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སྒྲ་གདངས་
Transliteration: sgra gdangs
<noun> 1) The "sound" given off by anything; the particular way that the sound comes. E.g., ཆུའི་སྒྲ་གདངས་ not "sound of water in general" but "the sound of the water" in some particular case of water making whatever sound it makes. 2) "Accent" or "style of pronunciation"; the particular accent of a person or the way in which a person speaks a language. 3) The "modulation" / "pitch" / "tune…
སྒྲ་རྩོལ་
Transliteration: sgra rtsol
<noun> "Sound effort". Grammar term. Acc. [SZL] abbrev. of སྒྲ་གདངས་ and བྱེད་རྩོལ་ meaning "pronounced sound and production effort". A term used in commentaries that explain the text ལུང་སྟོན་པ་རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པ་ Grammar, The Application of Gender Signs. The term refers to the particular strength of སྒྲ་གདངས་ pronounced sound and the corresponding རྩོལ་བ་ production effort that goes with any…
གདངས་
Transliteration: gdangs
<noun> 1) The way in which a sound comes out. There are various English words which will be appropriate in context. E.g., in the case of སྒྲ་གདངས་ which literally means the way that speech is pronounced generally (not grammatically) "pronunciation", "dialect", and "accent" are all correct. For music, the English words "tone", "pitch" are too particular—this term by itself is more general; "…
ང་རོ་
Transliteration: nga ro
<noun> 1) A grammatical term meaning the particular, pronounced sound of each of the consonants when enunciated properly in accordance with the rules governing the production of the sound of each consonants, and likewise of the consonants sounded with the vowels, too. E.g., དང་པོར་ཡི་གེ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་གནས་དང་མཐུན་པར་དབྱངས་ལྡན་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སོ་སོའི་ང་རོ་དབྱུང་ཚུལ་བཅས་ཡིག་འབྲུ་རེ་རེ་ནས་ཀློག་པའི་སྒྲ…
སྒྲ་
Transliteration: sgra
I. <noun> "Sound". Translation of the Sanskrit "śhābdaḥ".
A. "Sound" is defined in the Abhidharma as that which is the རྣ་བའི་ཡུལ་ object of the ear. In other words, it specifically means the ཡུལ་ object known by the རྣ་བའི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་ ear consciousness through the རྣ་བའི་དབང་པོ་ ear sense-power. In the Abhidharma, various descriptions of the individual components of sound are given. [NDS]…
སྐད་གདངས་
Transliteration: skad gdangs
<noun> 1) In general, the particular quality of the voice; high, low, strong, weak, loud, etc. at any given moment. The quality of the spoken sound. This includes, but is not limited to, the "tone" of the voice. 2) "Accent". The particular accent that one has when speaking a language. 3) The general voice of a song, the quality of the voice is as the song is sung: loud, soft, rough, etc. Th…
ཞལ་གདངས་
Transliteration: zhal gdangs
<phrase> "Open mouth", "mouth open"; usually in the description of deities of secret mantra and usually with the meaning that the mouth is open and four fangs are bared, which has a great deal of symbolic meaning. E.g., [LOM] ཞལ་གདངས་མཆེ་བ་གཙིགས། "with mouth open, baring her fangs".
གཞུ་སྒྲ་
Transliteration: gzhu sgra
<noun> "The sound of a bow"; meaning the sound of a bow as the string is released. The term is also used in the same way as the English "twang"; "the twang of a bow".
སྒྲ་གཅན་
Transliteration: sgra gcan
<noun> "Rahu". Translation of the Sanskrit "rāhu".
I. The Tibetan and Indian systems regard Rahu as a being who, with a massive but empty body, is the ruler of the planets. Eclipses are made by Rahu "swallowing the moon" temporarily. Thus Rahu is the maker of eclipses and is one of the གཟའ་བརྒྱད་ eight planets and one of the གཟའ་བཅུ་ ten planets.
II. The term is also used to mean "eclipse". 1…
གསལ་གདངས་
Transliteration: gsal gdangs
<phrase> Abbrev. of གསལ་བའི་གདངས་. "The lustre of the luminosity". Here གསལ་ means གསལ་བ་ which is the "illuminative" aspect of the essence of mind. See also གདངས་. Note that གདངས་ here does not mean radiance which is much too strong a term, rather, it means the lustre of the illuminative property of mindness.
This term is used in both ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ Mahāmudrā and རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ Great Comp…