ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་
Transliteration: chos rgyal khri ral pa can
<phrase> "The Dharma King Tri Ralpachan". A common epithet for the early Tibetan King ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་ Trisong Deutsen q.v. He and two other kings of his family line were regarded as the great ones when it came to aiding the སྔ་དར་ initial spread of the Buddha's dharma in Tibet hence they were called ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ dharma kings. See under ཆོས་རྒྱལ་མེས་དབོན་རྣམ་གསུམ་ "three ancestral dharma kings".
ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་
Transliteration: khri ral pa can
<noun> "(King) Tri Ralpachen". The name of one of the greatest Dharma kings of Tibet. His name lit. means "the throne-holder with the dread locks" which he received because of keeping very long hair. He was the grandson of the great Dharma King ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen and the third son of ཁྲི་ལྡེ་སྲོང་བཙན་ King Tridey Songtsen. He was the 41st king of Tibet. Upon ascending the thr…
དམ་ཅན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་
Transliteration: dam can chos rgyal
<noun> "Samaya-bound Dharmarāja". The worldly protector གཤིན་རྗེ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ Yamarāja Dharmarāja who took a samaya oath to protect the dharma.
གངས་ཅན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་
Transliteration: gangs can chos rgyal
<phrase> "Dharmārāja of the snowy land" i.e., a dharma king of Tibet. There were many dharma kings in Tibet but there were three particularly great ones; see ཆོས་རྒྱལ་མེས་དབོན་རྣམ་གསུམ་ "Three Ancestral Dharma Kings".
ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་
Transliteration: chos rgyal 'phags pa
<noun> "Chogyal Phakpa". A famous, early member of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is one of ས་སྐྱ་པ་དཀར་པོ་རྣམ་གསུམ་ "The Two Red Sakyas". His personal name was བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ "Lodro Gyaltsen". He is also commonly called འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་ "Protector of Beings, Chogyal Phagpa" and འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ Phagpa Lodro Gyaltsen. He was the nephew of Sakya Pandita an…
རལ་པ་ཅན་
Transliteration: ral pa can
<noun> 1) "Ralpachen". The given name of the third son of མུ་ཏིག་བཙན་པོ་ who ascended the throne on his father's death. See ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་ King Tri Ralpachen. 2) A reference to a person, animal, or thing that "having རལ་པ་ q.v." i.e., long hair. In the case of a human it can mean someone who has long hair that is plaited or tied up, e.g., like dread locks. The Tibetan king ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་ King R…
