ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: nyi shu rtsa gcig
<noun> The number "twenty-one".
ཁམས་གོང་མ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: khams gong ma nyi shu rtsa gcig
<phrase> The "twenty-one higher realms". Of the three realms that constitute existence, the འདོད་ཁམས་ is the lowest. The two realms above it i.e., གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ "form realm" and གཟུགས་མེད་ཀྱི་ཁམས་ "formless realm" are the two upper / higher realms. The two upper realms contain a total of twenty-one higher abodes; the seventeen realms of form plus the four formless realms.
སེམས་སྡེ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: sems sde nyi shu rtsa gcig
<phrase> "The Twenty-One (Tantras) of the Mind Section". Acc. to Longchenpa [POD] twenty-one major tantras of the སེམས་ཀྱི་སྡེ་ Mind section were brought to Tibet in three groups. There were five earlier translated tantras, thirteen later translated tantras, and three other major tantras. For the five earlier and thirteen later translated tantras, see སེམས་སྡེ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་. The remaining thre…
དགེ་བསྙེན་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: dge bsnyen nyi shu rtsa gcig
<phrase> "The twenty-one laymen". When Padmasaṃbhava subjugated the powerful mountain spirit called Nyenchen Thanglha at འདམ་སྙིང་གྲོངས་ངོས་ Damnying Drongo, Nyenchen Thanglha and the twenty-one non-humans in his retinue were not only bound under oath but were caused to take the Buddhist layman's vows, too; hence the name "laymen". The twenty consist of: four རྒྱལ་པོ་ Gyalpo spirits; four ས…
སྒྲོལ་མ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: sgrol ma nyi shu rtsa gcig
<phrase> "The Twenty-one Tārās". There are twenty-one manifestations of the deity སྒྲོལ་མ་ Tārā, each having its own name, attributes of dress and appearance, and particular qualities. The names of the twenty-one are: 1) མྱུར་དཔའ་མ་; 2) ཁྲོ་བ་དཀར་མ་; 3) གསེར་མདོག་ཅན་མ་; 4) གཙུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ་; 5) ཧཱུཾ་སྒྲོགས་མ་; 6) འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་མ་; 7) གཞན་འཇོམས་མ་; 8) བདུད་དག་འཇོམས་མ་; 9) དཀོན་མཆོག་…
སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་མདོ་རྒྱུད་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་
Transliteration: spyan ras gzigs kyi mdo rgyud nyi shu rtsa gcig
<phrase> "The twenty-one sutra tantras of Avalokiteśhvara". The tantras of སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་ Avalokiteśhvara consist of twenty-two main, individual texts, most of which are called sutras in this lower tantra system. At the command of Songtsen Gampo, the set was gathered by Thumi Sambhota when he went to India to study languages. Thumi brought them back to Tibet as commanded and, as so…
ལས་མཁན་
Transliteration: las mkhan
<noun> General word for someone who works for another person either for pay or as a helper. It usually has the connotation of the lowest level, the people who are beneath everyone else and just do the work. Like the "hired help" in English. 1) Sometimes used to mean the minions of Yama. 2) Sometimes used to mean the workers of hell who appear as the karmic visions produced by the actual bei…
སྒྲོལ་མ་
Transliteration: sgrol ma
<noun> 1) "Tārā". Translation of the Sanskrit "tāra". The name of a deity. Precisely stated, her name means "she who liberates or frees from" and thus her name is often translated as "Saviouress". Her name is derived from her particular quality that arose due to aspirations made in an earlier life in front of the Buddha of that time, that she would manifest in the future as a principle that…
ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: nyi shu rtsa gnyis
<noun> The number "twenty-two".
ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གསུམ་
Transliteration: nyi shu rtsa gsum
<noun> The number "twenty-three".
ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་ལྔ་
Transliteration: nyi shu rtsa lnga
<noun> The number "twenty-five".
ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་དགུ་
Transliteration: nyi shu rtsa dgu
<noun> The number "twenty-nine".
ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བཞི་
Transliteration: nyi shu rtsa bzhi
<noun> The number "twenty-four".
གནས་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བཞི་
Transliteration: gnas nyi shu rtsa bzhi
<phrase> "Twenty-four sacred places".
ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: nyi shu rtsa drug
<noun> The number "twenty-six".
ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བདུན་
Transliteration: nyi shu rtsa bdun
<noun> The number "twenty-seven".
