འགོང་བ་
Transliteration: 'gong ba
<verb> Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs 1) ཞུམ་པ་ and སྐྲག་པ་ or 2) སྨད་པ་ q.v. Note that [ULS] and [LGK] also gloss the negative form མི་འགོང་ q.v.
བརྗེ་བ་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: brje ba rnam pa gsum
<enum> "The three changes". In the context of a person undertaking the level of ordination called བར་མ་རབ་བྱུང་, which is a preliminary or trial lower level of ordination in the Buddhist tradition, in order for the person to keep their intent to go ahead with ordination, there is a change of three things: 1) རྟགས་དང་ཆ་ལུགས་བརྗེ་བ་ "change of mark and style"; 2) བསམ་པ་བརྗེ་བ་ "change of thou…
རྣག་རྟོལ་བ་
Transliteration: rnag rtol ba
I. <verb> v.t. see རྟོལ་བ་ for tense forms. "For pus to burst out / come out / ooze out". The phrase used when a boil, pimple, or other pus-laden item bursts and the pus pours / squirts out. In use, it is more like the English "the pimple (etc.) burst (and thus the pus came out)".
II. <gerundial>phrase> per the verb. The true noun form is written རྣག་བརྟོལ་ q.v.
མི་དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་
Transliteration: mi dge ba'i rtsa ba
<phrase> "A root of non-virtue" or "the roots of non-virtue". Translation of the Sanskrit "akuśhalamūla". Opp. is དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་ q.v. 1) Meaning "fundamentally non-virtuous". A general name for any non-virtuous action that is the cause of future happiness because of producing ལས་ནག་པོ་ "bad karma". 2) A name for those states of mind which are at the root of the production of bad karma, e.g.,…
ཐོམ་མེ་བ་
Transliteration: thom me ba
<noun> [Exp] Refers to a mental state where the mind having gone dull and is not working; the mind being in a generally stupefied state. A kind of oblivion. This could range from not paying attention in the moment with the resultant vagueness that goes with it all the way down to complete stupefaction because of the mind having closed down to its own experience.
སྙོལ་བ་
Transliteration: snyol ba
I. <verb> v.t. བསྙལ་བ་/ སྙོལ་བ་/ བསྙལ་བ་/ སྙོལ་/. To prepare any food that is prepared by "fermentation". Hence "to brew" such as beer by adding yeast, etc.; "to culture" curds by adding the starter culture; "to prove" or "to ferment" or "to sour" dough; "to pickle" cabbage, etc. E.g., [TC] ཆང་བསྙལ་བ། "brewed the beer"; ཞོ་བསྙལ་བ། "cultured the curd"; གྲོ་ཞིབ་སྙོལ་བ། "to let dough ferment (…
གནད་དུ་འཁེལ་བ་
Transliteration: gnad du 'khel ba
<verb> v.i. see འཁེལ་བ་ for tense forms. "To hit home", "to strike right on the exact spot / point", "to bring to bear in the right place". When trying to do or accomplish something to bring whatever has to be brought to bear down on exactly the spot that counts. This conveys the sense of not missing the mark but being right on target so that the technique being used is effective.
སྒྲོང་བ་
Transliteration: sgrong ba
<verb> v.t. བསྒྲངས་པ་/ སྒྲོང་བ་/ བསྒྲང་བ་/ སྒྲོངས་/. "To count" or "to tally" meaning to count or tally the individual members of a group so as to come to how many there are in total. Note the verb བགྲང་བ་ which means "to calculate, enumerate" q.v. E.g., [TC] ཚོགས་འདུ་འཚོག་མི་ཇི་ཡོད་གྲངས་ཀ་སྒྲོང་བ། "to make a count of how many people there are at the meeting"; གཞན་ལ་གྲངས་ཀ་བསྒྲང་དུ་འཇུག་པ། …
ཆད་ཐོ་བྱ་བ་
Transliteration: chad tho bya ba
<phrase> "Performing the covenant". Secret mantra terminology of the རྙིང་མ་ old school regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering. Performance of the ritual in which the ཆད་ཐོ་བསྒྲག་པ་ covenant is proclaimed and offerings are made to the protectors concerned.
ཉམས་དགའ་བ་
Transliteration: nyams dga' ba
<adj> to have mood of joy or happiness. Thus "joyful", "joyful state of mind", "happy state of mind", "joyful mood", "happy mood". The ཉམས་ in the term gives the sense of both having that state of mind and having it show outwardly as the expression of the person.
Note that [RYD] and others give "delighted, pleased, pleasing, charmed, fascinating, agreeable, peace-giving" but these are not th…
ཉེ་འཁོར་བ་
Transliteration: nye 'khor ba
<adj> 1) "Neighbouring", "affiliated". A region which is contiguous with another region; e.g., ཉེ་འཁོར་ལ་ "around", "in the region of", "in the environs of". 2) "Affiliate" or "affiliated". Someone who is close by blood or married relationship or who is close because of working for someone. Those "surrounding" or "close-to" another person. 3) "Retinue", "attendants" of a person with some po…
འཚང་རྒྱ་བ་
Transliteration: 'tshang rgya ba
<verb> The present and fut. tenses of སངས་རྒྱས་པ་ "is becoming a buddha" and "will become buddha". Hence "is awakening", "will awaken". Although sometimes translated as "is becoming / will become enlightened" that is slightly incorrect; that terminology would translate བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་པ་ or the like. This refers specifically to becoming a buddha.
མཆོང་བ་
Transliteration: mchong ba
<verb> v.i. མཆོངས་པ་/ མཆོང་བ་/ མཆོང་བ་/ མཆོངས་/. "To jump" and "to leap". E.g., [TC] ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་མཆོངས་པ། "leapt across to the other side"; མིག་ལྡན་གཡང་དུ་མཆོང་བ། lit. "those with sight leaping into the abyss" but meaning "doing something (bad) in spite of knowing better"; །སྟོད་ལ་སྟག་མོ་མཆོངས་པའི་རྗེས་ཡོད། སྨད་ན་ཤིང་རྟ་དྲུད་པའི་ཤུལ་ཡོད། "above, the leap-marks of a tigress; below, the haul-mar…
ཐལ་འགྱུར་བ་
Transliteration: thal 'gyur ba
<noun> "Consequentialism". Translation of the Sanskrit "prasaṅgika". The name of a system of the Buddhist view. The system is the highest of two main sub-divisions of the དབུ་མ་ Middle Way or Madhyamaka system and is usually known as the དབུ་མ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་ Prasaṅgika Madhyamaka system of Buddhist philosophy q.v.
ལྕགས་རི་ར་བ་
Transliteration: lcags ri ra ba
<phrase> "The enclosure of iron mountains" meaning the ring of iron mountains that encircle Mt. Meru and the four continents in one world system as explained in Buddhist cosmology. Same as ལྕགས་རི་ and ལྕགས་རི་མུ་ཁྱུད་ and ལྕགས་རིའི་ཁོར་ཡུག་ q.v.
འགྲན་པའི་ཟླ་དང་བྲལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gran pa'i zla dang bral ba
<adj>phrase> "Unrivalled", "matchless", "having no rival", "having no match". Meaning that there is no-one / thing could compete with and win against the subject being described but with the specific sense of being beyond all rivals. The phrase has many abbrev. e.g., འགྲན་ཟླ་དང་བྲལ་བ་ and འགྲན་བྲལ་ and is similar to འགྲན་ཟླ་མེད་པ་ and འགྲན་མེད་ q.v. for more.
གྲོལ་བ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: grol ba drug
<phrase> "The six types of liberation" according to the Nyingma tantras. They are: 1) ཐོས་གྲོལ་ "liberation through hearing"; 2) བཏགས་གྲོལ་ "liberation through wearing"; 3) མཐོང་གྲོལ་ "liberation through seeing"; 4) དྲན་གྲོལ་ "liberation through remembering"; 5) མྱོང་གྲོལ་ "liberation through tasting"; 6) རེག་གྲོལ་ "liberation through touching".
སྣ་ཐག་རང་གི་མགོ་དཀྲི་བ་
Transliteration: sna thag rang gi mgo dkri ba
<saying> "Wrapped the nose-rope around my head". See སྣ་ཐག་མི་ལ་མ་ཤོར་བ་ for general meaning. Specifically, one has taken the determined stance that one will not be led around by others so, instead of handing them སྣ་ཐག་ the nose rope one has wrapped it around one's own head.
སྤོང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་
Transliteration: spong ba chen po
<phrase> "The great renunciate". 1) Epithet in general of someone who has abandoned all worldly activities in favour of spiritual pursuits. For this reason, in some but not all cases it can have the sense of "true hermit", "true mendicant". 2) Epithet of the Buddha who was the "great renunciate" par excellence.
