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ལྟ་སྟངས་
Transliteration: lta stangs
<noun> Meaning "way of looking" in general and can be "to look in a certain manner". In the meditative tradition of Buddhism there are many different ways and types of looking e.g., the practices of the eight common siddhis have a series of ways of looking, usually translated as "gazes" or "yogic gazes", and རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ The Great Completion in particular uses the three ways of looking c…
ལྟ་སྟངས་གསུམ་
Transliteration: lta stangs gsum
<noun> "The three ways of looking". 1) A རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Completion term. i) There are three ways of looking according to Great Completion's preliminary practice of རུ་ཤན་ "parting into sides" in the Thorough Cut path. They are: ཉན་ཐོས་ཞི་བའི་ལྟ་སྟངས་ "the peaceful Śhrāvaka's way of looking"; བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ལྟ་སྟངས་ "the bodhisatva's way of looking"; and ཁྲོ་བོ་འབར་བའི་ལྟ་སྟངས་ "th…
ལྟ་སྟངས་ཀྱི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྒྱད་
Transliteration: lta stangs kyi dngos grub brgyad
<enum> "The eight siddhis of gaze". [JKE] gives as: 1) ཤིང་རློན་འབྲས་བུ་མ་སྨིན་པ་ལྟ་སྟངས་བྱས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ས་ལ་ལྟུང་བར་བྱེད་པ་ "the one where merely a gaze at fruit which is still on the tree causes it to fall to the ground"; 2) མཁྲེགས་ཤིང་གྱེན་དུ་སྐྱེས་པ་ལྟ་སྟངས་བྱས་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཐར་དུ་འགུག་པར་བྱེད་པ་ "the one where merely a gaze at a tree that has grown slanted causes it to straighten up"; 3) རྒྱ…
སྟངས་
Transliteration: stangs
A basic intertsheg of the language with the meaning "the way that something is done / happens". row of things, a group of things lined up in a row. It is combined with various other མིང་ grammatical names or ཚིག་ཕྲད་ connectors to give words that contain its meaning. It is often appended to a verb to indicate the way that the verb occurs. E.g., འགྲོ་སྟངས་, the way of proceeding / going / doing so…
གཙོ་བོར་བྱེད་པ་
Transliteration: gtso bor byed pa
<verb> v.t. see བྱེད་པ་ for tense forms. "To make principal", "to make paramount", "to make chief", meaning to make one thing most important or the leading factor out of several things. E.g., [MMZ] རྒོད་ན་ལྟ་སྟངས་སྨད། ལྷོད་ཆ་གཙོ་བོར་བྱའོ། "if you become agitated (while doing shamatha practice) lower the gaze and make relaxation paramount".
Used in logical argument to indicate what is being s…
སྟངས་སྟབས་
Transliteration: stangs stabs
<noun> "Pose", "posture", "stance" meaning the style of placement of the body used to show a particular kind of mood. E.g., [TC] ཤིན་ཏུ་ཁྲོས་པའི་སྟངས་སྟབས་ཀྱིས་སྡང་སེམས་སྟོན། "showed a hostile attitude with a very wrathful stance". i) "Pose", "posture", "step", "stance"; used in dance to mean the style of movement, the kind of step in a dance, the postures assumed in dance to show a particu…
ཤོད་སྟངས་
Transliteration: shod stangs
<noun> "Way of explaining / talking about / presenting something (verbally)".