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གོ་མཚམས་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: go mtshams med pa
<adj>phrase> Lit. "without gap". 1) "Without room for more", used both to mean "without a space / gap" being left physically. E.g., [OTT] ཐམས་ཅད་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་གོ་མཚམས་མེད་པར་བཀང་བ་ "filled the whole space without gap with precious things". 2) Used to mean "without missing anything" e.g., [TC] གནས་ཚུལ་གོ་མཚམས་མེད་པར་ཞུས་ཡོད་པས་ "having put the matter before you without missing anything...".

མཚམས་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: mtshams med pa
I. <adj> 1) Without intervening མཚམས་ boundary, hence "unbounded", "without boundary", "boundary-less". 2) "Boundless". See མཐའ་ཡས་ for "infinite" and མཐའ་མེད་པ་ for "limitless".
II. <noun> "Immediate". An action which is one of the མཚམས་མེད་པ་ལྔ་ five immediates q.v. These have sometimes been translated as actions entailing immediate retribution however, that is not correct. They are …

མཚམས་མེད་པ་ལྔ་
Transliteration: mtshams med pa lnga
<phrase> "The five immediates". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "pañca anantarghāṇi". The Buddha stated that there were five actions that produced a karmic force so great that the accumulator of the karma would, upon dying, be born in hell without the intermediary states of the བར་དོ་ bardo, etcetera.
[DGT] [NDS] give the five actions in their noun forms as: 1) ཕ་བསད་ "patricide / the kill…

གོ་མཚམས་
Transliteration: go mtshams
<noun> "Gap", "space between". In some causes, "pause" (between actions or speech)" and in others "break".

གོས་པ་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: gos pa med pa
<phrase> "Without any cladding, garb, dress, clothing, covers, covering, shrouds" etcetera, etcetera". Thus also "unclad", "undressed", and so on.

མཚམས་ཕྱེད་པ་
Transliteration: mtshams phyed pa
<noun> 1) A person who decides legal disputes, like a judge; also a person who steps and assists to bring legal disputes to a final resolution. 2) [Mngon] Lit. "someone who violates the boundary" meaning a thief or a robber. The term is like the English "a person who breaks and enters" or "enters where they shouldn't".

མཚམས་གཅོད་པ་
Transliteration: mtshams gcod pa
I. <verb> v.t. see གཅོད་པ་ for tense forms. 1) Generally, "to set a boundary", "to establish a boundary", "to set a border", "to establish a border". E.g., ས་མཚམས་གཅོད་པ་ "to establish a border" between countries or locations. 2) Used in secret mantra practices of a yidam to mean "establishing the boundary" which is establishing the boundary of the deity's maṇḍala. 3) Used in general Buddhi…

མཚན་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: mtshan med pa
<phrase><adj>phrase> 1) Meaning མཚན་ཉིད་མེད་པ་ i) without character or ii) without characteristic. 2) Meaning མཚན་མ་མེད་པ་ without conceptual reference point(s). 3) Meaning མཚན་མེད་པ་ i) without sex (organs) or ii) without gender.

མེད་པ་
Transliteration: med pa
I. <ཚིག་གྲོགས་>phrase assistive> Functioning as English linking <verb>. Standard grammatical abbrev. of ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ་, i.e., it is the negative of ཡོད་པ་ q.v. There are three main usages of ཡོད་པ་ and this term corresponds exactly to the negation of those q.v. for explanation. The overall sense is "to not be existing", "to be non-existent", "to not be present". This comes to mean …

རྩིབ་མའི་གོ་
Transliteration: rtsib ma'i go
<phrase> Same as རྩིབ་རུས་ཕན་ཚུན་གྱི་བར་མཚམས་ "The interstitial space between the ribs". E.g., in the sutras གནོད་པ་མེད་པར་རྩིབ་མའི་གོ་བར་ནས་ན་བཟའ་དང་བཅས་ཏེ་སྐུ་བལྟམས་པ་ "Without harm, from between the ribs, and clothed, he (Shakyamuni Buddha) was born"

གཏིང་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: gting med pa
<adj>phrase> 1) "Unfathomable", something that is so deep that its depths cannot be known. 2) "Bottomless" meaning something that is so deep that the bottom is not apparent. 3) "Having no depth" i.e., something which is very shallow, that has no depth to it at all.