སྒྲིབ་པ་
Transliteration: sgrib pa
I. <verb> v.t. བསྒྲིབས་པ་/ སྒྲིབ་པ་/ བསྒྲིབ་པ་/ སྒྲིབས་/. Intransitive form is འགྲིབ་པ་ q.v. Meaning "to cover something so that it is obscured or concealed". Hence "to veil", "to obscure". E.g., [TC] ཉི་མ་སྤྲིན་པས་བསྒྲིབས་པ། "the sun was obscured by clouds"; བློ་རིག་སྒྲིབ་པ། "his intellect was obscured (meaning his intellect was not clear and brilliant)"; སྨུག་པ་འཐིབས་ནས་མིག་ལམ་སྒྲིབ་པ། "f…
གནས་སྐབས་ཉེར་ལྔ་
Transliteration: gnas skabs nyer lnga
<enum> [JKE] gives as: 1) བདེ་བ་ ""; 2) སྡུག་བསྔལ་ ""; 3) གཉིས་ཀ་མིན་པ་ ""; 4) ཆུང་ངུ་ ""; 5) འབྲིང་ ""; 6) ཆེན་པོ་ ""; 7) དགེ་བ་ ""; 8) མི་དགེ་བ་ ""; 9) ལུང་མ་བསྟན་ ""; 10) ཐོས་པ་ ""; 11) བསམ་པ་ ""; 12) བསྒོམ་པ་ ""; 13) ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་བསླབ་པ་ ""; 14) ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་བསླབ་པ་ ""; 15) ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་བསླབ་པ་ ""; 16) ཕྱི་ ""; 17) ནང་ ""; 18) གཟུང་བ་ ""; 19) འཛིན་པ་ ""; 20) སྤོང་བ་ ""; 21) གཉེན་པོ་ "…
ལས་གསུམ་
Transliteration: las gsum
<enum> "The three karmas".
I. The three types of འཕེན་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ལས་ "propulsive karma" are [DGT]: 1) བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱི་ལས་ "meritorious karma"; 2) བསོད་ནམས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་ལས་ "non-meritorious karma"; and 3) མི་གཡོ་བའི་ལས་ "unwavering karma".
II. The three types of karma in terms of the result that it will give [JKE]: 1) བདེ་བ་མྱོང་འགྱུར་གྱི་ལས་ "karma that will be experienced as pleasant"; 2) སྡུག་བསྔལ་…
ཟླ་ཚེས་
Transliteration: zla tshes
<noun> 1) "Lunary date". Abbrev. of ཟླ་གྲངས་ཚེས་གྲངས་. It means the day of the month according to the lunar calendar. 2) "Crescent moon", the shape of the moon when it is less than half visible. 3) "Crescent" shape in general. This is additionally used to name a number of items that have a crescent moon shape. i) It is used to name the crescent moon part of the chandrabindu vowel of Sanskri…
མཆུ་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: mchu zla ba
<noun> From the Indian language name "Māgha", "Month of Māgha". The name of the third of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months.
1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the first 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 མཆུ་ rises w…
སྙོམས་འཇུག་གི་བསམ་གཏན་དགུ་
Transliteration: snyoms 'jug gi bsam gtan dgu
<enum> "The nine equilibrium dhyānas", "the nine dhyānas of samāhita". This refers to the བསམ་གཏན་བཞིའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ the equilibria of the four dhyānas of the form realm, གཟུགས་མེད་བཞིའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ the equilibria of the four dhyānas of the formless realm, and the འགོག་པའི་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ equilibrium of a śhrāvaka's cessation. See མཐར་གྱིས་གནས་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་དགུ་.
[DGT] [NDS] [JKE] give them…
གྲུབ་མཐའ་བཞིའི་ལུགས་
Transliteration: grub mtha' bzhi'i lugs
<phrase> "The four systems of tenets" meaning the four main schools of philosophical tenet that arose in Indian Buddhism following the Buddha's parinirvāṇa. The names of the schools are: 1) བྱེ་བྲག་སྨྲ་བ་ "Vaibhāṣhika"; 2) མདོ་སྡེ་ "Sautrāntika"; 3) སེམས་ཙམ་ "Cittamatra"; 4) དབུ་མ་ "Madhyamaka". The third school is also sometimes known as རྣམ་ཤེས་སུ་སྨྲ་བ་ Vijñānavāda. The names of the foll…
ཆུ་སྟོད་ཟླ་བ་
Transliteration: chu stod zla ba
<noun> "Pūrvāṣhādha Month". The name of the eighth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the sixth 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 ཆུ་སྟོད་ rises with the full moon. (That star …
ཡེ་ཤེས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་
Transliteration: ye shes chos kyi sku
<phrase> "The wisdom dharmakāya" i.e., "the wisdom reality body of a buddha". Translation of the Sanskrit "jñānadharmakāya". The term means "the kaya which is the wisdom aspect of ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ the reality body" q.v.
The innermost core of a buddha's mind is its emptiness. That is called the ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ "essential body" of a buddha. A buddha's mind is not merely empty though, it has a k…
གཟུགས་ཁམས་ཀྱི་གནས་རིགས་བཅུ་བདུན་
Transliteration: gzugs khams kyi gnas rigs bcu bdun
<phrase> "The seventeen types of abodes of the form realm". The གཟུགས་ཁམས་ "Form Realm" consists of གཟུགས་ཁམས་ཀྱི་གནས་རིས་བཞི་ four major levels of abode of the form realm gods. These four major levels contain a total of seventeen different abodes (for an altern. listing of sixteen abodes of the form realm see གཟུགས་ཁམས་བཅུ་དྲུག་ "the sixteen form realms"). The four major strata with their …
སྒོམ་ལམ་
Transliteration: sgom lam
<noun> "Path of Cultivation". Translation of the Sanskrit "bhāvanāmārga". The fourth of ལམ་ལྔ་ the five paths as laid out in the prajñāpāramitā literature. Having seen emptiness directly in the third path of seeing, the practitioner now must perfect the realization of emptiness. This is the path in which the practitioner cultivates the initial experience of the third path to bring it to per…
དོར་སྟབས་
Transliteration: dor stabs
<noun> 1) "Style of walking". Generally speaking, the style of leg movement and placement of the feet that someone has when walking along. 2) "Stance", "way of standing", "way of putting the feet". Specifically, when talking about the iconography of wrathful and semi-wrathful deities in Buddhist tantra, it is equivalent to གར་སྟབས་ q.v. In this case it does not mean the deity's way of walki…
བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་
Transliteration: byang chub kyi sems
<noun> "Bodhicitta". Translation of the Sanskrit "bodhicitta". The term is the most central term of the ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Vehicle teachings. It is the name given to the mind which has decided to attain buddhahood not merely for its own sake as is done in the ཐེག་པ་དམན་པ་ Lesser Vehicle but for the sake of bringing every, single sentient being to buddhahood. The mind is defined as the mind…
ཀརྟི་ཀ་
Transliteration: karti ka
<noun> "Kartika". Translit. of the Sanskrit "kartika". There are other spellings too, such as ཀཱརྟི་ཀ་ kārtika.
In the ancient Indian way of thinking, stars and constellations in the sky were the appearances seen by humans of various gods. One such god / constellation was called "Kartika". The constellation has six bright stars in it. Thus, the Tibetan name for the constellation is སྨིན་དྲུག…
བགྲེས་པ་
Transliteration: bgres pa
I. <verb> v.i. བགྲེས་པ་/ བགྲེས་པ་/ བགྲེས་པ་//. [Hon] for རྒ་བ་ meaning "to have become old", "to have become aged". Hence "to be senior in years". E.g., དགུང་ལོ་བགྲེས་སོང་། "[Hon] became senior in years".
II. <adj> In reference to someone who has stepped down from a work position in the monastic community. The word has the sense of "retired" from that position but it means more like ཟུ…
སྐྲ་ཤད་ལྟར་
Transliteration: skra shad ltar
<phrase> "Like strands (or tufts) of hair". This is a common example used in showing how conventional consciousness is mistaken. The strands of hair are the appearances seen by a person who has the eye disease called རབ་རིབ་ "vitreous floaters" q.v. The person sees what are like small hairs or pieces of fluff in their visual field but these are an aberration due to the disease.
Note that the…
ལས་སུ་བྱ་བའི་སྒྲ་
Transliteration: las su bya ba'i sgra
<noun> "Objective term". The name given to any one of the connectors showing ལས་སུ་བྱ་བ་ the objective case, the རྣམ་དབྱེ་གཉིས་པ་ second case of grammar, when it is actually in position and functioning as the case marker. Prior to application, the connectors are called ལས་སུ་བྱ་བའི་རྐྱེན་ "circumstances of the objective" (see རྐྱེན་ circumstances). Of the various རྣམ་དབྱེའི་ཕྲད་ case connec…
ཚོར་བའི་ཕུང་པོ་
Transliteration: tshor ba'i phung po
<phrase> "Aggregate of feeling", "skandha of feeling". Translation of the Sanskrit "vedanā skandha". The second of the ཟག་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ་ five skandhas with defilement. It is defined in Abhidharma has having three main components. [KPC] gives: 1) བདེ་བ་ "pleasant"; 2) སྡུག་བསྔལ་ "unpleasant"; and 3) གཉིས་ཀ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ "not either". The last one is also described as བཏང་སྙོམས་ neutral. There…
