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བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: byang chub sems dpa' brgyad
<phrase> "The Eight Bodhisatvas". Translation of the Sanskrit "aṣhta bodhisatva". These are the eight great bodhisatvas who were the eight heart sons of Buddha Śhākyamuni.
Acc. [NDS] they are: 1) བྱམས་པ་ [Skt. Maitreya]; 2) ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ [Skt. Gaganagañja]; 3) ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་ [Skt. Samantabhadra]; 4) ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་ [Skt. Vajrapāṇi]; 5) འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས་ [Skt. Mañjuśhrīghoṣha]; 6) སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ར…
ཕྱི་ཡི་སྡེ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: phyi yi sde brgyad
<phrase> "The outer eight classes". A sub-division of སྡེ་བརྒྱད་ the eight classes of gods and harmful beings made in the རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system only. They are eight groups of beings led by particular individuals: 1) ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་ "The leader of the Gods, Indra"; 2) ལྷ་མིན་དབང་པོ་ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་ "The leader of the Asuras, Vemacitri"; 3) མི་འམ་ཅི་ལྗོན་རྟ་མགོ་ཅན་ "Kinnara's Tree With Ho…
རིགས་པའི་ཚོགས་དྲུག་
Transliteration: rigs pa'i tshogs drug
<enum> "The Six-fold Collection of Reasoning" or "The Six Collected Reasonings". The texts written by ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ Nāgārjuna q.v. are put into three groups (stories, praises, and reasoning) or four groups (stories, praises, reasoning, and ultimate teaching). The group concerning reasonings consists of six (some say five, see below) texts. These texts apply reasoning to the view of the Middle …
ཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་
Transliteration: klu'i rgyal po
"Nāga King(s)". Translation of the Sanskrit "nāgarājā". Freq. abbrev. to ཀླུ་རྒྱལ་ and synonymous with ཀླུ་ཆེན་. There are eight Nāga Kings / Great Nāgas—see ཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད་. The Buddhist sūtras mention a variety of nāga rulers, greater and lesser. The [MVP] gives a list of seventy-one of them, as follows:
1. Saṅkhapālo nāgarājāཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དུང་སྐྱོང་the conch-shell keeper, a nāgarājā…
ཀླུང་
Transliteration: klung
<noun> Meaning a tract of land of some kind. By putting it together with other words, various kinds of tract are indicated, e.g., རི་ཀླུང་ meaning mountains and basins; ནགས་ཀླུང་ forest tracts; ཆུ་ཀླུང་ either a river or a river basin.
Sometimes it is short for ཆུ་ཀླུང་ meaning "river". Sometimes it just refers to a cultivated area of land. In relation to mountains, it often meant a large ba…
དབུ་མ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་བ་
Transliteration: dbu ma thal 'gyur ba
<phrase> "The Prasaṅgika Middle Way" or "Consequence Middle Way. Translation of the Sanskrit "prasaṅgika madhyamaka". The name of a Buddhist system of philosophy belonging to the sūtra ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Mahāyāna. It is one of the two main systems of philosophy of the Mahāyāna. It is the higher of the two and is thus the philosophical system with the highest view of all the views presented in th…
ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: cho 'phrul rnam pa gsum
<noun> "Three types of miraculous feats (of a buddha)". Translation of the Sanskrit "trividhaṃ prātiharyam". These are a buddha's ability to perform miraculous feats at the level of body, speech, and mind respectively and are also known as སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་གསུམ་ "the three miraculous feats of a buddha". Acc. [NDS] they are: 1) རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་ "miraculous feats of miracles"; 2) …
ཀླུངས་
Transliteration: klungs
<noun> 1) Meaning ཡར་མོ་ཀླུངས་ Yarmo Lung, the name of a place in central Tibet where lands were cultivated. 2) Sometimes meaning རི་ཀླུང་ and sometimes just meaning ཀླུང་.