84000 Glossary of Terms
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ཁྱུ་མཆོག | Glossary of Terms
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ཁྱུ་མཆོག
- khyu mchog
- vṛṣabha
- ṛṣabha
- Term
Publications: 2
Translation by Celso Wilkinson · Laura Goetz · L.S. Summer
- bull
- ཁྱུ་མཆོག
- khyu mchog
- vṛṣabha
- ṛṣabha
A bull. Also the second zodiac sign, vṛṣabha, which corresponds to Taurus. Both vṛṣabha and ṛṣabha can be used as respectful epithets implying preeminence, usually in phrases such as “a bull among men” (a frequent epithet of the Buddha), “a bull among sages,” and the like. Here, the bull is the twenty-ninth of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- dominant bull
- ཁྱུ་མཆོག
- khyu mchog
- vṛṣabha