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སྔ་ཕྱིར་བྱོན་ཅིང་གཤེགས་
Transliteration: snga phyir byon cing gshegs
<phrase> "come and go one after another" e.g., སངས་རྒྱས་རབས་བདུན་སྔ་ཕྱིར་བྱོན་ཅིང་གཤེགས་ "for the seven successive buddhas to come and go, one after another".

དཔེ་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: dpe med pa
I. <adj>phrase> "Unparalleled". Translation of the Sanskrit "nirūpam". When the bhūmis or levels of a buddha are enumerated in the ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Vehicle, they are given as either one or three. When there are three, they are called སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ས་གསུམ་ "the three levels of a buddha" and this is the name of the second highest level; it corresponds to the twelfth of ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་ས་བཅུ་…

དབུ་ཐོག་ཏུ་
Transliteration: dbu thog tu
<phrase> "Over the top of / crown of the head". E.g., སངས་རྒྱས་རེ་རེའི་དབུ་ཐོག་ཏུ་གདུགས་རེ་རེ་མཆོད་པར་ཐོགས་ནས་ "each one holding one (parasol) over the head of each of the buddhas".

དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་
Transliteration: de bzhin gshegs pa
<noun> "Tathāgata". Translation of the Sanskrit "tathāgata". The Sanskrit and Tibetan following it literally means "one who has gone to or arrived at suchness" where དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་ [Skt. tathātā] suchness is a name for reality. 1) The term is one of many སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ epithets of a སངས་རྒྱས་ buddha. It is similar to བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པ་ "sugata" q.v. However, even though the two terms are simi…