སྨེ་བ་སྐོར་དགུ་
Transliteration: sme ba skor dgu
<noun> Meaning ནག་རྩིས་ཀྱི་སྨེ་བ་སྐོར་དགུ་, a set of nine astrological diagrams. [SCD] gives: the nine astrological diagrams or figures in geomancy of the Tibetans used in imitation of Chinese astrology; out of these, three or the 1st, the 6th and the 8th are white being symbolical of the element of iron; the black and blue i.e., the 2nd and the 3rd diagrams represent the element of water; …
སྨེ་བའི་དཔྱད་
Transliteration: sme ba'i dpyad
<phrase> "Mole analysis", meaning an investigation of moles on the body followed by investigation of the astrology connected with them, as explained in སྨེ་བ་སྐོར་དགུ་ q.v.
སྐྱེ་བ་དགུ་
Transliteration: skye ba dgu
<phrase> "The nine births". This refers to འདོད་པ་ལས་ཁམས་གསུམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་ taking rebirth from the desire realm into any of the three realms, གཟུགས་ལས་ཁམས་གསུམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་ taking rebirth from the form realm into any of the three realms, and གཟུགས་མེད་ལས་ཁམས་གསུམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་ taking rebirth from the formless realm into any of the three realms.
བསྲེ་འཕོ་དགུ་སྐོར་
Transliteration: bsre 'pho dgu skor
<phrase> "The Nine-fold Anthology of Mixing and Transference". A teaching that came from རས་ཆུང་པ་ Rechungpa in which arranged the teachings on mixing and transference of the Kagyu, which are usually six in total, into nine mixings that included transference.
ཁ་སྐོར་བ་
Transliteration: kha skor ba
I. <verb> v.t. see སྐོར་བ་ for tense forms. 1) "To ask questions of a group, testing them, going around the group a person at a time" such as a teacher might do of a class of children. 2) Lit. "to steer something" hence also to drive. E.g., རྟ་ཁ་སྐོར་བ་ "to steer / ride a horse". 2) "To drive off to another location", as a dog might drive off a thief.
II. <gerundial>phrase> per the …
སྒོམ་སྤང་སྐོར་དགུ་
Transliteration: sgom spang skor dgu
<noun> "The nine degrees of meditation discards". When the སྒོམ་སྤང་ things to be abandoned on the path of meditation are divided up according to the point at which they are abandoned, there are lesser, middling, and greater degrees of abandonment. Each of those three can also be divided into lesser, middling, and greater degrees making nine altogether.
སྣང་བ་དགུ་
Transliteration: snang ba dgu
<phrase> 1) Official translation of the Sanskrit དྷ་དུ་ར་ "dhadura" q.v. 2) Generally meaning "of differing / varying appearances". Note that དགུ་ is sometimes used in the same way as the English "several".
