84000 Glossary of Terms

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དུས་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms

  • དུས་ཅན།

  • ནག་པོ།
  • dus can
  • nag po
  • kālika
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Publications: 3
Translation by Robert Miller
  • Kālika
  • ནག་པོ།
  • nag po
  • kālika
Definition in this text:

The nāga king who lauded Siddhārtha after he gave up his austerities and prepared to sit under the bodhi tree.

1 passage contains this term
Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Kālika
  • ནག་པོ།
  • nag po
  • kālika
Definition in this text:

The king of nāgas.

4 passages contain this term
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Kālika
  • དུས་ཅན།
  • dus can
  • kālika
Definition in this text:

A nāga king who became a pupil of the Buddha. Gandhara scultpures represent his conversion.

1 passage contains this term