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.
སྟོན་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: ston pa bcu gnyis
<phrase> "The twelve founding teachers". The general name for the lineage in this world age of founding teachers of the རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Completion teaching which is comprised of རྫོགས་ཆེན་སྟོན་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve founding teachers q.v.
གཉིས་ཀ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་
Transliteration: gnyis ka rgyud kyi theg pa
<noun> "The vehicle of both kinds of tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "ubhāyatantrayāna". Note that the translation here follows the meaning exactly of the Sanskrit. The vehicle of the གཉིས་ཀའི་རྒྱུད་ q.v.
བསྟན་གཉིས་གླིང་པ་
Transliteration: bstan gnyis gling pa
<name> "Tennyi Lingpa". The name of a གཏེར་སྟོན་ treasure revealer. His ordinary name was པདྨ་ཚེ་དབང་རྒྱལ་པོ་.
གཉིས་མེད་ཀྱི་རྫས་
Transliteration: gnyis med kyi rdzas
<phrase> "Substances of non-duality". Secret mantra terminology regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering.
གཉིས་སྣང་འཁྲུལ་པ་
Transliteration: gnyis snang 'khrul pa
<phrase> "The confusion of (having) dualistic appearances". This refers to the fundamental confusion of a mind which is seeing duality instead of reality. See འཁྲུལ་པ་ for an explanation and definition of fundamental "confusion".
དགེ་ཚུལ་ཕ་མ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dge tshul pha ma gnyis
<phrase> "Novice monk and nun both" or "both male and female novices". This is the term used in Tibetan to indicate both དགེ་ཚུལ་ male (śhrāmaṇera) and དགེ་ཚུལ་མ་ female novice monk and nun.
གྲུབ་དབང་ཚོགས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: grub dbang tshogs gnyis
<noun> "Drubwang Tsoknyi" or Lord of Siddhas Tsoknyi". The usual name given to the first Tsoknyi Rinpoche. See གྲུབ་དབང་ for the meaning of the epithet "Drubwang".
གཟུང་འཛིན་གཉིས་བསྡུས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་
Transliteration: gzung 'dzin gnyis bsdus kyi chos
<phrase> "The dharmas (phenomena) subsumed by or included or contained in dual grasped-grasping".
རྒྱུད་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rgyud gnyis
<phrase> 1) Generally "both tantras", "the two tantras". 2) Specifically, "The two tantras" meaning the two main divisions of anuttarayogatantra which [DGT] gives as: 1) ཕ་རྒྱུད་ "father tantra" and 2) མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra". However, there are other divisions.
མཆོག་ཟུང་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mchog zung gnyis
<phrase> "The excellent pair". Two of the Buddha's foremost disciples were called "the excellent pair". They were ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་ "Śhāripūtra" and མོའུ་འགལ་གྱི་བུ་ "Maudgalputra".
སོ་ཐར་གྱི་སྡོམ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: so thar gyi sdom pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two vows of individual emancipation". They are the ཁྱིམ་པ་ laypeople and རབ་བྱུང་ ordained people's vows.
རྫོགས་པ་གཉིས་པ་ནག་ཕྱོགས་
Transliteration: rdzogs pa gnyis pa nag phyogs
<phrase> "Second completion of the dark phase". A name for the 25th day of the lunar month; see under རྫོགས་པ་ for explanation.
རྫོགས་པ་གཉིས་པ་དཀར་ཕྱོགས་
Transliteration: rdzogs pa gnyis pa dkar phyogs
<phrase> "Second completion of the light phase". A name for the 10th day of the lunar month; see under རྫོགས་པ་ for explanation.
གཟུང་འཛིན་གཉིས་སྟོང་གི་ཤེས་པ་
Transliteration: gzung 'dzin gnyis stong gi shes pa
<phrase> "Awareness (meaning consciousness) empty of dual grasped-grasping".
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".
གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: gnyis su med pa
I. <phrase> "Non-dual". 1) Opp. of གཉིས་སུ་ཡོད་པ་. See the usual abbrev. གཉིས་མེད་ for notes. 2) An epithet in the new translation system tantras of the དུས་འཁོར་ Kālachakra tantra because it is གཉིས་མེད་རྒྱུད་ non-dual tantra q.v.
II. <adj>phrase> "Non-dualistic". Cognate to the noun above q.v.