84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་ཆུ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་ཆུ།

  • yon tan brgyad kyi chu
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Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • water of the eight qualities
  • ཡོན་ཏན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་ཆུ།
  • yon tan brgyad kyi chu
  • —
Definition in this text:

The eight qualities of water: (1) sweet-tasting; (2) cool; (3) soft; (4) light; (5) transparent; (6) clean; (7) not harmful to the throat; and (8) beneficial to the stomach.

2 passages contain this term