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འོ་སྐོལ་
Transliteration: 'o skol
<pers. pronoun> [Old] First person plural, with same meaning as རང་རེ་ and རང་ཅག་ "we", "us". E.g., འོ་སྐོལ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྟོན་པ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་ "our teacher, Śhākyamuni".

རང་
Transliteration: rang
I. <pers. pronoun> Used with or for persons or things to mean "-self / itself". E.g., ང་རང་། "I, myself"; ཁོ་རང་ཚོ་ "themselves"; ཁྱེད་རང་ "yourself"; རང་ཅག་ "us"; རང་གིས་རང་ཉིད་མེད་པར་བཟོ་བ། "for oneself to do away with oneself / to commit suicide".
II. <adj> Meaning དེ་ཁོ་ན་; used to show that something is just that; "itself / simply / just / exactly". E.g., དམར་པོ་རང་། "red itself /…

སྨས་པ་
Transliteration: smas pa
<noun> 1) [Old] for ཞེ་སྡང་. 2) It is used in meditation instructions to mean a deer who is being hunted down e.g., [GSB] རང་ཅག་ཤ་བ་སྨས་མ་བཞིན་དུ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་འབྲོས་དགོས་པ་ཡིན། "we should, like a deer being hunted down, fleed from all (such things)". Note that the meaning here is not "wounded". The meaning here is related to the old term སྨ་ and conveys the sense that the deer, etc., is in the …

སྟབས་
Transliteration: stabs
I. A basic intertsheg of the Tibetan language. In Tibetan, it is glossed as having the sense of ཐབས་ and ཚུལ་ q.v. It refers to the "way" or "style" or "manner" in which something is done or happens. It is combined with various other མིང་ grammatical names or ཚིག་ཕྲད་ connectors to give words that contain its meaning e.g., སྟབས་ཀ་ and སྟབས་ལེགས་ q.v.
II. <ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connector> 1) Placed…