dbugs;དབུགས་;breath;breath;liptā;The basic unit for time measurement in the system used by The Profound Inner Principles. One breath is the length of time a healthy individual takes to inhale and exhale. Six breaths make up one pāṇīpala;360 comprise one ghaṭikā, or daṇḍa;1,800 breaths are called a lagna, or major saṃkrānti;and 21,600 breaths comprise one solar day. +
sog dbon rig pa'i ral gri;སོག་དབོན་རིག་པའི་རལ་གྲི་;Sok-on Rigpe Raldri;sok-on rigpe raldri;Fifteenth century. Student of the fifth Karmapa and teacher of the sixth Karmapa. Also known as Ratnabhadra. +
'dul ba lung sde bzhi;འདུལ་བ་ལུང་སྡེ་བཞི་;four vinaya scriptures;four vinaya scriptures;Distinguishing the Vinaya (Vinayavibhaṅga, 'Dul ba rnam par 'byed pa) (Dg.K. 3);Basic Vinaya (Vinayavastu, 'Dul ba lung gzhi) (Dg.K. 1);Foundations of the Minor Vinaya (Vinaya-kṣhudra-vastu, 'Dul ba phran tshegs kyi gzhi) (Dg.K. 6);and Authentic Treatise on the Vinaya (Vinaya-uttaragrantha, 'Dul ba gzhung dam pa) (Dg.K. 7). GTCD. +
tshul bzhi;ཚུལ་བཞི་;four modes;four modes;Word-meaning (tshig don), general meaning (spyi don), hidden meaning (sbas don), and ultimate meaning (mthar thug gi don). See Kongtrul 2005, 287–89. +
lus dben;ལུས་དབེན་;isolation of body;isolation of body;The preliminary to the five stages (rim lnga, pañchakrama), the perfection process of the Guhyasamāja system. See Kongtrul 2007b, 179-82 and 298;and Kongtrul 2008. +
khrims khang lo tsā ba bsod nams rgya mtsho;ཁྲིམས་ཁང་ལོ་ཙ་བ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་;Trim-khang Lotsāwa Sönam Gyatso;trim-khang lotsāwa sönam gyatso;Also known as Tsurphu Jamyang Chenpo (mTshur phu 'jam dbyangs chen po) (1424–82), he was a student of Vanaratna and Gö Lotsāwa ('Gos lo tsā ba), the author of the Blue Annals. See Roerich [1949] 1979, 805–37. +
rim lnga;རིམ་ལྔ་;five stages;five stages;pañchakrama;The perfection process of the Guhyasamāja system consisting of speech isolation (ngag dben) or vajra repetition (rdo rje'i bzlas pa);mind isolation (sems dben);illusory body (sgyu lus) or self-blessing (bdag byin rlabs);luminosity ('od gsal);and unification (zung ' jug). See Kongtrul 2007b, 298;and Kongtrul 2008. +
a shad;A stroke;a stroke;A name for the red bindu (located four finger-widths below the navel) that relates to its shape. It may refer to the final vertical stroke mark in the letter a—the ा (from अ in Devanāgarī, rendered as A in Tibetan)—or to the Vartula script's representation of the letter A by a single vertical line. See Kongtrul 2007b, 159;and Roberts 2011, 703. +
zad par gyi ting nge 'dzin bcu;ཟད་པར་གྱི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་བཅུ་;ten samādhis of the totalities;ten samādhis of the totalities;Samādhis with respect to earth, water, fire, wind, blue, yellow, white, red, infinite space, and infinite consciousness. See Brunnhölzl 2011, 622n249. +