rtogs brjod

རྟོགས་བརྗོད
1) tales of former lives, jatakas; 2) [auto]biography [avadana]/ history; 3) express realization; 4) rtogs pa brjod pa'i sde [IW]

rtogs pa brjod pa sometimes biography / autobiography [avadana] / history; byung ba brjod pa'i gtam, narration, history; biography [RY]

avadana, biography, autobiography, apologue, discriminative speech, utterance of what is fully grasped, common designation for the recital of the events of an ideal life, avadana, expression of realizations, treatise on a particular topic [JV]

1) tales of former lives, jatakas; 2) [auto]biography [avadana]/ history; 3) express realization; 4) rtogs pa brjod pa'i sde [one of the 12 divisions of the teachings] [IW]