དེ་བས་ཀྱང་
Transliteration: de bas kyang
Meaning ད་ཡོད་ལས་ལྷག་པ་ that is, "more than that ..."
མདོ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ་
Transliteration: mdo kun las btus pa
<noun> "Compendium of Sūtras". Translation of the Sanskrit "sūtrasammucaya". The name of a text whose colophon indicates that it is written by ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ Nāgārjuna though learned Tibetans often ascribe it to ཞི་བ་ལྷ་ Śhāntideva. The text is a compendium of advice drawn from the sūtras regarding the conduct of བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ bodhisatvas. Translated by the Indian Preceptors ཛི་ན་མི་ཏྲ་ Jin…
སྐྱེ་བ་དགུ་
Transliteration: skye ba dgu
<phrase> "The nine births". This refers to འདོད་པ་ལས་ཁམས་གསུམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་ taking rebirth from the desire realm into any of the three realms, གཟུགས་ལས་ཁམས་གསུམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་ taking rebirth from the form realm into any of the three realms, and གཟུགས་མེད་ལས་ཁམས་གསུམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་ taking rebirth from the formless realm into any of the three realms.
ལས་ཀྱི་སྒྲིབ་པ་རྒྱུན་གཅོད་པ་
Transliteration: las kyi sgrib pa rgyun gcod pa
<noun> "Cutting the Continuity of Karmic Obscurations". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "karmāvaraṇapratiprasrabdhi". Translated by the Indian Preceptors ཛི་ན་མི་ཏྲ་ Jinamitra and དཱ་ན་ཤཱི་ལ་ Dānaśhīla and the Tibetan Lotsāwa ཞང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ་ Zhang Yeshe De and then revised and finalized by them in སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ revised language.
མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་རྣམ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mya ngan las 'das pa rnam pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two kinds of nirvāṇa". These are the nirvāṇas of the ཐེག་པ་དམན་པ་ Lesser Vehicle and of ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ the Great Vehicle. The ཐེག་དམན་གྱི་མྱང་འདས་ nirvāṇa of the Lesser Vehicle is a lesser level of realization compared to the ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་མྱང་འདས་ nirvāṇa of the Great Vehicle. The nirvāṇa of the Lesser Vehicle is སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ་ individual liberation for the person who attains it. …
སེམས་ཡས་
Transliteration: sems yas
<phrase> "Outside mind" having the same meaning as སེམས་ལས་འདས་པ་ but with a different mode of expression.
ངར་ལྕགས་
Transliteration: ngar lcags
<noun> 1) "Steel" i.e., བཙོ་སྦྱངས་བྱས་པ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་ལྕགས་ iron that has been tempered. 2) "Steel" as an analogy for toughness and strength. E.g., ངར་ལྕགས་ལྟར་སྲ་མཁྲེགས་ཆེ་བ། "hard / strong / tough as steel".
འཇིག་རྟེན་ལས་འདས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་
Transliteration: 'jig rten las 'das pa'i theg pa
<phrase> "Beyond worldly vehicle(s)", "supramundane vehicle(s)", "transcendent vehicle(s)". Buddhism divides the vehicles that lead disciples along the spiritual journey into two types. The worldly vehicles are those consisting of spiritual dharmas that lead to higher estates within cyclic existence. In Buddhism, it is usually said to consist of the ཚངས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ Brahma Vehicle. The beyond…
ལས་མཐའ་མ་ལོག་པ་
Transliteration: las mtha' ma log pa
<phrase> "Not having fallen into a karmic limit". This phrase is coined in the Buddha's teachings on precious human rebirth. Specifically, it is coined in རང་འབྱོར་ལྔའི་ནང་ཚན་ཞིག the section on the five personal connections where it means མཚམས་མེད་པའི་ལས་བྱས་པའམ་བྱེད་དུ་བཅུག་པ་མ་ཡིན་པའོ། a person who has not done or caused someone else to do one of the མཚམས་མེད་པ་ལྔ་ five no-intermediary ty…
ལས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ་
Transliteration: las kyi mtha' rnam par 'byed pa
<verb> "To distinguish between the extremes of (karmic) action. There are two ལས་ཀྱི་མཐའ་ extremes of karmic action—good and bad. They must be correctly distinguished first and then one must apply oneself to doing only the former and avoiding only the latter.
འཇིག་རྟེན་པ་
Transliteration: 'jig rten pa
<noun> "Worldly person", "worldling". Someone who is still connected with ordinary, worldly things. I.e., someone who has not འཇིག་རྟེན་པ་ལས་འདས་པ་ passed beyond the world. This has the same meaning as སོ་སོའི་སྐྱེ་བོ་ "individualized being" q.v. for more but emphasizes the connection with worldliness.
In Buddhism, a person who has transcended the world is generally called a འཕགས་པ་ "Noble O…
ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་
Transliteration: las dang nyon mongs pa
<phrase> "Karma and kleśha", or "action and affliction". The two things which, with མ་རིག་པ་ ignorance as their basis, drive the process of becoming in cyclic existence. See རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཚུལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "The twelve modes / processes of dependent-related origination / arising" for a complete description of the process.
དྲོད་གཤེར་
Transliteration: drod gsher
<phrase> "Warmth and moisture". Often in reference to the type of birth called དྲོད་གཤེར་ལས་སྐྱེས་པ་ "birth from warmth and moisture" q.v.
གཙུབས་ཤིང་
Transliteration: gtsubs shing
<noun> "Rubbing stick". In the Indian way of describing things, when two sticks are rubbed together to make fire, one is held still while one is moved. The one held still is called the གཙུབས་གཏན་ "rubbing support" and the other rubbed against it is called the གཙུབས་ཤིང་ "rubbing stick". E.g. [ZTU] གཙུབས་ཤིང་གཙུབས་གཏན་ལག་པས་བསྲུབས་པ་ལས། "the rubbing stick and rubbing support being rubbed bac…
