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ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་པ་
Transliteration: yid la byed pa
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "manasikāra". 1) According to the Abhidharma, this is a སེམས་བྱུང་ mental event which is one of the ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བ་ལྔ་ omnipresent mental events. This mental event functions to direct the mind towards an object. As such it has been called "attention" and several other terms however, there is no specific word in English for it. 2) It is also used apart from …
ལྡང་བ་
Transliteration: ldang ba
I. <verb> v.i. ལྡངས་པ་/ ལྡང་བ་/ ལྡང་བ་/ ལྡོངས་/. "To get up from a position or place that one has been seated in". Hence "to arise", "to get up from", "to rise up", "to stand up". E.g., [TC] ཁྱེད་རང་ཕེབས་འཕྲལ་དུ་གདན་དེ་ནས་ཡར་ལྡངས་འདུག། "when it is time for you to go, you get up from the seat (and get ready to go)"; ཡར་ལྡོངས་ཤིག "arise!".
II. <verb> v.i. ལྡངས་པ་/ ལྡང་བ་/ ལྡང་བ་//. 1) Si…
རྒྱལ་བ་
Transliteration: rgyal ba
I. <verb> v.i. རྒྱལ་བ་/ རྒྱལ་བ་/ རྒྱལ་བ་//. "To obtain victory" hence "to be victorious", "to win", "to prevail" and in some contexts "to conquer". Opp. of འཕམ་པ་ "to be defeated", "to lose out" q.v. E.g., [TC] སུ་རྒྱལ་སུ་ཕམ་གྱི་འཐབ་འཛིང་། "a fight to see who will win and who will lose" i.e., "a fight to the end"; དགྲ་ལས་རྒྱལ་ཏེ་དགའ་སྟོན་བྱེད། "victorious over the enemy, they celebrated"; ར…
འཕྲེང་བ་
Transliteration: 'phreng ba
I. <verb> v.i. འཕྲེང་བ་/ འཕྲེང་བ་/ འཕྲེང་བ་//. For the mind "to be fixated on" a thing or person, for mind "to be thinking about something continuously or continually / over and over"; for body, speech, or mind "to be occupied with" something in the sense of not being able to let go of thinking about it, "to obsess over", "to reminisce" about something over and again. E.g., [TC] གྲོངས་པོ་ལ་…
ཐོགས་མེད་
Transliteration: thogs med
I. <adj> "Unhindered" or "unimpeded" in the sense of being able to pass through anything without difficulty.
II. <noun> Occasionally for the person དངུལ་ཆུ་ཐོགས་མེད་ q.v.
III. "Asaṅga". [375-430 A.D] The name of the great Indian master Asaṅga who is regarded as one of the འཛམ་གླིང་མཛེས་པའི་རྒྱན་དྲུག་ "Six Ornaments Beautifying Jambuling". Asaṅga, or Āchārya Asaṅga, was born as the son o…
གཉིད་
Transliteration: gnyid
<noun> "Sleep". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "middham". [Hon] is མནལ་ q.v. The mind withdrawing and not being able to be conscious of objects. The mind of "sleep" is one of the གཞན་འགྱུར་བཞི་ four variable mental events. This mental event is variable meaning that it becomes virtuous, non-virtuous, or indeterminate depending on the content of the mind while sleeping.
ངོ་བོ་
Transliteration: ngo bo
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "svabhāva". The term has one meaning but there is no particular word in the English language that gathers all of its associations. It is a particularly important term found throughout both philosophical and practical Buddhist writing. There are two main connotations in the term. Firstly, "essence". The ངོ་བོ་ of any given phenomenon (dharma) is what it is …
ཡི་དྭགས་
Transliteration: yi dvags
<noun> "Preta", "hungry ghost". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "pretaḥ". The name of the beings who live in one of the six realms of the desire realm. The Buddha taught that this was the second lowest class of cyclic existence since the beings here are worse off than animals but better off than hell-beings. Pretas are a class of beings which the European tradition would classify as "spir…
འདུ་བྱེད་
Transliteration: 'du byed
I. For <verb> see འདུ་བྱེད་པ་.
II. <noun> "Formatives". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "saṃskāra". The term means "that which gathers up a number of things and forms them into an aggregate". In Buddhist terminology it has the specific meaning of those factors of the mind which cause the threefold sequence of i) aggregation into a being which is the taking of a rebirth, ii) subsequen…