གསལ་རིག་གི་བློ་
Transliteration: gsal rig gi blo
<phrase> "Rational mind which is clear and knowing". The quality of rational mind defined; see གསལ་ཞིང་རིག་པ་ q.v.
ལོག་ཤེས་
Transliteration: log shes
<phrase> "Wrong or mistaken consciousness / cognition". It is one of བློ་རིག་བདུན་ "the seven branches of (the subject of studying) the knowers of rational mind".
བཅད་ཤེས་
Transliteration: bcad shes
<noun> "Decisive cognizer". A mind which, subsequent to the initial, direct perception in perceptual sequence makes a decision about what the object of the perception is. It is one of བློ་རིག་བདུན་ "the seven branches of (the subject of studying) the knowers of rational mind".
སྣང་ལ་མ་ངེས་པ་
Transliteration: snang la ma nges pa
<noun> "Non-ascertainer of appearance". The name of an conscious cognizer which has an object of perception appear to it but in which the object is not ascertained. It is one of བློ་རིག་བདུན་ "the seven branches of (the subject of studying) the knowers of rational mind".
རྗེས་སུ་དཔག་པའི་ཚད་མ་
Transliteration: rjes su dpag pa'i tshad ma
<noun> "Inferential valid cognizer". Translation of the Sanskrit "anumaṇapramāṇa". One of ཚད་མ་གཉིས་ the two main kinds of valid cognizer. It is one of བློ་རིག་བདུན་ "the seven branches of (the subject of studying) the knowers of rational mind". See also དཔྱད་པ་གསུམ་ "the three analysers" of which inference is one.
མངོན་སུམ་གྱི་ཚད་མ་
Transliteration: mngon sum gyi tshad ma
<phrase> "Direct perception valid cognizer" / "direct valid cognizer". One of ཚད་མ་གཉིས་ the two main kinds of valid cognizers. There are མངོན་སུམ་གྱི་ཚད་མ་རྣམ་པ་བཞི་ four types of direct perception valid cognizer q.v. It is one of བློ་རིག་བདུན་ "the seven branches of (the subject of studying) the knowers of rational mind". See also དཔྱད་པ་གསུམ་ "the three analysers" of which direct percept…
འཇུག་ཡུལ་
Transliteration: 'jug yul
<noun> 1) "Engaged object" or "object / place that will be entered. i) In the study of བློ་རིག་ mind and its operation, this term means the specific object which a consciousness will engage e.g., the engaged object for an ear consciousness is the various kind of sounds that such a consciousness could hear. ii) Used in a more general way to indicate the object, whatever it is, that a sense c…
ཡིད་དཔྱོད་
Transliteration: yid dpyod
<noun> "Mental assumption". A particular type of mind which is one of བློ་རིག་བདུན་ "the seven branches of (the subject of studying) the knowers of rational mind" q.v. It refers to a mind which does not have a valid understanding of its object through direct experience or a correct inference but which decides that something is true for whatever reason. It is a mind that "assumes" something …
ཐེ་ཚོམ་
Transliteration: the tshom
<noun> "Doubt". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "vicikitsā". Doubt is defined as an ཉོན་མོངས་ཅན་ afflicted ཤེས་པ་ awareness that vacillates between two possibilities and hence is uncertain. It is one of the རྩ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་དྲུག་ six root afflictions and one of the ལྟ་མིན་ལྔ་ five without view. It is one of བློ་རིག་བདུན་ "the seven branches of (the subject of studying) the knowers of rat…
སྒྲིབ་པ་
Transliteration: sgrib pa
I. <verb> v.t. བསྒྲིབས་པ་/ སྒྲིབ་པ་/ བསྒྲིབ་པ་/ སྒྲིབས་/. Intransitive form is འགྲིབ་པ་ q.v. Meaning "to cover something so that it is obscured or concealed". Hence "to veil", "to obscure". E.g., [TC] ཉི་མ་སྤྲིན་པས་བསྒྲིབས་པ། "the sun was obscured by clouds"; བློ་རིག་སྒྲིབ་པ། "his intellect was obscured (meaning his intellect was not clear and brilliant)"; སྨུག་པ་འཐིབས་ནས་མིག་ལམ་སྒྲིབ་པ། "f…
གཞོལ་བ་
Transliteration: gzhol ba
I. <verb> v.t. གཞོལ་བ་/ གཞོལ་བ་/ གཞོལ་བ་/ གཞོལ་/. 1) Meaning "to be industrious", "to apply oneself diligently", "to be conscientious". E.g., [TC] ལས་ཀར་གཞོལ་བ། "to do the work diligently; སློབ་སྦྱོང་ལ་གཞོལ་བ། "diligent at studies". 2) Meaning specifically for the mind / intellect "to engage something and stay with it". E.g., [TC] བློ་རིག་ཡོད་དགུ་རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་གཞོལ་བ། "to engage in the variou…
བློ་བློང་
Transliteration: blo blong
<phrase> [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, ཡིད་རྨུགས་ "foggy minded" or རིག་པ་མི་གསལ་བ་ "unclear mind". Acc. [LGK] it was also written as བློང་བློང་ q.v. See also བློང་བ་ for further clarification.
བློ་རྩལ་
Transliteration: blo rtsal
<phrase> "Wits" or "intelligence"; often used in the sense of "keeping your wits about you", "keeping a clear (meaning intelligent) mind". In Tibetan dictionaries it is glossed as meaning ཤེས་རབ་ or prajñā.
བློ་རྩེ་
Transliteration: blo rtse
<noun> "Guiding idea", "opinion / idea informing …", etc. A particular way of thinking or an idea which is at the forefront of rational mind and which is guiding the way that one thinks. It will be translated in various ways according to the context but it is important to note that the translation should convey the sense of a guiding principle or force which is at the top of front of mind.
བློ་དམན་
Transliteration: blo dman
<phrase> "Lesser level of intelligence", "lesser mental capability", "lesser mental ability", and "inferior" could be substituted for "lesser". The term does not always mean intelligence per se but is also used to mean lesser capability of mind in general. E.g., [GMM] བློ་དམན་སྐྱེ་བོས་དོན་ལ་མི་གནས་ན། །རླུང་གི་གནད་བཟུང་རིག་པ་བཅུད་ལ་བོར། "those beings of lesser mental capability who cannot re…
རྣམ་རིག་
Transliteration: rnam rig
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "vijñāpti". 1) In the Mind Only system, this term is used to describe the consciousness in general of the five sense consciousness. It means the consciousness of the five senses in that such consciousness "རིག་པ་ knows the རྣམ་པ་ superficies" that present themselves to the sense doors of the five consciousnesses. E.g., [DCW] རྣམ་རིག་དང་། སྣང་བའི་རྣམ་པ་གང་བ…
རང་རིག་
Transliteration: rang rig
<noun> In this term, རིག་ refers to རིག་པ་ q.v.
I.1) "Self-knowing". Translation of the Sanskrit "svasaṃvedana" meaning རང་གིས་རང་ལ་རིག་པ་ reflexive knowledge i.e., a knowing that knows itself. i) In the སེམས་ཙམ་ Mind-only system of Buddhist philosophy, the term is very important. The system maintains that mind has the quality of being able to know itself. It asserts this because it maintain…
རིག་བྱེད་
Transliteration: rig byed
<noun> 1) "Veda". Translation of the Sanskrit "veda". The Vedas are the ancient pre-Buddhist scriptures of India; see རིག་བྱེད་བཞི་ "four Vedas". The Vedas are what the Hindu religion bases its religious system on. The Vedas are very important to the Brahmas who are the "priestly" caste of the four castes of ancient India. 2) Another name for the important star / constellation མེ་བཞི་ q.v.
