Minor Tibetan Texts: 1. The song of the Eastern Snow-mountain — John Shaqi
Minor Tibetan Texts: 1. The song of the Eastern Snow-mountain
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Minor Tibetan Texts: 1. The song of the Eastern Snow-mountain
Buddhist literature, Tibetan; Prayer -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Buddhism; Tibetan language -- Texts
འབྲོག་, 6. Here ‘solitude, wilderness’ and so = རི་ཁྲོད་ = དགོན་པ་,
‘monastery.’ Not associated with any of the meanings connected with
‘pasturing.’ Cf. S. Ch. D. འབྲོག་དགོན་ s.v. འབྲོག་.
The famous Galdan monastery was erected on a site called འབྲོག་པོའི་རི་. See
S. Ch. D., The Monasteries of Tibet, J.A.S.B., Vol. I, N.S. (1905), p.
108.
མི་ཁོ་ see གླུད་.
མི་ཁོ་གླུད་ཡིན་ see གླུད་.
མི་གླུད་ see གླུད་.
མིག་བཟང་མ་ see ཡངས་.
མིག་ཡངས་ see ཡངས་.
མེད་པར་འདོད་པ་ see འཕུང་བར་འདོད་པ་.
མྱུར་, 52. J. མྱུར་བ་ adj., and མྱུར་དུ་ adv., ‘quick(ly), swift(ly).’ In Mil.
adj. མྱུར་པོ་. Desg. མྱུར་ and མྱུར་བ་ (ཉིད་), subst. ‘promptness,’ and མྱུར་པོ་
‘swift.’ As adv. མྱུར་བར་, or དུ་, or གྱིས་. S. Ch. D. མྱུར་བ་, verb, ‘to
hurry by, to pass on swiftly,’ (example དུས་མྱུར་བ་, ‘time quickly runs
away.’ [= tempus fugit]), and adv. quickly. Further adv. མྱུར་དུ་. Some
interesting compounds in S. Ch. D.: མྱུར་མ་ ‘a dancing woman,’ etc. Note
the expression ཅི་མྱུར་ ‘as speedily as possible,’ J.
According to my informants S. Ch. D.’s example དུས་མྱུར་བ་ is not good
Tibetan. It should either be དུས་མྱུར་པོ་ (or བ་) ཡིན་, lit. ‘time is
quick,’ or with another meaning also ‘the time is near’ (i.e. at hand,
coming quickly), or again དུས་མྱུར་པོ་དེ་, ‘the quick time.’ Time quickly
runs away, they say, should be expressed thus: དུས་མྱུར་བར་འགྲོ་གི་འདུག་.
Cf. also J., Desg.: སྨྱུར་བ་.
མྱུར་མ་ see མྱུར་.
ཙམ་གྱི་, 38. Here: ‘after only, as a result of only, in consequence of
only, mere, simple.’ But ཙམ་ has also the meanings: as soon as, simply
on (hearing), on the slightest (reproach, etc.) with a more prominent
stress on the time element, instantaneousness.
རྩེ་དྲུང་ see བརྩེ་.
རྩེ་པོ་ཏ་ལ་ see བརྩེ་.
རྩེ་ཞྭ་ see བརྩེ་.
རྩོད་པ་རྒྱབ་པ་ see གཤགས་འགྱེད་པ་.
བརྩེ་, 55. བརྩེ་ = བརྩེ་བ་, vb. ‘to love’ sbst. ‘love, kindness, affection,’
etc. Desg. has also a བརྩེ་, ‘acidity,’ which is also known to my
informants. His བརྩེ་དྲང་ ‘bodyguard of the Dalai Lama’ is held, by one of
my informants, to be a mistake for རྩེ་དྲུང་ (pronounce tsī-dung), the
monk-employees of the Tibetan government (and in a narrower sense: the
clerical staff, the clerks and secretaries amongst them) as contrasted
with the lay-employees of noble birth (not officials in general as with
S. Ch. D. 656a, but only those belonging to the nobility) who are
called དྲུང་འཁོར་. The word རྩེ་ in the compound is said to be derived from
the designation of the Potala palace where many of the government
offices are located, and which is called རྩེ་པོ་ཏ་ལ་, the Potala peak, but
most commonly, by the people, briefly རྩེ་, the peak. This explanation of
tsī-dung as a general class of lama government-employees is wider than
that given in Waddell’s table in his ‘Lhasa and its Mysteries,’ p. 165.
See also རྩེ་དྲུང་, ‘chief clerk or secretary’ in S. Ch. D. s.v. རྩེ་ཞྭ་
(1013b), the latter being the special name of the former’s hat.
བརྩེ་དྲང་ see བརྩེ་.
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