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རྒྱལ་བ་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: rgyal ba gnyis pa
<noun> "Second Victory". A name for the 8th and 23rd days of the lunar month; see རྒྱལ་བ་ for explanation. The terms དཀར་ཕྱོགས་ "light phase" and ནག་ཕྱོགས་ "dark phase" are used to differentiate them; དཀར་ཕྱོགས་རྒྱལ་བ་གཉིས་པ་ "second victory of the light phase" refers to the 8th day and ནག་ཕྱོགས་རྒྱལ་བ་གཉིས་པ་ "second victory of the dark phase" refers to the 23rd day.

ཕྱག་གཉིས་
Transliteration: phyag gnyis
<phrase> "Two arms". Usually seen in Buddhist secret mantra liturgies where the body of a deity is being described. E.g., སྐུ་མདོག་སྔོན་པོ་ཞལ་གཅིག་ཕྱག་གཉིས་ "body blue in colour, with one face, two arms".