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དབོ་ཟླ་བ་

Transliteration: dbo zla ba

<noun> The name of the fourth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the second ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month. 2) In Buddhism, in the original system for determining the month, which is the ancient Indian system defined in the འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ Vinaya sūtra, it is the month during which the star / constellation དབོ་ rises with the full moon. (That star / constella…

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དབོ་ཅན་

Transliteration: dbo can

<noun> "Having Phālgunī" i.e., a name for དབོ་ཟླ་བ་ the month of Phālgunī since in that month, the moon comes up with the constellation Phālgunī q.v.

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དབོ་

Transliteration: dbo

<noun> The name of a star, a corresponding constellation, and the associated lunar month. In Sanskrit, it is called "uttaraphālgunī". According to Western sources [MWS] it is "Beta Leonis". In the Indian system, it is the twelfth of the རྒྱུ་སྐར་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་ twenty-eight stars / constellations of the lunar zodiac q.v. This star constellation rises with the full moon on a certain month of…

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ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་

Transliteration: zla ba bcu gnyis

<noun> "The twelve months". This is an abbrev. of ཉི་སྐར་གྱི་དབང་དུ་བྱས་པའི་ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ meaning "the twelve months made from the standpoint of a particular star / constellations rising in conjunction with the full moon". This system of determining the twelve months is the system of ancient India that was set down in the Buddhist Vinaya as the system for determining the lunar date. The da…

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དབོ་བ་

Transliteration: dbo ba

<verb> Fut. of འབོ་བ་ q.v.

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ཟླ་བ་

Transliteration: zla ba

<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "candra". 1) The satellite of the earth, the "moon" which is given by Tibetans as one of the གཟའ་བརྒྱད་ eight planets and one of the གཟའ་བཅུ་ ten planets. 2) The term or its form ཟླ་བོ་ are used to indicate the idea of a "satellite" or "accompanying" body in general, just as in English we speak of other planets having one or more "moons" and just as those …

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དབྱར་ཟླ་ར་བ་

Transliteration: dbyar zla ra ba

<phrase> "The starting month (of the three months) of summer", the fourth month of the lunar calendar. See also དབྱར་ཟླ་འབྲིང་པོ་ and དབྱར་ཟླ་ཐ་ཆུང་.

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ཟླ་བོ་

Transliteration: zla bo

<noun> 1) That which goes together with and assists and having the two meanings of i) "companion" / "satellite" and ii) "assistant" / "helper". 2) [Non-Hon] for "spouse". [Hon] is སྐུ་ཟླ་. See also སྐྱེ་དམན་.

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དབྱུ་གུ་ཟླ་བ་

Transliteration: dbyu gu zla ba

<noun> "Month of the club". One of several names for ཐ་སྐར་ཟླ་བ་ q.v. because དབྱུ་གུ་ "club" is one of several names for the star ཐ་སྐར་ q.v.

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དབྱུག་པ་ཟླ་བ་

Transliteration: dbyug pa zla ba

Altern. form of དབྱུ་གུ་ཟླ་བ་ q.v.

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ལ་ཟླ་བ

Transliteration: la zla

Sometimes seen as a mis-spelling of one of the forms of ལ་ཟློ་བ་ q.v.

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དབྱར་ཟླ་

Transliteration: dbyar zla

<phrase> 1) "Summer months", which are the 4th, 5th, and 6th months of the ཧོར་ཟླ་ Tibetan lunar calendar. 2) "Summer moon"; the moon during the summer skies.

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དགུན་ཟླ་ར་བ་

Transliteration: dgun zla ra ba

<phrase> The starting month (of the three months) of winter, the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

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ཉ་དྲུག་ཟླ་བ་

Transliteration: nya drug zla ba

<phrase> "Month of the full moon with Pleiades". The name given to the month in which the ཉ་གང་ full moon rises with the constellation སྨིན་དྲུག་ "the Pleiades" q.v. This corresponds to the tenth lunar month in the Tibetan calendar.

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