དཀར་པོའི་ཆོས་
Transliteration: dkar po'i chos
"Positive qualities / dharmas". The opp. of ནག་པོའི་ཆོས་ q.v. Here the word ཆོས་ dharma has the specific meaning of 1) "quality / qualities" of mind or 2) spiritual approaches / practices. E.g., see དཀར་པོའི་ཆོས་བཞི་ the four positive dharmas. E.g., [KBC] འགྲོ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་དཀར་པོའི་ཆོས་རྣམས་འཕེལ་བར་བྱེད་པས་ཞིང་ལྟ་བུའོ། "(bodhicitta) is like a field because it increases good qualities in all senti…
དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པདྨ་དཀར་པོའི་མདོ་
Transliteration: dam pa'i chos padma dkar po'i mdo
<noun> "The Sūtra of the White Lotus of the Holy Dharma". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "saddharmapuṇḍarīkam". A sūtra translated by the Indian Preceptor སུ་རེནྡྲ་བོདྷི་ Surendrabodhi and the Tibetan Lotsāwa ཞང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ་ Zhang Yeshe De.
དཀར་པོའི་ཆོས་བཞི་
Transliteration: dkar po'i chos bzhi
"The four white (/ positive) dharmas". In the ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Vehicle these are explained as the four things that prevent the degeneration of བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ bodhicitta. 1) སྲོག་གམ་ཐ་ན་བཞད་གད་ཀྱི་ཕྱིར་ཡང་ཤེས་བཞིན་གྱི་རྫུན་མི་སྨྲ་བ་ "abandoning consciously telling lies at the cost of one's life or even for a joke"; 2) སེམས་ཅན་ལ་གཡོ་སྒྱུ་མེད་པར་བསམ་པ་དྲང་པོར་གནས་པ་ "helping sentient beings st…
དཀར་པོའི་ཆ་
Transliteration: dkar po'i cha
<phrase> Opp. of ནག་པོའི་ཆ་. 1) "The lightening phase" meaning the waxing phase of the moon. 2) "Positivity" meaning the དགེ་བ་ virtuous side of action as opposed to the non-virtuous one.
དཀར་པོའི་ལས་
Transliteration: dkar po'i las
1) "White karma" or "positive karma" as opposed to ནག་པོའི་ལས་ black karma. Same meaning as ལས་དགེ་བ་ i.e., virtuous karma. 2) "White actions / activities", "positive actions", "wholesome activity" in general opposed to ནག་པོའི་ལས་ black actions, etc.
ཨུག་ཆོས་དཀར་པོ་
Transliteration: aug chos dkar po
<noun> The name of an སྔོ་སྨན་ annual green herb used in medicine.
བོན་པོའི་ཆོས་
Transliteration: bon po'i chos
<phrase> "The Bonpo's dharma", "the Bonpo's teachings"; the teachings of the followers of the བོན་ Bon religion.
དམ་པའི་ཆོས་
Transliteration: dam pa'i chos
<phrase> "Holy Dharma", "True Dharma". Translation of the Sanskrit "saddharma". The original term means "the dharma which is true dharma and hence the good one". In ancient India there were many teachers, each with their own "dharma" that they taught. This term would be used by any teacher or follower in regard to their own dharma system, which they of course regarded as the "true" dharma o…
