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ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས། | Glossary of Terms
ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས།
shed las skyes
manuja
- Term
Publications: 3
Manu being the archetypal human, the progenitor of humankind, in the Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, and other Indian texts, “born of Manu” is a synonym of “human being” or humanity in general. Also rendered “son of Manu.”
Translation by Venerable Jampa Losal · YangDol Tsatultsang
- Born of Manu
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས།
- shed las skyes
- manuja
Manu being the archetypal human, the progenitor of mankind, in the Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, and other Indian texts, “born of Manu” is a synonym of “human being” or mankind in general. Also rendered “son of Manu.”
Translation by Mattia Salvini
- Descendant of Manu
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས།
- shed las skyes
- manuja
Literally “born from Manu,” considered the first ancestor of all humans.
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Humankind
- ཤེད་ལས་སྐྱེས་པ།
- shed las skyes pa
- manuja