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ལག་རྩལ་
Transliteration: lag rtsal
<noun> "Skill", "dexterity" in some technique using the hands.

རྩལ་རོལ་པ་
Transliteration: rtsal rol pa
<phrase> "Liveliness play"; abbrev. of རིག་པའི་རྩལ་ལས་རོལ་པ་.

མཐུ་རྩལ་
Transliteration: mthu rtsal
<noun> "Powerful abilities". Meaning someone whose has a lot of power and can use it.

གཤོག་རྩལ་
Transliteration: gshog rtsal
<noun> "Ability to fly (with wings) / (winged) flying ability". E.g., [TC] རྒོད་ཕྲུག་ལ་གཤོག་རྩལ་རྒྱས་པ། "the baby vulture has a greater ability to fly".

རོལ་རྩལ་
Transliteration: rol rtsal
<phrase> "The play's liveliness". In Great Completion and Mahāmudrā, when speaking of the mind of rigpa, there is the rigpa itself, the liveliness of the rigpa, and the play coming from the liveliness. Here, the term རྩལ་ "liveliness" does not mean the liveliness of the rigpa, which is different from the play. Here, the term means the liveliness of the play itself, or its own capacity for m…

འཕོང་རྩལ་
Transliteration: 'phong rtsal
<noun> "The sport / art of archery" or "marksmanship". In modern times this can also refer to other sports that involve firing a weapon; any kind of "marksmanship".

བློ་རྩལ་
Transliteration: blo rtsal
<phrase> "Wits" or "intelligence"; often used in the sense of "keeping your wits about you", "keeping a clear (meaning intelligent) mind". In Tibetan dictionaries it is glossed as meaning ཤེས་རབ་ or prajñā.

ལུས་རྩལ་
Transliteration: lus rtsal
<noun> 1) "Exercise", "physical exercise". Any activity done to exercise the body either to keep it fit in general or to train it in some specific type of fitness. 2) [Modern] used in the context of schooling to indicate "physical culture / education / sport".

རིག་པའི་རྩལ་དབང་
Transliteration: rig pa'i rtsal dbang
<phrase> "Empowerment of the expressivity of rigpa". The very innermost empowerment of all the empowerments of the early translation tantra system. This is the empowerment for the practice of the ཐོད་རྒལ་ Direct Crossing. It empowers the practitioner so that he can practise the appearances that come off རིག་པ་ rigpa which are the རྩལ་ expressivity of the rigpa. These appearances are the app…

དཔའ་རྩལ་
Transliteration: dpa' rtsal
Abbrev. of ཡིད་ཀྱི་དཔའ་ and ལུས་ཀྱི་རྩལ་ "bravery of mind and ability of body". It means the ability to do things based on bravery of mind, what a brave person does because of their mind of bravery and their physical ability to put that into effect. It is not "bravery" or "courage" as a mental state only. E.g., "acts of bravery" will see what this term refers to actually being manifested. There i…