ཁྲི་ལྡེ་སྲོང་བཙན་
Transliteration: khri lde srong btsan
<noun> "King Tridey Srongtsen". The name given to མུ་ཏིག་བཙན་པོ་ Mutig Tsanpo q.v. when he ascended the throne q.v. He was one of the sons of ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen and was also a great supporter of the Buddhist dharma e.g., see སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ "five great masters".
ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་
Transliteration: chos rgyal khri srong lde btsan
<phrase> "The Dharma King Trisong Deutsen". A common epithet for the early Tibetan King ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen q.v. He and two other kings of his family line were regarded as the great ones when it came to aiding the སྔ་དར་ initial spread of the Buddha's dharma in Tibet hence they were called ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ dharma kings. See under ཆོས་རྒྱལ་མེས་དབོན་རྣམ་གསུམ་ "three ancestral dharma ki…
ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་
Transliteration: khri srong lde btsan
<noun> "(King) Trisong Detsen". The name of one of the greatest Dharma kings of Tibet. He is the king who invited the great Tantric master པདྨ་སམྦྷ་ཝ་ Padmasaṃbhava to Tibet and who then assisted him in every possible way to establish the Buddha's dharma completely in Tibet. He was one of the group of རྗེ་འབངས་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྔ་ "the twenty-five, Lord and subjects".
The king had four sons. Three of t…
ཞི་བ་སྙིང་པོ་
Transliteration: zhi ba snying po
<noun> "Śhāntigarbha". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhāntigarbha". The name of an Indian paṇḍit who was invited to Tibet in the time of the dharma king ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen.
ཤཱི་ལ་མཉྫུ་
Transliteration: sh'i la many+dzu
<noun> Translit. of the Sanskrit "śhīlamañju". The name of a Nepalese paṇḍit who came to Tibet in ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Detsan's time and translated many sūtras into Tibetan.
བན་དེ་ཆེན་པོ་
Transliteration: ban de chen po
<phrase> "Great Bande", meaning a very great བན་དེ་ monk q.v. In the times of the Tibetan Dharma Kings ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen and ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་ Triralpachen, it was used to refer to monks whose standing was higher than the greatest of the King's ministers.
བི་ཤུདྡྷ་སིཾཧ་
Transliteration: bi shuddha siMha
<noun> "Viśhuddhi siṃha". Translit. of the Sanskrit "viśhuddhi siṃha". Translated into Tibetan with རྣམ་དག་སེང་གེ་. The name of an Indian āchārya who was invited to Tibet in ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen's time to assist with translation.
མུ་ཁྲི་བཙན་པོ་
Transliteration: mu khri btsan po
<noun> 1) The son of the Tibetan king གཉའ་ཁྲི་བཙན་པོ་. 2) One of the four sons of the Tibetan king ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Detsan. This son died young. He was a disciple of Padmasambhava who predicted in the condensed Chronicles of Padma, that he would have seventeen more births helping sentient beings and then would be born in Orgyan, the land of the ḍākiṇīs.
སྦ་བཞེད་
Transliteration: sba bzhed
<noun> Abbrev. of སྦ་གསལ་སྣང་གི་བཞེད་, the name of a text written in ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen's time which gave a history of the building of བསམ་ཡས་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་ the Samye temple and the subsequent propagation of the dharma at that place.
དཀར་ཆག་འཕང་ཐང་མ་
Transliteration: dkar chag 'phang thang ma
<noun> "The Phangthang Catalogue". The Tibetan King ཁྲི་ལྡེ་སྲོང་བཙན་ Tride Srongtsen q.v. ordered a cataloguing of the texts contained in the translations of and commentaries to the Buddha word that had been put together by his father, ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen q.v. Several great translators of the time, including སྐ་བ་དཔལ་བརྩེགས་ Kawa Paltseg and Namkha'i Nyingpo went to and staye…
མུ་ཏིག་བཙན་པོ་
Transliteration: mu tig btsan po
<noun> "Mutig Tsanpo". According to [TC] the third of the four sons of the early Tibetan King ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen. Acc. [DBT] the fourth son of that king. He is also called སད་ན་ལེགས་མཇིང་ཡོན་ Sayna Legjing Yon. He ascended the throne following the death of his brother མུ་ནེ་བཙན་པོ་ Mune Tsanpo sometime in the early to mid-9th century A.D. ([DBT gives 787 A.D. but other histor…
ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་
Transliteration: khri ral pa can
<noun> "(King) Tri Ralpachen". The name of one of the greatest Dharma kings of Tibet. His name lit. means "the throne-holder with the dread locks" which he received because of keeping very long hair. He was the grandson of the great Dharma King ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen and the third son of ཁྲི་ལྡེ་སྲོང་བཙན་ King Tridey Songtsen. He was the 41st king of Tibet. Upon ascending the thr…
རྗེ་ཡི་མགུར་ལྷ་བཅུ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: rje yi mgur lha bcu gsum
<phrase> "The thirteen deities of the songs of the Lords". [DGT] says that these are called the thirteen deities of the songs of the Lords because they are the protectors relied on by the Kings སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ་ Songtsen Gampo, ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsan and others. They are: 1-9) the སྲིད་པ་ཆགས་པའི་ལྷ་དགུ་ the nine gods who are attached to existence plus 10) ཇོ་བོ་མཆིམས་ལྷ་; 11) ཇོ་བ…
ལྷ་ལྕམ་པདྨ་གསལ་
Transliteration: lha lcam padma gsal
<noun> "Princess Padma Sal". The name of the daughter of ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen who died but was blessed by པདྨ་སམྦྷ་ཝ་ Padma Saṃbhava to become the lineage holder of the རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Completion teachings. She later re-incarnated as Padma Ledrel Tsal who was the incarnation prior to ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་ Longchen Rabjam.
འཕང་ཐང་ཀ་མེད་
Transliteration: 'phang thang ka med
<noun> "Phang Thang Kamey". The name of a fortress built by the Tibetan king ཁྲི་ལྡེ་གཙུག་ Tride Tsuk in the 8th century A.D. Phang Thang is located in district called Yerpa. The Blue Annals mentions a flood at Phang Thang during the reign of ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen; it is also the birth-place of Trisong Deutsen. It was also one of the places where much of the སྔ་འགྱུར་ early tran…
དཱ་ན་ཤཱི་ལ་
Transliteration: d'a na sh'i la
<noun> "Dānaśhīla". Translit. of the Sanskrit "dānaśhīla". The name of a paṇḍita who was born into Kashmir and was one of the སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ five great masters that visited Tibet in the 8th century A.D. at the request of the Tibetan king of the time, ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen. He assisted with the translation of many sūtras into Tibetan. He was one of དྲིན་ཅན་ལོ་པཎ་གསུམ་ …
སྦ་གསལ་སྣང་
Transliteration: sba gsal snang
<noun> "Ba Sal Nang". The name of one of the ministers of the King ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen who was sent by the king to India to invite and bring back མཁན་ཆེན་བོདྷི་སཏྭ་ the abbot bodhisatva, Śhāntirakṣhita. He was given the name ཡེ་ཤེས་དབང་པོ་ by the abbot. He later became one of the most important of the སད་མི་མི་བདུན་ the seven trial men q.v., becoming the successor to the abbot…
བི་མ་ལ་མིཏྲ་
Transliteration: bi ma la mitra
<noun> "Vimalamitra". The name of one of the Indian masters who was a lineage holder of the རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Completion teachings. He and ཛྙཱན་སཱུཏྲ་ Jñānasūtra were disciples together of Shri Singha q.v. for the story. Because of that history, the lineage is said to go from Shri Singha to Jñānasūtra to Vimalamitra and, because of him, into Tibet. He was one of the སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་…
