ང་རྐྱང་པ་
Transliteration: nga rkyang pa
<phrase> "I alone"; "me by myself with no-one else".
རྐྱང་པ་
Transliteration: rkyang pa
<adj> 1) To indicate that something is purely that with nothing else in it at all, e.g., གསེར་རྐྱང་། "gold alone", དངུལ་རྐྱང་། "just silver", བལ་རྐྱང་། "only wool", ནང་མི་རྐྱང་པ། "just family", དཀར་རྐྱང་དཀར་པོ། "pure white (colour) i.e., not a shade of white but pure white—this structure is used for all colours. 2) To indicate something by itself, something unique, that itself and nothing e…
མིང་རྐྱང་པ་
Transliteration: ming rkyang pa
<phrase> Lit. "bare name", "name alone". Grammatical term. In Tibetan grammar, there are two main morphemes of the language: མིང་ grammatical names q.v. and phrase connectors. Whatever expression in Tibetan is just a grammatical name (which is not the equivalent of a noun) without any ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connectors added to denote case, etc. is called a "bare (grammatical) name". This is a loos…
ཡ་རྐྱང་
Transliteration: ya rkyang
<phrase> "A single piece" meaning "complete by itself and not one part of a set".
རྐྱང་མ་
Transliteration: rkyang ma
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "lalanā". The name of the left hand one of the རྩ་གསུམ་ three main channels of the subtle body q.v.
རྐྱལ་པ་
Transliteration: rkyal pa
<noun> "Kyalpa". 1) The name given to a bag sewn of supple leather (see མཉེད་པ་) and used by nomads for treating milk. The bag was sewn like a large balloon (about three feet in diameter). The top was left open and milk poured into it till almost full. The top was closed off and then the whole bag with milk was pushed and shoved around making the milk inside slosh about, like it would be in…
རོ་རྐྱང་
Transliteration: ro rkyang
Abbrev. of རོ་མ་ and རྐྱང་མ་ q.v. E.g., [BKM] མེ་རོ་རྐྱང་ལམ་ལ་ཞུགས། "the fire enters the paths of Rasanā and Lalanā".
ནག་པོ་ནག་རྐྱང་
Transliteration: nag po nag rkyang
<phrase> "All-black", "pure black" meaning something which has no other colour in it except black.
དཀར་པོ་དཀར་རྐྱང་
Transliteration: dkar po dkar rkyang
This is the construction used in Tibetan to indicate that a colour is just that colour with no other colour mixed in. In this case, it refers to the colour white. It has either of the two senses of i) "pure white" i.e., not a shade or tint of white but pure white or ii) "only white" i.e., white and white alone, no other colour being present. Constructions for other colours are done using a simila…
