Great Jambudvīpa ('Dzam gling chen); Moon (Zla ba, Chandra); White (dKar po/'Od dkar, Sitābha); Kusha (Ku sha); Kiṃnara (Mi'am ci); Crane (Khrung khrung, Krauñcha); and Wrathful (Drag po, Raudra). These are presented in the Kālachakra system. See the Stainless Light's commentary on the Kālachakra Tantra, chapter 1, verse 11. C.T. 6: 392–93; and Newman 1987, 481. See also Wallace 2001, 71; and Kongtrul 1995, 151. +
The eight abodes and nearby abodes of Pullīramalaya, Jālandhara, Oḍḍiyāna, Arbuda, Godāvarī, Rāmeshvara, Devīkoṭa, and Mālava; the four fields and nearby fields of Kāmarūpa, Oḍra, Trishakuni, and Koshala; the four chandohas and nearby chandohas of Kaliṅga, Lampāka, Kāñchi, and Himālaya; the four gathering places and nearby gathering places of Pretapurī, Gṛihadevatā, Saurāṣhṭra, and Suvarṇadvīpa; and the four charnel grounds and nearby charnels grounds of Nagara, Sindhu, Maru, and Kulutā. For information on the locations of the twenty-four sacred places, from Pullīramalaya to Kulutā, see Gray 2007, 330–33; Hartzell 1997, 1050–53; Huber 2000; and Wallace 2001, 78–79. See also Bhattacharyya 1991; Dey [1927] 1984; Dyczkowski 2004, 166; Gupta 1973; Law 1984; Schwartzberg 1992; and Sircar 1971. +
The three constituents (yon tan, guṇa) enumerated by the Sāṃkhya school. See Brunnhölzl 2004, 795; Hiriyanna [1932] 2000, 271–73; Hiriyanna [1948] 2000, 108–9; and Kongtrul 2012, 407. +
Jamgön Kongtrul (1995, 161–62) says: "One time-junction [lagna] is defined as the time it takes the planets to transit a single house." Externally, a lagna takes place when the sun enters a constellation of the zodiac, and, internally, when the winds move from one set of twelve house channels at the navel to another. One lagna consists of 1,800 wind movements (breaths), or five minor saṃkrāntis, and is approximately equivalent to two hours. Also translated as "ascendant," "ascendant conjunction," "rising sign," and "time-conjunctions." See Kongtrul 1995, 159–62; and Kongtrul 2012, 347. +
Jamgön Kongtrul (TOK, 2:426) describes this type of dependent origination as referring to the fact that "all outer and inner phenomena emanate from the ālaya consciousness." In his Compendium of the Mahāyāna (C.T. 76:15), Asaṅga says, "All phenomena arise in dependence upon the ālaya. This is [what is meant by] the differentiation of the nature [into phenomena]." See also Kongtrul 2012, 586–87. +
The letter अ in Devanāgarī, rendered as A in Tibetan. When the red element is said to have the shape of the short a, the reference is to the last stroke line in the formation of the letter (in either Sanskrit or Tibetan), which is triangular. This line turned upside-down is the shape of the red bindu below the navel. (Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, October 1999) +
See glossary of enumerations: five embryonic stages. Karma Könchok Shönnu (Karma dkon mchog gzhon nu). Fourteenth century. Disciple of the fourth Karmapa, Rolpe Dorje. +
A Brahmic script derivative. It is either the Tibetan name for Ranjana/Rañjanā (the writing system for the Nepali language), or for a derivative of that script. See Kongtrul 2012, 779n453 and 248–50. +