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རྩིང་པོ་
Transliteration: rtsing po
<adj> This term carries several connotations but the basic meaning is something that is not fine or finely done throughout. It has the connotations coarse, rough, harsh, crude, and in some context clumsy. E.g., རྩམ་པ་རྩིང་པོ་ "gritty tsampa" where the meaning is that the tsampa has not been reduced to an even, fine powder throughout but so has coarse pieces in it. E.g., གཤིས་རྒྱུད་རྩིང་པོ་

རྩམ་རྩིང་
Transliteration: rtsam rtsing
<phrase> "Gritty tsampa", tsampa that has not been properly ground and has lots of small, hard pieces in it.

རིང་པོ་
Transliteration: ring po
<adj><adv> 1) "Long" in the sense of distance or time. Hence also either "far / distant" or "tall". E.g., ཐག་རིང་པོ་ "long way", "distant"; གཟུགས་པོ་རིང་པོ་ "(a) tall (person)", "tall-bodied"; དུས་ཡུན་རིང་པོ་ "a long time". The comparative form is རིང་བ་ q.v. The opp. is ཐུང་ཐུང་ "short (time and distance)" q.v. and ཉེ་པོ་ "close (distance)". 2) "Long". Translation of the Sanskrit "dī…

རྩུབ་པོ་
Transliteration: rtsub po
I. <adj> 1) "Coarse", "rough", "harsh". Opp. of འཇམ་པོ་ q.v. E.g., ལམ་རྩུབ་པོ་ནས་ཡོངས་པ་ཡིན། "the road we came over was rough". 2) "Rough", one of the འབྱུང་འགྱུར་གྱི་རེག་བྱ་བདུན་ "the seven tangibles of touch" q.v.
II. <adj> "Rough", "harsh", "abusive" in terms of mind and relationship others. Opp. of འཇམ་པོ་ q.v.

རྩོད་པ་པོ་
Transliteration: rtsod pa po
<noun> A person who argues. This always refers to the person who initiates a debate, argument, legal complaint, etc. 1) In the terminology of debate and logical argument, it is the person who initiates the debate or argument. The person who replies to the person putting up the initial argument is called དམ་བཅའ་བ་ the one who takes up and holds to a certain position in face of the initiator …