84000 Glossary of Terms

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གླང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། | Glossary of Terms

  • གླང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

  • glang po rin po che
  • hastiratna
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • precious elephant
  • གླང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
  • glang po rin po che
  • hastiratna
Definition in this text:

One of the seven treasures of the cakravartin king. The precious elephant is described as having magical abilities and sometimes as having six tusks. A passage about the precious elephant is found in Toh 95, The Play in Full, 3.7. See also Toh 4087, the Kāraṇa­prajñapti, folio 119.b.

1 Related glossary entries:

རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྣ་བདུན།

  • sapta ratnāni
  • saptaratna
  • saptoparatna
  • seven jewels
  • seven precious attributes
  • seven precious implements
  • seven precious possessions
  • seven precious treasures
  • seven royal treasures
  • seven treasures