བྲ་ཏི་དགེ་བཤེས་
Transliteration: bra ti dge bshes
<noun> "Drati Geshe". The name usually given to བྲ་ཏི་དགེ་བཤེས་རིན་ཆེན་དོན་གྲུབ་ "Drati geshe rinchen dondrub". Name of a great Tibetan grammarian of the 17th-18th century. These days the three great Tibetan grammarians of the past are spoken of in the formulation ཞྭ་རྣམ་བྲ་གསུམ་ "the three—Zhva, Nam, and Dra". He is the third of the three, the others being ཞྭ་ལུ་ལོཙྪ་བ་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་བཟང་པོ་ Zh…
བྲ་ཏི་སུམ་རྟགས་
Transliteration: bra ti sum rtags
<phrase> "The Thirty and Gender Signs of Drati". The name given to two grammar texts composed by the great grammarian བྲ་ཏི་དགེ་བཤེས་ Drati Geshe q.v. in the eighteenth century. The first was a commentary on སུམ་ཅུ་པ་ The Thirty called ཀུན་བཟང་དགོངས་གསལ་ "The Intent of the (second grammar of) Samantabhadra Made Clear" and the second a commentary on རྟགས་འཇུག་ Guide to Gender Signs called རྟ…
རྣམ་གླིང་པཎ་ཆེན་
Transliteration: rnam gling paN chen
<noun> "Namling Panchen". The name of a great Tibetan grammarian of the 17th century. These days, the three great Tibetan grammarians of the past are spoken of in the formulation ཞྭ་རྣམ་བྲ་གསུམ་ "the three—Zhva, Nam, and Dra". He is the second of the three, the others being ཞྭ་ལུ་ལོཙྪ་བ་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་བཟང་པོ་ Zhvalu Lotsawa and བྲ་ཏི་དགེ་བཤེས་ Drati Geshe.
དགེ་བཤེས་
Transliteration: dge bshes
<noun> "Virtuous Friend", "Spiritual Friend". Translation of the Sanskrit "kalyāṇamitra". Abbrev. of དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ q.v. for important notes. 1) Originally in Tibet, the term was the sanctioned translation of kalyāṇamitra that appeared in translations of Sanskrit texts. 2) Due to Atīśha and his way of teaching, the teachers of the Kadampa school were called དགེ་བཤེས་. The term in early …
དགེ་བཤེས་ཆུང་ཁག་
Transliteration: dge bshes chung khag
<phrase> "The lower levels of Geshe". The lowest two of the དགེ་བཤེས་ཀྱི་རིམ་པ་བཞི་ four ranks of the Geshe degree awarded in Gelugpa institutions of learning. They are དགེ་བཤེས་རིགས་རམ་པ་ Geshe Rigrampa (second lowest level) and དགེ་བཤེས་གླིང་གསེབ་ Geshe Lingseb (lowest level).
དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་
Transliteration: dge ba'i bshes gnyen
<noun> "Spiritual friend". Translation of the Sanskrit "kalyāṇamitra". Common abbrev. as དགེ་བཤེས་ also q.v. 1) A general term for a spiritual teacher who advises you and assists you. In the three vehicle teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, the Spiritual Friend is placed as the general name for a teacher in the Mahāyāna tradition, with the གནས་བརྟན་ "elder" being the general name for a teacher i…
