ཤེས་པ་ཡུལ་ལ་འཆར་བ་
Transliteration: shes pa yul la 'char ba
<verb> see v.i. འཆར་བ་ for tense forms. This is the standard construction used for "an awareness shining forth in relation to an object".
འཆར་བ་
Transliteration: 'char ba
<verb> v.i. ཤར་བ་/ འཆར་བ་/ འཆར་བ་//. This verb has two connotations each of which is important to its meaning. It means first "to come up / arise / emerge" and secondly to be "visible / apparent / known". It is used for a variety of circumstances e.g., like the sun coming up in the morning and appearing, and like any occurrence of mind coming up and being apparent in mind. It has the exact …
གང་ཤར་
Transliteration: gang shar
<phrase> "Whatever shines forth" or "whatever appears" or "whatever dawns". In the context of mind, this cannot be translated as "whatever appears"; see འཆར་བ་ for explanation. In other contexts, it refers to whatever comes up.
རེ་རེ་གཉིས་གཉིས་
Transliteration: re re gnyis gnyis
"<phrase> One at a time, two at a time, and so on"; for example in རྣམ་རྟོག་འཆར་བ་རེ་རེ་གཉིས་གཉིས་གསུམ་གསུམ་བཞི་བཞི་, "discursive thought which arises one at a time, two in a row, three in a row, four in a row, and so on...".
འཆར་གཞི་
Transliteration: 'char gzhi
<noun> Abbrev. of འཆར་བའི་གཞི་.
I. "Plan". 1) "Plan", meaning the plan one has made in regard to something one will do. E.g., གུང་གསེང་འཆར་གཞི་ "plans for the holidays". 2) A "plan" that has been designed for accomplishing something, such as an "agenda" for a meeting or a "curriculum" for learning.
II. "Basis of shining forth". This is the general term for anything which is the basis for some…
ཕྲ་ལ་འཁྲིལ་
Transliteration: phra la 'khril
<adj>phrase> "Finely spun". Usually in reference to the third of the four aspects of the ཀ་ཏི་ཤེལ་གྱི་སྦུ་གུ་ཅན་ Kati crystal tube which is the དར་དཀར་སྣལ་མ་ White silk thread. It is described in [TSD] as དར་དཀར་སྣལ་མ་ཕྲ་ལ་འཁྲིལ་ནས་ཕྱིར་ཡུལ་འཆར་བ་ "the White silk thread which, being finely spun, causes the shining forth of external objects (from སྙིང་གའི་འོད་གསལ་ the luminosity at the he…
འཆར་སྒོ་
Transliteration: 'char sgo
<phrase> "Door of shining-forth" or "avenue through which ... shines forth". Meaning the various ways through which appearances dawn in mind.
This seems a very clunky translation, I'll admit, however, there is an important issue. The term འཆར་བ་ q.v. has the specific meaning of that which comes forth from mind into mind. It is not the equivalent of སྣང་བ་ which means all kinds of appearance,…
གོ་མ་འགག་པ་
Transliteration: go ma 'gag pa
I. <verb> v.i. see འགག་པ་ for tense forms. Part of the unique terminology of རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Completion teachings. It describes a specific aspect of the way that appearance shines forth from dharmatā. It is glossed in two ways in Tibetan: 1) འཆར་དུ་རུང་བ་འམ་འཆར་རྒྱུའི་གོ་སྐབས་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། "(the appearance) could shine forth or has the opportunity to shine forth"; and 2) འཆར་རྒྱུའི་གོ་འཕ…
འདིང་བ་
Transliteration: 'ding ba
<verb> v.t. བཏིང་བ་/ འདིང་བ་/ གཏིང་བ་/ ཐིང་/. Generally meaning, "to lay out". 1) For physical things, "to lay out" meaning "to spread and lay out" on the ground. E.g., "to lay out a mat on the ground"; "to spread / strew / scatter / sprinkle flowers out (on the ground) before a deity". E.g., [TC] ལམ་དུ་རྡོ་བཅལ་བཏིང་བ། "to spread / lay crushed rock on the road"; བཞུགས་གདན་འདིང་བ། "to spread…
ལམ་སང་
Transliteration: lam sang
<adv> "Immediate", "instant", "straight away"; in the sense of right now, straight away, not later or with anything else done first. E.g., from a terma on the Bardo: དེ་ནས་རླུང་ལོག་སྟེ་རྩ་གཡས་གཡོན་དུ་བྲོས་པས་བར་དོའི་སྣང་བ་ལམ་གྱིས་འཆར་བས༔
"then the winds reverse; (previously) they escaped into the right and left channels with the concomitant immediate appearances of the bardo". E.g., in coll.…
འཆའ་བ་
Transliteration: 'cha' ba
I. <verb> v.t. བཅས་པ་/ འཆའ་བ་/ བཅའ་བ་/ འཆོས་/. The basic meaning is "to position / set in place". 1) Meaning "to put (a system / custom) into effect; set (a system / custom / into place)". This means simply that someone determines that a particular way of doing something should be instituted and does then put it into effect as the system to be followed. E.g., at a school, a headmaster annou…
འཆལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'chal ba
<verb> v.i. འཆལ་བ་/ འཆལ་བ་/ འཆལ་བ་//. 1) The basic meaning is "to slip off and not keep in accord with what is right or, for example in the case of vowed conduct, what is proper. It means to be lax or loose in terms of personal behaviour or vowed conduct, to be un-disciplined. It imples fluctuation instead of steadiness and a consequent slipping away from the norm. It has the connotations o…
འཆར་ཀ་
Transliteration: 'char ka
<noun> "Udāyin". Translation of the Sanskrit [MVP] "udāyin". The name of a ཉན་ཐོས་ śhrāvaka follower of the Buddha who was a member of ཉེ་བའི་དྲུག་སྡེ་ "the close group of six" q.v.
འཆང་བ་
Transliteration: 'chang ba
I. <verb> v.t. བཅངས་པ་/ འཆང་བ་/ བཅང་བ་/ ཆོངས་/. Equivalent to the Sanskrit verb "dhṛ". The common form "dhara" is equivalent to "holding" e.g., in རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ meaning "vajra holding person". 1) "To hold onto" in the sense of being the bearer of. This can mean to physically hold onto something, hence "to bear", "to wield". It can also mean to hold onto something such as a tradition in the s…
འཆིང་བ་
Transliteration: 'ching ba
I. <verb> v.t. བཅིངས་པ་/ འཆིང་བ་/ བཅིང་བ་/ ཆིངས་/. "To bind". There are several verbs in Tibetan with the meaning of "tie or bind". E.g., དཀྲི་བ་ means to bind around, wrap around; འཁྱིག་པ་ has the general sense of using a tie to tie something; etc. This has the particular sense of fettering something, putting bonds on it. Hence "to bind", "to bind up", "to fetter", and "to put into bondage…
འཆུར་བ་
Transliteration: 'chur ba
<verb> 1) Altern. way of writing the pres. of བཅུར་བ་ q.v. 2) Acc. [TC] [Old] of སླེབས་པ་ q.v.
