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དཔལ་མགོན་
Transliteration: dpal mgon
<phrase> "Glorious guardian". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrī nātha". Abbrev. of དཔལ་གྱི་མགོན་པོ་; see མགོན་པོ་ for important notes. 1) In general, an epithet for anyone who has great presence and is a wonderful source of refuge for others. E.g., a very good king who really looks after his people; a great spiritual master who effectively protects and nurtures many people, disciples, etc. …
ཤུགས་འགྲོ་
Transliteration: shugs 'gro
<noun> 1) [Mngon] An epithet of the animal དྲེའུ་ "ass". The American usage "mule" is similar in sense; it means an animal who has a lot of strength as it goes. 2) [Mngon] Occ. seen as an epithet of the classes of spiritual beings who travel with strength. E.g., from a Vajrayoginī sadhana རིགས་ལྔ་འབུམ་ཕྲག་ཡངས་པའི་མཁའ་འགྲོ་དང་༔ ཤུགས་འགྲོ་དཔའ་བོ་དམ་ཅན་ཆོས་སྲུང་ཚོགས༔ གིང་ལང་བརྟན་མ་གཙང་རིགས་དཔལ…
དཔལ་
Transliteration: dpal
Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrīḥ". 1) The original and the Tibetan following it has all of the connotations of "glory", "splendour", "excellence", "abundance", "wealth", "all goodness". Usually translated with "glory". This is a general term derived from ancient Indian usage that is used to indicate an abundance of some kind of excellence. In many cases, it translates simply as glory, but in so…
མགོན་པོ་
Transliteration: mgon po
<noun> "Guardian". Translation of the Sanskrit "nātha". The original Sanskrit has two main connotations: "guardian" and "lord". The original, Indian use had and still has the sense of a great person, an excellent person of power who overlooks those underneath and guards them, defends them from harm. For example, the English word "juggernaut" comes from jagan-nātha as an epithet of Viṣhṇu an…
མགོན་མེད་
Transliteration: mgon med
<adj>phrase> "Protectorless" meaning a person who has no-one who cares for them like a guardian would.
མགོན་ཁང་
Transliteration: mgon khang
<noun> "Guardian's temple". The specific room (usually one) in a monastery where the images of the wrathful protectors supplicated by that monastery were placed. Usually one monk would live in the rooms and do puja for the protectors all day, every day.