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སྐྲུ་བ་
Transliteration: skru ba
<verb> v.t. བསྐྲུས་པ་/ སྐྲུ་བ་/ བསྐྲུ་བ་/ སྐྲུས་/.
I. "To beg" for alms, etc. E.g., ཟས་བསྐྲུས་ཏེ་འཚོ་བ། "made his living begging for food".
II. Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, 1) གཞན་ལ་ཐབས་ཀྱིས་འབྲིད་པ་ "to deceive another by some kind of craft or means", "to cheat by some means" and 2) གཅོད་པ་ "to cut into piec…

བསྐ་བ་
Transliteration: bska ba
<noun> Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, རོའི་ཁྱད་པར་ a particular taste and གར་བ་ q.v., i.e., the two meanings given below.
1) "Astringent". Translation of the Sanskrit "kaṣhāya". One of the རོ་དྲུག་ six flavours and also one of སྨན་གྱི་རོ་དྲུག་ the six flavours used in describing the quality of a medicinal subs…

བསྐལ་བ་
Transliteration: bskal ba
<verb> v.i. བསྐལ་བ་/ བསྐལ་བ་/ བསྐལ་བ་//. 1) Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, བར་ཆོད་པ་ and རྒྱང་རིང་བ་ i.e., "to be interrupted / cut off" and "distant". E.g., [TC] དུས་ཡུན་རིང་པོས་བསྐལ་བ། "held up for a long time"; བར་ཐག་རིང་པོས་བསྐལ་བ། "to be cut off by a long distance intervening"; དུས་དང་གནས་ཀྱིས་བསྐལ་བ། "c…

བསྐང་བ་
Transliteration: bskang ba
I. <verb> Past of v.t. form I སྐོང་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> "Restoration" or "appeasement". The name given to a Buddhist practice. This is the practice of repairing the disconnection from one's deities and protectors that has happened because of the practitioner's breach(es) of samaya. These breaches offend and / or result in disconnection from the deities and the protectors in particular. T…

བསྐུལ་བ་
Transliteration: bskul ba
I. <verb> Past and fut. of སྐུལ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) Abbrev. of བསྐུལ་བ་པོ་, meaning the agent that does the action of the verb སྐུལ་བ་ q.v. Note that the complement (the thing used by the agent to do the action) is the བསྐུལ་མ་ q.v. This term will be translated in different ways according to the action being done. See the verb སྐུལ་བ་ for more. 2) A general term for anything done to …

བསྐྱལ་བ་
Transliteration: bskyal ba
I. <verb> Past and fut. of སྐྱེལ་བ་ [TC].
II. <noun> In conjunction with other words to indicate "passage", "passenger". E.g., གྲུ་བསྐྱལ་བ་ "passenger ship / aeroplane".