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 …
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…
ཁྲུམས་སྟོད་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: khrums stod zla ba
<noun> The name of the tenth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the eighth 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 sūtras, it is the month during which the star / constellation ཁྲུམས་སྟོད་ pūrvabhadrapadā rises with the full moon. (That star /…
འདུ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་
Transliteration: 'du byed kyi phung po
<phrase> "Aggregate of formatives", "skandha of formatives". Translation of the Sanskrit "saṃskāra skandha". The fourth of the ཟག་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ་ five skandhas with defilement. It is defined in Abhidharma has having two main components called the འདུ་བྱེད་རྣམ་པ་གཉིས་ "the two types of formatives" q.v. E.g., [KPC] gives: 1) སེམས་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་འདུ་བྱེད་ "the formatives that are mental events…
རྐྱོང་བ་
Transliteration: rkyong ba
<verb> v.t. བརྐྱངས་པ་/ རྐྱོང་བ་/ བརྐྱང་བ་/ རྐྱོངས་/. "To stretch out" in the sense of stretching something out across something else; "to extend" in the sense of extending or stretching out; and "to spread" in the sense of stretching something out across. Opp. is སྐུམ་པ་ "to retract, draw in" q.v. E.g., [TC] རྐང་ལག་བརྐྱངས་ཏེ་ཉལ། "he lay down stretched out"; ལག་པ་ཡར་རྐྱོངས། "raise your hand!…
ནག་པ་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: nag pa zla ba
<noun> The name of the fifth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the third 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 ནག་པ་ Citrā rises with the full moon. (That star / constellation is …
འཕེན་པའི་ཡན་ལག་
Transliteration: 'phen pa'i yan lag
<phrase> "Propelling links". A term used when explaining how the རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve links of dependent, related origination work. Some of the links are causes that propel the being into a new situation and some of them are the manifestations that result from that. The links that propel, (hurl, or throw) are called the "propelling links". The links that are th…
གཅིག་ཆོད་
Transliteration: gcig chod
<phrase> The term is similar to but not the same as གཅིག་ཆོག་; this term conveys that one thing serves to cover multiple purposes "one things does for / serves for..." multiple needs whereas the other conveys the sense that a single thing is sufficient for all purposes "a single, sufficient...". The term has the same sense as "single solution", "fix-it-all", "universal solution", "do-it-all…
སྨིན་དྲུག་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: smin drug zla ba
<noun> "The Month of Six Brights". The name of the twelfth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve lunar months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the tenth 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 constellation སྨིན་དྲུག་ "Six Brights" (Pleiades) ris…
མ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: ma rgyud
<noun>
I. Abbrev. of ཨ་མའི་རིགས་རྒྱུད་ "mother's family line".
II. "Mother tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "matṛtantra". 1) The རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system classifies the three inner tantras as being father, mother, and non-dual. In this, they classify ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་ Anuyoga as mother tantra; see མ་རྒྱུད་ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་ Mother tantra, Anuyoga. 2) The གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras categorize the t…
གཟུགས་མེད་ཀྱི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་བཞི་
Transliteration: gzugs med kyi snyoms 'jug bzhi
<phrase> "The four equilibria of formlessness", "the four samāhita of formlessness", "the four formless equilibria". Translation of the Sanskrit "arupya samāhita catuḥ". A set of four སྙོམས་འཇུག་ equilibria that take one of four increasingly subtle concepts as the object of mental absorbtion. The names of the four equilibria refer to the particular འདུ་ཤེས་ mental construct / cognition that…
ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག་
Transliteration: aa ti yo ga
<noun> "Atiyoga". Translit. of the Sanskrit "atiyoga". Translated into Tibetan with ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ "Peak yoga" q.v. The name of the third level of the three inner tantras and the ninth of ཐེག་པ་དགུ་ the nine vehicles of the རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system of Buddhist teachings. The name is another name for རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Completion q.v. which refers specifically to the fact that the practi…
ཐ་སྐར་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: tha skar zla ba
<noun> "Month of Aśhvini" or "Aśhvini Month". The name of the eleventh of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. See under ཐ་སྐར་ Aśhvini for background information.
1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the ninth ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian lunar month. 2) In the original Indian system for determining the month, which is the ancient Indian system defined in the འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ Vinaya sūtra, it is the month…
ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: sa ga zla ba
<noun> "Saga Month". 1) The name of the sixth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. On the fifteenth day of this month, there is the celebration of the Buddha's birth, buddhahood, and parinirvāṇa which is called Vaiśhākha after the Indian name of the month.
1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the fourth ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month. 2) In the original system for determining the month, which i…
ཐིམ་ལུགས་རྣམ་པ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: thim lugs rnam pa brgyad
<phrase> "The eight types of absorbtion". The eight ways that a deity is re-absorbed after it has been produced. Note that this emphasises the idea of re-absorbtion, not merely dissolution. They are: 1) ཐུགས་རྗེ་ལ་ཐིམ་པ་ "absorbtion into compassionate activity"; 2) ཡེ་ཤེས་ལ་ཐིམ་པ་ absorbtion into wisdom"; 3) འོད་ལ་ཐིམ་པ་ "absorbtion into light"; 4) སྐུ་ལ་ཐིམ་པ་ "absorbtion into body"; 5) གཉ…
རོང་ངེ་བ་
Transliteration: rong nge ba
<adj> [Exp] 1) "All over the place", "here there and everywhere", etc. meaning everything in a disordered way, untidy. E.g., [TC] པུས་མོ་གཉིས་གྱེན་དུ་རོང་ངེ་བསླངས་ནས་ཉལ་བ། "...sleeping with his two knees up in the air at all angles". E.g., ལུས་ཀྱི་ནང་ཐམས་ཆད་ཧཱུཾ་གིས་རོང་ངེ་བ་སྙམ་ "thinking that the inside of the body has HUM's here, there, and all over the place" 2) With the same meaning as…
བུམ་དབང་བཅུ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: bum dbang bcu gcig
<enum> "The eleven vase empowerments". [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) ཆུ་ "water"; 2) ཅོད་པན་ "chevron"; 3) རྡོ་རྗེ་ "vajra"; 4) དྲིལ་བུ་ "ghanta"; 5) མིང་དབང་སྟེ་སློབ་མའི་དབང་ལྔ་ "name empowerment i.e., the five senses of the disciples"; 6) རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་གྱི་དབང་ "vajrāchārya empowerment"; 7) སྔགས་ཀྱི་དབང་ "mantra empowerment"; 8) ལུང་བསྟན་དང་དབུགས་དབྱུང་གཉིས་གཅིག་ཏུ་མཛད་པའི་དབང་ "the empower…
ཁ་གཏིང་
Transliteration: kha gting
I. <phrase> "Surface and depths". Abbrev. of ཁ་ and གཏིང་ meaning the surface and depths. 1) This is used in conventional ways e.g., [TC] མཚོ་ཁ་གཏིང་གཉིས་ཀ་དྭངས། "the (waters at) both the surface and depths of the lake were clear". 2) Used in Buddhist lit. with the same meaning as the more common མཐའ་དང་དབུས་ "centre and fringe". The space of reality it described as ཁ་གཏིང་མེད་པ་ "without s…
ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་མཆོག་འཛིན་གྱི་ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་
Transliteration: tshul khrims brtul zhugs mchog 'dzin gyi nye bar len pa
<phrase> "Appropriation which is holding discipline and ascetic practice as supreme". One of 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་བའི་ཚུལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ dependent-related arising. This means to be totally involved in and pursuant of the eit…
དྲིན་ཅན་ལོ་པཎ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: drin can lo paN gsum
<phrase> "The Three kind Lotsāwas and Paṇḍits". A name for three individuals who were especially effective in the work of translation of Buddhist texts at the time of the great translation works done under ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེའུ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen. They are: 1) ཛི་ན་མི་ཏྲ་ the Indian paṇḍit Jinamitra; 2) དཱ་ན་ཤཱི་ལ་ the Indian paṇḍit Dānaśhīla; and 3) ཞང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ་ the Tibetan translator Zh…
བསོད་སྙོམས་པ་
Transliteration: bsod snyoms pa
<noun> 1) "Beggar". A person who obtains their livelihood by begging for alms. 2) Hence also a person who lives their life as a beggar as opposed to a householder and thus an epithet for Buddhist monks, etc. 3) "Begging for alms" or "begging rounds". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "paiṇḍapātikaḥ". Meaning the practice of going out on rounds, begging for one's food, as done by Buddhist mo…
བསམ་གཏན་བཞི་
Transliteration: bsam gtan bzhi
<enum> "The four dhyānas", "the four concentrations", "the four absorbtions", "the four concentration states". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "catvāri dhyāna". These are the གཟུགས་ཁམས་ཀྱི་བསམ་གཏན་བཞི་ four principal degrees of absorbtion that beings have who live in the form realm. The four correspond to the four main levels of existence in that realm. They are simply called 1) བསམ་གཏན་ད…
