རྒྱུད་མང་
Transliteration: rgyud mang
<noun> "Stringed instrument". A general name for any stringed instrument, such as the པི་ཝཾ་ tamboura and similar instruments or the "sitar" or any of the many similar types of instrument found in India, Nepal, and Tibet.
སྒྲ་སྙན་
Transliteration: sgra snyan
<name> [Mngon] an ancient name for musical instruments which produce a "pleasing sound". In ancient times in India it referred specifically to a stringed instrument »pleasant sound, melodic, a guitar, stringed instrument, either the པི་ཝང་ Vina or རྒྱུད་མང་ other lute-like stringed instruments.
མ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: ma rgyud
<noun>
I. Abbrev. of ཨ་མའི་རིགས་རྒྱུད་ "mother's family line".
II. "Mother tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "matṛtantra". 1) The རྙིང་མ་ Nyingma system classifies the three inner tantras as being father, mother, and non-dual. In this, they classify ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་ Anuyoga as mother tantra; see མ་རྒྱུད་ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག་ Mother tantra, Anuyoga. 2) The གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras categorize the t…
རྒྱུ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: rgyu rgyud
<phrase> "Causal continuum". One of many names for the དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ "tathāgatagarbha", so-called because it is that རྒྱུད་ mental continuum that is the part of a sentient being's རྒྱུད་ mental continuum which is the རྒྱུ་ primary cause for the attainment of buddhahood.
མདོ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: mdo rgyud
<phrase> "Sūtra and tantra". The གཞུང་ scriptures of the Buddha's teachings as a whole are classed as being either མདོ་ sūtra or རྒྱུད་ tantra. Same meaning as མདོ་སྔགས་ q.v.
ཕ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: pha rgyud
I. <noun> Abbrev. of ཨ་ཕའི་རིགས་རྒྱུད་ "father's family line".
II. <noun> "Father tantra". Translation of the Sanskrit "patṛtantra". The གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation tantras categorize the tantras and yidam practices associated with the བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ anuttarayoga section into three different types: 1) མ་རྒྱུད་ "mother tantra"; 2) ཕ་རྒྱུད་ "father tantra"; and 3) གཉིས་མེད་རྒྱུད་…
རང་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: rang rgyud
I. <phrase> 1) "Own continuum" i.e., རང་སེམས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད་. One's own or a person's own mental continuum. 2) "One's own family line" i.e., རང་རང་གི་བུ་རྒྱུད་དམ་རིགས་རྒྱུད།. 3) "Autonomous" as the translation of the Sanskrit "svatantra". That which goes its own way, which functions independently of others.
II. <adj>phrase> See རང་རྒྱུད་པར་ q.v.
རྒྱུད་པ་
Transliteration: rgyud pa
I. <verb> v.t. བརྒྱུས་པ་/ རྒྱུད་པ་/ བརྒྱུ་བ་/ རྒྱུས་/. "To thread" i.e., to run a thread through the hole of something being threaded such as a rosary or needle. E.g., [TC] ཕྲེང་རྒྱུད་མཁན་གྱིས་གསེར་གྱི་སྐུད་པར་མུ་ཏིག་གི་ཕྲེང་རྡོག་རྣམས་རྒྱུ་བཞིན་འདུག "the rosary threader is threading pearl beads with gold thread"; ཁབ་མིག་ལ་སྐུད་པ་རྒྱུས་ཤིག "please thread the needle!".
Note the difference betw…
ནང་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: nang rgyud
<noun> "Inner tantras". The རྙིང་མའི་ལུགས་ Nyingmapa system has two levels of tantras, inner and ཕྱི་རྒྱུད་ outer tantras. The inner tantras are also called the higher tantras. They correspond to the seventh, eighth, and ninth vehicles of the ཐེག་པ་དགུ་ nine vehicles q.v. for explanation and see ནང་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་གསུམ་ "three sections of inner tantra" for listing.
ཕྱི་མ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: phyi ma rgyud
<phrase> "Subsequent tantra". 1) A tantra or group of tantras that come later, after the main tantras of a tantra cycle. See རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ "root tantra" for explanation. 2) "Later tantras". One of the སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱུད་བཞི་ four main divisions of the medical tantras q.v.
མན་ངག་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: man ngag rgyud
<phrase> "Upadeśha tantra". 1) A tantra or group of tantras that provide special མན་ངག་ q.v. core oral instruction to add to the meaning of the main tantras of the cycle. See རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ "root tantra" for explanation. 2) One of the སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱུད་བཞི་ four main divisions of the medical tantras q.v.
ངང་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: ngang rgyud
<noun> Lit. "state of mind", "quality of mind". Meaning the kind of disposition that a person has in their mindstream. Note that this does not mean innate disposition or character but the general disposition at this given time. E.g., this is glossed in [TC] as སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནམ་གཤིས་ཀ་ but that should not be understood as meaning the deeper character of a person that they carry over a lon…
ཉེ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: nye rgyud
<phrase> 1) Those people with whom one has close relationships. It is usually used for family that is, blood, relatives but not necessarily. 2) A place that is close by.
བུ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: bu rgyud
<phrase> "Children" meaning the children as a group of a particular set of parent. It can have the sense either of "the children" or the parents or the sense of the next generation, hence "offspring", "descendants". E.g., [TC] ཕ་མ་གཅིག་གི་བུ་རྒྱུད་སྣང་བཞིན། "like the offspring of one set of parents".
In dharma literature it can be the disciples who are the "descendants" or "offspring" of a t…
གཏམ་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: gtam rgyud
<noun> "Story", "tale, "legend". A story (not meaning a fiction but meaning any verbal description of some event) of something that has been handed down. E.g., [OTT] འདིའི་གཏམ་རྒྱུད་ཞལ་སྔ་ནས་འབྱུང་བ་ནི་འདི་ཡིན་ཏེ། "Here is the story of this (tantra) as it has been passed down person to person".
Note that this term carries no sense of true or not, it is just a verbal report that has been hand…
དོན་རྒྱུད་
Transliteration: don rgyud
<phrase> "Fact lineage". 1) Usually an abbrev. of དོན་དམ་པའི་རྒྱུད་ meaning a lineage which teaches the ultimate fact. 2) Possibly a reference to a རྒྱུད་ tantra which expresses the superfactual or ultimate meaning.
རྒྱུད་ཚོད་
Transliteration: rgyud tshod
<noun> "Mental capacity", "mental level". Each person has their own ability to understand something which depends on (lit.) "the extent of their mind-stream's (capacity to see clearly or to understand)". E.g., [ZGT] ལྟ་བ་ནི་པཱ་བྱེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་སྒྲ་ལས། བལྟ་པས་རྒྱུད་ཚོད་དང་མཐུན་པར་མཐོང་བའི་དོན་ཏེ། "View, coming from the term "pavye", meaning "by looking, to see according to mind's capacity"".
