dbyangs 'char;དབྱངས་འཆར་;"arising of vowels";"arising of vowels";svarodaya;A system that "assigns a different vowel to each of the days of the month, and calculates its effect on individuals and nations." www.tibetanmedical-astro.com. This is discussed in the Kālachakra Tantra, chapter 1, section 10. See Kongtrul 2012, 356, 826–27n894, and 827n895. +
kun mkhyen chen po jo mo nang pa;ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཆེན་པོ་ཇོ་མོ་ནང་པ་;omniscient one of Jonang;omniscient one of jonang;Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (Dol po pa She rab rgyal mtshan) (1292–1361). For more on Dolpopa's explanations of buddha nature, see Hopkins 2002, 274–85;Hopkins 2006, 199;Mathes 2008, 75–84;and Stearns 1999. For some discussion of the differences between the views of Rangjung Dorje and Dolpopa, see Brunnhölzl 2009, 114–17. +
dvangs ma mi shigs pa khyad par gsum ldan;དྭབངས་མ་མི་ཤིགས་པ་ཁྱད་པར་གསུམ་ལྡན་;indestructible quintessence with three features;indestructible quintessence with three features +
byang chub kyi phyogs kyi chos so bdun;བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་སོ་བདུན་;thirty-seven qualities concordant with awakening;thirty-seven qualities concordant with awakening;The four establishments in mindfulness (dran pa nye bar bzhag pa bzhi);four correct relinquishments (yang dag par spong ba bzhi);four feet of miraculous powers (rdzu 'phrul gyi rkang bzhi);five faculties (dbang po lnga);five strengths (stobs lnga);seven branches of awakening (byang chub kyi yan lag bdun);and eightfold path of noble ones ('phags lam yan lag brgyad). See Hopkins 1983, 205–6. +
gtsug tor gyi rtsa 'dab dgu;གཙུག་ཏོར་གྱི་རྩ་འདབ་དགུ་;nine petals at the uṣhṇīṣha;nine petals at the uṣhṇīṣha;The six petals of the wind-dhātu uṣhṇīṣha chakra, which resides between the eyebrows, are "ten million" (bye ba);"swirling" (' khyil ba);"inexhaustible" (mi zad pa);"good name" (ming bzang);"support" (brtan);and "qualified" (mtshan nyid can). The three channels of the uṣhṇīṣha's throat, which are the fire dhātu, are "holder" ('dzin pa);"nonconceptual" (rtog med);and "full" (gang ba). +
dmyal ba brgyad;དམྱལ་བ་བརྒྱད་;eight hells;eight hells;Gravel Water (gSeg ma chu, Sharkārāmbhas);Sandy Water (Bye ma chu, Vālukāmbhas);Muddy Water ('Dam gyi chu, Paṅkāmbhas);Fiery (Me, Agni);Inexhaustible Smoke (Du ba mi zad pa, Tīvradhūmra);Wailing Hell (Ngu 'bod can, Mahākharavāta);Great Darkness (Mun pa chen po, Mahāndhakāra);and Vajra (rDo rje). These hells belong to the Kālachakra system and are presented in the Stainless Light's commentary on chapter 1, verse 10. See C.T. 6:391 and 6:399–400;and Newman 1987, 477–78 and 500. See also Wallace 2001, 68–69. (Note that in the Kālachakra system, although the Vajra Hell is mentioned, it is not listed as an eighth hell. The Kālachakra system has eight infernal regions: seven hells and the City of Nāgas.) +
sku lnga;སྐུ་ལྔ་;five kāyas;five kāyas;One way to classify the five kāyas is as the dharmakāya, saṃbhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya, svabhāvikakāya, and unchanging vajrakāya. GTCD. +