84000 Glossary of Terms
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ཐུན་ཚོད། | Glossary of Terms
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ཐུན་ཚོད།
- ཐུན།
- thun tshod
- thun
- prahara
- Term
Publications: 3
Translation by Daniel McNamara
- period
- ཐུན།
- thun
- —
This most commonly refers to a meditation session but derives from the division of a twenty-four-hour day into eight three-hour periods. This also refers to the period in which a person takes two thousand seven hundred breaths.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- prahara
- ཐུན།
- thun
- prahara
A unit of time measuring a quarter of the day or night; about three hours.
Translation by Tenpa Tsering
- watch
- ཐུན་ཚོད།
- thun tshod
- prahara
A unit of time equal to three hours, thus comprising one eighth of the day.