84000 Glossary of Terms

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འཕྲོག་མ། | Glossary of Terms

  • འཕྲོག་མ།

  • ལྕང་སྔོ།
  • སྲས་འཕན།
  • ’phrog ma
  • lcang sngo
  • sras ’phan
  • hārītī
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Publications: 11
Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Definition in this text:

A child-eating yakṣiṇī who was tamed by the Buddha and became a protectress of children, women, the saṅgha, and all beings.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Definition in this text:

A rākṣasī with hundreds of children that the Buddha converted into a protector of children. There is a temple specifically for her in Kathmandu.

Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Definition in this text:

A female yakṣa, previously an eater of children but tamed and converted by the Buddha and seen as a protectress. Consort of Pāñcika.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Definition in this text:

A yakṣiṇī; after conversion to Buddhadharma she became the protectress of children.

Translation by Thomas Doctor
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Definition in this text:

One of the great yakṣiṇīs.

Translation by James Gentry
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Translation by James Gentry
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Anna Zilman · Andreas Doctor · Adam Krug
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ལྕང་སྔོ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • lcang sngo
  • hārītī
Definition in this text:

A yakṣiṇī who converted to Buddhism.

Translation by James Gentry
  • Hārītī
  • འཕྲོག་མ།
  • ’phrog ma
  • hārītī
Definition in this text:

A child-eating demoness who was tamed by the Buddha and became a protectress of children, women, the saṅgha, and all beings.

Translation by Adam Krug
  • Hārītī
  • སྲས་འཕན།
  • sras ’phan
  • hārītī
Definition in this text:

A yakṣiṇī; a rākṣasī in the Mahā­māyūrī­vidyārājñī (Toh 559).