84000 Glossary of Terms

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གཤོལ། | Glossary of Terms

  • གཤོལ།

  • gshol
  • hala
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • plow
  • གཤོལ།
  • gshol
  • hala
Definition in this text:

The Sanskrit may also refer to a weapon or a plow repurposed as a weapon, which would make sense in the context of the short list of weapons (34–43) found among the eighty designs, although the Tibetan meaning itself doesn’t connote this secondary meaning. Here its image is the fortieth of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.