དྲང་སྲོང་རྒྱས་པ་
Transliteration: drang srong rgyas pa
<name> "Rishi Vyāsa". The name of a proponent of a particular set of religious tenets who lived in India during and after the time of the buddha.
དྲང་སྲོང་རྒྱས་པས་ཞུས་པ་
Transliteration: drang srong rgyas pas zhus pa
<noun> "The (Sūtra) Petitioned by Ṛiṣhi Vyāsa ". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "vyasa-paripṛcchā". Translated by the Indian Preceptor ཛི་ན་མི་ཏྲ་ Jinamitra and the Tibetan Lotsāwa ཞང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ་ Zhang Yeshe De and then revised and finalized by them.
དྲང་སྲོང་
Transliteration: drang srong
<noun> "Ṛiṣhi". Translation of the Sanskrit "ṛiṣhi" which is derived from the verb "ṛiṣh" which means to flow and which refers to the ṛiṣhi's ability to invoke the gods in sacred song. The Tibetan lit. means "someone who is straightforward and righteous because of their religious approach to life". This is sometimes translated with "sage", "hermit". However, the suggested translation is to …
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 …
དྲང་སྲོང་ཆེན་པོ་
Transliteration: drang srong chen po
<noun> "Great Rishi". Translation of the Sanskrit "mahāṛiṣhi". See དྲང་སྲོང་ "ṛiṣhi" for explanation of that term. 1) "A great ṛiṣhi" in general. 2) "The Great Ṛiṣhi" one of many སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ epithets of the buddha.
རྒྱས་པ་
Transliteration: rgyas pa
I. <verb> Past of v.i. རྒྱ་བ་.
II. <noun><adj><adv> Coming from the root idea of "extensive" it has the senses "extending to include everything" or "being replete because of containing everything being described". It is a widely-used term and a variety of English words correctly convey the meaning in various contexts. 1) In terms of literature, see རྒྱས་འབྲིང་བསྡུས་པ་སྙིང་པ…
དྲང་སྲོང་རྐང་མིག་
Transliteration: drang srong rkang mig
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "ṛiṣhi akṣhipāda". The name of an Indian ṛiṣhi of the second century C.E. He used reasoning to present his system and wrote many treatises using reasoning to uphold his particular view. His school was accordingly called the "Nyāya", meaning the school that uses reasoning. A religious tradition arose based on his philosophies. Followers were called རྐང་མིག་…
དྲང་སྲོང་ལྷ་མིག་ལྡན་པ་
Transliteration: drang srong lha mig ldan pa
<phrase> "The ṛiṣhis having the god’s eye"; a phrase used in the sutras to indicate bodhisatvas of attainment in general, the ones who had the capacity to teach and had the necessary extra-perceptions need to teach properly.
སངས་རྒྱས་པ་
Transliteration: sangs rgyas pa
I. <verb> The past of འཚང་རྒྱ་བ་ meaning that one has become a buddha. "To have become a buddha"; to have finished the process of awakening; to have become awakened. Note that this is not the same as "to have become enlightened" which is referred to with བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་པ་.
II. <noun> The name given to a person who holds to the system of the Buddha, "a Buddhist".
དྲང་སྲོང་སེར་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: drang srong ser skya
<noun> "Ṛiṣhi Kapila" was a master of the Hindu vedas and is regarded as one of the founders of the གྲངས་ཅན་ Sāṃkhya school of Hindu philosophy q.v. His life story is told in several places, including in the Bhagavata Purana. His followers were considered to be the builders of སེར་སྐྱའི་གནས་ "Kapilavastu" where the Buddha grew up.
