four modes of rebirth; [the four] ways of taking birth, the four types of birth. see {skye gnas rnam pa bzhi}. four modes of birth
Mipham: {'gro ba rnams gang du skye ba'i skye gnas ni rnam pa bzhi ste, brdzus skyes dang, drod gsher skyes dang, mngal skyes dang, sgong skyes bzhi gang rung du thog mar skye ba len te, bzhi po de gong ma gong ma bzang ngo}there are four alternative modes through which living beings initially take rebirth: instantaneously-born, heat-and-moisture-born, womb-born, and egg-born. Of these four, the first is superior [to the second] and so forth
<term> four birthplaces of being, four kinds of birth