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གློ་བུར་བ་
Transliteration: glo bur ba
<noun><adj> Same as གློ་བུར་ except this is the adj. and noun form. 1) The primary sense, especially in dharma texts, is that of something which appears all of a sudden on the surface of something else but does partake of the underlying entity and so will pass, without affecting the underlying entity, i.e., "adventitious". 2) It has also the two connotations of something which has jus…

གློ་བུར་
Transliteration: glo bur
<adj><adv> For adj. noun form see གློ་བུར་བ་. "Adventitious". 1) The Tibetan word has the principal meaning that something is extrinsic to, that it does not belong to, some other entity that it appears in relation to. 2) It has the secondary meaning that it therefore comes up as a surface event in relation to that other entity and disappears again. 3) The secondary meaning also gives …

བརྟ་བ་
Transliteration: brta ba
<verb> v.i. བརྟས་པ་/ བརྟ་བ་/ བརྟ་བ་//. 1) Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, རྒྱས་པར་བྱ་བ་ "to grow or increase in amount or size". E.g., [TYL] ཇི་ཙམ་གོམས་པ་བརྟས་པ་ལས་འོད་སྡང་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འཕེལ། "to the extent that familiarization grows, so the light appearances increase in magnitude." E.g., [TC] ལུས་སྟོབས་བརྟས་པ། "the…

འགྲེང་བ་
Transliteration: 'greng ba
<verb> v.i. འགྲེངས་པ་/ འགྲེང་བ་/ འགྲེང་བ་/ འགྲེངས་/. Transitive form is སྒྲེང་བ་ q.v. 1) "To get up" including "to stand", "to come up", "be raised". E.g., [TC] དམའ་ས་ནས་ཡར་འགྲེང་བ། "raised to a higher place"; གློ་བུར་འགྲེང་བ། "suddenly arose / came up"; དམག་མི་རྣམས་རུ་བསྒྲིགས་སུ་འགྲེངས་ནས་བསྡད་འདུག། "the soldiers have gotten into formation and are standing there". 2) Translation of the San…

གློ་བ་
Transliteration: glo ba
<noun> 1) The part of the body, "lung / the lungs". One of དོན་སྙིང་ལྔ་ "the five vital organs / five viscera" q.v. 2) Sometimes for the སེམས་ conventional mind. 3) Sometimes seen as the spelling for the Mustang area which used to be part of Tibetan and which is now annexed to Nepal in the northwest.

གློ་བུར་གྱི་དྲི་མ་
Transliteration: glo bur gyi dri ma
<phrase> "Adventitious defilement", "adventitious stains". This phrase is usually used in discussions of innate mind which is pristine in itself and of the various aspects of dualistic mind which cover it but not being a part of it, are གློ་བུར་ "adventitious stains" on it. Since the various aspects of dualistic mind are foreign matter which appear on the surface of the innate mind and do n…

གློ་
Transliteration: glo
<noun> 1) Abbrev. for གློ་བ་ q.v. 2) A cough. 3) The "girth" of a saddle. 4) A "side", "face", "outside", "outer surface" or other word indicate a near side, in the proximity of something. E.g., [TC] རྩིག་པའི་གློ་ན་ཡོད་པ། "(it) is on the outside of the wall"; གློ་གཉིས་སུ་ལྗོན་ཤིང་མང་པོ་བཙུགས་པ། "Many trees are growing on two sides of the house".

གླ་བ་
Transliteration: gla ba
I. <verb> v.t. གླས་པ་/ གླ་བ་ / གླ་བ་ / གློས་/. To pay money to obtain the use of something. Hence "to hire", "to rent", "to pay a fee" for the temporary use of something. E.g., རྟ་དྲེལ་གླ་བ། "to hire pack animals"; སྡོད་ཁང་གླ་བ། "to rent a house".
II. <noun> 1) "The musk deer". E.g., གླ་ལྤགས་ "the skin of a musk deer"; གླ་རྩི་ "musk". 2) The name of a type of tree or wood.