རྣམ་བཤད་མུ་ཏིག་ཕྲེང་མཛེས་
Transliteration: rnam bshad mu tig phreng mdzes
"The Thorough Explanation called the Beautiful Pearl Necklace". Abbrev. of the name of a famous text on Tibetan grammar; see the common abbrev. མུ་ཏིག་ཕྲེང་མཛེས་ "The Beautiful Pearl Necklace".
རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པའི་རིག་པ་
Transliteration: rnam par bshad pa'i rig pa
<noun> "vyākhyāyuktī". Translation of the Sanskrit "vyākhyāyuktī". One of the པྲ་ཀ་ར་ཎ་སྡེ་བརྒྱད་ "Eight Prakaraṇa" of Vasubandhu q.v.
རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་
Transliteration: rnam par bshad pa
I. <verb> Past of རྣམ་པར་འཆད་པ་ q.v.
II. <gerundial>phrase> and <noun> The noun form means "Thorough (or Complete) Explanation" and is also written རྣམ་བཤད་. Translation of the Sanskrit "vivaraṇa". The name of a particular type of commentarial text common in the Indian tradition and Tibetan tradition following it. It is a "thorough explanation" which goes through all of the de…
ལྕང་རྙིད་
Transliteration: lcang rnyid
<noun> One of several names for "cotton" meaning cotton cloth. E.g., འདུལ་བའི་གླེང་འབུམ་གྱི་མེད་བརྡའི་རྣམ་བཤད་ལས། ཤིང་བལ་ནི་རས་བལ་ལའང་བཤད་ངོ་།
སྤྱིར་བཤད་པ་
Transliteration: spyir bshad pa
I. <verb> v.t. past form of སྤྱིར་འཆད་པ་. "To give a general explanation", "to explain in general" where general has the particular meaning of overall hence "overall explanation".
II. <gerundial>phrase> and <phrase> 1) One of a range of terms used to indicate a certain level or type of presentation of a topic; see also རྒྱས་པར་བཤད་པ་ "extensive explanation". 2) Tibetan and Ind…
གསུང་དབྱངས་ཡན་ལག་ལྔ་
Transliteration: gsung dbyangs yan lag lnga
<phrase> "The five branches of intonation of (enlightened) speech". [DGT] says the following is explained in རྣམ་བཤད་ complete explanations: 1) འབྲུག་སྒྲ་ལྟར་ཟབ་པ་ "it is profound like a dragon's roar"; 2) སྙན་ཞིང་འཇེབས་ལ་རྣ་བར་སྙན་པ་ "being pleasant and vibrant it is pleasing to the ear"; 3) ཡིད་དུ་འོང་ཞིང་དགའ་བར་བྱེད་པ་ "it brings joy and happiness"; 4) རྣམ་པར་གསལ་ཞིང་རྣམ་པར་རིག་པར་བྱེད་པ…
ས་སྡེ་ལྔ་
Transliteration: sa sde lnga
<name> "The Five (texts on the) Levels". The name given to the five texts which are treatises on the bhūmis or levels of a bodhisatva written by འཕགས་པ་ཐོགས་མེད་ Ārya Asaṅga. [DGT] gives their common abbrev's: 1) སའི་དངོས་གཞི་ "The Actual Level"; 2) གཞི་བསྡུ་བ་ "The Base Collector"; 3) རྣམ་གྲངས་བསྡུ་བ་ "The Enumerations Collector"; 4) རྣམ་པར་གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་པ་བསྡུ་བ་ "The Determinations Collector"…
མདོར་བསྟན་
Transliteration: mdor bstan
<phrase> "Synopsis" or "Brief presentation". One of a range of terms used to indicate a certain level or type of presentation of a topic; see also རྒྱས་པར་བཤད་པ་ "synopsis" and དོན་བསྡུ་བ་ "summary". The མདོར་བསྟན་ is the synopsis given at the beginning of the presentation of a subject; it shows the very essence of the material to be presented. The term is often used as a heading and in tha…
ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་བཅུ་
Transliteration: chos kyi don bcu
<noun> "The ten meanings of (the word) dharma". The ancient Indian term "dharma" is described in ancient Indian sources as having ten distinct meanings as follows.
I. One commonly used definition is obtained from Vasubandhu's རྣམ་བཤད་རིག་པ་ "vyākhyāyuktī" where it gives them as: 1) ཤེས་བྱ་ phenomena; 2) ལམ་ path; 3) མྱ་ངན་འདས་པ་ "nirvāṇa; 4) ཡིད་ཀྱི་ཡུལ་ "mental object"; 5) བསོད་ནམས་ "merit"…
རྒྱས་པར་བཤད་པ་
Transliteration: rgyas par bshad pa
I. <verb> v.t. past tense of རྒྱས་པར་འཆད་པ་. "To have made / given an extensive explanation" / detailed discussion" , "to have explained extensively", "to have explained in detail", "to have discussed in detail".
II. <gerundial>phrase> per the verb "extensive explanation", "detailed explanation", "detailed discussion". The true noun form is རྒྱས་བཤད་ q.v.
1) In general, an explanatio…
མན་ཤེལ་
Transliteration: man shel
<noun> "Lens Crystal" or "fire crystal (which would be the equivalent of "magnifying glass" in English)" but note that there are many types of crystal. Some Tibetan sources give it as ཆུ་ཤེལ་ q.v. but that simply means that it belongs to the general class of clear crystal minerals. The [DCM] gives more information: མེ་ཤེལ་གྱི་མིང་སྟེ། <<འདུལ་བའི་གླེང་འབུམ་གྱི་མིང་བརྡའི་རྣམ་བཤད་>>…
པྲ་ཀ་ར་ཎ་སྡེ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: pra ka ra Na sde brgyad
<enum> "The Eight Prakaraṇa". The Indian Buddhist master སློབ་དཔོན་དབྱིག་གཉེན་ Āchārya Vasubandhu, at the urging of his brother ཐོགས་མེད་ Asaṅga, wrote eight major texts on Buddhist philosophy called the "Eight Prakaraṇa of Āchārya Vasubandhu". They are [JKE]: 1) མདོ་སྡེ་རྒྱན་གྱི་བཤད་པ་ Sūtrālaṇkāra-bhāsya; 2) དབུས་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ Madhyānta-vibhanga-ṭika; 3) ཆོས་དང་ཆོས་ཉིད་…
རྩ་བཤད་
Transliteration: rtsa bshad
<phrase> 1) "Explanation of the Root"; an abbrev. name for commentaries which explain a root text. 2) Abbrev. meaning "Root (text) and explanation" i.e., root texts and their commentaries.
སི་ཏུའི་འགྲེལ་ཆེན་
Transliteration: si tu'i 'grel chen
<noun> "Situ's Great Commentary". The most common way of referring to the great commentary on grammar composed by བསྟན་པའི་ཉིན་བྱེད་ Tenpa'i Nyinje the eighth Situ Rinpoche which is called in full ཡུལ་གངས་ཅན་པའི་བརྡ་ཡང་དག་པར་སྦྱོར་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་བྱེ་བྲག་སུམ་ཅུ་པ་དང་རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པའི་གཞུང་གི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་མཁས་པའི་མགུལ་རྒྱན་མུ་ཏིག་ཕྲེང་མཛེས་ཤེས་བྱ་བ་ "A Thorough Explanation of the Particula…
རྣམ་བཀྲ་
Transliteration: rnam bkra
Abbrev. of རྣམ་པར་བཀྲ་བ་.
རྣམ་བཞག་
Transliteration: rnam bzhag
<noun> form of རྣམ་པར་བཞག་པ་. This term means the overall system of classifications and definitions used in any given system of tenets. In use, it often means the "presentation" of a tenet system.
