanding the meaning of ཟླུམ་པའི་ which in this case means "rounded (and pleasantly so)", not broad and note that another of the other thirty-two marks does …
མདོར་བསྟན་
Transliteration: mdor bstan
<phrase> "Synopsis" or "Brief presentation". One of a range of terms used to indicate a certain level or type of presentation of a topic; see also རྒྱས་པར་བཤད་པ་ "synopsis" and དོན་བསྡུ་བ་ "summary". The མདོར་བསྟན་ is the synopsis given at the beginning of the presentation of a subject; it shows the very essence of the material to be presented. The term is often used as a heading and in tha…
སྐྱེ་མཆེད་
Transliteration: skye mched
<noun> "Āyatana". Translation of the Sanskrit "āyatana". The āyatanas are defined as the means by which རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་ consciousness of ཡུལ་ an object སྐྱེ་བ་ arises in and / or མཆེད་པ་ ignites and blazes in a sentient being. The āyatanas were said by the Buddha to be like the doors or causes to the production of the six sense consciousness. There are སྐྱེ་མཆེད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve āyatanas: the…
གྲོ་བཞིན་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: gro bzhin zla ba
<noun> The name of the ninth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the seventh ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month. 2) In the original system for determining the month, which is the ancient Indian system defined in the འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ Vinaya sūtra, it is the month during which the star / constellation གྲོ་བཞིན་ rises with the full moon. (That star / constellation is …
ཚད་མ་
Transliteration: tshad ma
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "pramāṇa". 1) In general usage, it means something which is true, correct, unmistaken. 2) In specific usage, it refers to valid ways of knowing in which case it can refer either i) to the field of study of the valid ways of knowing as a whole or ii) to a valid knower itself.
The subject of pramāṇa as valid ways of knowing is a huge one because it is at the …
དགེ་སློང་གི་སྤང་བྱ་ལྷག་མ་བཅུ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: dge slong gi spang bya lhag ma bcu gsum
<phrase> "The thirteen remainder to be abandoned by bhikṣhus". These are the thirteen vows of the second of the five sections of a fully ordained monk's vows.
Complete breakage of any of the vows of the first section results in defeat. Complete breakage of any of the thirteen vows in this section does not result in defeat but is still a very serious offence. It is so serious that it cannot b…
རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་གྱི་མཚན་ཉིད་བཤད་སྐབས་ཀྱི་ནང་གི་དེ་ཉིད་བཅུ་
Transliteration: rdo rje slob dpon gyi mtshan nyid bshad skabs kyi nang gi de nyid bcu
<enum> "The ten inner attributes in the case of explaining the characteristics of a vajrāchārya (vajra master)". See དེ་ཉིད་བཅུ་ ten attributes for an overview.
[DGT] gives as: 1) ཕྱིར་ཟློག་གཉིས་ "the two exorcisms"; 2) དབང་བཞི་བསྐུར་བ་ "(the ability to give) the four empowerments"; 3) ཁ་སྦྱོར་དབྱེ་བ་; 4) གཏོར་མ་ "torma"; 5) རྡོ་རྗེའི་བཟླས་པ་ "vajra recitation"; 6) དྲག་ཤུལ་སྒྲུབ་པ་ "performi…
ཟབ་གསལ་
Transliteration: zab gsal
<phrase> Usually an abbrev. of ཟབ་པ་ and གསལ་བ་ "profundity and illumination" where གསལ་བ་ is further an abbrev. of འོད་གསལ་བ་ making it "profundity and luminosity". E.g., [SNT] ཆོས་དབྱིངས་དེ། །ཟབ་གསལ་གཉིས་མེད་མཐའ་བྲལ་འདུས་མ་བྱས། དེ་ལ་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཞེས་བྱ་དང་།"the dharmadhatu which is profundity and illumination non-dual, free of extremes, uncompounded is called "the original buddha". An…
དགེ་སློང་
Transliteration: dge slong
<noun> "Monk". Translation of the Sanskrit "bhikṣhu". 1) A fully ordained monk of the Buddhist tradition. The approach of taking ordination belongs to the approach of the Lesser Vehicle of Buddhism. In that system there are སོ་སོར་ཐར་པའི་རིགས་བདུན་ seven different types of person who follow the system of accepting personal vows as a way of following the path.
There are different lineages of …
རྒྱུའི་ཐེག་པ་
Transliteration: rgyu'i theg pa
<noun> "Causal Vehicle". Translation of the Sanskrit "hetuyāna". See also རྒྱུ་འབྲས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་གཉིས་ "the two vehicles of cause and effect". 1) In general, referring to the vehicles of Buddhism which take a causal approach to enlightenment. In this sense, the term includes both the ཐེག་པ་དམན་པ་ "Lesser Vehicle" as a whole and the རྒྱུའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ "Causal Great Vehicle". Since the Lesser …
ཡི་གེའི་ཚོགས་
Transliteration: yi ge'i tshogs
<phrase> "Letter group". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "vyañjanakāyaḥ". 1) One of ཚོགས་གསུམ་ the three basic groups of structural elements of Tibetan language (based on the similar but not identical structures of Sanskrit language). This group is the group of ཡི་གེ་ grammatical letters as a whole. 2) The "letter group" is the fourteenth of ལྡན་མིན་འདུ་བྱེད་བཅུ་བཞི་ the fourteen non-asso…
མགོ་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: mgo zla ba
<noun> From the Indian language name "Mārgaśhirṣa", "Month of Mārgaśhirṣa". The name of the first of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months q.v. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the eleventh ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month. 2) In the original system for determining the month, which is the ancient Indian system defined in the འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ Vinaya sūtra, it is the month during which the star / conste…
འཁོར་བའི་ལམ་
Transliteration: 'khor ba'i lam
<phrase> 1) "The path of saṃsāra". i) In reference to the རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve links of interdependent origination, which is the way in which beings progress within saṃsāra. In this sense, it is the opp. of the reverse direction of the twelve links, which are the path of nirvāṇa. ii) A mode of behaviour or activity which is consistent with or deepens involvement with saṃsāra. I…
དབོ་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: dbo zla ba
<noun> The name of the fourth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the second ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month. 2) In Buddhism, in the original system for determining the month, which is the ancient Indian system defined in the འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ Vinaya sūtra, it is the month during which the star / constellation དབོ་ rises with the full moon. (That star / constella…
བདར་ཤ་ཆོད་པ་
Transliteration: bdar sha chod pa
<verb> v.i see ཆོད་པ་ for tense forms. Also spelled གདར་ཤ་ཆོད་པ་ with the same meaning. The phrase is used when there is a situation of uncertainty about something. It refers to coming to a definitive resolution of the uncertainty by examining the issue over and again with the mind. E.g., [CSG] དེ་ཙམ་ན་རྟག་ཆད་གཉིས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་སེལ། གོལ་སྒྲིབ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གདར་ཤ་ཆོད། འཁྲུལ་གྱི་མཐའ་སེལ། "Just by that, …
མགལ་མེའི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: mgal me'i 'khor lo
<phrase> "Fire-light circle" or "fire-circle" or more lit. "firebrand's circle". The optical illusion of a red circle of light that comes from མགལ་མེ་བསྐོར་བ་ whirling around the burning tip of a stick of wood. This is one of the several examples given in the sūtras of emptiness; it is one of the analogies of illusion mentioned when the སྒྱུ་མའི་དཔེ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve analogies of illusion ar…
སྣྲོན་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: snron zla ba
<noun> "Jyaiṣhṭha month". The name of the seventh of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months.
1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the fifth ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month. 2) In the original system for determining the month, which is the ancient Indian system defined in the འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ Vinaya sūtra, it is the month during which the star / constellation སྣྲོན་ rises with the full moon. (That star / co…
རྫོགས་རིམ་
Transliteration: rdzogs rim
<noun> "Completion stage", "completion phase". Translation of the Sanskrit "sampanna krama". The second of the རིམ་པ་གཉིས་ two stages in deity practice of the higher tantras. In the tantric systems of meditation, first there is conceptualized development of the maṇḍala of a deity in the བསྐྱེད་རིམ་ "development stage" after which the practice has to be completed by realization of the non-co…
འཛེད་པ་
Transliteration: 'dzed pa
<verb> v.t. བཟེད་པ་/ འཛེད་པ་/ བཟེད་པ་/ ཟེད་/. "To hold out / up / open" meaning to present the open mouth of something so that something else can be poured into it. E.g., [TC] ཕད་བུའི་ཁ་ལེགས་པར་བཟེད་ནས་འབྲུ་བླུག "holding open the mouth of the sack nicely, grain was poured into it"; ཞལ་དཀར་བཟེད་དེ་འབྲས་བླུག "he held out his plate and rice was put on it"; ཨམ་ཕྲག་བཟེད་ནས་ལུ་གུ་བཅུག "held open …
ཤིང་སཱ་ལའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་
Transliteration: shing s'a la'i rgyal po
<phrase> "Like the king of trees, the Sāla tree". This tree was used by the Buddha when giving discourses to exemplify a variety of things. E.g., [MPP] སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གཉིས་པོ་དག་གིས་སྐུ་ལེགས་པར་བརྒྱན་པ། དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་པོ་དག་གིས་སྐུ་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ། ཤིང་སཱ་ལའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་མེ་ཏོག་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་འདྲ་བ། "his body nicely adorned with the thirty-two marks of great being and bod…
