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ཨུ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: au rgyan
<noun> Tibetan equivalent of the ཟ་ཧོར་ Sahor term "Uddiyāna". 1) The place called Uddiyāna. 2) In reference to Guru Padmasaṃbhava who was from Uddiyāna. 3) A common name for a person in Tibet.

ཨིནྡྲ་བྷུ་ཏི་
Transliteration: aindra bhu ti
<noun> "Indrabhuti". Translit. of the Sanskrit "indrabhuti". A king of ཨུ་རྒྱན་ Uddiyāna after the time of the Buddha who figures prominently in the transmission of the tantras. There are various descriptions of who he is and the role he played. In [OTT] it gives that Vajrapaṇi manifested as Indrabhuti in order to ensure that all of the tantras stayed in this world without waning and disapp…

རྒྱན་
Transliteration: rgyan
I. <verb> Imp. of v.t. རྒྱན་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) "Ornament" or "adornment", meaning that which beautifies. E.g., རྒྱན་ཆ་ physical "ornaments", "jewellery", "adornments". 2) Ornaments of all different kinds are one of མདོ་ལས་འབྱུང་བའི་མཆོད་རྫས་བཅུ་ the ten different things mentioned in the sūtras as items suitable for offering. 3) "Ornament". Translation of the Sanskrit "alaṃkara" bein…

རྒྱན་ཆ་
Transliteration: rgyan cha
<noun> A general term for anything used for beautification of something else. E.g., ornamentation, adornment(s). Jewellery is one kind of རྒྱན་ཆ་.

ཀ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: ka rgyan
<noun> "Pillar decoration / ornamentation". The name given to the decoration or decorative designs worked onto the outer surface of a ཀ་བ་ pillar q.v.

རྒྱན་པ་
Transliteration: rgyan pa
<verb> v.t. བརྒྱན་པ་/ རྒྱན་པ་/ བརྒྱན་པ་/ རྒྱན་/. "To adorn" something or someone with things ornaments or jewellery for the sake of beautifying it. Hence also "to ornament", "to beautify", and "to decorate", "to bedeck". E.g., [TC] རྒྱན་ཆ་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་བརྒྱན་པ། "adorned with various ornaments"; རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན་གྱིས་བརྒྱན་པ། "adorned with jewelled ornaments" or "bedecked with ornaments of pr…

སྣ་རྒྱན་
Transliteration: sna rgyan
<noun> "Nose ornament"; general name for any of the many, various types of nose ornament worn by Asian people, usually women.

ཨོ་རྒྱན་པདྨ་
Transliteration: ao rgyan padma
<noun> "Orgyan Padma" a common Tibetan epithet of Padmasaṃbhava who was from of Uddiyana, usually called Orgyan in Tibet.

རྒྱན་བཞི་
Transliteration: rgyan bzhi
<noun> "The four ornaments". [DGT] gives as: 1) ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of discipline"; 2) ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of samādhi"; 3) ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of prajñā"; 4) གཟུངས་ཀྱི་རྒྱན་ "the ornament of dhāraṇi".