འདྲ་མིན་
Transliteration: 'dra min
<phrase> "Not the same sort of thing".
ང་འདྲ་མ་
Transliteration: nga 'dra ma
<phrase> "(Looks) like me". When Padmasaṃbhava was in Tibet, an artisan made a statue of him. When the statue was shown to Padmasaṃbhava, he was amazed at the likeness and said "ང་འདྲ་མ་" meaning "It looks just like me!". 1) Since then the statue has been referred to with those words. The statue was at Samye until the Communist Chinese invasion at which time it was broken by the invaders. S…
འདྲ་མཉམ་
Transliteration: 'dra mnyam
<noun> "Equality" in the specific sense of the American idea that everyone is equal. The term is often very pejorative for Tibetans because American culture, in its great desire to see all humans as equal has lost the natural heirarchy that does exist amongst beings. The very term implies a social order that is the antithesis of Asian social orders.
འདྲ་དཔེ་
Transliteration: 'dra dpe
<noun> "Model", a physical "example" of something is or could be.
སྐུ་འདྲ་
Transliteration: sku 'dra
<noun> "Statue", "image", "likeness". General name for any representation of image of the body.
འདྲ་ཞིག་
Transliteration: 'dra zhig
<phrase> "something like that", "one like that", "a version of" something.
