དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: dpal dus kyi 'khor lo
<phrase> "Glorious Kālachakra". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrī kālachakra". The epithet and name of the highest tantra དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ of the གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation system.
དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: dus kyi 'khor lo
<noun> "Wheel of Time". Translation of the Sanskrit "kālachakra". The full name དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ in Tibetan is freq. abbrev. to དུས་འཁོར་ q.v. for more entries.
Kālachakra is a system of tantra that was taught by the Buddha to the King of Shambhala. See under དུས་འཁོར་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ for a brief history.
The གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras categorize the tantras and yidam practices associate…
གཞན་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: gzhan dus kyi 'khor lo
<noun> "Other Kālachakra". The innermost of the three levels of དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ Kālachakra q.v. Note that it does not mean "alternative Kālachakra" according to the definitions given in the Kālachakra tantras themselves.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: chos kyi 'khor lo
I. <noun> "Dharma wheel", "wheel of Dharma", "wheel of the Doctrine". Translation of the Sanskrit "dharmachakra". 1) The name given to a main presentation of dharma by the Buddha. These presentations were not everyday events. They were events of cosmic proportions. Their importance is embodied in the Indian terminology ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་བསྐོར་བ་ "turning the wheel of Dharma" which indicates a…
དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་ཞལ་བཞི་
Transliteration: dus kyi 'khor lo'i zhal bzhi
<noun> "The four faces of Kālachakra". The deity Kālachakra has four heads and hence four faces. The four heads face one each in each of the four directions. For example, in this excerpt from the Kālachakra tantra quoted in [ZGT]:
༅། །ཡང་རྗེའི་ཞལ་ནས། ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱུད་ནི་ཤར་ནས་སླར་ཡང་རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྗེས་སུ་རིག་པ་ཉིད་ནི་ནུབ་ཀྱི་ཞལ་ལས་སོ། །གཡས་ཀྱི་ཞལ་ནས་རྒྱལ་བའི་བདག་པོས་རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྒྱུད་གསུངས། གཡོན་གྱི་ཞ…
ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: tshogs kyi 'khor lo
<noun> "Gaṇachakra" or "feast gathering". Translation of the Sanskrit "gaṇachakra". Secret mantra terminology regarding ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering. This refers to a gathering of tantrikas who have འཁོར་ལོ་ come together to perform specific rituals of the secret mantra Vajrayāna in a group context. In particular, since the practice involves the ཚོགས་ gathering of many substances of enjoyment…
ནོར་བུ་དབུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: nor bu dbus kyi 'khor lo
<noun>"The chakra at the centre of the jewel". The name of the sixth of the རྩ་འཁོར་ལོ་དྲུག་ six chakras mentioned in the tantras q.v.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་དང་པོ་
Transliteration: chos kyi 'khor lo dang po
<phrase> The buddha turned the wheel of dharma three times; see ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་རིམ་པ་གསུམ་ for an explanation. This term refers either to: 1) "the first / initial (turning of the) wheel of dharma" meaning the Buddha's first turning of the wheel of dharma or 2) "the first wheel of dharma" meaning the dharma teaching contained in the first turning of the wheel of dharma.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཐ་མ་
Transliteration: chos kyi 'khor lo tha ma
<phrase> The buddha turned the wheel of dharma three times; see ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་རིམ་པ་གསུམ་ for an explanation. This term refers either to: 1) "the last / final (turning of the) wheel of dharma" meaning the Buddha's third turning of the wheel of dharma or 2) "the last / final wheel of dharma" meaning the dharma teaching contained in the third turning of the wheel of dharma.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་བར་མ་
Transliteration: chos kyi 'khor lo bar ma
<phrase> The buddha turned the wheel of dharma three times; see ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་རིམ་པ་གསུམ་ for an explanation. This term refers either to: 1) "the middle (turning of the) wheel of dharma" meaning the Buddha's second turning of the wheel of dharma or 2) "the middle wheel of dharma" meaning the dharma teaching contained in the second turning of the wheel of dharma.
འཁོར་མ་དུས་
Transliteration: 'khor ma dus
<noun> Lit. "time of roundness" meaning the time of a woman being pregnant. See also འཁོར་མ་ q.v.
འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: 'khor lo
<noun> "Wheel". Translation of the Sanskrit "cakra". This word is used for many purposes, all with the connotation of something with a circular structure / appearance or a cyclic process. 1) "Wheel". The device which is a wheel. E.g., ཤིང་རྟའི་འཁོར་ལོ་ "chariot wheel". 2) The wheel is used to symbolize many things. E.g., the ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ "Dharma Wheel" or "dharmachakra" which is i) one …
ལོ་འཁོར་
Transliteration: lo 'khor
<phrase> "Year cycle", "year", "through one year", etc.; meaning a one year period. Also spelled ལོ་སྐོར་ q.v.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་བསྐོར་བ་
Transliteration: chos kyi 'khor lo bskor ba
I. <verb> Past form of ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་སྐོར་བ་ q.v.
II. <gerundial>phrase> and <phrase> "Turning of the dharmachakra", "Turning of the wheel of dharma". See ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ "wheel of dharma" for more. 1) The name given to the event of a Buddha teaching for the first time a principal section of dharma. This term has the significance of an event of cosmic proportions. 2) The na…
ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་སྐོར་བ་
Transliteration: chos kyi 'khor lo skor ba
<verb> v.t. see སྐོར་བ་ for tense forms. "To turn the wheel of dharma"; "to turn the dharma wheel".
སྙིང་ག་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: snying ga chos kyi 'khor lo
<noun> "The heart chakra of dharma". The name of the third of the རྩ་འཁོར་ལོ་དྲུག་ six chakras mentioned in the Buddhist tantras q.v. This is the chakra at the heart centre. In this case "dharma" does not mean the teaching of the Buddha as some have given but means "reality", as in dharmadhātu or dharmatā. It is commonly explained as having eight branch nāḍīs but tantras differ on the detai…
