ཕྱི་ནང་གཉིས་ཀ་
Transliteration: phyi nang gnyis ka
<phrase> "Both outer and inner". This can have many references, e.g., outer environments and the beings contained within them, or Buddhists and non-Buddhists, outer appearances and inner mind, and so on, depending on the context.
བཏགས་མིང་གཉིས་
Transliteration: btags ming gnyis
<enum> "Two (types of) designated names". Designated names བཏགས་མིང་ can be divided into two types: 1) འདྲ་བ་རྒྱུ་མཚན་དུ་བྱས་པའི་བཏགས་མིང་ "name which is designated through a reason of similarity"; 2) འབྲེལ་བ་རྒྱུ་མཚན་དུ་བྱས་པའི་བཏགས་མིང་ "name which is designated through a reason of connection".
བཅུ་གཉིས་མིག་ལྡན་
Transliteration: bcu gnyis mig ldan
<noun> "Twelve-eyed". One name of the god ཀརྟི་ཀ་ "Kartika" q.v. for more information. The name also becomes a name for one constellation and one lunar month because of that.
དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: dbu ma rang rgyud pa gnyis
<phrase> "The two (types of) followers of the Svatāntrika" meaning the followers of each of the two main sub-schools of the དབུ་མ་རང་རྒྱུད་པ་ Svatāntrika-Madhyamaka school q.v.
རྐང་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rkang gnyis
<noun> The translation of a term from ancient India which is a metaphor for humans. It means those who go on two legs. It lit. translates as "bipeds". A more useful translation is probably "humankind", "mankind". The term is found throughout the Buddhist sūtras. E.g., རྐང་གཉིས་གཙོ་བོ་ "the chief of bipeds (humans)" is an epithet for the Buddha.
སྐུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sku gnyis
"The two kāyas" i.e., the two bodies of a Buddha. This is a division of a buddha into mind and form aspects. [DGT] gives as: 1) གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ "form body" and 2) ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ "reality body" (mind). See སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ for an explanation of the various kāyas of a buddha.
ཉེ་དབང་སོ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: nye dbang so gnyis
<phrase> "The Thirty-Two Nearly Powerful". The second type of gods of the desire realm are སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གསུམ་ the gods of the Thirty-three. There are thirty-three types of gods and thirty-three chiefs, one for each type. The thirty-three chiefs are made of up ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་ Chief of the Gods (Devendra / Indra) who is chief of them all and the remaining thirty-two who are ཉེ་དབང་སོ་གཉིས་ "the thi…
འཛིན་པ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: 'dzin pa gnyis
<enum> I. [JKE] gives as: 1) འཕྲད་ནས་འཛིན་པ་ ""; 2) མ་འཕྲད་པར་འཛིན་པ་ "".
II. [JKE] gives as: 1) རང་མཚན་འཛིན་པ་ ""; 2) སྤྱི་མཚན་འཛིན་པ་ "".
III. [JKE] gives as: 1) གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་འཛིན་ ""; 2) ཆོས་ཀྱི་བདག་འཛིན་ "".
བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པའི་གནས་
Transliteration: bsam gtan gnyis pa'i gnas
<phrase> "Abode of the second dhyāna"; the dwelling place of the gods abiding in the second dhyāna. See གཟུགས་ཁམས་ཀྱི་གནས་བཞི་ "The four abodes (of the gods) of the form realm".
དོགས་ཤིང་ཡིད་གཉིས་ཟའམ་ཐེ་ཚོམ་ཟ་ན་
Transliteration: dogs shing yid gnyis za'am the tshom za na
<phrase> "Should you have concern or be of two minds or entertain doubts (about)". A standard phrase used by the Buddha in the sutras.
ཀ་གཉིས་པ་
Transliteration: ka gnyis pa
<noun> "Two ka's". Acc. [GCD] another term for a བྱ་རོག་ raven. The name is derived from the fact that ravens (and crows) tend to caw twice at a time. For example, their more common names are ཀ་ཀ་ and ཀྭ་ཀྭ་ for that reason.
རིགས་རྣམ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rigs rnam gnyis
<phrase> "The two types of family" where "family" translates the Sanskrit "gotra" meaning tathāgatagarbha in this case. The two types are རང་བཞིན་གནས་པའི་རིགས་ the family which is naturally present, and རྒྱས་འགྱུར་གྱི་རིགས་ the family which is increased q.v.
སྡེ་སྣོད་གཉིས་
Transliteration: sde snod gnyis
<noun> "The Two Baskets", "the Two Piṭakas". From the perspective of the conventional Mahāyāna teaching, the Buddha's teachings as a whole are contained in two main collections: the baskets of the teachings of ཐེག་པ་ཆུང་བ་ the Lesser Vehicle and ཐེག་པ་ཆེ་བ་ the Greater Vehicle.
ཀུན་འབྱུང་གཉིས་
Transliteration: kun 'byung gnyis
<enum> "The two sources" or "the two origins". Meaning the two things that are the actual sources of unsatisfactoriness as described by the Buddha when explaining the ཀུན་འབྱུང་བདེན་པ་ "truth of the source". They are: 1) ལས་ karma; and 2) ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ affliction.
