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ཆེ་ཆུང་སྙོམས་པོ་
Transliteration: che chung snyoms po
<phrase> "Of average size", "average dimensions"; a size which is right in between large and small. E.g., ལུས་བོངས་ཆེ་ཆུང་སྙོམས་པོ། "a body of average size".
ཆེ་ཆུང་
Transliteration: che chung
<phrase> 1) Abbrev. of ཆེ་བ་ and ཆུང་བ་ with the following possible meanings. "Bigger and smaller / greater and lesser / older and younger (junior and senior) / major and minor". E.g., སྐུ་མཆེད་ཆེ་ཆུང་ "the younger and elder / junior and senior brothers". 2) Combination of ཆེ་བ་ and ཆུང་བ་ meaning "size". E.g., ཁང་པའི་ཆེ་ཆུང་ "size of the house".
སྟོབས་ཆེ་ཆུང་
Transliteration: stobs che chung
<phrase> 1) "Degree of strength" e.g., སྟོབས་ཆེ་ཆུང་ལ་བརྟན་ནས་ཕྱེ་བ། "to make a distinction on the basis of the degree / amount of strength". 2) "Greater and lessers amount of strength" meaning greater and lesser, both.
ཐེག་པ་ཆེ་ཆུང་གི་སྡེ་སྣོད་
Transliteration: theg pa che chung gi sde snod
<phrase> "The piṭakas of the Greater and Smaller Vehicles" or "the baskets of the Greater and Smaller vehicles" meaning the collections of teachings that comprise the writings of the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna respectively. See also ཐེག་པ་ཆེ་བ་ "Greater Vehicle", ཐེག་པ་ཆུང་བ་ "Lesser Vehicle", and སྡེ་སྣོད་ "piṭaka".
ཆུང་འབྲིང་ཆེ་
Transliteration: chung 'bring che
<phrase> A sequence of three: 1) "lesser, middling, and greater" or 2) "rudimentary, intermediate, and superior" or 3) "inferior, mediocre, and superior".
རྩེ་གཅིག་ཆེ་འབྲིང་ཆུང་གསུམ་
Transliteration: rtse gcig che 'bring chung gsum
<noun> "The three levels of [the Mahāmudrā yoga of] one-pointedness—greater, medium, and lesser—". Each of the four levels of ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ Mahāmudrā yoga can be divided into three sub-levels of attainment. This phrase refers the རྩེ་གཅིག་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ yoga of one-pointedness made up of its three levels of attainment.
གལ་ཆེ་བ་
Transliteration: gal che ba
<adj>phrase> showing degree of importance. Something which is important in general is described as གལ་ཆེན་པོ་. Degrees of its importance are shown with: གལ་ཆུང་བ་, གལ་ཆེ་བ་, and གལ་ཆེ་ཤོས་ meaning of lesser and greater importance and most important respectively. The term གལ་ཆེ་ཆུང་ meaning "the more and less important..." is fairly common, especially when differentiating things e.g., གལ་…
འགལ་མཐུན་
Transliteration: 'gal mthun
<phrase> 1) Abbrev. of འགལ་བ་དང་མཐུན་པ་ contradiction and agreement. 2) Like ཆེ་ཆུང་ and other paired opposites, this can be a single term indicating the degree of contradiction or degree of agreement.
བོངས་
Transliteration: bongs
<noun> The "size" of something in the sense of its overall size; its largeness or bulk. Often used in reference to a person's body but can be used for other things, too. Note that the term refers to the overall size not to the height. E.g., [TC] ལུས་བོངས་ཆེ་ཆུང་སྙོམས་པོ། "a body of average size" meaning a person of average build, of average height and weight.
དབྲི་བསྣན་
Transliteration: dbri bsnan
<phrase> "Addition / substraction" see དབྲི་བ་ and བསྣན་པ་ q.v. E.g., འཁོར་འདས་ཀུན་ལ་དབྲི་བསྣན་དང་ཆེ་ཆུང་མེད་པར་ཁྱབ་པ་ "covers samsara and nirvana without addition or subtraction, without growing larger or smaller".
བཟེ་རེ་
Transliteration: bze re
<noun> Meaning either 1) a relatively small amount of patience or ability to tolerate difficulty, or 2) no ability to tolerate difficulty at all, a total lack of patience. E.g., [TC] དཀའ་ཚེགས་དངོས་སུ་བྱུང་ན་བཟེ་རེ་ཆེ་ཆུང་ཧ་གོ་ཡོང་། "When difficulty actually happens, you will know the extent of someone's ability to tolerate difficulty".
བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཆེ་བཞི་ཆུང་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: bka' brgyud che bzhi chung brgyad
<enum> "The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Kagyu Schools". There are many lineages of the བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ Kagyu teaching, some from before Gampopa, some from Gampopa himself, and some appearing after Gampopa. The Four Greater and Eight Lesser Schools are sets of schools that appeared after Gampopa, coming from Gampopa's chief disciples. Thus the "Four Greater and Eight Lesser schools" is a formu…
དོ་གལ་
Transliteration: do gal
<noun> Something of importance, something which is a key point in some consideration. E.g., ལས་དོན་དོ་གལ་ཆེ་ཆུང་ལ་གཞིགས་ནས་སྔ་རྟིང་གི་གོ་རིམ་སྒྲིག་པ། "having determined the relative importance of the job, the appropriate preparations can first be made".
It is often used in relation to a major problem and in that case is "major problem" or, as in American current-day vernacular "major issue" …
མྱུར་བུལ་
Transliteration: myur bul
<noun> "Swiftness", "speed of travel", "rate of travel". One of the class of terms such as ཆེ་ཆུང་ q.v. in which two opposites are paired to indicate the degree. In this case, fast and slow pace are combined to indicate the relative speed at which something moves. E.g., [TYL] དེ་ལས། ལམ་ཁྱད་མྱུར་བུལ་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་ཤིང་ལྟ་དང་ཉི་ཟླའི་འགྲོས་ལྟ་བུ་ "from the perspective of speed, this special path c…