THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
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བསྒྲག་ཡིག་
Transliteration: bsgrag yig
<noun> Any "literature for dissemination / distribution", "literature to be made public" e.g., "handouts", "flyers", "leaflets", etc.

བསྒོ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: bsgo yig
<noun> "Written orders". Any document that provides orders from a superior, government, etc.

བསྟོད་ཡིག་
Transliteration: bstod yig
<phrase> "Letter of praise" or "letter of commendation". A letter which contains praises or which commends.

བུ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: bu yig
<phrase> "Child writings". See the explanation under མ་ཡིག་ "mother writings". Generally, there are both “mother writings” and “child writings” in Quintessence Great Completion. The mother writings are the seventeen tantras and there are many child writings. There are five child writings for each of the seventeen tantras. Śhrī Singha, Mañjuśhrīimitra, Jñānasūtra, Vīmalamitra, and so on wrot…

བསྐུངས་ཡིག་
Transliteration: bskungs yig
<noun> "Shorthand". The name of a shorthand system of writing that exists in the Tibetan language. Also called བསྡུས་ཡིག་ "shorthand". It is not just abbreviation but a whole system of writing abbreviated words. In it, two or more intertshegs are written together in a new, shortened intertsheg. There are about one thousand of these shorthand forms in the language, though not all of them are…