- sgom pa/
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- T45089
- སྒོམ་པ (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > sgom pa/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
The position of "chief civil official" of the Drikungpa ('bri gung pa) subsect of the Kagyü (bka' brgyud), in charge of military and civil affairs. The position was started c. 1180. In its early years the post was dominated by the Kyura (skyu ra) family, the family of Jikten Gonpo ('jig rten mgon po).
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David Higgins Lexicon of Tibetan Buddhist Topics and Terminology
- is contained in the numbered set
- lta sgom spyod 'bras/
- is part of the phrase
- sgom du med pa/, sgom du med pa/
- Sanskrit:
- bhāvana
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- meditation
- meditator
Passages
Passage
bsgom pa zhes bya ba ni/ lha'i rnal 'byor gyi ting nge 'dzin goms par byed pa ni/ bsgom pa zhes bya'o/ de la lha zhes bya ba ni chos kyi dbyings dang/ ye shes kyi bdag nyid dang/ de dag gis byin rlabs kyi mtshan ma rnams la bye ste/ de la khyad par du snang ba ni/ yongs su rdzogs pa'i gzugs kyi sku dang de'i cha shes su gtogs pa'i phyag rgya'i mtshan ma dang/ de bzhin gsung gi bye brag tu snang ba'o/ gsung de yang sgra dang de'i brdar gyur ba'i yi ge rnams su shes par bya'o/ tha mal par snang ba ni/ ye shes chen po'i dbang dang/ sngon gyi smon lam gyi shugs dang/ gdul ba'i dkar po'i bag chags kyi rgyu las/ snod dang bcud du bcas pa'i gzugs su 'phags pa'i byin gyis brlabs snang ba 'byung ba'o/...
Note
Rong zom pa discusses "meditation" as the ninth of eleven topics that constitute the fundamentals of Tantra. (See also under the terms rnal 'byor and lha.)
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Passage
sgom du med par la bzloa bas... [5 headings] [From the Thig le kun gsal:]
ngo bo rang bzhin rgyun chad med
nges tshig yid la mi byed pa
ngang gnas mi byed bya mi dgos
sgom med dbye ba rnam pa gnyis
mtshan bcas bsgom du med pa dang
mtshan med bsgom du med pa'o
re re la'ang gnyis gnyis bstan
gshis la bsgom du med pa dang
rtogs pas bsgom du med pa'o
ma bsgoms rgyun chad med pa'i dpe
chu bo lta bur gnas pa yin
ma bsgoms don dang mi 'bral ba
sbyor rtsis sbrang 'dab 'byar ba bzhin
ma bsgoms dang gis tshig rnams dang
ngang dangs rang bzhin bdag nyid che
ye nas 'du 'bral med pa dang
bya rtsol rnams las 'das pa dang
lam la bgrod du med pa dang
rtogs pa mngon gyur sangs rgyas dang
rang byung ye shes yin pa dang
lhun grub ye sangs rgyas pa dang [362]
yid la bya ru med pa dang
dmigs pa'i yul dang bral ba dang
sgom med gzhan du med pa dang
bsgom du med pa'i thig rnams kun
nges bstan bzhin du shes par gyis/
Note
In commenting on sgom in the framework of lta sgom spyod 'bras (see this term for full context) as presented in the Thig le kun gsal {116071}, Klong chen pa also elaborates on the concept of non-meditation (or "beyond meditating" or "having nothing to do with meditation").
by David Higgins
Passage
bsgom pa la gnyis lam dang lam gyi chas rkyen no/ dang po ni/ thabs byams pa dang snying rje byang chub kyi sems bsgom pa dang/ chos thams cad kyi zab mo stong pa nyid bdag med pa'i don bsgom pa'o/ gnyis pa chas rkyen ni/ dad pa dang brtson 'grus so/ de ltar gnyis dgos pa'i rgyu mtshan yang dad pa med na chos la mi tshud cing/ lam dang 'bras bu la the tshom za ba'i skyon/ brtson 'grus med na dge sbyor phyi shol du lus pas yon tan rgyud la mi skye ba'i skyon/...
Note
Sgam po pa discusses meditation as it relates to the path of self growth and the determinants facilitating this path.
by David Higgins
Passage
sgom pa bya ba yang dag pa'i gnas lugs kyi don la goms pa la zer ba yin/ sdod tshugs brtan pa rkyang gis bsgom pa'i go mi chod/
Note
Padmasambhava concisely distinguishes between who is and who is not deserving of the title "meditator":
by David Higgins
See under lta sgom spyod 'bras and in particular under sgom du med pa.
Other Dictionaries
1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary
བསྒོམ་སྒོམ་བསྒོམས་སྒོམས་
Hopkins' Translations: meditate; meditation; cultivate; cultivation
Others' Translations: {C}progress; development
Sanskrit: {L}bhāvayati; {C,MV,MSA}bhāvanā; {MSA,MV}bhāvana (e.g.: {MSA}cintana-bhāvana); {MSA}abhyāsa
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2. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
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bsgom pa - meditation; to meditate, [bhavana]
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Meditation. In the context of Mahamudra or Dzogchen practice, meditation is the act of growing accustomed to or sustaining the continuity of the recognition of our buddha nature as pointed out by a qualified master. In the context of learning, contemplating and meditating, it means the act of assimilating the teachings into one's personal experience, then growing accustomed to them through actual practice
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1) meditation, practice, training, cultivation, meditation-training, familiarization, development, contemplation, creative imagination. 2) སྒོམ་པ་, བསྒོམས་པ་, བསྒོམ་པ་, སྒོམས་ trans. v.; to cultivate, meditate, practice, become accustomed to; 'make familiar with,' cultivate in meditation. 3) imagine, envision. 4) contemplate, think over, ponder, concentrate upon
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lha sgom pa - to visualize deities
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3. Ives Waldo Dictionary
1) (Tha dad pa bsgoms pa, bsgom pa, sgoms,, meditate [R]; 2) meditation [R]
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4. Jim Valby Dictionary
bhavana, meditation, creative imagination, conscious cultivation, meditative development, making a living experience of, contemplate, concentrated attention to the nature of things, close attention to, total attention, call up, to foster, meditate upon, bear, sustain, withstand, fancy, imagine, have, entertain, reproduce, systematic meditation, cultivate in meditation, training, to train in, to cultivate
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5. Richard Barron Dictionary
meditation; to meditate/ cultivate (in meditation)/ envision; isc. to nurture the experience of . . .
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6. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo
[597] 1. ༼ཐ་དད་པ༽ བསྒོམས་པ། བསྒོམ་པ། སྒོམས། ། བསམ་དོན་ཡང་ཡང་ཡིད་ལ་འདྲིས་པར་བྱེད་པ། ... ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་སྒོམ་པ། ... བཟོད་པ་སྒོམ་པ། ... 2. ཡིད་ལ་འདྲིས་པའི་ཐབས་ཤེས། ... གྲུབ་མཐའ་སོ་སོའི་ལྟ་སྤྱོད་སྒོམ་གསུམ། ... སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་གནས་ནས་སྒོམ་རྒྱག་པ། ...
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7. Thupten Phuntsok Dictionary
〔ཐ་དད་པ〕 (1) བསྒོམས་པ། བསྒོམ་པ། སྒོམས། བསམ་དོན་ཡང་ཡང་ཡིད་ལ་འདྲིས་པར་བྱེད་པ། ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་སྒོམ་པ། བཟོད་པ་སྒོམ་པ། (2) ཡིད་ལ་འདྲིས་པའི་ཐབས་ཤེས། གྲུབ་མཐའ་སོ་སོའི་ལྟ་སྤྱོད་སྒོ་གསུམ། སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་གནས་ནས་སྒོམ་རྒྱག་པ།
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8. smon lam tshig mdzod chen mo
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1. ཐ་དད་པ བསྒོམས་པ། བསྒོམ་པ། སྒོམས།། བསམ་དོན་ཡང་ཡང་ཡིད་ལ་འདྲིས་པར་བྱེད་པ། ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་སྒོམ་པ། བཟོད་པ་སྒོམ་པ།
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2. ཡིད་ལ་འདྲིས་པའི་ཐབས་ཤེས། གྲུབ་མཐའ་སོ་སོའི་ལྟ་སྤྱོད་སྒོམ་གསུམ། སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་གནས་ནས་སྒོམ་རྒྱག་པ།
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9. Mahāvyutpatti: Sanskrit-Tibetan-English Vocabulary
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- bhāvanā
10. Yogācāra Glossary
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- bhāvayat
- /bhū:bhāvayati
- bhāvanā
11. Negi Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary
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kri. (varta.; saka.; bhavi. བསྒོམ་པ། bhūta. བསྒོམས་པ། vidhau སྒོམས) bhāvayati — kathaṃ ca bodhisattvo'pakāriṣu sattveṣu suhṛtsaṃjñāṃ bhāvayati bo.bhū.102kha/131; śīlayati — yattatraivālambane vikalpasyāpravṛttiṃ śīlayanti, tacchīlaṃ pāramitā ca sā la.a.150ka/96; bhāvayate — bhāvayate sada laukikadhyānam rā.pa.237ka/132; bhāvyate — smṛtyupasthānadoṣāṇāṃ pratipakṣeṇa bhāvyate sū.a.226ka/136
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saṃ. 1. bhāvanam — śravaṇaṃ hi audārikaṃ cintanabhāvanaṃ sūkṣmam sū.a.213ka/117; bhāvanā — bhāvanā hi dvidhā, śabdabhāvanā arthabhāvanā ca pra.a.8-3/15; vibhāvanā — kathaṃ mahāmate bodhisattvo mahāsattvaḥ svacittadṛśyavibhāvanākuśalo bhavati la.a.87ka/34 2. pā. bhāvanā, daśadharmacaryāsu ekā — lekhanā pūjanā dānaṃ śravaṇaṃ vācanam udgrahaṇaṃ prakāśanā svādhyāyanaṃ cintanā bhāvanā ma.vyu.912
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vi. = སྒོམ་པ་པོ bhāvanaḥ padmamaṇḍalasaṃkāśaṃ bhāvayetpadmabhāvanaiḥ gu.si.86ka/12; dhyāyī — ya āsvādanāsamprayuktadhyānadhyāyī abhi.sphu.109kha/796.
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sgom pa/ has 3 other terms directly related to it, which are presented here.