འོད་གསལ་རྟགས་བཅུ་
Transliteration: 'od gsal rtags bcu
<phrase> "The ten signs of luminosity". These are ten signs that appear when the karmic winds are gathered into the central channel and luminosity becomes nakedly known. As enumerated in Longchenpa's ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་མུན་སེལ་ Dispeller of Darkness in the Ten Directions they are: 1) དུ་བ་ smoke; 2) སྨིག་རྒྱུ་ mirage; 3) སྤྲིན་ clouds; 4) མེ་ཁྱེར་ fire-flies; 5) ཉི་མ་ the light of the sun; 6) ཟླ་བ་ …
སྐྱེལ་བ་
Transliteration: skyel ba
<verb> v.t. བསྐྱལ་བ་/ སྐྱེལ་བ་/ བསྐྱལ་བ་/ སྐྱོལ་/. 1) "To transport", "to convey", or "to carry" such as goods or passengers by any conveyance such as an animal, a boat, a wagon, a car, an aeroplane, etc. from one location to another. E.g., [TC] ཚོང་ཟོག་སྐྱེལ་བ། "to transport merchandise"; ནང་གཏམ་ཕྱིར་སྐྱེལ། "to convey the inside story to the world". 2) "To convey to" i.e., "to carry and de…
འགྲིབ་པ་
Transliteration: 'grib pa
<verb> v.i. འགྲིབ་པ་/ འགྲིབ་པ་/ འགྲིབ་པ་//. Transitive form is སྒྲིབ་པ་ q.v. 1) The opp. of འཕེལ་བ་ q.v. "To fade and become less or to fade and disappear altogether". Hence "to diminish / decrease / drop / wane / decay / dim" and possibly to the point of disappearing / dropping away etc., altogether. E.g., [TC] མཚོ་ཆུ་མི་འགྲིབ་མི་ལུད་པ། "the lake waters neither dropped nor rose to overflow…
ཡུལ་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་
Transliteration: yul gzugs kyi rang bzhin
<phrase> "The nature of the form object". This is a listing of what the eye can see according to Abhidharma literature. The list of twenty types of visual form is intended as a thorough breakdown of the contents of གཟུགས་ visual form as the ཡུལ་ object of མིག་གི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་ the eye consciousness. The Abhidharmakoṣha lists sixteen components of visual form, eight of colour and eight of sha…
སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: sum cu so gsum
<noun> 1) The number "thirty-three".
2) "The Thirty-three". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "trāyastriṃśhāḥ". The general name for the second (from the lowest) of the འདོད་ལྷ་རིགས་དྲུག་ six classes of gods in the འདོད་ཁམས་ desire realm. It is named after the fact that thirty-three different types of gods live there. Also, this was the abode of the Ārya Sthavira ལམ་ཆེན་བསྟན་ Mahāpanthaka q.…
མངོན་བྱང་ལྔ་བསྐྱེད་
Transliteration: mngon byang lnga bskyed
<phrase> "The Five Manifest Enlightenments' Generation". In Buddhist secret mantra, the fourth of four ways of generating the visualization of a deity in the development stage of anuttarayogatantra. The second way of generation is ཆོ་ག་གསུམ་བསྐྱེད་ and the third way རྡོ་རྗེ་བཞི་བསྐྱེད་ q.v.
In this case, the total visualization of the deity is created in five, specific steps. There is a diff…
འགྲན་པ་
Transliteration: 'gran pa
I. <verb> v.t. འགྲན་པ་/ འགྲན་པ་/ འགྲན་པ་/ འགྲན་/. 1) To pit things against each other in a match to see which is best. The verbs "to match" and "to rival" and "to test against" are usually the closest fit, though "to vie with", "to compete with", "to contend with", "to challenge" are suitable at times. Note that most of these English verbs have both transitive and intransitive usages; it is…
ཞྭ་དམར་པ་
Transliteration: zhva dmar pa
<noun> "Zhamarpa", lit. "Wearer of the Red Hat". The title of a line of tulkus. The Zhamarpa's are important in the ཀརྨ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ Karma Kagyu tradition where they are regarded as one of the four princes (ཀརྨ་པ་ Karmapa being the king). Particularly, for several incarnations, they functioned as the regent for the Karmapa, holding the seat and the lineage of the Karma Kagyu teachings until …
པད་ཉི་ཟླ་གདན་
Transliteration: pad nyi zla gdan
<phrase> "Lotus, sun, and moon-seat" or "seat of lotus, sun, and moon". Abbrev. of པདྨ་ཉི་ཟླ་གདན་. Used in secret mantra liturgies to indicate the seat of the deity which is a lotus with sun disk on top and moon disk on top of that. Usually the lotus represents renunciation of saṃsāra; the moon disk, bodhicitta; and the sun disk, prajñā. See also པད་ཉི་ཟླ་གདན་ "seat of lotus, sun, and moon"…
འཆར་བ་
Transliteration: 'char ba
<verb> v.i. ཤར་བ་/ འཆར་བ་/ འཆར་བ་//. This verb has two connotations each of which is important to its meaning. It means first "to come up / arise / emerge" and secondly to be "visible / apparent / known". It is used for a variety of circumstances e.g., like the sun coming up in the morning and appearing, and like any occurrence of mind coming up and being apparent in mind. It has the exact …
ཉི་མྱུར་
Transliteration: nyi myur
<phrase> 1) "Afternoon"; the period of later afternoon when the day is now closing. If midday is at 12 a.m. then it is about 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 2) "Afternoon"; the name of the two hour period given as one of the དུས་ཚོད་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve watches of a day in the Vinaya and corresponding to the meaning in 1).
