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ཆེ་དགུ་

Transliteration: che dgu

Same as ཆེ་རྒུ་ q.v.

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ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཆེ་བ་དགུ་

Transliteration: phyag na rdo rje'i che ba dgu

<enum> "The nine greatnesses of Vajrapāṇi". [DGT] gives as ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཆེ་བ་བརྒྱད་ the eight greatnesses of Vajrapāṇi with འབེབས་པའི་ཆེ་བ་ added.

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གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་

Transliteration: gcan gzan che dgu

<phrase> "The nine great predatory beasts", "the nine great beasts of prey". A listing of nine of the fiercest and largest of the group of animals called གཅན་གཟན་ q.v. The nine are: 1) སེངྒེ་ lion; 2) སྟག་ tiger; 3) གཟིག་ leopard; 4) གུང་ gung; 5) སྤྱང་ཀི་ wolf; 6) སྤྲེའུ་ monkey; 7) ཝ་མོ་, fox; 8) དྲེད་མོང་ dremong; 9) དོམ་ bear.

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དོམ་

Transliteration: dom

<noun> The name of the animal, "bear". The bear is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v.

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གཟིག་

Transliteration: gzig

<noun> The name of the animal, "leopard". The leopard is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v.

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སྤྱང་ཀི་

Transliteration: spyang ki

<noun> The name of the animal, "wolf". The wolf is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v.

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ཝ་མོ་

Transliteration: wa mo

<noun> The name of the animal, "fox". The fox is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v.

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སྟག་

Transliteration: stag

<noun> The name of the animal, "tiger". 1) The tiger is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v. 2) "Tiger". The name of the first year in the astrological system of ལོ་སྐོར་བཅུ་གཉིས་ a cycle of twelve years where each year is named by an animal.

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གུང་

Transliteration: gung

<noun> 1) The name of the animal "Gung". The gung is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v. The gung is a beast of prey similar to but smaller than a leopard and indigenous to Tibet. Included as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་. [TC] says that "the animal is similar in shape to a tiger but has globular and circular patterns on its hide, and that its flesh is medicin…

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སྤྲེའུ་

Transliteration: spre'u

<noun> "Monkey". The general name for the species of animal, "monkey"; also called སྤྲེལ་ q.v. 1) The monkey is one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v. 2) [Mngon] Translation of the Sanskrit "plavaṅga". An epithet of the 41st year in a རབ་བྱུང་ 60 year cycle, the མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ "Female Fire Sheep Year".

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སེང་གེ་

Transliteration: seng ge

<noun> The name of the animal "lion". From the Sanskrit "siṃha". The transliteration is more properly written as སེངྒེ་. Other approximations to the Sanskrit of སིངྷ་, སིང་ཧ་, སེངྷ་ and the less-well written སེང་ཧ་ are also seen in Tibetan texts. 2) The lion is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ "nine great beasts of prey". 3) The lion is also one of the animals that is a throne support…

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དྲེད་མོང་

Transliteration: dred mong

<noun> "Dremong". The name of a small bear indigenous to the Northern areas of Tibet. The Dremong is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ nine great beasts of prey q.v.
The Dremong is well-known amongst Tibetans for its particularly brand of stupidity, a style of stupidity which has resulted in numerous Tibetan anecdotes and aphorisms. The Dremong preys particularly on marmots and a kind o…

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དགུ་

Transliteration: dgu

<noun> 1) The number "nine". Written as the numeral " ༩ ". 2) "Several". In English for a medium number of things we say "several", in Tibetan they literally say "nine-al". However, this often has the other sense of "various", e.g. in འདོད་དགུ་ the meaning could be "several desires" but is also freq. "whatever is desired" i.e., "(their or his or whatever) various desires".

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གསང་གེ་འཕྲུལ་པོ་ཆེ་

Transliteration: gsang ge 'phrul po che

<noun> "Sang Ge Thrulpoche". One of མ་སང་སྤུན་དགུ་ Nine Masang Brothers q.v.

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ཁ་ཆེ་ཨཱ་ནནྡ་

Transliteration: kha che a'a nanda

<noun> "Kashmiri Ānanda". One of the ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་རབ་དགུ་ nine best translators at the time of ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེའུ་བཙན་ King Trisong Deutsen.

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ས་དགུ་

Transliteration: sa dgu

<enum> [JKE] gives as: 1) རིགས་ཀྱི་ས་ ""; 2) བརྒྱད་པའི་ས་ ""; 3) མཐོང་བའི་ས་ ""; 4) སྲབ་པའི་ས་ ""; 5) འདོད་ཆགས་དང་བྲལ་བའི་ས་ ""; 6) བྱས་པ་རྟོགས་པའི་ས་ ""; 7) ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ས་ ""; 8) རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ས་ ""; 9) བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས་ "".

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དགུ་པ་

Transliteration: dgu pa

<adj> The "ninth" one.

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ང་དགུ་

Transliteration: nga dgu

<noun> "Fifty-nine". Standard abbrev. of ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་དགུ་ q.v.

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དགུ་བ་

Transliteration: dgu ba

<verb> v.i. དགུ་བ་/ དགུ་བ་/ དགུ་བ་//. For a human "to bend forward deferentially or submissively" or for something physical "to bend over / be bowed forward" in a similar shape". The verb is not the same as གུག་པ་ which has just the general meaning of "bending". It is also not the same as འདུད་པ་ which is the general (and transitive) verb for one person to bow to another person or thing. Ra…

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ཆེ་

Transliteration: che

Abbrev. of ཆེ་བ་ q.v.

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ཞེ་དགུ་

Transliteration: zhe dgu

Standard abbrev. of བཞི་བཅུ་ཞེ་དགུ་ q.v.

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གྱ་དགུ་

Transliteration: gya dgu

Standard abbrev. of བརྒྱད་ཅུ་གྱ་དགུ་ q.v.

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དོན་དགུ་

Transliteration: don dgu

Standard abbrev. of བདུན་ཅུ་དོན་དགུ་ q.v.

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གར་དགུ་

Transliteration: gar dgu

<phrase> "The nine dances"; same as གར་གྱི་ཉམས་དགུ་ nine moods of dance q.v.

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དཔེ་དགུ་

Transliteration: dpe dgu

<enum> 1) Generally, "nine examples" or "nine similes". 2) Specifically, "the nine examples" in reference to the nine examples given in the རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Mahayanottaratantra text of how tathāgatagarbha is contained in the continuum of sentient beings.
[JKE] gives as (like): 1) པད་མའི་ནང་གི་སངས་རྒྱས་ "a buddha within a lotus"; 2) སྦྲང་རྩིའི་ནང་གི་སྦྲང་མ་ "a bee within a hive"; 3) སྤུན་པའི་ནང་གི…

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