ལྟ་སྒོམ་སྤྱོད་པ་
Transliteration: lta sgom spyod pa
<phrase> "View, meditation, and conduct". The overall teaching of the Buddhist path from a practical perspective can be summed up in three sections called གཞི་ལམ་འབྲས་བུ་ "ground, path, and fruition". The complete teaching of the path section is contained in a further three-fold division called "view, meditation, and, conduct".
ལ་ཟློ་བ་
Transliteration: la zlo ba
<verb> v.t. ལ་བཟླས་པ་/ ལ་ཟློ་བ་/ ལ་བཟླ་བ་/ ལ་ཟློས་/. [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant 1) མཐའ་འགེགས་པ་ "to cross over" or 2) ཐག་གཅོད་པ་ "to resolve / decide upon". The term is derived from the specific meaning of ཟློ་བ་ q.v. meaning to pass beyond, etc.
The literal meaning is "to have crossed to the other side of the pass" but it has …
ཡ་མ་བྲལ་བ་
Transliteration: ya ma bral ba
<phrase> Meaning that two or more ཡ་ items that belong together are མ་བྲལ་བ་ not taken as seen as or dealt with as two separate items but as the unified pair, etc. Although the phrase implies that the items concerned are དབྱེར་མེད་པ་ "inseparable", the wording used is not "inseparable"; this is a distinct phrase with its own wording and should be kept as such, e.g., ལྟ་བ་དང་། སྒོམ་པ། སྤྱོད་…
ལྟ་སྒོམ་སྤྱོད་འབྲས་བུ་
Transliteration: lta sgom spyod 'bras bu
<phrase> "View, meditation, conduct, and fruition". The complete Buddhist teaching of path is usually given either in terms of three-fold ལྟ་སྒོམ་སྤྱོད་ view, meditation, and conduct q.v. or it can be extended to included the fruition in the four-fold version mentioned here.
ལྟ་སྤྱོད་མཐུན་པ་
Transliteration: lta spyod mthun pa
<phrase> "Of like view and conduct" usually used in reference to other people whose view and way of conducting themselves is fitting with one's own view and conduct. E.g., ལྟ་སྤྱོད་མི་མཐུན་པའི་གྲོགས་མ་བསྟེན། "Do not associate with those whose view and conduct do not fit with your own".
སྤྱོད་པ་
Transliteration: spyod pa
I. <verb> v.t. སྤྱད་པ་/ སྤྱོད་པ་/ སྤྱད་པ་/ སྤྱོད་/. This commonly used verb has a variety of meanings that often do not go easily into English. A literal translation, while possible, often provides a very stilted version of the actual meaning.
1) Derived from the Sanskrit verb "car" which has the meaning of "coursing in" a particular activity. It comes to mean taking up and continuing to eng…
ས་སྤྱོད་པ་
Transliteration: sa spyod pa
<noun> In general, a person whose activity covers and rules over a particular area. 1) Epithet for a human king or ruler; see ས་སྤྱོད་ for examples. 2) Epithet for a non-human ruler, a powerful spirit or god of some kind who controls a certain territory, for example a ས་བདག་ q.v.
སྤྱོད་པ་ངན་པ་
Transliteration: spyod pa ngan pa
<noun> "Bad behaviour" or "bad conduct".
སྤྱོམ་པ་
Transliteration: spyom pa
<verb> v.t. སྤྱོམས་པ་/ སྤྱོམ་པ་/ སྤྱོམ་པ་/ སྤྱོམས་/. Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, ངོམ་པ་ or བདག་བསྟོད་ "to build one's self up in front of others", "to praise oneself". It means "to make oneself look better / to build oneself up in the eyes of others". E.g., ཡོན་ཏན་སློབ་སྦྱོང་བྱེད་པ་འདི་གཞན་ལ་སྤྱོམ་པའི་ཆེད་…
ལོངས་སུ་སྤྱོད་པ་
Transliteration: longs su spyod pa
I. <verb> v.t. see སྤྱོད་པ་ for tense forms. The meaning can be understood further from the definitions under the noun form ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ q.v. However, there are two basic meanings. 1) The term has the general sense of "taking something that one has and using it as a resource". 2) From that there is the meaning of using something that one has for one's enjoyment.
II. <gerundial>phrase>…
བཟོད་པ་སྒོམ་པ་
Transliteration: bzod pa sgom pa
I. <verb> v.t. see སྒོམ་པ་ for tense forms. Lit. "to practice patience" in the sense of being patient with whatever situation occurs. Hence "to practice of patience / tolerance / forbearance / restraint / personal restraint" according to the meaning of བཟོད་ on context. Note that this is the form used in Tibetan to give the same meaning as the more direct "to be patient / tolerant / forebea…
དོན་སྤྱོད་པ་
Transliteration: don spyod pa
I. <verb> v.t. see སྤྱོད་པ་ for tense forms. "To act in a meaningful way", to have personal conduct or behaviour which is meaningful, useful.
II. <phrase> 1) Generally, "acting meaningfully / usefully", "meaningful / useful conduct". 2) Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "arthacaryā". "Acting meaningfully", the third of བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་བཞི་ the four ways of attracting disciples.
རོ་སྙོམས་སྐོར་དྲུག་
Transliteration: ro snyoms skor drug
<enum> "The six cycles of equalization of taste". (See also རོ་སྙོམས་). The name given to a practice of the ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ Mahāmudrā tradition which is found only in the འབྲུག་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ Drukpa Kagyu lineage. The practice derives from Tillipa, Nāropa, and Tiphupa who gave it to Rechungpa. Rechungpa took it back from India to Nepal and buried it as treasure according to Tiphupa's instruc…
རྩིས་ཟིན་པ་
Transliteration: rtsis zin pa
I. <verb> v.i. see ཟིན་པ་ for tense forms. "To take something and make it count, to make it significant in one's life". E.g., when speaking of specific spiritual practices, it means not only to take them up but to make them count, to keep them in mind as important. E.g., བྱང་སེམས་རྩིས་ཟིན་དགོས་རེད། "it is necessary to take up bodhicitta".
This term can be quite hard to capture in English. It…
སྤྱོད་ལམ་
Transliteration: spyod lam
<noun> "Conduct", "behaviour". Translated from the Sanskrit "īryāpatha". A commonly used term in Buddhist literature. The term means more than just conduct or behaviour. It has the sense of "particular avenue of behaviour", which has no exact equivalent in English. E.g., see སྤྱོད་ལམ་རྣམ་པ་བཞི་ "four types of activities" meaning four specific ways that humans behave with their bodies.
ལ་དོར་བ་སྤྱོད་པ་
Transliteration: la dor ba spyod pa
<phrase> A phrase used in the teachings of Thorough Cut of Great Completion to describe the style of conduct (of view, meditation, and conduct) within that system. In all lesser levels of Buddhist teaching, conduct is seen as something to be perfected. In this system, conduct of that sort, which involves attaining a special state (referred to with ལ་ meaning mountain pass here) is དོར་བ་ ca…
རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་རྣམ་པ་བཅུ་
Transliteration: rgyud kyi rang bzhin rnam pa bcu
<phrase> "The ten types of nature of tantra". Tantra except for the very highest non-dual level uses rational mind to accomplish non-rational minded wisdom. The ten natures are ten different aspects of these rational-mind driven paths of tantra. They are: ལྟ་བ་དང་སྒོམ་པ་སྤྱོད་པ་འབྲས་བུ་ས་ལམ་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་སྐྱེད་ཐབས་བཟླས་བརྗོད་རྫོགས་རིམ་དབང་བསྐུར་དམ་ཚིག་ "view, meditation, conduct, fruition, met…
