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གཞི་བཅུ་བདུན་
Transliteration: gzhi bcu bdun
<phrase> "The seventeen fundaments". The འདུལ་བ་ Vinaya has seventeen fundaments in it. These are the bases by which one takes and keeps and ordination. They are divided into three sections: 1) taking ordination itself; 2) nine bases of keeping the ordination that has been obtained in terms of not having infractions; and 3) seven bases of repairing infractions that have occurred. [MVP] give…

ཞིང་ལྤགས་ཀྱི་གཡང་གཞི་
Transliteration: zhing lpags kyi g-yang gzhi
<phrase> "Complete hide of a human with the ten grounds". One of དུར་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་ཆས་བརྒྱད་ the eight charnel ground ornaments q.v. The meaning of ཞིང་ལྤགས་ is ཞིང་ཆེན་གྱི་ལྤགས་པ་ q.v. i.e., the hide of a ཞིང་བཅུ་ཚང་བའི་དགྲ་བོ་ enemy-with-all-ten-grounds-type human that has all five extremities intact. The meaning of གཡང་གཞི་ is any hide that has all extremities complete and intact.