སྐད་ཅིག་གཉིས་ཙམ་
Transliteration: skad cig gnyis tsam
<phrase> "A few moments" as in [BCA] ཐོན་ཁར་མི་རྟོག་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད། །སྐད་ཅིག་གཉིས་ཙམ་བསྒོམ་པར་བྱ། "at the end, meditate for a few moments on non-conceived emptiness".
ཟླ་བ་གཉིས་སྣང་ལྟ་བུ་
Transliteration: zla ba gnyis snang lta bu
"Like the appearance of two moons" referring to མིག་བཙིར་བས་ཟླ་བ་གཉིས་སུ་སྣང་བ་ལྟར། "like the visual distortion of two moons appearing (instead of one) when the one is pressed".
བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ཟུང་དུ་ཆུད་པ་
Transliteration: bden pa gnyis zung du chud pa
I. <verb> v.i. see ཆུད་པ་ for tense forms. "To unify the two truths". To engage in practice or discussion which unifies the two truths; see བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ཟུང་འཇུག་ "unified two truths".
II. <gerundial>phrase> "The unifying of the two truths".
དྲི་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dri gnyis
<phrase> "The two types of smell". The two main types of smell are: 1) དྲི་ཞིམ་པ་ "nice smells"; and 2) དྲི་ང་བ་ or དྲི་ངན་པ་ or དྲི་མི་ཞིམ་པ་ "bad smells". Also see དྲི་བཞི་ "the four types of smell".
གཉིས་ཀ་
Transliteration: gnyis ka
See under ཀ་ for an explanation of the spelling.
I. <noun> Two things taken together i.e., "the two".
II. <adj> "Both".
III. <phrase> As the translation of the Sanskrit "ubhāya" it means "both kinds", see e.g., གཉིས་ཀ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་ q.v.
གཉིས་མེད་དུ་སྨྲ་བ་
Transliteration: gnyis med du smra ba
<noun> Opp. of གཉིས་སུ་སྨྲ་བ་ q.v. 1) "Non-dualism"; the thought, logic, or doctrine of གཉིས་མེད་ non-duality. 2) "A person / group / faction who propound(s) non-duality". See also གཉིས་མེད་ non-duality and སྨྲ་བ་ propound / expound, etc. 3) "The expounder of non-duality", an epithet of the Buddha, given because he was the only religious teacher in the world who taught གཉིས་མེད་ non-duality…
བསྐལ་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: bskal pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two (kinds of) kalpa". The two types of kalpas, those in which buddhas descend and teach the dharma and those in which buddhas do not descend or do but do not teach the dharma. The are called 1) སྒྲོན་བསྐལ་ "light kalpa"; and 2) མུན་བསྐལ་ "dark kalpa" respectively.
དགེ་སློང་ཕ་མ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dge slong pha ma gnyis
<phrase> "Fully ordained monk and nun both". This is the term used in Tibetan to indicate both དགེ་སློང་ male and དགེ་སློང་མ་ female fully ordained monks (bhikṣhus) and nuns (bhikṣhunis).
མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་གའི་སྡེ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: ma h'a yo ga'i sde gnyis
<noun> "The two classes of Mahāyoga". The texts of Mahāyoga are divided into two: རྒྱུད་སྡེ་ the tantra class and སྒྲུབ་སྡེ་ the sādhana class q.v.
གཉིས་སུ་སྨྲ་བ་
Transliteration: gnyis su smra ba
<noun> Opp. of གཉིས་མེད་དུ་སྨྲ་བ་ q.v. 1) "Dualism", the concept, logic, or doctrine of གཉིས་སུ་ཡོད་པ་ duality. 2) "A person / group / faction who propound(s) / expounds duality" such as the other religious teachers of the Buddha's time. 3) "The propounding / expounding / advocating of duality".
སྒྲ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sgra gnyis
<phrase> "The two types of sound". In the definition of the objects of the first skandha of form, sound is of two types: 1) ཟིན་པ་ or sound produced by something with apprehension (a knowing mind) and 2) མ་ཟིན་པ་, without it.
རྨིག་གཉིས་མ་
Transliteration: rmig gnyis ma
<phrase> General name for hooved animals whose hooves are cleft into two parts, such as with goats, sheep, and so on; see also རྨིག་པ་ཁ་དབྲག་ and རྨིག་གཅིག་མ་ q.v.
དོན་གཉིས་
Transliteration: don gnyis
I. <noun> 1) Abbrev. of དོན་དག་གཉིས་ "two meanings". 2) "The two aims / objectives / purposes / benefits". [DGT] gives as: i) རང་གི་དོན་ "one's own aims" which is benefit for oneself and ii) གཞན་གྱི་དོན་ "other's aims" which is benefit for others. These are often abbrev. to རང་དོན་ and གཞན་དོན་. 3) The two meanings which are the i) དྲང་དོན་ "provisional meaning" and ii) ངེས་དོན་ "definitive…
དབུ་སེམས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dbu sems gnyis
<phrase> 1) Abbrev. of དབུ་མ་ and སེམས་ཙམ་ "Madhyamaka and Cittamatra both"; the two, main philosophical schools of the Mahāyāna q.v. 2) Abbrev. of དབུ་མ་པ་ and སེམས་ཙམ་པ་ "Madhyamikas and Cittamatrins both"; the followers of those two main schools.
ཁམས་གོང་མ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: khams gong ma gnyis
<enum> The "two upper realms" or "two higher realms". Of the three realms that constitute existence, the འདོད་ཁམས་ is the lowest. The two realms above it i.e., གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ "form realm" and གཟུགས་མེད་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ "formless realm" are the two upper / higher realms.
ལུགས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: lugs gnyis
<phrase> "The two systems / ways / traditions". This could refer to any two ways of doing something but is used freq. to means ཆོས་ལུགས་དང་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ལུགས་གཉིས་ "secular ways and religious ways". It is also used when referring to ancient India to mean the ཕྱི་རོལ་པའི་ལུགས་དང་ནང་པའི་ལུགས་གཉིས་ "ways of the non-Buddhists (Hindus and others) and the ways of the Buddhists".
ཚར་གཅད་པའི་གནས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: tshar gcad pa'i gnas gnyis
<phrase> "The two positions to be defeated". In debate or argument, meaning "both sides of the debate / argument" given that both parties see the other's position as wrong and to be defeated. See also ཚར་གཅད་པའི་གནས་ q.v.
བདེན་པ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་འཇོག་ཚུལ་
Transliteration: bden pa gnyis kyi 'jog tshul
<phrase> "The way of positing the two truths". The way that any particular Buddhist philosophical system determines finally how the two truths are to be understood.
གཟུང་འཛིན་གཉིས་སྣང་གི་བག་ཆགས་
Transliteration: gzung 'dzin gnyis snang gi bag chags
<phrase> "The latencies of the appearances of dual grasped-at and grasper" of dualistic གཟུང་འཛིན་ grasped-grasping q.v.
རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rnam par dag pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two complete purities". The dharmakāya of buddhahood is described as being "the two complete purities". They are the two purities that the dharmakāya has because of the two obscurations having been removed from it. E.g., གློ་བུར་གྱི་སྒྲིབ་གཉིས་སྤངས་པའི་དག་པ་གཉིས་ལྡན་ནི་ཆོས་སྐུ་ "That possessing the two purities that come from having abandoned the two, adventitious obscurations…
