དྲུག་བརྒྱ་
Transliteration: drug brgya
<noun> The number "six hundred".
དྲུག་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་
Transliteration: drug brgya tham pa
<noun> The number "six hundred (exactly)".
དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: dus kyi 'khor lo
<noun> "Wheel of Time". Translation of the Sanskrit "kālachakra". The full name དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ in Tibetan is freq. abbrev. to དུས་འཁོར་ q.v. for more entries.
Kālachakra is a system of tantra that was taught by the Buddha to the King of Shambhala. See under དུས་འཁོར་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ for a brief history.
The གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras categorize the tantras and yidam practices associate…
བརྒྱ་བྱིན་
Transliteration: brgya byin
<noun> "Kauśhika". Translation of the Sanskrit "kauśhika". 1) The name of the god who is the chief of the thirty-three gods who preside over the desire realm heaven called "the gods of the thirty-three". He is usually referred to by the longer name ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་ "Devendra Kauśhika" q.v. for more information. 2) The name of one of ཐུབ་པ་དྲུག་ Six Munis. See under the full name དབང་པ…
བར་དོ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: bar do drug
<enum> "The six bardos". In one stream of Nyingma teachings based on the Nyingma tantras, six bardos are taught, each as a change of state which can be used as part of the path of liberation. The six are the བར་དོ་རྣམ་བཞི་ four normally taught in Nyingma tantra q.v. plus the bardo of dreams and the bardo of meditation: 1) སྐྱེ་གནས་ཀྱི་བར་དོ་ the bardo of birthplace; 2) རྨི་ལམ་གྱི་བར་དོ་ of …
བརྒྱད་ཅུ་གྱ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: brgyad cu gya drug
<noun> The number "eighty-six".
དྲུག་ཅུ་རེ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: drug cu re brgyad
<noun> The number "sixty-eight".
དགུ་བརྒྱ་
Transliteration: dgu brgya
<noun> The number "nine hundred".
བཅུ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: bcu drug
<noun> The number "sixteen".
ཕྱག་རྒྱ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: phyag rgya drug
<phrase> "The six symbols" or "six symbolic ornaments". Another name for the རུས་པའི་རྒྱན་དྲུག་ six bone ornaments q.v. There are six of them and they are ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ "symbols" because they symbolize the six paramita. [NTC] translates as "six symbolic ornaments" which is euphonious and not wrong but can be wordy when rendering verse; note that the original term does not include a word for orna…
རྒྱུ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: rgyu drug
<noun> "The six types of cause". They are the six principal causes that produce the compounded phenomena of dependent-related arising. The six causes are brought into operation via the རྐྱེན་བཞི་ four conditions q.v. to produce འབྲས་བུ་ལྔ་ the five results q.v. See [SKD] for an explanation.
Acc. [KPC] they are: 1) བྱེད་པའི་རྒྱུ་ "the operative cause"; 2) ལྷན་ཅིག་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུ་ "the co-occur…
ཆེ་བ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: che ba drug
<enum> "The six greatnesses". The translations of the སྔ་འགྱུར་ early translations in Tibetan are held by the Nyingma tradition to be greater than the གསར་འགྱུར་ later translations in six ways. The are: 1) སྤྱན་འདྲེན་པའི་ཡོན་བདག་གི་ཆེ་བ་ "the greatness of the benefactors who caused them to come about"; 2) ཆོས་བསྒྱུར་བའི་གནས་ཀྱི་ཆེ་བ་ "the greatness of the location where the dharma was trans…
མ་དྲུག་བུ་
Transliteration: ma drug bu
<noun> [Mngon] "Son with six mothers". One name of the god ཀརྟི་ཀ་ "Kartika" q.v. for more information. The name also becomes a name for one constellation and one lunar month because of that.
བརྒྱད་བརྒྱ་
Transliteration: brgyad brgya
<noun> The number "eight hundred".