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སེམས་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms
སེམས་ཅན།
sems can
sattva
- Term
Publications: 6
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Sentient being
- སེམས་ཅན།
- sems can
- sattva
Translation by Gregory Forgues
- Sentient being
- སེམས་ཅན།
- sems can
- sattva
Often rendered simply as “being.”
Translation by Adam T. Miller
- Sentient being
- སེམས་ཅན།
- sems can
- sattva
Translation by Zsuzsa Majer
- Sentient being
- སེམས་ཅན།
- sems can
- sattva
Any living being in one of the six realms.
Translation by Zsuzsa Majer
- Sentient being
- སེམས་ཅན།
- sems can
- sattva
Any living being in one of the six realms.
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Translation by Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes · Konstantin Brockhausen · Konstantin Brockhausen · Katrin Querl · Konstantin Brockhausen · Susanne Fleischmann · Doris Unterthurner
- Sentient being
- སེམས་ཅན།
- sems can
- sattva