དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་
Transliteration: dpal ldan aa ti sha
<phrase> "Glorious Atīśha". One of many epithets of the great Indian master ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་ Atīśha q.v.
དཔལ་ལྡན་
Transliteration: dpal ldan
<adj> "Glorious". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrīmat". 1) Abbrev. of the phrase དཔལ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ q.v. for meanings. This form is freq. used as a man's name. See also དཔལ་ for more.
ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་
Transliteration: aa ti sha
<noun> "Atīśha". Translit. of the Sanskrit "atīśha". 1) Translated into Tibetan with ཕུལ་དུ་བྱུང་བ་ q.v. 2) [982-1054] Atīśha is the name of a great Indian Buddhist master who was born of the king of Sahor. By the end of the 10th century A.D., Buddhism in Tibet had been almost destroyed by the Tibetan King Langdarma. Therefore, in order to re-establish Buddhism in Tibet, the King of Ngari K…
དཔལ་དང་ལྡན་པ་
Transliteration: dpal dang ldan pa
<phrase> Translation from the Sanskrit "śhrīmat". Meaning "possessed of glory". Often abbrev. just to དཔལ་ལྡན་ q.v. 1) In general "glorious" or "splendid" as an expression of praise for a being who is full of virtues or has many good qualities, and similarly for things, that which has many good qualities, or which is majestic, grand, brilliant. 2) The name of དཔལ་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་ field q…
དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ་
Transliteration: dpal ldan lha mo
<phrase> "Glorious Goddess". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhrī devi". The name of the principal protective deity of Tibet.
