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ཞུགས་
Transliteration: zhugs
I. <verb> Imp. of v.i. འཇུག་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) [Hon] for མེ་ "fire", e.g., སྐུ་གདུང་ཞུགས་ལ་བཞུས་པ། "to cremate the corpse of an honoured person" (e.g. from [TC]).
II. <ཚིག་གྲོགས་ phrase assistive> which when prefixed to certain other མིང་ names—names connected with the burning of a fire—gives the [Hon] form. E.g., ཞུགས་ཤིང་ "(a great man's) firewood".
ཞུགས་པ་
Transliteration: zhugs pa
I. <verb> Past of v.i. འཇུག་པ་ q.v. 1) General meaning as listed under the present tense. 2) "Affixed". A technical term of grammar. The term is the specific term used to indicate that: i) a prefix or suffix (including re-suffix) letter has been put into position (affixed) onto a མིང་ grammatical name, e.g., ད་ affixed to ག་ gives གད་ "laugh"; ii) a མིང་མཐའ་ name-ending has been put onto (i…
ཞུན་མར་
Transliteration: zhun mar
<noun> 1) "The skin" that develops on milk when it is boiled. In Tibet, by boiling milk, the "skin" that formed would also collect all the hairs and muck that had been carried in the milk from the milking process. Thus, making the skin come was a way of cleaning the milk. 2) Any "lamp" made for illumination from any kind of oil or butter.
ཤན་ཞུགས་
Transliteration: shan zhugs
1) The adulteration, discolouration, or other fault of degradation that occurs when two things of unlike character are mixed together, for example gold is degraded when brass is mixed with it. 2) When a certain type of thing is degraded because of losing its type. 3) A term from the Vinaya used to indicate oxidation, rusting, or similar damage to the items allowed to a Buddhist monk.