མཁན་པ་
Transliteration: mkhan pa
<noun> A type of plant. [SCD] gives in its entirety:
I: Ferns of two species. The one growing in Tibet is called མཁན་དཀར་, or the white fern; the other species belonging to the Cis-Himalaya is called མཁན་ནག་ black fern: mkhan-pa is deemed useful in healing fresh cut wounds; it is also applied to swellings.
II: incense; frankincense: མཁན་པ་བ་ལུ་རྣམས་གཙོས་པའི་དྲི་ལྡན་གྱི་སྤོས་སྣ་ཚོགས་ the vario…
མཁན་པོ་
Transliteration: mkhan po
<noun> 1) Most generally, this term is also used simply to indicate a person who performs a particular activity or function, who has a particular role, usually at the head of other people e.g., as in the English, "master of ceremonies". 2) The Tibetan tradition also uses the word to indicate someone who is a fore-runner in a particular field of endeavour. It is often used to describe someon…
མུ་ཟི་སེར་པོ་
Transliteration: mu zi ser po
<noun> "Yellow sulphur"; the common form of sulphur.
མཁན་པོ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: mkhan po gnyis
<phrase> "The two Upādhyayas / Preceptors". There are two kinds of preceptor in the Buddhist monastic system. [DGT] gives as: 1) རབ་བྱུང་གི་མཁན་པོ་ "Ordination Upādhyaya" and 2) བསྙེན་རྫོགས་ཀྱི་མཁན་པོ་ "Approaching Completion Upādhyaya". They correspond to the preceptor who gives any of the ordination vows and the preceptor who gives the vows of fully-ordained monks and nuns respectively.
སེར་སྐྱ་པ་
Transliteration: ser skya pa
<phrase> "Follower(s) of Kapila". Kapila སེར་སྐྱ་ was an exponent of a philosophical tradition of ancient India called the གྲངས་ཅན་པ་ "Enumerator" q.v.
