རྒྱལ་བ་དོན་གྲུབ་
Transliteration: rgyal ba don grub
<noun> "Gyalwa Dondrup". The name of the son of མ་ཅིག་ལབ་ཀྱི་སྒྲོན་མ་ Machig Labdron q.v. He was the lineage holder of the sūtra teachings of the Cutting practice.
རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བ་མངའ་
Transliteration: rnam par rgyal ba mnga'
<noun> "He who has obtained complete victory". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "vijayin". One of many སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ epithets of the buddha.
དམིགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེ་བ་
Transliteration: dmigs pa rgya che ba
<phrase> "A greater (type of) reference". This is the first of the seven qualities which make the Great Vehicle "greater" than the Lesser Vehicle. It refers to the fact that the Greater Vehicle references all sentient beings whereas the Lesser Vehicle references individual sentient beings.
འཇིག་རྟེན་མིག་བསྒྱུར་བ་
Transliteration: 'jig rten mig bsgyur ba
<phrase> In Milarepa's songs this is used as an epithet of the five Tseringma sisters. It literally means "those who have taken the role of translators"; they were translators for the eight classes of spirits.
ཟག་པའི་རྒྱུ་ལས་བྱུང་བ་
Transliteration: zag pa'i rgyu las byung ba
<phrase> "That which arises from the cause, outflow(s)" i.e., the result of the outflows which is the ཟག་བཅས་ཉེར་ལེན་གྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ outflowed, grasped aggregates.
ཁྱི་ར་བ་མགོན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Transliteration: khyi ra ba mgon po rdo rje
<noun> "The hunter Gonpo Dorje". One of the songs of Milarepa details the story of a hunter who became a disciple of Milarepa, this is the hunter's name.
ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་རིན་ཆེན་བཟང་པོ་
Transliteration: lo ts'a ba rin chen bzang po
<noun> "Lotzawa Rinchen Zangpo". The name of one of the great, Tibetan translators of the later spread of dharma.
ངན་ལམ་རྒྱལ་བ་མཆོག་དབྱངས་
Transliteration: ngan lam rgyal ba mchog dbyangs
<noun> "Ngan lam gyalwa chogyang". Acc. to one enumeration, the name of one of སད་མི་མི་བདུན་ the seven trial men q.v.
སྔོན་བྱུང་བ་འདས་པའི་དུས་ན་
Transliteration: sngon byung ba 'das pa'i dus na
<phrase> "In the events of the past, there was a point in time when …" A standard phrase used by the Buddha in the sutras to indicate that he was about to speak of a particular point in time in past events.
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་འཇུག་པར་འཚལ་བ་
Transliteration: theg pa chen po la 'jug par 'tshal ba
<phrase> "Want to enter the Great Vehicle". A standard phrase of the Great Vehicle Buddhist sutras.
ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན་
Transliteration: nam mkha' mtha' yas pa'i 'gro ba sems can
<phrase> "Sentient beings, the migrators infinite as space (is infinite)". Standard Great Vehicle phrase.
ཁ་ལྟ་བ་
Transliteration: kha lta ba
<verb> v.t. see ལྟ་བ་ for tense forms. 1) "To face towards the direction of something". E.g., གཏམ་བཤད་བྱེད་མཁན་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ཉན་མཁན་ཚང་མས་ཁ་ལྟ་བ། "the listeners as a whole faced in the direction of (or faced towards) the story-teller." 2) To view something as starting to go well.
གལ་ཆེ་བ་
Transliteration: gal che ba
<adj>phrase> showing degree of importance. Something which is important in general is described as གལ་ཆེན་པོ་. Degrees of its importance are shown with: གལ་ཆུང་བ་, གལ་ཆེ་བ་, and གལ་ཆེ་ཤོས་ meaning of lesser and greater importance and most important respectively. The term གལ་ཆེ་ཆུང་ meaning "the more and less important..." is fairly common, especially when differentiating things e.g., གལ་…
འཁྱོང་བ་
Transliteration: 'khyong ba
<verb> v.i. འཁྱོངས་པ་/ འཁྱོང་བ་/ འཁྱོང་བ་//. "To carry through with (to the end)", "to last (out)", "to continue with". E.g., [TC] ཆུ་ཚོད་གཅིག་ཀྱང་རྒྱུན་འཁྱོང་ཐུབ་པ་མི་འདུག "he wasn't able to continue with it even for one hour"; ཉིན་འཁྱོང་ཐུབ་ཙམ་བྱུང་། "I was able to last for about one day"; ལས་ཀ་མཐར་འཁྱོངས་སོང་། "carried out the work to the end / did the work to the finish".
ན་སྤར་བ་
Transliteration: na spar ba
<verb> v.t. see སྤོར་བ་ for tense forms. "To leap up"; "to leap up higher to"; "to jump to the next level". E.g., [DDT] སྤྲོས་བྲལ་དུ་ན་སྤར་བའི་གདམས་ངག་ "the oral instruction of leaping up into freedom from elaboration (from the previous step of one-pointedness)". See also the intransitive form ན་འཕར་བ་ for more.
ཀ་བ་ཤིང་ལོ་ཅན་
Transliteration: ka ba shing lo can
<noun> "Leaved Pillar". The name of one of four special pillars in the Jokhang in Lhasa. The temple was built by སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ་ King Songtsen Gampo. Each pillar has a unique capital—this one has a design of leaves. Each had something buried beneath it by the king—this had valuables underneath it. See also ཀ་བ་བུམ་པ་ཅན་, ཀ་བ་སྦྲུལ་མགོ་ཅན་, and ཀ་བ་སེང་མགོ་ཅན་.
འབྱིལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'byil ba
<verb> v.t. བྱིལ་བ་/ འབྱིལ་བ་/ འབྱིལ་བ་/ བྱིལ་/. 1) "To apply to", "to put on", "to spread on" as in spreading and applying a surface coating to something e.g., as in putting plaster on a wall. Hence also "to surface with", and "to finish". E.g., [TC] རྩིག་པའི་ལོགས་ལ་འདག་པ་བྱིལ་བ། "surfaced the outside of the wall with mud". 2) "To stroke". E.g., [TC] ཕྲུ་གུའི་མགོ་བོར་བྱམས་སྟངས་ཀྱིས་འབྱིལ་བ…
མགལ་མེ་སྐོར་བ་
Transliteration: mgal me skor ba
I. <verb> v.t. see སྐོར་བ་ for tense forms. "To whirl around a མགལ་པ་ long, thin stick of wood which is burning at one end. The result of doing this when it is dark is the production of the optical illusion of a མགལ་མེའི་འཁོར་ལོ་ red circle of light q.v.
II. <noun> form is མགལ་མེ་བསྐོར་བ་ q.v.
ལྟག་པ་དགྱེ་བ་
Transliteration: ltag pa dgye ba
<verb> v.i. see དགྱེ་བ་ for tense forms. "To arch back the upper part of the body". This can be for a number of reasons which are all explained under དགྱེ་བ་ q.v. Note that it is used coll. to indicate someone standing not with their back arched but erect, because of lack of respect, as opposed to bent forward in a show of respect hence "to stand erect (pejoratively)".
སྩོལ་བ་
Transliteration: stsol ba
<verb> v.t. བསྩལ་བ་/ སྩོལ་བ་/ བསྩལ་བ་/ སྩོལ་/. The [Hon] for སྤྲོད་པ་ meaning "to bestow", "to grant", "to confer". E.g., [KTT] པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་བདག་ལ་བསྩལ་ནས།, "having granted it to me, Padmasaṃbhava". E.g., [TC] བཀའ་སློབ་སྩོལ་དུ་གསོལ། "[Hon] please grant us instruction"; བཀའ་ལན་བསྩལ་བ། "[Hon] please give a reply". 2) "To begin to do some activity", "to commence to carry out some activity". E…
