ཡུལ་གྱི་ལྟེ་བ་
Transliteration: yul gyi lte ba
<phrase> "The centre of a country / district / land, etc." and meaning the hub of the country, often but not always the capital city or the main village, etc. The place that the people of the country or area consider to the centre of activity.
ལྟེ་བ་སྤྲུལ་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: lte ba sprul pa'i 'khor lo
<noun> "The navel chakra of emanation". The name of the fourth of the རྩ་འཁོར་ལོ་དྲུག་ six chakras mentioned in the tantras q.v. This is the chakra at the navel centre. It is commonly explained as having 64 branch nāḍīs but tantras differ on the details.
སྤྲུལ་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ་
Transliteration: sprul pa'i 'khor lo
<noun> "Chakra of emanation" or "emanation chakra". Translation of the Sanskrit "nirmāṇachakra". This is the chakra at the navel centre; see ལྟེ་བ་སྤྲུལ་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ་ "the navel's emanation chakra".
མུ་ཁྱུད་
Transliteration: mu khyud
<noun> The outer boundary of a circular shape. Hence, "circumference" of something, "rim" of a wheel, "ring" of mountains where the mountains completely encircle a place, "bounding circle". E.g., འཁོར་ལོའི་མུ་ཁྱུད་ "the rim of a wheel". See also ལྟེ་བ་ "hub" and རྩིབས་མ་ "spokes".
རྩིབས་མ་
Transliteration: rtsibs ma
<noun> "Spoke(s)", "rib(s)". The ribs that extend out from a central place and connect up with some kind of rim to form the supports of a larger structure. E.g., "spoke(s)" on a wheel, "ribs" of a boat, "ribs" of the human rib-cage, "ribs" of an umbrella. Freq. abbrev. as རྩིབས་. See also ལྟེ་བ་ "hub" and མུ་ཁྱུད་ "rim" of a wheel.
ལུས་ཀྱི་གནས་ལྔ་
Transliteration: lus kyi gnas lnga
<phrase> "The five centres / locations in the body" where the chakras of the subtle body reside. These are referred to in secret mantra practice. [DGT] gives as: 1) སྤྱི་བོ་ "crown"; 2) མགྲིན་པ་ "throat"; 3) སྙིང་ག་ "heart-centre"; 4) ལྟེ་བ་ "navel"; 5) གསང་གནས་ "secret place".
རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན་
Transliteration: rdo rje gdan
<noun> "Adamantine Seat". Translation of the Sanskrit "vajrāsana". The name of the place on which all buddha's become enlightened. This place is said in the sūtras to be special in that it is the only place in all existence that beings in the intermediate state cannot pass through. This, the site of the Śhākyamuni Buddha's enlightenment is at the place in North India now called Bodhgaya.
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རྣམ་ཤེས་འཕོ་བའི་བུ་ག་དགུ་
Transliteration: rnam shes 'pho ba'i bu ga dgu
<enum> "The nine apertures of consciousnesses transference". The consciousness of an ordinary being is said to exit at the time of death from the human body in one of nine places. [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) ཚངས་བུག་ "aperture of brahma"; 2) སྨིན་མཚམས་ "point between the eyebrows"; 3) མིག་ "eyes"; 4) རྣ་བ་ "ears"; 5) སྣ་ "nose"; 6) ཁ་ "mouth"; 7) ལྟེ་བ་ "navel"; 8) ཆུ་ལམ་ "aperture of the ureth…
སྦུབས་མ་
Transliteration: sbubs ma
<noun> Any enclosure that is empty within and a little longer than it is wide. For example, a butterfly's cocoon though the usual Tibetan example is that of an upright but closed flower. 1) i) The term is used generally to convey the idea of that kind of hollow shell, taller than wide. ii) The word is often abbrev. to སྦུབས་ and conjoined with other words to give a new word containing that …
རྩ་འཁོར་ལོ་དྲུག་
Transliteration: rtsa 'khor lo drug
<enum> "The six chakras of the channels". The six places in the subtle body where the རྩ་ channels of the subtle body come together in a wheel-like nexus called a འཁོར་ལོ་ chakra. In the Buddhist tantric system there are enumerations of four, five, and six chakras in the subtle body. In the Tibetan medical system there are six chakras in the subtle body. They are more commonly referred to s…
མི་བཟོད་པ་
Transliteration: mi bzod pa
<adj>phrase> "Unbearable", "intolerable", "un-endurable", "that (he) could not stand", "that could not be withstood". E.g., [GSB] ལྟེ་བའི་འོག་ཏུ་ཚ་བ་མི་བཟོད་པ་ཅིག་བྱུང་། "An unbearable heat arise below the navel".
ད་ལྟ་བ་
Transliteration: da lta ba
<noun> 1) "The present" as in "past, present, and future"; see also འདས་པ་ "past" and མ་འོངས་པ་ "future". i) This includes the specific usage of "the here and now", "nowness". 2) "Present" or "present tense". Grammar term. ད་ལྟ་བ་ is the grammatical term used to indicate the present tense e.g., དུས་ད་ལྟ་བ་ "present tense". See the དུས་གསུམ་ "three tenses".
ལྟ་བ་ལྔ་
Transliteration: lta ba lnga
<enum> "The five views". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "pañca dṛṣhṭi". These are five wrong or bad views described by the Buddha which are generally given as the sixth of རྩ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་དྲུག་ the six root afflictions. They are views which have two features: 1) they are held particularly strongly; 2) they are very wrong views because of which they prevent the views of the dharma being…
ཁ་ལྟ་བ་
Transliteration: kha lta ba
<verb> v.t. see ལྟ་བ་ for tense forms. 1) "To face towards the direction of something". E.g., གཏམ་བཤད་བྱེད་མཁན་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ཉན་མཁན་ཚང་མས་ཁ་ལྟ་བ། "the listeners as a whole faced in the direction of (or faced towards) the story-teller." 2) To view something as starting to go well.
ལྟུང་བ་
Transliteration: ltung ba
I. <verb> v.i. ལྟུངས་པ་/ ལྟུང་བ་/ ལྟུང་བ་//. "To fall down". This has the meaning of falling from a high place to a lower one. It can mean physically e.g., [TC] བྲག་གཡང་དུ་ལྟུངས་ནས་ཤི། "fell into the rocky ravine and died". It is often used to refer to having a downfalls in the context of vowed conduct.
II. <noun> A "downfall" meaning behaviour that has resulted in transgression of a v…
