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ཟླ་བ་གཉིས་སུ་སྣང་བ་
Transliteration: zla ba gnyis su snang ba
"(Like the) appearing of two moons" referring to མིག་བཙིར་བས་ཟླ་བ་གཉིས་སུ་སྣང་བ། "the visual distortion of two moons appearing (instead of one) when the one is pressed".

སྟོང་པ་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: stong pa gnyis pa
<phrase> "Second Empty". A name for the 9th and 24th days of the lunar month; see སྟོང་པ་ for explanation. The terms དཀར་ཕྱོགས་ "light phase" and ནག་ཕྱོགས་ "dark phase" are used to differentiate them; དཀར་ཕྱོགས་སྟོང་པ་གཉིས་པ་ "second empty of the light phase" refers to the 9th day and ནག་ཕྱོགས་སྟོང་པ་གཉིས་པ་ "second empty of the dark phase" refers to the 24th day.

རྫོགས་པ་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: rdzogs pa gnyis pa
<noun> "Second Completion". A name for the 10th and 25th days of the lunar month; see རྫོགས་པ་ for explanation. The terms དཀར་ཕྱོགས་ "light phase" and ནག་ཕྱོགས་ "dark phase" are used to differentiate them; དཀར་ཕྱོགས་རྫོགས་པ་གཉིས་པ་ "second completion of the light phase" refers to the 10th day and ནག་ཕྱོགས་རྫོགས་པ་གཉིས་པ་ "second completion of the dark phase" refers to the 25th day.

ཇ་ལག་གཉིས་
Transliteration: ja lag gnyis
<phrase> "Tea-maker and assistant". Abbrev. of ཇ་མ་ and ཇ་འདྲེན་མཁན་ meaning "tea-maker and tea-server / carrier / pourer".

བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: byang chub kyi sems gnyis
<phrase> 1) "The two types of bodhicitta" or "the two bodhicittas" meaning ཀུན་རྫོབ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ fictional bodhicitta and དོན་དམ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ superfactual bodhicitta. 2) "The two types of bodhicitta" meaning the ཀུན་རྫོབ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་གཉིས་ two types of fictional bodhicitta q.v.

ཡིད་གཉིས་
Transliteration: yid gnyis
<noun> Lit. "two minds". This term has the general meaning of "doubt" and "hesitation" but is accurately translated by the English phrase, "of two minds (regarding something)", "he was in two minds about it", etc. The verbal form is ཡིད་གཉིས་ཟ་བ་ q.v.

དགའ་བ་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: dga' ba gnyis pa
<noun> "Second Joy". A name for the 6th and 21st days of the lunar month; see དགའ་བ་ for explanation. The terms དཀར་ཕྱོགས་ "light phase" and ནག་ཕྱོགས་ "dark phase" are used to differentiate them; དཀར་ཕྱོགས་དགའ་བ་གཉིས་པ་ "second joy of the light phase" refers to the 6th day and ནག་ཕྱོགས་དགའ་བ་གཉིས་པ་ "second joy of the dark phase" refers to the 21st day.

བཟང་པོ་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: bzang po gnyis pa
<phrase> "Second Excellence". A name for the 7th and 22nd days of the lunar month; see བཟང་པོ་ "Excellence" for explanation. The terms དཀར་ཕྱོགས་ "light phase" and ནག་ཕྱོགས་ "dark phase" are used to differentiate them; དཀར་ཕྱོགས་བཟང་པོ་གཉིས་པ་ "second excellence of the light phase" refers to the 7th day and ནག་ཕྱོགས་བཟང་པོ་གཉིས་པ་ "second excellence of the dark phase" refers to the 22nd day.