THE ILLUMINATOR

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ན་

Transliteration: na

I. <consonant letter> The twelfth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = སོ་སྣ་དང་བཅས་པ་ the teeth together with the nose; བྱེད་པ་ producer = ལྕེ་རྩེ་ the tip of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the tip of the tongue to the teeth; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effo…

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ས་གཞི་

Transliteration: sa gzhi

<noun> "A ground which is the basis for something". Usually translated with "foundation", "ground", or "base". Strictly speaking none of these is correct because the term carries the meaning both of a ground or earth which is also the basis of something. E.g., in Buddhist cosmology, it is the ground which is the basis for one world system of Mt. Meru, four continents, and so on. In the maṇḍ…

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