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ཕྱིར་རྒོལ་
Transliteration: phyir rgol
<noun> One of a pair of terms for the two parties in any dispute or debate. The other term སྔ་རྒོལ་ or སྔར་རྒོལ་ refers to the initiator of the dispute q.v. where this term means the "respondent / defendant / antagonist / retaliating force" in the dispute. The term is used legally, in debate, in warfare, and so on. In debate, it is an alternative name for the རྩོད་པ་པོ་ "respondent". In law…
སྔ་རྒོལ་
Transliteration: snga rgol
<noun> The initial "antagonist" in any dispute. The term is used legally, in debate, in warfare, and so on. The defendant / opponent in the dispute is the ཕྱིར་རྒོལ་ q.v. In debate, it is "the proponent", an alternative name for the དམ་བཅའ་བ་, because the proponent starts the debate. In law, it is the "plaintiff". In warfare, it is the "aggressor". In other cases, "the one who starts the fi…
རྒོལ་བ་
Transliteration: rgol ba
I. <verb> v.t. བརྒལ་བ་/ རྒོལ་བ་/ བརྒལ་བ་/ རྒོལ་/. 1) "To oppose" / "to stand against" something in the sense of being opposed to it, "to stand against" it ideologically. 2) To actually fight against something, "to combat, "to attack" by words or physical force. E.g., ཚིག་གིས་རྒོལ་བ། "to fighting with words / to argue"; དཔུང་སྟོབས་ཀྱིས་རྒོལ་བ། "to combat / attack / assault / oppose with arme…
སྔར་
Transliteration: sngar
<adv> "Earlier", "in the past", "previously", "before (now)", "formerly". A general term indicating a time before the present. E.g., [GSB] སྔར་མ་ཐོས་པའི་ཆོས་ཅིག "a dharma that he had not heard previously / before" or "formerly not heard".
ངོ་རྒོལ་
Transliteration: ngo rgol
<noun> 1) Actual protest against, opposition to. Any non-peaceful means of protesting and going against something. 2) Meaning "anti-" or "counter-".
ཕར་རྒོལ་
Transliteration: phar rgol
<noun> 1) "Dispute / attack carried out against another" or "opposition directed towards another", "attack on another". Meaning the རྒོལ་བ་ attack or dispute made from one's own side and directed towards another. E.g., in war it would be an attack on the enemy; in a lawsuit, it would be the case that one actually makes against the opponent. The opp. is ཚུར་རྒོལ་ which is the attack another …
རྒོལ་ལན་
Transliteration: rgol lan
<noun> "Counter-attack" i.e., the reply to an attack. The term is used either in reference to replies in verbal debate or dispute and in reference to armed counter-attacks such as in warfare.