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བཀྲི་བ་
Transliteration: bkri ba
<verb> v.t. བཀྲིས་པ་/ བཀྲི་བ་/ བཀྲི་བ་/ བཀྲིས་/. Acc. [ULS] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, དྲང་བ་. [LGK] gives more information: it means, when written in new signs, དྲང་བ་ or འཁྲིད་པ་ or འཁྲིད་པ་ "to lead or guide". E.g., [TC] ལམ་བཟང་ལ་བཀྲི་བ། "to guide / lead along on the good path (of dharma, etc.)".
མ་སང་སྤུན་དགུ་
Transliteration: ma sang spun dgu
<phrase> "The Nine Masang Brothers". Acc. Tibetan legend, this was the seventh group of spirits who took possession of Tibet in archaic times. Their names are [HNL]: 1) གཉན་གཡའ་སྤང་སྐྱེས་ Nyenya Pangkye; 2) གར་ཏིང་ནམ་ཚོ་ Garting Namtsho; 3) གླེང་ལན་ལམ་ཚང་སྐྱེས་ Leng Len Lamtsang Kye; 4) རུ་ཐོ་གར་སྐྱེས་ Rutho Garkye; 5) ཤེ་དོ་ཀར་ཏིང་ནས་ Shedo Karting Ney; 6) མེ་པདྨ་སྐྱེས་ Me Padma Kye; 7) གས…
སྲོང་བ་
Transliteration: srong ba
<verb> v.t. བསྲངས་པ་/ སྲོང་བ་/ བསྲང་བ་/ སྲོངས་/. "To straighten", "to make straight". E.g., མདའ་དྲང་པོར་མ་བསྲངས་ན་འབེན་ལ་མི་ཐེབས། "if you haven't straightened the arrow, it won't hit the target"; རང་རྒྱུད་དྲང་པོར་སྲོང་བ། "straighten out your own mind"; ལུས་གནད་བསྲང་ཞིང་། "the body points are to be straightened and...".
ཡོར་བ་
Transliteration: yor ba
<verb> v.i. ཡོར་བ་/ ཡོར་བ་/ ཡོར་བ་//. The verb is cognate to ཡོ་བ་ q.v. The meaning is "to lean to one side", hence also "to tilt", "to list", and "to cant". In contexts where meaning is being spoken of "to drift from" or "to fall to one side". E.g., [TC] དོན་ངོ་མ་ཕར་ཚུར་ཡོར་ནས་བཤད་པ། "the explanation drifted either side of (and never really got to) the real meaning"; ཁང་པ་ཡོར་བ་ལ་འཇའ་བརྒྱབ…
དྲྭ་བ་
Transliteration: drva ba
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "jāla". Note that this term is freq. mis-spelled as དྲ་བ་ q.v. 1) i) The general name for anything that has a meshed, interwoven appearance. The word can refer to a web, mesh, grate, grating, lattice-work. E.g., used to describe a spider's web / net. ii) The name for a "matrix" of some kind. This meaning is often contained in tantric literature but has mor…
དྲི་བ་
Transliteration: dri ba
I. <verb> Fut. of v.t. འདྲི་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> "Question", the actual thing that is being asked about when one asks another འདྲི་བ་ for an explanation of something. E.g., ཁྱེད་རྣམས་ལ་དྲི་བ་ཡོད་དམ། "Do you have a question / questions?".
དྲོ་བ་
Transliteration: dro ba
I. <verb> v.i. དྲོས་པ་/ དྲོ་བ་/ དྲོ་བ་//. Meaning to be in a state of warmth due to having received heat, hence "to be warm / warmed up". E.g., [TC] ཆུ་གྲང་མོ་མེར་བསྲོས་ཏེ་དྲོས་པ། "the cold water was heated and warmed over the fire".
II. <noun> Same as དྲོ་པོ་ q.v.
དྲང་དོན་
Transliteration: drang don
<noun> "Provisional meaning" but see the following. Translation of the Sanskrit "neyārtha". One of a pair of terms; the other is ངེས་དོན་ definitive meaning q.v.
Provisional meaning refers to a statement whose meaning is not final. It is given with the thought of not exposing something fully but giving enough so that a person could be directed towards the ངེས་དོན་ definitive meaning. It has …
དྲང་པོ་
Transliteration: drang po
I. <adj> 1) "Honest" as opposed to deceitful. 2) "Fair", "just" as opposed to un-reasonable, unjust. 3) "Straightforward" or "frank" as opposed to not being less than straightforward.
II. <adj> "Straight" as opposed to ཀྱོག་ཀྱོག་ crooked, bent, distorted. E.g., ལུས་དྲང་པོ་ "straight body (in meditation)".
དྲང་སྲོང་ལྷུང་པ་
Transliteration: drang srong lhung pa
<noun> "Ṛiṣhis Dropping". The name in English of "Ṛiṣhipartana", one of the 36 sacred places of Buddhists in ancient India, which is a spot near the Deer Park in modern Sarnath, near Benares, where Buddha first preached the dharma. Jamgon Kongtrul in his ཤེས་བྱ་མཛོད་ Treasury of Knowledge mentions that the Buddha first turned the wheel of dharma in the area of Vārāṇasi, at Ṛishipartana, in …
དྲི་ང་བ་
Transliteration: dri nga ba
I. <noun> 1) "Bad smell". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "durgandhaḥ". One of དྲི་བཞི་ the four types of smell experienced by the nose according to Abhidharmakoṣha. 2) Used to indicate any kind of bad or unpleasant smell. Same meaning as དྲི་ངན་པ་ bad smell or དྲི་མི་ཞིམ་པ་ unpleasant smell. This is used to cover the whole range of possibilities of smell ranging from merely unpleasant to…
བག་དྲོ་བ་
Transliteration: bag dro ba
<noun><adj> For a person to be showing a cheerful state, to be radiating warmth and making a good atmosphere around, to be warm and jolly.