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དྲྭ་མིག་
Transliteration: drva mig
<noun> 1) "Pigeon-holes". The name for a type of bookshelf that was common in Tibet. It consists of a series of pigeon holes made to the size of the cross-section of Tibetan texts. The texts would be put in lengthwise, one to a pigeon-hole. When viewed, it has the appearance of a latticework, with empty spaces, hence the name. 2) The name for the individual "cells" of a matrix or "eyes" of …
མིག་
Transliteration: mig
<noun> "The eye".
I. Meaning that which sees things. Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "cakṣhuḥ". [Hon] is སྤྱན་. This is used to refer both to the fleshy eye of a being which has the sense of sight and to a metaphoric eye as in ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་མིག་ "the eye of prajñā". In the latter case it comes to mean "intellect" or "intelligence" because that is the faculty through which one sees understandi…
མིག་དམར་
Transliteration: mig dmar
<noun> 1) The planet "Mars". Translation of the Sanskrit "aṇgāraka". One of the གཟའ་བརྒྱད་ eight planets and one of the གཟའ་བཅུ་ ten planets q.v. 2) Abbrev. of གཟའ་མིག་དམར་ the day of the week "Tuesday" (which corresponds to the planet Mars in the Indian and Tibetan systems). 3) [Mngon] Translation of the Sanskrit "raktakṣha". An epithet of the 58th year in a རབ་བྱུང་ 60 year cycle, the ཤིང…
ས་མིག་
Transliteration: sa mig
<noun> A "focal point" in geomancy, the point in the environment at which forces come together to produce good or bad geomantic situations. According to certain texts, the burial of a special geomantic vase at that location can prevent harmful effects that otherwise might be present due to bad geomantic location. Equivalent to ས་དམིགས་.
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…
ཉ་དྲྭ་
Transliteration: nya drva
<noun> "Fishing net"; net for catching fish.
ཀ་མིག་
Transliteration: ka mig
<phrase> "Pillar area". It was common in Tibet to measure the size of a building by stating the number of ཀ་བ་ pillars per room. This term means "the floor space provided per pillar supporting a room".