སྔགས་བཞི་
Transliteration: sngags bzhi
<phrase> "The four mantras". Secret mantra terminology. [AKR] gives that, in the Nyingma system, the four types of mantras for any one deity are: 1) རྩ་བའི་སྔགས་ root mantra also called the རྒྱུ་མ་ནོར་བ་རྩ་བའི་སྔགས་ unmistaken cause root mantra; 2) བསྐྱེད་པའི་སྔགས་ the visualization mantra; 3) བཟླས་པ་ལས་ཀྱི་སྔགས་ the recitation activity mantra; and 4) བསྐུལ་བ་ཕྲིན་ལས་ཀྱི་སྔགས་ the evocation…
སྔགས་ཀྱི་ཕྲེང་བ་
Transliteration: sngags kyi phreng ba
<phrase> "Mantra garland". In secret mantra, the string of syllables that make up a mantra written as a string one after the other. The mantra garland is freq. in a circle around a central seed syllable e.g., [BKM] ཐུགས་ཀར་ཟླ་སྟེང་ཧཱ་ཡིག་མཐར༔ སྔགས་ཀྱི་ཕྲེང་བས་བསྐོར་བ་ "a HĀ letter on top of a moon at the heart encircled at the rim by the mantra garland".
བཟླས་པ་ལས་ཀྱི་སྔགས་
Transliteration: bzlas pa las kyi sngags
<phrase> "The recitation activity mantra" of a deity. See སྔགས་བཞི་ "the four mantras".
ཕྲིན་ལས་
Transliteration: phrin las
<noun> Meaning "the activities issuing forth from / sent out by a great being, for others". 1) In reference to the "enlightened activity" or, in context, "buddha activity", of buddhas, gurus, and other spiritually-great beings. Here, it is similar in meaning also to མཛད་པ་ (noun form) the deeds done by such great beings, their activities q.v. 2) Used specifically to refer to the actions of …
ཀརྨ་ཕྲིན་ལས་
Transliteration: karma phrin las
<noun> "Karma Trinley" is the name of a line of incarnate lamas of the ཀརྨ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ Karma Kagyu Lineage q.v. They are recognized as great scholars of the lineage.
ཀརྨ་ཕྲིན་ལས་པ་
Transliteration: karma phrin las pa
<noun> "The man of enlightened activity". 1) The full name from which the name ཀརྨ་པ་ is derived. Referring to the Gyalwa Karmapa. 2) The name of a line of Kagyu tulkus who were renowned as great scholars.
ལས་ཀྱི་ས་པ་
Transliteration: las kyi sa pa
<phrase> "A karmic place" meaning a place which is ruled by the operation of karma. [TC] says "a place which has happened because of a great force of accumulated karma that ripens and is experienced accordingly". [RYD] gives "the karma of Earth's inhabitants" but that is not the meaning. This refers to being in a place, any place, which is there because one has been subject to the operation…
