84000 Glossary of Terms

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སོ་བཞི་བཅུ་ཐགས་བཟང་བ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སོ་བཞི་བཅུ་ཐགས་བཟང་བ།

  • so bzhi bcu thags bzang ba
  • catvāriṃśadavirala­danta
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  • forty close-fitting teeth
  • སོ་བཞི་བཅུ་ཐགས་བཟང་བ།
  • so bzhi bcu thags bzang ba
  • catvāriṃśadavirala­danta
Definition in this text:

Listed in The Question of Mañjuśrī as the seventh of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In the Mahāvyutpatti and other lists this is represented as two separate signs: “forty teeth” (catvāriṃśaddanta; tshems bzhi bcu mnga’ ba) and “close-fitting teeth” (aviraladanta; tshems thags bzang ba).