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sciences, temple, vihara, [gtsug lag khang]; temple, vihara, [-- lag khang] [RY]
Temple. The outer temple is a palace and the inner temple is the excellent teachings [RY]
sciences, literature, class, astrological sciences (peak-superior, branch-limb), that which is most important together with all the secondary elements pertaining to it, astrological system [JV]
sciences, temple, vihara, monastery, university pitaka, teachings [IW]
gtsug lag (gtsug lag)
- The corpus of literature associated with elemental divination and other related aspects of the classical sciences is sometimes designated by the term gtsug lag. In the present context, gtsug is hermeneutically defined as the "unchanging five elements" (mi 'gyur 'byung ba lnga); and lag as "the years and months which bring about divinatory understanding" (rtogs byed lo zla), or as "analysis by means of symbols" (g.yab mos btang gcod). Alternatively, gtsug refers to "the crown of the sublime ones from which this science emerges", and lag refers to "the hands of the recipients to whom it is entrusted" ('phags pa'i gtsug nas bton| zhu byed lag tu bzhag). GD (from the Glossary to Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings)