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གླེང་གཞིའི་སྡེ། | Glossary of Terms
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གླེང་གཞི་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- གླེང་གཞི།
- གླེང་གཞིའི་སྡེ།
- gleng gzhi’i sde
- gleng gzhi
- gleng gzhi brjod pa’i sde
- nidāna
- Term
- ethical narrations
- གླེང་གཞི་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- gleng gzhi brjod pa’i sde
- nidāna
One of the “twelve branches of excellent speech.”
- ethical narrations
- གླེང་གཞིའི་སྡེ།
- gleng gzhi’i sde
- nidāna
One among the twelve sections of scripture.
- introduction
- གླེང་གཞི།
- གླེང་གཞིའི་སྡེ།
- gleng gzhi
- gleng gzhi’i sde
- nidāna
Literally, “foundation of the narrative.” One of the twelve aspects of the wheel of Dharma.
- introduction
- གླེང་གཞི།
- gleng gzhi
- nidāna
The introductory section of a sūtra or other Buddhist scripture that establishes the time and setting of the discourse.
- narratives
- གླེང་གཞིའི་སྡེ།
- gleng gzhi’i sde
- nidāna
- 尼陀那
One of the twelve branches of Buddhist scriptures.
- narratives
- གླེང་གཞིའི་སྡེ།
- gleng gzhi’i sde
- nidāna
One of the twelve branches of Buddhist scriptures.
- nidāna
- གླེང་གཞི།
- gleng gzhi
- nidāna
Introductory part of a sūtra .
- nidāna
- གླེང་གཞི།
- gleng gzhi
- nidāna
As one of the twelve aspects of the Dharma, it means the introductions to teachings.
See also “twelve wheels of the Dharma.”
- context
- གླེང་གཞི།
- gleng gzhi
- nidāna
- contexts
- གླེང་གཞིའི་སྡེ།
- gleng gzhi’i sde
- nidāna
Sixth of the twelve branches of the scriptures.
- opening formula
- གླེང་གཞི།
- gleng gzhi
- nidāna
- prologue
- གླེང་གཞི།
- gleng gzhi
- nidāna
The introductory sections of a sūtra. Literally it can mean “cause.” One of the nine aspects of the Dharma according to this sūtra. More commonly there are said to be twelve that include these nine.
- themes
- གླེང་གཞིའི་སྡེ།
- gleng gzhi’i sde
- nidāna