84000 Glossary of Terms

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རལ་པ་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms

  • རལ་པ་ཅན།

  • ral pa can
  • śikhin
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  • རལ་པ་ཅན།
  • ral pa can
  • śikhin
Definition in this text:

The Brahmā of the universe Aśoka, who is personally called Śikhin to distinguish him from Brahmās of other universes (see Brahmā). The second of the “seven buddhas of the past” is also called Śikhin but his name is rendered in Tibetan as gtsug gtor can.