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བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་སྐབས་ཀྱི་བཟླས་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: bden bzhi'i chos 'khor bskor skabs kyi bzlas ba bcu gnyis
"The twelve recitals made when the dharma wheel of the four truths was turned". When the Buddha ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བ་ turned the Wheel of Dharma for the first time for འཁོར་ལྔ་སྡེ་བཟང་པོ་ the excellent group of five, he gave the teachings of འཕགས་པའི་བདེན་པ་བཞི་ "the Four Noble Truths" rehearsing them in three ways, making twelve recitations of the facts of the four truths. Also called གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་ཡན…

སྤང་བྱ་
Transliteration: spang bya
<noun> form only of སྤང་བར་བྱ་བ་ q.v. "That to be abandoned" For the transitive verb སྤོང་བ་ "to abandon" there are a set of related terms: སྤང་བྱ་ which is that to be abandoned; སྤང་བྱེད་ that which does the abandoning; and that which does the abandoning personified as the agent, སྤང་མཁན་ or སྤང་བ་པོ་ the abandoner.

སྤང་བར་བྱ་བ་
Transliteration: spang bar bya ba
I. <verb> Derived from the verb སྤོང་བ་ q.v. "Is to be given up / abandoned / discarded" or "will be given up / abandoned / discarded".
II. <noun> "That which is to be abandoned / discarded" referring to that thing or things which are to be gotten rid of by some process e.g., the afflictions that are to be discarded through the course of Buddhist training. E.g., མཐོང་ལམ་གྱིས་སྤང་བར་བྱ་…

སྤང་བྱ་བཅུ་
Transliteration: spang bya bcu
<phrase> "The ten to be abandoned". In the vowed conduct of a དགེ་ཚུལ་ śhrāmaṇera, there are ten or thirty-six vows, depending on the Vinaya tradition of the vows. In the first case, the vows are the abandonment of the ten referred to here; in the second case, the base vows are the abandonment of the ten and there is the acceptance of twenty-six additional trainings on top of those ten.
The …

ཀུན་སྤངས་
Transliteration: kun spangs
I. <verb> with སྤངས་ as the past tense of སྤོང་བ་ meaning either ཀུན་སྤངས་པ་ "abandoned all" or ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤངས་པ་ "totally abandoned".
II. <phrase> 1) [Mngon] "Renunciant"; epithet of a person who has abandoned all worldly things and has left the world to do spiritual practice. It could mean a hermit but not necessarily. Some "renunciant" were wanderers. 2) "All-abandoned" a name of the m…

བྱ་སྤྱོད་
Transliteration: bya spyod
<noun> "Actions", "activities", "behaviour"; what someone actually does as they go about their business. [Hon] is མཛད་སྤྱོད་. Some translators give as meaning བྱ་བ་དང་སྤྱོད་པ་ "actions and behaviour" but that is incorrect. The term means བྱ་བའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ i.e., what one actually does (with one's body, speech, and / or mind).

སྤང་བ་
Transliteration: spang ba
I. <verb> Fut. of v.t. སྤོང་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> "Abandonment" in the sense of the abandonment or renunciation of someone who has left society to become a recluse.
III. <adj> [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, མི་འཇིགས་པ་ "un-afraid".