GLOSSARY
THOUSAND WORDS OF THE GREAT PERFECTION
- Absolute in the everyday (the)ཐ་མལ་གྱི་ཤེས་པ་ tha mal gyi shes pa - pronounce: thamäl gyi shepa.
- Acceptance of the unborn reality (of phenomena) (the)སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པའི་ཆོས་ལ་བཟོད་པ་ skye ba med pa’i chos la bzod pa - pronounce: kye wa me pai chö la dzö pa.
- Activityལས་ las - pronounce: lé.
- Adherence/adheringཞེན་པ་ zhen pa - pronounce: shenpa.
- Aggregateཕུང་པོ་ phung po - pronounce: phungpo.
- All-accomplishingབྱ་གྲུབ་ bya grub - pronounce: cha drub. Synonym: all-encompassing.
- All excellentཀུན་བཟང་ kun bzang - pronounce: künzang.
- Analytic meditationདཔྱོད་སྒོམ་ dpyod sgom - pronounce: chö gom. Synonym: mindful examination.
- Analytical mindཡིད་ yid - pronounce: yi. Also: analyzing mind.
- “appearanceness”བདག་ཉིད་ bdag nyid - pronounce: dagnyi
- Appearances in becomingསྣང་སྲིད་ snang srid - pronounce: nangsi.
- Appropriate meansཐབས་ thabs - pronounce: thab.
- Assuranceགདིང་/གདེང་ gding/gdeng - pronounce: ding/deng.
- Attentivenessདྲན་པ་ dran pa - pronounce: drenpa. Also: attention.
- basic ignorance/fundamental ignoranceརྒྱུ་བདག་ཉིད་གཅིག་པའི་མ་རིག་པ rgyu bdag nyid gcig pa'i ma rig pa - pronounce: gyüdag nyi chig pé ma rigpa.
- Be (to)ཡིན་ yin - pronounce: yin.
- Beyond tormentམྱང་འདས་ myang 'das - pronounce: myangde. Sanskrit: nirvana.
- black attainmentཐོབ་པ་ thob pa - pronounce: thobpa in Sanskrit: ālokopalabdhi
- Blazingསལ་ལེ་བ་ sal le ba - pronounce: säl léwa. Synonym: vivid clarity.
- blazingགཏུམ་མོ་ gtum mo - pronounce: tumo In Sanskrit: caṇḍālīyoga
- Body of apparitionསྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ sprul sku - pronounce: trülku.
- Body of Perfect Completenessལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་པའི་སྐུ་ longs spyod rdzogs pa’i sku - pronounce: long chö dzog pai ku.
- Body of Realityཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ chos kyi sku - pronounce: chö kyi ku.
- Cannibal demonབདུད་ bdud zas - pronounce: düzé. Synonym: demonic food.
- Card with the name (of the deceased)མིང་བྱང་ / མཚན་བྱང་ ming byang / mtshan byang - pronounce: mingjang / tshenjang.
- Careful watchཤེས་བཞིན་ shes bzhin - pronounce: sheshin. Also: vigilance.
- (Causal) linkརྟེན་འབྲེལ་ rten 'brel - pronounce: tendrel. (Causal) connection.
- characteristicsམཚན་ཉིད་ mtshan nyid - pronounce: tsän nyi
- citadelབཙན་ས་ btsan sa - pronounce: tsänsa
- Clarityགསལ་བ་ gsal ba - pronounce: sälwa. Also: clear.
- Clarity-luminosityའོད་གསལ་ 'od gsal - pronounce: ösel. Also: clear light.
- Clarity-luminosity daughterབུའི་འོད་གསལ་ bu’i ‘od gsal - pronounce: bu ösäl.
- Clarity-luminosity of the groundགཞིའི་འོད་གསལ་ gzhi'i 'od gsal - pronounce: shi ösäl.
- Clarity-luminosity of the Perfect Completeness Bodyལོངས་སྐུའི་འོད་གསལ་ longs sku'i 'od gsal - pronounce: long kü ösäl.
- Clarity-luminosity of the Reality body of primordial purityཀ་དག་ཆོས་སྐུའི་འོད་གསལ་ ka dag chos sku'i 'od gsal - pronounce: kadag chö kü ösäl.
- Clear evidenceཧྲིག་གེར་/ཧྲིག་གེ་བ་ hrig ger/hrig ge ba - pronounce: rig ger/rig géwa.
- Close the access to the matrixཇུག་བྱའི་མངལ་སྒོ་འགག་པ་ jug bya'i mngal sgo 'gag pa - pronounce: jugje nel go gagpa. Variation: close the matrix door.
- co-emerging ignorance/co-emergent ignorance - innate ignoranceལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས་པའི་མ་རིག་པ lhan cig skyes pa’i ma rig pa - pronounce: lhen chig kyé pé ma rigpa
- Coemergentལྷན་སྐྱེས་ lhan skyes - pronounce: lhänkye. Also: innate.
- complete/complete in itself/naturally completeརང་ཆས་ rang chas - pronounce: rangchä
- Completely openགུ་ཡངས་(པོ་) gu yangs (po) - pronounce: guyang(po). Synonyms: totally open; wide open.
- Conceptརྣམ་རྟོག་ rnam rtog - pronounce: namtog.
- Conditioned (phenomenon)འདུས་བྱས་ 'dus byas - pronounce: düje. Sanskrit: samskrita.
- Conditioning (factor)འདུ་བྱེད་ 'du byed - pronounce duje. Sanskrit: samskara.
- Confidenceདད་པ་ dad pa - pronounce: depa.
- Confusionའཁྲུལ་པ་ 'khrul pa : pronounce: trülpa. Also: illusion; misconception.
- Contemplationམཉམ་བཞག་ mnyam bzhag - pronounce: nyamshag.
- Contemplationསྒོམ་པ་ sgom pa - pronounce: gompa. Also: remaining; dwelling.
- Continue (to)སྤྱོད་པ་ spyod pa - pronounce: chöpa. Also: integration; action.
- Continuous contemplationཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ ting nge 'dzin - pronounce: ting ne dzin.
- Crucial pointགནད་ཀ་ gnad ka - pronounce: néka.
- Crystallineསང་ངེ་བ་ sang nge ba - pronounce: sang néwa. Synonym: clear purity.
- Current existence / actual existenceསྔོན་དུས་ཀྱི་སྲིད་པ་ sngon dus kyi srid pa - pronounce: non dü ki sipa. Synonym: existence that precedes (death).
- Cyclic wanderingའཁོར་བ་ 'khor ba - pronounce: khorwa.
- Definitive meaningངེས་དོན་ nges don - pronounce: ngédön.
- Demonབདུད་ bdud - pronounce: dü.
- Demonic spiritཀུའི་ཤིང་ ku’i shing - pronounce: küshing.
- Dependent originationརྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ rten cing 'brel ba 'byung ba - pronounce: ten ching drel war jung wa. Synonym: dependent arising.
- determinationརྟོག rtog - pronounce: tog
- determining ignoranceཀུན་(བ)རྟགས་མ་རིག་པ kun (b)rtags ma rig pa - pronounce: küntag ma rigpa.
- Direct instructionམན་ངག་ man ngag - pronounce: men nak.
- Direct presentationངོ་སྤྲོད་(པ་)/ངོ་སྤྲོད་ ngo sprod (pa)/ngo sprad - pronounce: ngotrö/ngotre.
- Discerning primordial evidenceསོ་སོ་རང་གིས་རིག་ so so rang gis rig - pronounce: so so rang gi rig. Also: primordial evidence that discerns.
- Discernmentསོར་རྟོག sor rtog - pronounce: sor tog.
- Disjoining the cycle and its beyondའཁོར་འདས་རུ་ཤན་དབྱེ་བ་ ‘khor ‘das ru shan dbye ba - pronounce: khor de rushen jewa. Also: disjunction of the cycle and its beyond.
- Display (to)འཕྲོ་བ་ 'phro ba - pronounce: trowa. Synonym: spring forth.
- Display-withdrawའཕྲོ་འདུ་/སྤྲོ་འདུ་ 'phro 'du/spro 'du - pronounce: throdu. Synonym: emission-reabsorption.
- Distractedཡངས་བ་ yengs ba - pronounce: yéng wa. Distraction. Synonyms: absent-minded, absent-mindedness.
- Disturbing spiritའདྲེ་ ‘dre - pronounce: dré. Synonym: interfering spirit.
- Dullརྨོངས་པ་ rmongs pa - pronounce: mongpa. Dulness.
- Emergeའཆར་བ་ 'char ba - pronounce: charwa.
- Emptinessསྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ stong pa nyid - pronounce: tongpa nyi.
- Emptyསྟོང་པ་ stong pa - pronounce: tongpa.
- Empty dynamicགདངས་ gdangs - pronounce: dang.
- Empty essenceངོ་བོ་ ngo bo - pronounce: ngowo. More rarely: inherent essence (dual mode).
- Enchantmentསྒྱུ་མ་ sgyu ma - pronounce: gyuma. Also: magical illusion.
- Enlightened activityའཕྲིན་ལས་ 'phrin las - pronounce: trinle.
- Enlightened presenceདགོངས་པ་ dgongs pa - pronounce: gongpa.
- Entrenchedཐག་བཅོད་ thag bcod - pronounce: thagchö. (Definitely) entrenched. Also: (definitively) decided.
- Equal absorptionསྙོམས་འཇུག་ snyoms 'jug - pronounce: nyomjug.
- Essential clarity-luminosityདོན་གྱི་འོད་གསལ་ don gyi 'od gsal - pronounce: dön gi ösäl.
- Essential instructionsདོན་ཁྲིད་ don khrid - pronounce: döntri.
- Eternalistic viewརྟག་པའི་མཐའ་ rtag pa'i mtha' - pronounce: tagpe ta.
- eternalistic viewརྟག་པའི་ལྟ་བ་ rtag pa'i lta ba - pronounce: tagpé tawa See also : yod par lta ba.
- eternalistic viewཡོད་པར་ལྟ་བ་ yod par lta ba - pronounce: yöpar tawa See also: rtag pa'i lta ba.
- Equanimityམཉམ་ཉིད་ mnyam nyid - pronounce: nyamnyi. Also: evenness.
- Examine (to)དཔྱོད་པ་ dpyod pa - pronounce: chöpa.
- Existཡོད་པ་ yod pa - pronounce: yö pa. Existing.
- Experienceཉམས་ nyams - pronounce: nyam.
- External dynamicརྩལ་ rtsal - pronounce: tsäl. Also: illusory dynamic (general meaning).
- Fall into biasཕྱོགས་ལྷུང་ phyogs lhung - pronounce: choglung.
- Fall into the original stateརྣལ་དུ་དབབ་པ་ rnal du dbab pa - pronounce: nel du wab pa.
- Fast walkingརྐང་མགྱོགས་/མཁྱོགས་ rkang mgyogs/mkhyogs - pronounce: kang gyog/khyog.
- Filiationཆོ་འབྲང་ cho 'brang - pronounce: chodrang.
- Five phases / five stagesརིམ་ལྔ་ rim lnga - pronounce: rim na.
- Five Victors familiesརྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ་ rgyal ba rigs lnga - pronounce: gyelwa rig na.
- Fixationཞེན་འཛིན་ zhen 'dzin - pronounce: shendzin. Synonym: to fixate.
- Flesh eaterཤ་ཟ་ sha za - pronounce: shasa.
- Flexibiltyཤིན་སྦྱང་ shin sbyang - pronounce: shin jang.
- Free from limitationsམཐའ་གྲོལ་ mtha' grol - pronounce: thadröl.
- Fruitའབྲས་བུ་ ‘bras bu - pronounce: drebu. Also: fruition.
- Gatheredསྒྲིལ་བ་ sgril ba - pronounce: dril wa.
- Genuineགཉུག་མ་ gnyug ma - pronounce: nyugma. Synonym: authentic.
- Ghoulགྲུལ་བུམ་ grul bum - pronounce: drülbum.
- Go beyond (to)ལ་བཟླ་བ་ la bzla ba - pronounce: la da wa.
- Grasp of existenceབདེན་འཛིན་ bden 'dzin - pronounce: dendzin.
- Grasping / to graspའཛིན་པ་ 'dzin pa - pronounce: dzinpa. Synonym: clinging / to cling.
- Great Perfectionརྫོགས་ཆེན་ rdzogs chen - pronounce: dzogchen.
- Groundགཞི་ gzhi - pronounce: shi.
- Groundས་ sa - pronounce: sa.
- Ground of allཀུན་གཞི་ kun gzhi - pronounce: künshi.
- Guide (to) to the higher destiniesགནས་འདྲེན་ gnas ‘dren - pronounce: nedren.
- Heart essenceསྙིང་ཐིག་ snying thig - pronounce: nyingthik. Also: heart sphere.
- imageདཔེ་མཚོན་ dpe mtshon - pronounce: pétsön
- Immediate leapཐོད་རྒལ་ thod rgal - pronounce: thögäl.
- Immediate leap spontaneously perfectedལྷུན་གྲུབ་ཐོད་རྒལ་ lhun grub thod rgal - pronounce: lündrup thögäl.
- Immutableམི་འགྱུར་ mi 'gyur - pronounce: mingyur. Also: unchanging.
- Impurityཟག་པ་ zag pa - pronounce: zag pa.
- Impute (to)བརྟགས་པ་ brtags pa - pronounce: tagpa. Synonym: determine (to).
- Incorporateབསྲེ་བ་ bsre ba - pronounce: sewa. Also: mingle.
- Indeterminate stateལུང་མ་བསྟན་ lung ma bstan - pronounce: lung ma ten. Synonyms: indifferent state; fuzzy state.
- Inexorableའགག་མེད་ 'gag med - pronounce: gagme. Also: unstoppable.
- Inseparability of the View and the enlightened Presence (the)ལྟ་དགོངས་དབྱེར་མེད་ lta dgongs dbyer med - pronounce: ta gong yer mé
- Inseparableདབྱེར་མེད་ dbyer med - pronounce: yerme.
- Instant knowledgeངོ་ཤེས་ ngo shes - pronounce: ngoshe.
- intermediate (luminous) state of Reality (of phenomena)ཆོས་ཉིད་བར་དོ་ chos nyid ('od gsal gyi) bar do - pronounce: chönyi (ösel gi) bardo
- intermediate (painful) state of the moment of deathཆི་ཁ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་བར་དོ་ ‘chi kha (sdug bsngal) gyi bar do / ‘chi kha’i bardo - pronounce: chika (dugnèl) gi bardo/ chiké bardo
- Intermediate stateབར་མ་དོ་སྲིད་པ་ / བར་སྲིད་ / བར་མ་དོ་ / བར་དོ་ bar ma do srid pa / bar srid / bar ma do / bar do - pronounce: bar ma do sipa / barsi / barmado / bardo.
- intermediate state from birth to deathསྐྱེ་ཤིའི་བར་དོ་ skye shi'i bar do - pronounce: kyéshi bardo.
- Intermediate state of becomingསྲིད་པ་བར་དོ་ srid pa (las kyi) bar do - pronounce: sipa (le ki) bardo.
- Internal dynamicརོལ་ rol - pronounce: röl. Synonym: illusory display.
- Junction (with next life)མཚམས་སྦྱོར་ mtshams sbyor - pronounce: tsam jor.
- Laid-backལྷུག་པ་ lhug pa - pronounce: lhugpa.
- Let beཅོག་བཞག་ cog bzhag - pronounce: chok shak.
- Life forceསྲོག་ srog - pronounce: sog.
- Light rayའོད་ཟེར་ 'od zer - pronounce: öser. Also: light radiance.
- Limpidityདྭངས་ dwangs - pronounce: dang. (Empty) limpidity.
- Lineageབརྒྱུད་ brgyud - pronounce: gyü.
- Loosenགློད་པ་ glod pa - pronounce: löpa. Synonym: letting go.
- lord of the landས་བདག sa bdag - pronounce: sadag
- Lord of the primordial evidenceརིག་འཛིན་ rig 'dzin - pronounce: rigdzin.
- Loss of controlརང་ཚུགས་ ཤོར་བ་ rang tshugs shor ba - pronounce: rangtsug shorwa.
- Malevolent beingsགནོད་བྱེད་ gnod byed - pronounce: nöjé.
- manifestation from the Groundགཞི་སྣང་ gzhi snang - pronounce: shinang.
- Masterབླ་མ་ bla ma - pronounce: lama.
- Materialistic viewདངོས་པོར་ལྟ་བ་ dngos por lta ba - pronounce: ngöpor tawa.
- Matrix spaceཀློང་ klong - pronounce: long.
- meditative absorption of (the time of) deathཐུགས་དམ་ thugs dam - pronounce: thugdam
- Meditative concentrationབསམ་གཏན་ bsam gtan - pronounce: samten.
- Mental bodyཡིད་ལུས་ yid lus - pronounce: yilü.
- Mergeཐིམ་པ་ thim pa - pronounce: timpa. Litt.: merge oneself with.
- Mind holdingསེམས་འཛིན་ sems 'dzin - pronounce: semdzin.
- Natural expressionརང་བཞིན་ rang bzhin - pronounce: rangshin. Also: Pure expression; Nature of the mind.
- Natural freedomརང་གྲོལ་ rang grol - pronounce: rang dröl. Synonyms: naturally free.
- natural intermediate state of birthplaceརང་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་གནས་བར་དོ་ rang bzhin skye gnas bar do - pronounce: rangshin kyéné bardo
- Natural risingརང་ཤར་ rang shar - pronounce: rangshar.
- Natural stateགནས་ལུགས་ gnas lugs - pronounce: nelug.
- Natural streamརང་བབས་ rang babs - pronounce: rangbab. Synonym: natural flow.
- Nature of the mindསེམས་ཉིད་ sems nyid - pronounce: semnyi.
- nihilistic viewམེད་པར་ལྟ་བ་ med par lta ba - pronounce: mépar tawa See also: chad mtha'
- Not to beམིན་ min - pronounce: min.
- Non-existenceམེད་པ་ med pa - pronounce: mé pa. Non-existent.
- Non humanམི་མ་ཡིན་ mi ma yin - pronounce: mi ma yin.
- Not to correct the mindསེམས་མ་འཆོས་ sems ma ‘chos - pronounce: sem ma chö. Also: do not correct the mind!
- Obstacleབར་ཆད་ bar chad - pronounce: barche. Synonyms: disruption; disrupted.
- Obstacle and hindranceགེགས་བར་ཆད་ gegs bar chad - pronounce: barché mé lam. Synonym: obstacle and obstruction.
- Obstructive forceགེགས་ gegs - pronounce: geg. Synonym: obstruction.
- Offering thief spiritབཀོར་འདྲེ་ bkor ‘dre - pronounce: kordré.
- All-encompassingཀུན་ཁྱབ་ kun khyab - pronounce: künkyab. Also: omnipresent.
- One tasteརོ་གཅིག་ ro gcig - pronounce: rochik.
- Onenessཉག་གཅིག nyag gcig - pronounce: nyag chig.
- Opennessཕྱལ་བ་ phyal ba - pronounce: chel wa.
- Ordinary mindབློ་ blo - pronounce: lo.
- Oriented knowledgeརྣམ་ཤེས་ rnam shes - pronounce: namshe.
- Originalགདོད་མ་ gdod ma - pronounce: dö ma. Synonym: initial.
- Ornamentརྒྱན་ rgyan - pronounce: gyen.
- Passionཉོན་མོངས་པ་ nyon mongs pa - pronounce: nyön mong pa.
- Pathལམ་ lam - pronounce: lam.
- Path of junctionསྦྱོར་ལམ་ sbyor lam - pronounce: jorlam.
- Penetrating lucidityཟང་ཐལ་ zang thal - pronounce: zangthäl. Also: "translucidity".
- perfect enlightened ones/plenitude of pure enlightenmentསངས་རྒྱས་ sangs rgyas - pronounce: sangyé
- Post-contemplative stateརྗེས་ཐོབ་ rjes thob - pronounce: jethob. Also: integration.
- Powerདབང་ dbang - pronounce: wang. Also: potency.
- Powerfulདབང་པོ་ dbang po - pronounce: wangpo. Also: potent; mighty.
- Practical instructionsཉམས་ཁྲིད་ nyams khrid - pronounce: nyamtri.
- Preservingསྐྱོང་བ་ skyong ba - pronounce: kyongwa. Also: caring.
- Hungry spiritའབྱུང་པོ་ ‘byung po - pronounce: jung po. Synonym: preta.
- Prevent the being from entering (in the womb/matrix)ཇུག་བྱེད་གང་ཟག་འགག་པ་ jug byed gang zag 'gag pa - pronounce: jugje gang zag gagpa.
- Primaryཐོག་མ་ thog ma - pronounce: tog ma. Synonyms: first ; earliest.
- Primary stateགཤིས་ལུགས་ gshis lugs - pronounce: shilug.
- Primordialཡེ་ནས་ ye nas - pronounce: yene.
- Primordial Evidenceརིག་པ་ rig pa - pronounce: rigpa.
- Primordial groundཡེ་གཞི་ ye gzhi - pronounce: yeshi.
- Primordial knowledgeཡེ་ཤེས་ ye shes - pronounce: yeshe.
- Primordial purityཀ་དག་ ka dag - pronounce: kadak.
- Primordial spaceདབྱིངས་ dbyings - pronounce: ying.
- Primordial space of phenomenaཆོས་དབྱིངས་ chos dbyings - pronounce: chöying.
- Profound aspirationམོས་གུས་ mos gus - pronounce: mögu.
- Proliferationསྤྲོས་པ་ spros pa - pronounce: tröpa. Complexity; projection; alteration.
- Provenཡང་དག་པ་ yang dag pa - pronounce: yangdagpa.
- Provisional meaningདྲང་དོན་ drang don - pronounce: drangdön
- Psychic stream / psychic currentརང་རྒྱུད་ rang rgyud - pronounce: rang gyü.
- Pure and perfect mindབྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ byang chub sems - pronounce: jangchub sem.
- purifying sprinklerཁྲུས་ཆོག khrus chog - pronounce: trüchog
- Quintessenceསྙིང་པོ་ snying po - pronounce: nying po.
- Radiance (of emptiness)མདངས་ mdangs - pronounce: dang.
- Rainbow bodyའཇའ་ལུས་ 'ja' lus - pronounce: jalü.
- Reach the original stateརྣལ་དུ་འཇུག་པ་ rnal du ‘jug pa - pronounce: näl du jugpa.
- Realityབདེན་པ་ bden pa - pronounce: denpa. Synonym: truth.
- realityདོན་ don - pronounce: dön
- Reality of phenomenaཆོས་ཉིད་ chos nyid - pronounce: chönyi. Also: ultimate reality of phenomena; ultimate reality.
- Realize (to)རྟོགས་པ་ rtogs pa - pronounce: togpa.
- Recurring tendencyབག་ཆགས་ bag chags : pronounce: bag chag. Synonym: tendency ; imprint.
- red increaseམཆེད་པ་ mched pa - pronounce: chépa in Sanskrit: ālokabhāsa
- Reference pointགཟའ་གཏད་ gza' gtad - pronounce: sate.
- Relative realityཀུན་རྫོབ་བདེན་པ་ kun rdzob bden pa - pronounce: kündzob denpa.
- Relax (to)ལྷོད་པ་ lhod pa - pronounce: lhöpa.
- Relaxed (state)ལྷོད་དེར་/ལྷོད་དེ་བ་ lhod der/lhod de ba - pronounce: lhöder/lhödéwa. Synonym: at ease.
- Remainingསྒོམ་པ་ sgom pa - pronounce: gompa. Also: contemplate (meditate), dwelling.
- Resplendentlhang nger/lhang nge ba - pronounce: lhang ner/lhang néwa.
- Restlessརྒོད་པ་ rgod pa - pronounce: göpa. Synonym: agitated; wildness, wild.
- Reversalརུ་ལོག་ ru log - pronounce: rulog.
- Riseཤར་བ་ shar ba - pronounce: sharwa. Synonym: arise.
- samaya demonདམ་སྲི་ dam sri - pronounce: damsi
- Self-appearancesརང་སྣང་ rang snang - pronounce: rang nang. Also: self-manifestation.
- Self-appearedརང་འབྱུང་ rang 'byung - pronounce: rangjung.
- Self-appeared primordial evidence (the)རང་འབྱུང་གི་རིག་པ་ rang ‘byung gi rig pa - pronounce: rangjung ki rigpa.
- Settle in the original state(སེམས་)རྣལ་དུ་གཞག་པ་ (sems) rnal du gzhag pa - pronounce: (sem) näl du shagpa.
- Settling in the refugeསྐྱབས་འགྲོ་ skyabs 'gro - pronounce: kyab dro.
- Slumberབྱིང་བ་ bying ba - pronounce: ching wa. Drowsiness.
- Soul of the (vital) forceསྒྲ་བླ་ sgra bla - pronounce: drala.
- Sovereign manifestation ཐུགས་རྗེ་ thugs rje - pronounce: thugje.
- Sovereign manifestation of the natural expression of the universal empty essence (the)ངོ་བོ་རང་བཞིན་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ ngo bo rang bzhin thugs rje - pronounce: nowo rangshin thugje.
- Space of phenomenaམཁའ་ mkha' - pronounce: kha. Also: phenomenal space.
- Sphereཐིག་ལེ་ (Light) sphere. thig le - pronounce: thigle.
- Sphere of (sensory) perceptionsསྐྱེ་མཆེད་ skye mched - pronouce: kye(m)che.
- Spontaneously perfectedལྷུན་གྲུབ་ lhun grub - pronounce: lündrup.
- Stainདྲི་མ་ dri ma - pronounce: dri ma.
- State of stuporཧད་དེ་བ་ had de ba - pronounce: hedewa. Synonyms: blind stupor; incredible stupor.
- Streamརྒྱུད་ rgyud - pronounce: gyu. Also: continuity; weft.
- Stream of consciousnessསེམས་རྒྱུད་ sems rgyud - pronounce: sem gyu.
- Subject-objectགཟུང་འཛིན་ gzung 'dzin - pronounce: zung dzin.
- Sublimeདམ་པ་ dam pa - pronounce: dam pa.
- Suchnessདེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་ de bzhin nyid - pronounce: déshin nyi Sanskrit: tathāgata
- Suchnessདེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ de (kho na) nyid - pronounce: de (kho na) nyi. Synonym: reality as it is.
- Superior knowledgeཤེས་རབ་ shes rab - pronounce: sherab.
- Supremeམཆོག་ mchog - pronounce: chog.
- Symbolic clarity-luminosityརྟགས་ཀྱི་འོད་གསལ་ / དཔེའི་འོད་གསལ་ rtags kyi 'od gsal / dpe’i ‘od gsal - pronounce: tag ki ösäl / pé ösäl.
- take over the citadelབཙན་ས་ཟིན་པ་ btsan sa zin (pa) - pronounce: tsänsa zin(pa)
- Sphere of onenessཐིག་ལེ་ཉག་གཅིག་ thig le nyag gcig - pronounce: tiglé nyag chig.
- The Teacherསྟོན་པ་ ston pa - pronounce: tönpa.
- Thinking mindསེམས་ sems - pronounce: sem.
- Three Bodiesསྐུ་གསུམ་ sku gsum - pronounce: kusum In Sanskrit : Trikāya
- Time of conceptionསྐྱེ་སྲིད་ skye srid - pronounce: kyesi.
- Time of deathའཆི་སྲིད་ ‘chi srid - pronounce: chisi.
- Traditionལུགས་ lugs - pronounce: lug. Synonym: approach.
- Transfer of powerདབང་བསྐུར་ dbang bskur - pronounce: wang kur. Also: to confer the power/conferring power.
- Triple Realityགསུམ་ཉིད་ gsum nyid - pronounce: sumnyi
- Ultimate realityདོན་དམ་བདེན་པ་ don dam bden pa - pronounce: döndam denpa.
- Unalteredམ་བཅོས་པ་ ma bcos pa - pronounce: machöpa. Also: unfabricated.
- Unbornམ་སྐྱེ་པ་ ma skye pa - pronounce: ma kye pa.
- Free from complexityསྤྲོས་བྲལ་ spros bral - pronounce: trödräl. Also: uncomplicated.
- Unconditioned (phenomenon)འདུས་མ་བྱས་ 'dus ma byas - pronounce: dü ma je.
- Undoing the bindingཁྲེགས་གཅོད་ khregs gcod - pronounce: trekchö.
- Undoing the binding in primordial purityཀ་དག་ཁྲེགས་གཅོད་ ka dag khregs gcod - pronounce: kadag trekchö.
- Unevidenceམ་རིག་པ་ ma rig pa - pronounce: marigpa. Also: ignorance.
- Unhinderedགེགས་མེད་ gegs med - pronounce: gegmé. Synonym: without obstruction.
- Uninterruptedབར་མེད་ bar med - pronounce: barme. Synonym: without interruption.
- Unionམཉམ་སྦྱོར་ mnyam sbyor - pronounce: nyam jor. (Winds) junction.
- Unipointedརྩེ་གཅིག་ rtse gcig - pronounce: tsechig. Synonyms: one pointed; single pointed.
- Unique (uniqueness)གཅིག་པུ་ gcig pu - pronounce : chig pu. Synonym: single.
- Unobstructed pathབར་ཆད་མེད་ལམ་ bar chad med lam - pronounce: barché mé lam.
- Unproducedམ་བྱས་ ma byas - pronounce: majé. Synonym: non-produced.
- Unsulliedདྲི་མེད་ dri med - pronounce: dri mé. Synonym: without stain.
- Unwaveringམི་གཡོ་བ་ mi g.yo ba - pronounce: mi yowa. Synonyms: without flickering; without fluctuation.
- Vast / vastitudeཡངས་པ་ yangs pa - pronounce: yangpa. Synonym: spaciousness.
- Viewལྟ་བ་ lta ba - pronounce: tawa. Also: see/sight; watch.
- Visionསྣང་བ་ snang ba - pronounce: nangwa. Also: appearances; manifestation.
- Warrior genieགནོད་སྦྱིན་ nöjin - pronounce: nöjin.
- Warrior godདགྲ་ལྷ་ dgra lha - pronounce: dra lha.
- Wavering / waverགཡོ་བ་ g.yo ba - pronounce: yowa. Synonyms: flickering; flicker.
- Way / mannerཚུལ་ tshul - pronounce: tshül. Synonym: mode.
- white appearanceསྣང་བ་ snang ba - pronounce: nangwa in Sanskrit: āloka
- Without birthསྐྱེ་བ་མེད་པ་ skye ba med pa - pronounce: kyewa me pa.
- Without deliberate effortབྱ་རྩོལ་མེད་པ་ bya rtsol med pa - pronounce: jatsöl mepa. Synonym: without apparent effort.
- Without effort or reachརྩོལ་སྒྲུབ་མེད་པ་ rtsol sgrub med pa - pronounce: tsöl drub mé pa.
- Without impurityཟག་མེད་ zag med - pronounce: zag mé.
- Without referenceགཟའ་གཏད་མེད་པ་ gza' gtad med pa - pronounce: sate mepa.
- wondrous miracleཆོ་འཕྲུལ་ cho 'phrul - pronounce: chotrül
- Youthful vase-bodyགཞོན་ནུ་བུམ་སྐུ་ gzhon nu bum sku - pronounce: shön nu bumku.
- Zombieརོ་ལངས་ ro langs - pronounce: rolang.
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