ཐོད་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms

84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཐོད་ཅན།
མི་ཐོད་ཅན།

thod can
mi thod can

kapālinī
kāpālinī

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Publications: 2

Translated as:

2

Kapālinī

The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī

Kapālinī

ཐོད་ཅན།

thod can

kapālinī

Definition in this text:

One of the vidyās attending upon Mañjuśrī.

1 passage contains this term

The Great Amulet

Kāpālinī

མི་ཐོད་ཅན།

mi thod can

kāpālinī

1 passage contains this term

Types of attestation for names and terms of the corresponding source language

AS

Attested in source text

This term is attested in a manuscript used as a source for this translation.

AO

Attested in other text

This term is attested in other manuscripts with a parallel or similar context.

AD

Attested in dictionary

This term is attested in dictionaries matching Tibetan to the corresponding language.

AA

Approximate attestation

The attestation of this name is approximate. It is based on other names where the relationship between the Tibetan and source language is attested in dictionaries or other manuscripts.

RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

This term is a reconstruction based on the Tibetan phonetic rendering of the term.

RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

This term is a reconstruction based on the semantics of the Tibetan translation.

SU

Source unspecified

This term has been supplied from an unspecified source, which most often is a widely trusted dictionary.