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རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གདམས་པའི་མདོ་
Transliteration: rgyal po la gdams pa'i mdo
<name> "Sūtra of Advice to a King". One of the Buddha's sūtras which shows the subject of impermanence. It consists of 160 śhlokas and is a chapter of the རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Drum Sūtra. It was translated into Tibetan by དཔལ་གྱི་ལྷུན་པོ་ and དཔལ་བརྩེགས་.

རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་
Transliteration: rnga bo che chen po'i mdo
<noun> "The Great Drum Sūtra". Full name in Sanskrit "ārya mahābherihārakaparivarta nāma Mahāyāna sūtra". Name of a sūtra from the Mahāyāna sūtra section; and in Tibetan, འཕགས་པ་རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལེའུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མདོ་. Translated by the Indian preceptor བིདྱཱ་ཀ་ར་པྲ་བྷ་ Vidyākaraprabha and the Tibetan lotsāwa བནྡེ་དཔལ་གྱི་ལྷུན་པོ་ Bande Palgyi lhunpo, and revised and finalized by …

ལྷུན་པོ་
Transliteration: lhun po
<adj> An adjective usually used only for Mt. Meru and giving the sense of a "massive, imposing" Mount Meru. It translates the Sanskrit particle "su" prefixed before the name in "sumeru". Sometimes it is used like a noun as an abbreviation of the actual name ལྷུན་པོ་རི་རབ་ "Mt. Sumeru".

ལྷུན་གྱིས་
Transliteration: lhun gyis
<adv> "Spontaneously". Given that ལྷུན་ means the state or nature or own situation of something, this means that something occurs due to the thing itself involved in the action. This is usually translated these days as "spontaneously" though sometimes that misses some of the subtlety involved.