རྣ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: rna rgyan
<noun> Lit. "ear ornament"; "earring" of any kind.
རྣ་རྒྱན་ཅན་
Transliteration: rna rgyan can
<noun> [Mngon] "Ornamented ears" an epithet of the རྨ་བྱ་ peacock.
རྣ་རྒྱན་ཨ་ལོང་
Transliteration: rna rgyan aa long
<noun> "Earing". A large earing made of precious metals.
ཕྱང་ཕྲུལ་
Transliteration: phyang phrul
I. <noun> A general term for decorations that hangs down of something else (therefore it includes the old meaning given below). For example, the various types of སྐྱབས་ཤིང་ refuge and ཚོགས་ཤིང་ accumulation trees used in Vajra Vehicle practices, especially in the preliminaries, have these types of ornaments. It refers to individual ornaments that hang down, such as baubles, and also refers …
རྒྱན་ཆ་
Transliteration: rgyan cha
<noun> A general term for anything used for beautification of something else. E.g., ornamentation, adornment(s). Jewellery is one kind of རྒྱན་ཆ་.
རྒྱན་པ་
Transliteration: rgyan pa
<verb> v.t. བརྒྱན་པ་/ རྒྱན་པ་/ བརྒྱན་པ་/ རྒྱན་/. "To adorn" something or someone with things ornaments or jewellery for the sake of beautifying it. Hence also "to ornament", "to beautify", and "to decorate", "to bedeck". E.g., [TC] རྒྱན་ཆ་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་བརྒྱན་པ། "adorned with various ornaments"; རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན་གྱིས་བརྒྱན་པ། "adorned with jewelled ornaments" or "bedecked with ornaments of pr…
ཀ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: ka rgyan
<noun> "Pillar decoration / ornamentation". The name given to the decoration or decorative designs worked onto the outer surface of a ཀ་བ་ pillar q.v.
རྣ་རྒྱབ་
Transliteration: rna rgyab
<phrase> "Back of the ear".
ཞལ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: zhal rgyan
<noun> [Hon] poetic for ཁ་སྤུ་ "beard" or "moustache".
རྒྱན་པོ་
Transliteration: rgyan po
<noun> "A gambler" or "gambling". Gambling was most often done in Tibet in dice games, therefore, gambling in general is also referred to as playing dice. Also, རྒྱན་འགྱེད་པ་ "to gamble".
སྣ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sna rgyan
<noun> "Nose ornament"; general name for any of the many, various types of nose ornament worn by Asian people, usually women.
ཕྲ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: phra rgyan
<noun> "Jewellery" but specifically meaning ornaments that are inlaid with ཕྲ་ jewels q.v.
ཤོ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sho rgyan
<noun> "Dice wager"; the wager put down in a game of dice. Also see this meaning under རྒྱན་ "bet".
ཨུ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: au rgyan
<noun> Tibetan equivalent of the ཟ་ཧོར་ Sahor term "Uddiyāna". 1) The place called Uddiyāna. 2) In reference to Guru Padmasaṃbhava who was from Uddiyāna. 3) A common name for a person in Tibet.
རྣ་རྒྱུན་
Transliteration: rna rgyun
<noun> "Aural tradition"; a system of teachings passed on only orally.
ལིང་ལིང་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: ling ling rgyan
<noun> "Ling ling ornament". The name of one of the twenty-eight སྒྲའི་རྒྱན་ term ornaments defined in poetry. A ling ling ornament is specifically the type of term that has no specific meaning but just adds a ལིང་ལིང་ nice sound (like tinkling) to the words.
