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འཆམ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: 'cham yig
<noun> "Dance Manual". A འཆམ་ is a ritual dance, done according to a ritual that has been written down. The manual of the dance is the text that contains all of the details of the dance and the ritual itself.
འཆམ་འཆམ་
Transliteration: 'cham 'cham
<noun> "A stroll" meaning a walk taken here and there for enjoyment.
འཕུལ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: 'phul yig
<noun> "Fronting letter". The name given in grammar to any one of the five letters defined as སྔོན་འཇུག་ prefix letters after it has actually been written in place. It is so called because it fronts up to the མིང་གཞི་ name-base letter of a name, pushing into it from ahead. This is in contrast to the རྗེས་འཇུག་ suffix letters which come up to the name-base from behind and hence are known as …
འབུལ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: 'bul yig
<noun> A letter, written message, or note which is either 1) [Hon] to be sent or 2) in general, to be given. E.g., like in the English "this letter here, which I want you to give to...".
ཡིག་འབྲུ་
Transliteration: yig 'bru
<noun> 1) "Component letter(s)". In Tibetan grammar this term is used to indicate the individual letters making up a word. E.g., in བསྒོམ་ there are five component letters (བ་, ས་, ག་, ོ, and མ་). This term does NOT refer to the syllables of a word but to every letter in a word, pronounced or not. 2) "Seed syllable". In many visualization practices of meditation, a single letter is visualiz…
ཁ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: kha yig
<phrase> 1) "Letter ཁ་ kha" of the alphabet. 2) Lit. the words of the title or heading found on any text or other writing. Hence "title, heading" etc.
ཡིག་ཆ་
Transliteration: yig cha
<noun> 1) "Documents", "manuals", "texts", "(government or other official) records / documents". A general name for documentary literature of all kinds. 2) "Textbooks", "prescribed texts", "syllabus texts". A name specifically for the texts prescribed for use in a course of study in a monastic institution. E.g., ཤེར་ཕྱིན་ཡིག་ཆ་ "the (prescribed) texts for the study of prajñāpāramitā (in som…
མ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: ma yig
<noun> 1) "Master copy", "original document", etc. Abbrev. of མ་དཔེའི་ཡི་གེ་ meaning the original of a manuscript / text / document when a copy or new edition has been made from an original. The copy is called the བཤུས་ཡིག་. 2) Meaning the main text or writing when there are ཟུར་ཡིག་ ancillary texts or ཁ་སྐོང་ addenda to go with it. 3) "Mother writings". Generally, there are both "mother wr…