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ལྟད་མོ་
Transliteration: ltad mo
<noun> 1) [Non-Hon] General name for any kind of "spectacle", "sight", "something to be seen", "image". [Hon] form is གཟིགས་མོ་ q.v. E.g., a good view from a mountain, something strange happening in the town square, etc. E.g., [KSM] མེ་ལོང་གི་ངོས་ལ་གཟིགས་མོ་འམ་ལྟད་མོ་ "the image (with non-honorific and honorific given as well) on the surface of a mirror". 2) General name for anything to be …
རྩི་བ་
Transliteration: rtsi ba
<verb> v.t. བརྩིས་པ་/ རྩི་བ་/ བརྩི་བ་/ རྩིས་/. 1) To obtain the value of something by calculation. Hence, "to calculate", "to compute", "to reckon", "to obtain the value". E.g., to reckon the stars in astrological calculations. E.g., [TC] བྱུང་སོང་བརྩི་བ། "to calculate how much came and went"; ཞིང་གའི་རྒྱ་ཁྱོན་ཞིབ་ཚགས་སུ་བརྩིས་པ། "to measure precisely the area of the field". 2) "To consider…
རྔམ་པ་
Transliteration: rngam pa
<verb> v.i. བརྔམས་པ་/ རྔམ་པ་/ བརྔམ་པ་//. Meaning "to be very excited about something, either wanting it or being upset at it". 1) Wanting in the sense of to hear or know of something and be very excited about getting it or meeting it. E.g., someone hears that a certain performer is coming who they really want to see. The person is at work so they ask the manager if they can be excused to go…
ལྷ་མོ་
Transliteration: lha mo
<noun> "Goddess", "devi", "female deity". Translation of the Sanskrit "devi". Female of ལྷ་ q.v. 1) "Goddess", a being living in the god realms of cyclic existence. 2) "Goddess" or "deity" or "female deity" or "divine lady" meaning a deity such as a ཡི་དམ་ meditational deity. E.g., རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་ལྷ་མོ་བཅོ་ལྔ་ the fifteen female deities of the Vajrayoginī maṇḍala. Or a female deity c…
ལད་མོ་
Transliteration: lad mo
<noun> "Imitation", "impersonate", "mime", "copy". 1) The act of imitating / impersonating / mimicking / miming / copying something or someone e.g., [TC] སྤྲེའུས་མིའི་ལད་མོ་བྱེད་པ། "the monkeys mimicked the people." 2) The act of repeating, doing again, someone else's activity so that it gets perpetuated e.g., [TC] གཞན་ལ་ཟུར་ཟ་བའི་ལད་མོ་མ་བྱེད། "do not repeat snide comments about others".
མོ་
Transliteration: mo
I. <noun> "Divination". A "mo" is a type of divination of the future which is commonly used by Tibetans. There are several ways to do "mo's".
II. <noun><adj> "Female (gender)". The term used to indicate "female" gender as opposed to ཕོ་ "male" or མ་ནིང་ "neutral" gender. 1) In grammar, in the རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པ་ Application of Gender Signs each letter of the alphabet is assigned a s…
སྟོན་པ་
Transliteration: ston pa
I. <verb> v.t. བསྟན་པ་/ སྟོན་པ་/ བསྟན་པ་/ སྟོན་/. The basic meaning of the verb is "to show" something to another. 1) To show in the sense of "to teach". Hence also, in context, "to illustrate", "to expound", "to explain", "to point out". E.g., [TC] གནས་ལུགས་གསལ་པོར་བསྟན། "clearly taught reality"; གཞུང་དོན་ཆ་ཚང་བར་བསྟན། "taught the entire text"; ཆོས་སྟོན་པ། "to teach dharma". 2) To display …
ལེབ་མོ་
Transliteration: leb mo
1) <adj> Meaning either i) something laid out horizontally and flat or ii) something which has a flat surface, i.e., a surface without undulations. The term is often abbrev. to ལེབ་ which is then joined after another word to indicate a flat item. E.g., ཤིང་ལེབ་ "a board / flat piece of wood" q.v. and བག་ལེབ་ "flat-bread" (dough rolled out flat and cooked on a hotplate or fried which is the …