བསྙེན་ཕུར་
Transliteration: bsnyen phur
<phrase> "Recitation phurpa". A phurpa used as a representation by secret mantra yogins who are doing the practice of the yidam རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་ Vajrakīlaya. See also ཕུར་པ་ phurpa.
[TUR] gives: "The best recitation phurpa is a terma phurpa. The second best recitation phurpa is གནམ་ལྕགས་ཕུར་པ་ a phurpa made from meteoric iron. A recitation phurpa made from ordinary metal or wood is perfectly a…
བསྙེན་བཀུར་
Transliteration: bsnyen bkur
<noun> "Service and honour" "respectful service" Translation of the Sanskrit "paryupāsana". This is one of several terms of respect from ancient India. It has the specific feature of service done for a person while being very respectful. The term is usually used for someone who attends a religious person, serving him as needed and being very respectful at the same time.
There is no specific …
བསྙེན་པ་
Transliteration: bsnyen pa
I. <verb> Past and fut. of སྙེན་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "sevā". 1) Having the general sense of coming close to somebody in order to gain accomplishment due to the relationship. This is essentially the same idea as "apprenticeship". A student comes and stays with the teacher. By coming closer to the teacher, the teacher can help the student to progress. 2) "Approa…
དགེ་བསྙེན་
Transliteration: dge bsnyen
<noun> "Layman". Translation of the Sanskrit "upāsaka". Note that the female is དགེ་བསྙེན་མ་ upāsika.
1) In the approach of the Lesser Vehicle of Buddhism, there are སོ་སོར་ཐར་པའི་རིགས་བདུན་ seven different types of person who follow the system of accepting personal vows as a way of following the path. The first levels are those of the layman, and laywoman. The term here is the male of the t…
བསྒྲལ་ཕུར་
Transliteration: bsgral phur
<noun> "Liberation phurpa". Secret mantra terminology; the liberation phurpa is the phurpa used to stab and kill the dough effigy in the བསྒྲལ་མཆོད་ "liberation offering" q.v. It is also called the ལས་ཕུར་ activity phurpa and the གདབ་ཕུར་ stabbing phurpa. See also ཕུར་པ་ phurba.
བསྙེན་ཡིག་
Transliteration: bsnyen yig
<phrase> "Approach Manual" meaning written manuals for the practice of བསྙེན་པ་ approach of (བསྙེན་སྒྲུབ་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་ the four aspects of approach and accomplishment) e.g., in the title of a text ལྷོ་འབྲུག་གི་བསྙེན་ཡིག་སྣ་ཚོགས། "Various Approach Manuals of the Southern Drukpa (Kagyu)".
བསྙེན་གནས་
Transliteration: bsnyen gnas
<noun> The name of the special set of vows taken for one day only by householders in the Buddhist tradition. These vows are not the same as and should not be confused with the བསྙུང་གནས་ fasting vows that include a fasting practice on top of these vows.
There are eight vows. They are the five vows of a lay person with the sexual misconduct vow being turned into chastity. There are three vows…
བསྙེན་སྲིང་
Transliteration: bsnyen sring
<adj> Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, ཉེ་རིང་ "close "q.v.
བསྙེན་པ་བཞི་
Transliteration: bsnyen pa bzhi
<enum> [JKE] gives as: 1) ལུས་ཀྱི་བསྙེན་པ་ ""; 2) གྲངས་ཀྱི་བསྙེན་པ་ ""; 3) མཚན་མའི་བསྙེན་པ་ ""; 4) སེམས་བརྟན་གྱི་བསྙེན་པ་ "".
