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མ་མོ་
Transliteration: ma mo
<noun> "Mamo".
I. In general Tibetan usage the term means 1) "Grandmother" or 2) "ewe" (female sheep).
II. In spiritual usage, the term is derived from the Indian tradition. Translation of the Sanskrit "mātarī". 1) The name given to various kinds of female spirits in the Indian tradition. These spirits are usually flesh-eating spirits that cause a lot of harm unless pacified. They are freq. m…
ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་
Transliteration: khri srong lde btsan
<noun> "(King) Trisong Detsen". The name of one of the greatest Dharma kings of Tibet. He is the king who invited the great Tantric master པདྨ་སམྦྷ་ཝ་ Padmasaṃbhava to Tibet and who then assisted him in every possible way to establish the Buddha's dharma completely in Tibet. He was one of the group of རྗེ་འབངས་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྔ་ "the twenty-five, Lord and subjects".
The king had four sons. Three of t…
མུ་ཏིག་བཙན་པོ་
Transliteration: mu tig btsan po
<noun> "Mutig Tsanpo". According to [TC] the third of the four sons of the early Tibetan King ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན་ Trisong Deutsen. Acc. [DBT] the fourth son of that king. He is also called སད་ན་ལེགས་མཇིང་ཡོན་ Sayna Legjing Yon. He ascended the throne following the death of his brother མུ་ནེ་བཙན་པོ་ Mune Tsanpo sometime in the early to mid-9th century A.D. ([DBT gives 787 A.D. but other histor…
གླང་དར་མ་
Transliteration: glang dar ma
<noun> "Langdarma". The nickname of དར་མ་ཨུ་དུམ་བཙན་ Darma Udumtsen q.v. The name means "The Ox, Darma". Langdarma ascended the throne when his younger brother ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན་ died in the mid- to late- 9th century A.D. Even though he was older than Ralpachen, he had not been enthroned on his father's death because he was not very bright and had a bad temperament and behaviour to go with it. In…
ཨ་མ་མ་
Transliteration: aa ma ma
<exclam> An exclamation of surprise and dismay at something distressing or disturbing. It has the sense of invoking one's mother for protection. Like the English "Oh mother!", "Mother save me!", "Oh Oh!". In Tibetan culture this is more used by women who are culturally prone to expressing their fright and not so much by men.
ཨ་མ་
Transliteration: aa ma
<noun> 1) "Mother. Classically meaning one's natal "mother". Also used in coll. in the same way as the English "mum", "mummy". The term for father is ཨ་ཕ་ q.v. 2) Used to refer to a matron, an older or elderly woman who runs or is connected with a household. E.g., the common term ཨ་མ་རྒད་མོ་ does not mean "old mother" so much as an elderly, matronly type. In English, we usually use the term…
ཨེ་མ་
Transliteration: ae ma
<exclam> An exclamation made to express wonderment or amazement at anything. The amazement can be at something good, in the sense of "how wonderful" or can be in response to seeing something that is "awful!". Like the English "amazing!", "incredible (either good or bad)!", "awful! (bad).
མ་
Transliteration: ma
I. <consonant letter> The sixteenth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the lips; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the lips; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the two lips together; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sounded. 2) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-base, the c…