84000 Glossary of Terms
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ཀླ་ཀློ། | Glossary of Terms
ཀླ་ཀློ།
kla klo
mleccha
- Term
Publications: 4
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- Barbarian
- ཀླ་ཀློ།
- kla klo
- mleccha
Translation by Zachary Beer
- Barbarian
- ཀླ་ཀློ།
- kla klo
- mleccha
An inhabitant of an uncivilized borderland where the Dharma has not been propagated.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- Barbarian
- ཀླ་ཀློ།
- kla klo
- mleccha
See “mleccha.”
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- Mleccha
- ཀླ་ཀློ།
- kla klo
- mleccha
This somewhat vague term is applied to people and societies outside the brahmanical fold, i.e., foreigners, indigenous tribal groups, etc. The term is rendered elsewhere in this translation as “barbarian.”