84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྨན་ཆེན། | Glossary of Terms

  • སྨན་ཆེན་པོ།

  • སྨན་ཆེན།
  • sman chen
  • sman chen po
  • mahauṣadha
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  • Mahauṣadha
  • སྨན་ཆེན།
  • sman chen
  • mahauṣadha
Definition in this text:

A minister who was the Buddha in a former life.

  • Mahauṣadha
  • སྨན་ཆེན་པོ།
  • sman chen po
  • mahauṣadha AS
Definition in this text:

A minister who was a past life of the Buddha Śākyamuni, his story is told as a jātaka story in the Mahosadhā or Mahāummaga Jātaka, story 546 of the Pali Jātaka collection.

  • Mahauṣadha
  • སྨན་ཆེན།
  • sman chen
  • mahauṣadha
Definition in this text:

Name of a bodhisattva, a hero of a jātaka who was a learned advisor to a king. In the Ummagga jātaka, he skillfully employs violence, but only when it is absolutely necessary to safeguard his country and its people.