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ཕྱ་པ་ཆོས་སེང་
Transliteration: phya pa chos seng
Abbrev. of ཕྱ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ་, the name of a person who was a master of Sautrāntika-Madhyamaka.
ཕྱ་མ་ཕྱོ་
Transliteration: phya ma phyo
<phrase> "(Mind) going all over the place", in reference to mind being very unsteady and going from one thing to another.
ཕྱ་ར་
Transliteration: phya ra
<noun> [Dialect] another term for རེ་ལྡེ་ q.v. E.g., ཕྱ་རའི་སྟེང་དུ་འབྲུ་ཉི་མར་བསྐམས་པ། "dried the grain sitting on the chara cloth in the sun."
ཕྱ་ལེ་བ་
Transliteration: phya le ba
"Even". Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, མཉམ་པ་ "even" q.v.
I. <adj> To have a smooth or even surface, i.e., to have a surface free from undulations, free from extrusions and indents, a surface which is not "bumpy". Sometimes translated as "level" but note that it would be "level" in the sense of having a smooth…
ཕྱལ་
Transliteration: phyal
<noun> 1) [LGK] says that this is the [Hon] for ལྟོ་བ་ "belly", "abdomen" and has been mistaken as an བརྡ་རྙིང་ old sign of the Tibetan language because of not knowing that it is the honorific form. E.g., see ཕྱལ་ཕྱང་ངེ་བའི་དཔེ་བྱད་ q.v. 2) [Hon] It is specifically used as an honorific for a women's belly meaning her womb. 3) It is used as a contraction of the Sanskrit term translated into …
དབྱིབས་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: dbyibs kyi gzugs brgyad
<phrase> "The eight shapes of form". Abhidharma literature (e.g., the ཆོས་མངོན་མཛོད་ Abhidharmakoṣha) lays out དབྱིབས་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་ eight shapes of form. The shapes are listed as eightfold, in four sets of pairs: 1) གྲུ་བཞི་འམ་ལྷམ་པ་ "square or cubic"; 2) ཟླུམ་པོ་ "rounded / spherical"; 3) རིང་བ་ "longer"; 4) ཐུང་བ་ "shorter"; 5) ཕྱ་ལེ་བ་ even; 6) ཕྱ་ལེ་བ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ "uneven"; 7) མཐོ་བ་ "higher";…
གཟུགས་ཉེར་ལྔ་
Transliteration: gzugs nyer lnga
<enum> "The twenty-five (aspects of visible) form". One of the enumerations of visible forms in Buddhist texts gives it in twenty-five aspects. [JKE] gives as: 1) སྔོན་པོ་ "blue"; 2) སེར་པོ་ "yellow"; 3) དམར་པོ་ "red"; 4) དཀར་པོ་ "white"; 5) རིང་པོ་ "long"; 6) ཐུང་ངུ་ "short"; 7) ལྷག་པ་ "; 8) ཟླུམ་པོ་ "rounded"; 9) རྡུལ་ཕྲ་མོ་ "fine particles"; 10) རྡུལ་རགས་པ་ "coarse particles"; 11) མཐོ་བ་…
ཡུལ་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་
Transliteration: yul gzugs kyi rang bzhin
<phrase> "The nature of the form object". This is a listing of what the eye can see according to Abhidharma literature. The list of twenty types of visual form is intended as a thorough breakdown of the contents of གཟུགས་ visual form as the ཡུལ་ object of མིག་གི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་ the eye consciousness. The Abhidharmakoṣha lists sixteen components of visual form, eight of colour and eight of sha…
ཡ་བཏགས་
Transliteration: ya btags
<noun> "Sub-joined ya". See བཏགས་པ་ for a general discussion of sub-joined letters and see also ར་བཏགས་ sub-joined ra, ལ་བཏགས་ sub-joined ya, and ཝ་བཏགས་ sub-joined wa. When a ཡ་ ya consonant is sub-fixed to a མིང་གཞི་ name-base letter, the sub-joined letter itself and the combined letter both are called ཡ་བཏགས་; i.e., ཡ་བཏགས་ means both "sub-fixed ya" and "letter with ya sub-fix".
The sub-f…
ཕྱམ་
Transliteration: phyam
A basic intertsheg of the Tibetan language which Tibetan lexical sources gloss as having one of two meanings. 1) ལྕམ་ meaning a beam which supports something above it as in ལྕམ་དྲལ་ q.v. 2) ཁྱམས་ meaning a flat open area such as a yard or balcony.
The term is combined with various other མིང་ grammatical names or ཚིག་ཕྲད་ connectors to give words that contain its meaning e.g., ཕྱམ་ཆད་, ཕྱམ་གདལ་, ཕྱ…
ཕྱྭ་
Transliteration: phyva
<noun> This is a very old word in Tibetan language which conveys a sense of "luck" or "fortune" associated with any given thing, person, or circumstance. 1) The shamanistic Bon system personified the idea and made it into a sort of deity that controlled the fortunes of one's life called was called སྒམ་པོ་ཕྱྭ་; this is like the "lady luck" of the European system. In the personified form it h…