མ་གཡེང་བ་
Transliteration: ma g-yeng ba
I. <verb> negative of the verb གཡེང་བ་ q.v.
II. <adj>phrase> "Undistracted", "not distracted". It should be noted that this term is very literal; it simply means to not be distracted. Some have taken the connoted meaning to be more important and have translated the connotation, e.g., [NTC] has said "awareness". However, that is quite incorrect. When Tibetans say མ་གཡེང་བ་ they mean,…
མངའ་བ་
Transliteration: mnga' ba
<verb> v.i. མངའ་བ་/ མངའ་བ་/ མངའ་བ་//. 1) [Hon] of ཡོད་པ་ and also ལྡན་པ་ q.v. meaning "to possess", "to have", "to have present with". E.g., [TYL] སྲིད་དང་ཞི་བར་ཡང་ཡེ་མི་མངའ་བ་རྣམ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་མཆོག་ལྡན་ "has the excellence not had primordially in either existence or peace, (the excellence of) all superficies...". E.g., [BCA] །བདེ་གཤེགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་མངའ་སྲས་བཅས་དང་། "(to) the sugatas, who have th…
ལྷིང་བ་
Transliteration: lhing ba
[TC] gives as tamed, peaceful, gentle, not troubled. [SCD] gives as "མི་འགྱུར་བ་ or བརྟན་པོ་ strong, firm, steady; changeless. ལྷིང་ཆགས་ unbending, unflagging." The meaning is the same because it is talking about a person or being who does not have nervous thoughts and so is not inclined to run off or back away.
འཚེར་བ་
Transliteration: 'tsher ba
<verb> v.i. འཚེར་བ་/ འཚེར་བ་/ འཚེར་བ་//. The basic meaning is "to give off, to emit". 1) "To emit light or light rays" and also "to give off light rays". Hence also "to radiate", "to shine", and "to be bright". E.g., བཀྲག་མདངས་འཚེར་བ། lit. "gives off a lustre" i.e., "is lustrous"; ཉི་འོད་འཚེར་བ། "sunlight shone". 2) "To emit a sound", "to give off a noise / sound / cry". E.g., [TC] འོལ་བ་འཚ…
སྨྱང་བ་
Transliteration: smyang ba
I. <verb> Acc. [ULS] and [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, བརྐྱང་བ་ q.v. Note that they have equated this term with the past tense form.
II. <adj> "Stretched", "outstretched" as opposed bent in or up.
འཕྲལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'phral ba
I. <noun> Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, དཔྲལ་བ་ "forehead" q.v.
II. <noun> "Subtraction", the opp. of adding numbers in arithmetic. One of several synonyms for འཕྲི་རྩིས་ q.v.
ཁ་ལོ་བསྒྱུར་བ་
Transliteration: kha lo bsgyur ba
I. <verb> Past and future of ཁ་ལོ་སྒྱུར་བ་ q.v.
II. <phrase> per the verb. The name of a person who guides, controls, steers, drives, etc. Hence "steersman", "driver", "pilot", "helmsman", etc. When connected to a specific device it becomes the name of the driver of that device. E.g., ཤིང་རྟའི་ཁ་ལོ་བསྒྱུར་བ་ "charioteer / chariot driver"; རླངས་འཁོར་ཁ་ལོ་བསྒྱུར་བ་ "steam engine driver" …
ལིང་གིས་འབོར་བ་
Transliteration: ling gis 'bor ba
I. <verb> v.t. see འབོར་བ་ for tenses. "To wholly abandon"; usually in the sense of completely giving up on something for the sake of some cause. E.g., ལུས་སྲོག་ལིང་གིས་བོར་བ། "to give up on life and limb" for the sake of the dharma or a soldier giving up cares of body and life for his country, etc.
II. <gerundial>phrase> per the verb. The noun form is written ལིང་གིས་བོར་བ་ q.v.
གཟན་སྐྱུར་བ་
Transliteration: gzan skyur ba
<verb> v.t. see སྐྱུར་བ་ for tense forms. "To give the body as food", "to hand over the body as food". Terminology specifically of the ཞི་བྱེད་གཅོད་ system of dharma practice. It refers to the practice of cutting attachment to one's body as something to be cherished then just handing it over as food to the gods and demons who have been included in the practice. A longer form of the phrase i…
ཚོད་ལྟ་བ་
Transliteration: tshod lta ba
<verb> v.t. see ལྟ་བ་ for tense forms. 1) "To determine" or "to gauge" the dimensions, quality, capacity, of something and know it with the mind. 2) "To size up", "to gauge" the mind of an opponent or other person. 3) "To test" in the sense of "to try out" something, "to give a trial" to find out about.
བསྔོ་བ་པོ་
Transliteration: bsngo ba po
<noun> "The dedicator". According to Tibetan grammar, in the transitive verbal act of making a dedication, there will be the dedicator, the བསྔོ་བ་ act of dedication itself, and the བསྔོ་ཡུལ་ object of the act of dedication. This distinction is important because, in the act of making a Buddhist dedication, it is taught that the best type of dedication is when all འཁོར་གསུམ་ three q.v. are n…
སྣ་ཚོགས་སུ་སྣང་བ་
Transliteration: sna tshogs su snang ba
I. <verb> v.t. see སྣང་བ་ for tense forms. "To appear in a variety of ways".
Sometimes, when talking about mind, it specifically means སྣ་ཚོགས་སུ་ཤར་བའི་སྣང་བ་ "(the one thing mind) appearing (as it does) as the whole variety (of appearance that it does appear in)". If that is the case, it is not appearing in a variety of ways but as "the variety" and this meaning must be clearly presented.
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རྫུན་དུ་སྨྲ་བ་
Transliteration: rdzun du smra ba
I. <verb> v.t. see སྨྲ་བ་ for tense forms. "To lie", "to speak falsely", "to dissimulate".
II. <gerundial>phrase> Generally, "lying", "speaking falsehood", "dissimulation", etc. This form is also used to refer to the "lying" the first of the four non-virtues of speech from the མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ་ ten non-virtues.
སྐྱོལ་བ་
Transliteration: skyol ba
<verb> 1) [Old] meaning སྒྲིམ་པ་ q.v. E.g., [TC] སྲད་བུ་སྐྱོལ་བ་ "to tighten the cord". 2) Sometimes see written for སྐྱེལ་བ་ q.v. In this case, the verb is categorized to be of the same regular type as སྐྱེལ་བ་ so the tenses are written accordingly as བསྐྱོལ་བ་/ སྐྱོལ་བ་/ བསྐྱོལ་བ་/ སྐྱོལ་/. E.g., [TYL] རྣམ་པ་བཞིས་ཚད་དུ་བསྐྱོལ་ནས་མྱ་ངད་ལས་འདས་པའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་དམ་པར་འཇུག་པ། "When these four sh…
མཁུར་བ་
Transliteration: mkhur ba
<noun> 1) "Cheek(s)". Same as མཁུར་ཚོས་ q.v. 2) "The cheeks", "the cheek area", "the side of the face"; same as འགྲམ་ཁུག་.
The difference between the two meanings is that the latter means the cheek area of the face as a whole whereas the former specifically means the mound of flesh that is the highlight of that area, "the cheeks" or a "cheek".
སྐུང་བ་
Transliteration: skung ba
<verb> v.t. བསྐུངས་བ་/ སྐུང་བ་/ བསྐུང་བ་/ སྐུངས་/. Meaning to put something somewhere so that it stays out of view , hence "to hide away (and keep secret)" or "to conceal (and keep concealed)" or "to bury away (from view)". E.g., [TC] དངོས་ཡོད་གནས་ལུགས་སྐུང་བ། "phenomena are present (for the senses), their inner reality is hidden from view"; མི་ངན་བསྐུངས་པ། "the bad man was hidden away"; ཁྲ…
དངར་བ་
Transliteration: dngar ba
<verb> v.t. དངར་བ་/ དངར་བ་/ དངར་བ་//. "To set up in formation / special arrangement and do things in a co-ordinated way". This does not merely mean [TMT] "to be neat, well arranged" but means to be in formation / order / specific arrangement and to be doing everything together in a synchronized or co-ordinated way. E.g., soldiers in formation and marching in step; dancers all dancing in the…
བྱེ་བ་ཁྲག་ཁྲིག་
Transliteration: bye ba khrag khrig
<number> བྱེ་བ་ (ten million) times ཁྲག་ཁྲིག་ (10 to power 11) = ten to the power 17. This is generally used to indicate an enormous number, as for example in modern slang one would say "zillions" or "gazillions"; another possibility is "myriads".
ཁ་ལུད་འདོར་བ་
Transliteration: kha lud 'dor ba
<verb> See འདོར་བ་ for tense forms. 1) "To spit" from the mouth. 2) "To spread manure / fertilizer" on a field, etc. 3) For something such as a container "to spit out" its contents when they no longer fit; for the contents to flow out / spill out, for the vessel to overflow.
