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  • noun Plural form of nye.

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Examples

  • If the actions of our body and speech had merely become careless (bag-med-pa), but the other six conjoining factors are not present, then it is merely a faulty action (nyes-byas).

    Factors Involved in Transgressing Tantric Vows 2008

  • Human nature being what it is, theayes always have it and the nyes lose in the barain.

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  • It serves as a basis for not engaging in faulty behavior (nyes-spyod).

    Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006

  • Buddha prohibited for those training as bodhisattvas to reach enlightenment and to be of as much benefit to others as is possible: eighteen actions that, if committed, constitute a root downfall (byang-sems-kyi tsa-ltung), forty-six types of faulty behavior (nyes-byas).

    Root Bodhisattva Vows 2002

  • Every empowerment, subsequent permission, and mantra-gathering entails taking the bodhisattva vows, which are to refrain from faulty actions (nyes-pa) that would prevent us from being of the greatest help to others.

    Basic Features of Tantra 2002

  • The secondary bodhisattva vows are to restrain from forty-six faulty actions (nyes-byas).

    Secondary Bodhisattva Vows 1997

  • She never let on beyond that first look -- she seen she had been brought into the house of us can-nyes.

    The Man Next Door Emerson Hough 1890

  • nao ai will cuddlez up wif dis blanky and dis chokilt and taeks a nyes long nap

    Dis mah hoomin. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Having the full teachings and instructions for shamatha refers primarily to having detailed teachings on the five deterrents to concentration (nyes-pa lnga) and the eight composing mental factors (‘du-byed brgyad) for overcoming them.

    Achieving Shamatha 2001

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