རིགས་པའི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་བ་
Transliteration: rigs pa'i rjes su 'brang ba
<noun> "Followers of Reasoning" i.e., the Sautantrikas and the particular སེམས་ཙམ་ Cittamatra school that follows the logical reasoning set forth in the ཚད་མ་སྡེ་བདུན་ seven texts of pramāṇa by Dharmakīrti.
གདོད་མའི་མགོན་པོ་འོད་མི་འགྱུར་བ་
Transliteration: gdod ma'i mgon po 'od mi 'gyur ba
<phrase> "Primal guardian Changeless Light". The name of a buddha from whom the Dzogchen teaching is taught. It is referenced for example in Jigmey Lingpa's Highest Wisdom text.
བདག་གཞན་དང་དངོས་སུ་འབྲེལ་བ་མིན་
Transliteration: bdag gzhan dang dngos su 'brel ba min
<phrase> "Self and other not in actual relationship". Grammar term. A key term of transitive verb theory. This is the phrase used in Tibetan grammar to define that there is no transitive relationship for a verb i.e., that there is an intransitive relationship. See བདག་གཞན་ self and other for explanation.
རིན་ཆེན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་
Transliteration: rin chen dra ba can gyis zhus pa
<noun> "The (Sūtra) Petitioned by Rinchen Drawacan". A Mahāyāna sūtra with the full title: འཕགས་པ་རིན་ཆེན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་. Translated by the Indian Preceptor ཛྙཱ་ན་གརྦྷ་ Jñānagarbha and the Tibetan Lotsāwa བནྡེ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྙིང་པོ་ Bande Yeshe Nyingpo. Revised and finalized by སྐ་བ་དཔལ་བརྩེགས་ Kawa Paltseg.
མཆོད་པ་འབུལ་བ་
Transliteration: mchod pa 'bul ba
I. <verb> v.t. see འབུལ་བ་ for tense forms. "To make offerings", "to perform pūjā". To worship something regarded as holy by making offerings of one sort or another.
II. <phrase> "Making offerings", the name of one of the ཆོས་སྤྱོད་པ་བཅུ་ ten dharmic activities. This means to worship the Three Jewels or some aspect thereof by making ceremonial offerings, i.e., performing pūja to them.
ཁོངས་སུ་འདུ་བ་
Transliteration: khongs su 'du ba
<verb> v.i. see འདུ་བ་ for tense forms. Transitive form is ཁོངས་སུ་སྡུད་པ་ q.v. This phrase is not used so freq.; the equivalent ཁོངས་སུ་གཏོགས་པ་ is used more often q.v. "To be included within a category or grouping" or "to be incorporated within a category or grouping". E.g., ཁོངས་སུ་མ་འདུས་པར་ཕྱི་རོལ་ཏུ་གྱུར་པའི་ཡུལ་ "an object outside of, not included in its category".
བརྟན་མ་སྐྱོན་བ་
Transliteration: brtan ma skyon ba
<phrase> "Committing the Tenmas" or "activating the Tenmas". Secret mantra terminology of the རྙིང་མ་ old school regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering. [AKR] gives "part of the feast ceremony is addressed to the protectors of the མོ་རྒྱུད་ female lineage". See also ཆད་མདོ་བྱ་བ་ performing the covenant.
སྔགས་ཀྱི་ཕྲེང་བ་
Transliteration: sngags kyi phreng ba
<phrase> "Mantra garland". In secret mantra, the string of syllables that make up a mantra written as a string one after the other. The mantra garland is freq. in a circle around a central seed syllable e.g., [BKM] ཐུགས་ཀར་ཟླ་སྟེང་ཧཱ་ཡིག་མཐར༔ སྔགས་ཀྱི་ཕྲེང་བས་བསྐོར་བ་ "a HĀ letter on top of a moon at the heart encircled at the rim by the mantra garland".
འོད་འཕྲོ་བ་
Transliteration: 'od 'phro ba
I. <verb> v.i. see འཕྲོ་བ་ for tense forms. "To be emitting light", "to glow with light", "to be radiant". Note that this is the v.i. and the v.t. form is འོད་སྤྲོ་བ་. Despite this distinction, this form is often used with the v.t. sense.
II. <gerundial>phrase> per the verb.
III. <phrase> "The Radiant". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "arciṣhmatī". The name of the bodhisatva …
ངེས་འབྱུང་ལ་སྐུལ་བ་
Transliteration: nges 'byung la skul ba
<verb> v.t. see སྐུལ་བ་ for tense forms. "To encourage towards renunciation", "to urge to renunciation". When the Buddha turned the wheel of dharma for the first time (see ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་རིམ་པ་གསུམ་ three stages of the wheel of dharma) he urged the listeners to ངེས་འབྱུང་ renunciation with talk of མི་རྟག་པ་ impermanence and unsatisfactoriness.
ཉི་ཚེ་བ་
Transliteration: nyi tshe ba
I. <noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "pratyeka". A type of insect which does not live for more than a day. (In fact, there are many insects like this). Thus the term can mean insects living not more than a day in general.
II. <adj> Translation of the Sanskrit "prādeśika". 1) Meaning "only a piece of", "only one aspect of", "fragmentary". E.g., བདེ་བ་ཉི་ཚེ་བ། "restricted happiness"; "p…
མགོ་སྐོར་བ་
Transliteration: mgo skor ba
<verb> v.t. see སྐོར་བ་ for tense forms. See མགོ་འཁོར་བ་ for v.i. 1) "To fool", "to deceive", "to trick". 2) "To occupy", "to distract". To keep someone busy with something so that they do not notice what else is going on. E.g., when speaking of looking after, entertaining small children, this phrase is used. In this meaning, it can have either a non-pejorative sense as with the example of …
གཞོལ་བ་
Transliteration: gzhol ba
I. <verb> v.t. གཞོལ་བ་/ གཞོལ་བ་/ གཞོལ་བ་/ གཞོལ་/. 1) Meaning "to be industrious", "to apply oneself diligently", "to be conscientious". E.g., [TC] ལས་ཀར་གཞོལ་བ། "to do the work diligently; སློབ་སྦྱོང་ལ་གཞོལ་བ། "diligent at studies". 2) Meaning specifically for the mind / intellect "to engage something and stay with it". E.g., [TC] བློ་རིག་ཡོད་དགུ་རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་གཞོལ་བ། "to engage in the variou…
གཅེས་སུ་རྩི་བ་
Transliteration: gces su rtsi ba
I. <verb> See v.t. རྩི་བ་ for tense forms. "To attach great importance to", "to hold in high esteem". E.g., [HUC] ཁྱིམ་ན་གནས་པ་ནི་གཞན་ལ་གནོད་པ་བྱེད་པ་གཅེས་སུ་རྩི་བའོ། །རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ་ནི་གཞན་ལ་ཕན་འདོགས་པ་གཅེས་སུ་རྩེ་བའོ། "Staying in a household is to attach great importance to harming others. Ordination is to attach great importance to benefiting others."
II. <gerundial>phrase> cognate…
མངའ་གསོལ་བ་
Transliteration: mnga' gsol ba
<verb> v.t. see གསོལ་བ་ for tense forms. [Hon] "To enthrone" another person or "to invest with the power of..." or "to install (as such and such)" in the sense of going through the ceremony that officially installs another person into the power and authority that goes with some official position. The term is in the honorific and implies great respect for the person being invested with power…
གཉེར་བ་
Transliteration: gnyer ba
<verb> v.t. གཉེར་བ་/ གཉེར་བ་/ གཉེར་བ་/ གཉེར་/. 1) "To seek" after because of taking something as important, hence also "to go after", "to pursue", "to strive for". E.g., [TC] སློབ་གཉེར་བ་ "to pursue studies"; དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བ་ "to seek / go after / pursue / strive for what is meaningful or of value"; ཁོག་ལ་རང་དོན་གཉེར་ཏེ་ཁ་ནས་གཞན་དོན་ཤོད། "privately seeking his own benefit while espousing bene…
གཡུང་བ་
Transliteration: g-yung ba
I. <adj> To be tamed or domesticated, the opp. of "wild" e.g., རྟ་གཡུང་བ་ is a "broken-in horse", not a horse of the wilds.
II. <adj> Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, ཞན་པ་ "weaker". (Note that this can also mean low-class, inferior as in e.g., གཡུང་མོ་ q.v.)
ཕྱམ་མེ་བ་
Transliteration: phyam me ba
<adj><adv> [Exp] An མྱོང་ཚིག་ experiential language term. The term conveys the experience of something with the two qualities of being flat / even and a spread; a stretch which has the quality of evenness. E.g., in coll. it is used to refer to a level surface, an area in which no parts are higher / lower, or something which is the same height throughout.
