84000 Glossary of Terms

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ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།

  • nor bu rin po che
  • maṇiratna
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • precious jewel
  • ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
  • nor bu rin po che
  • maṇiratna
Definition in this text:

One of the seven treasures possessed by the cakravartin king. It is often equated with or described as a wish-fulfilling jewel (yid bzhin gyi nor bu). It is additionally included as the thirty-third of the eighty designs found on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata. A passage about the precious jewel is found in Toh 95, The Play in Full, 3.9. See also Toh 4087, the Kāraṇa­prajñapti, folio 121.b.

2 Related glossary entries:

རི་མོའི་རྗེས་ཀྱི་མཚན་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།

  • eighty designs

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