84000 Glossary of Terms

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སོ་བཞི་བཅུ་དང་ལྡན་ཞིང་སོ་མཉམ་ལ་སོ་དཀར་བ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སོ་བཞི་བཅུ་དང་ལྡན་ཞིང་སོ་མཉམ་ལ་སོ་དཀར་བ།

  • so bzhi bcu dang ldan zhing so mnyam la so dkar ba
  • catvāriṃśaddantaḥ śukla­dantaḥ *samadantaḥ
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  • forty even and white teeth
  • སོ་བཞི་བཅུ་དང་ལྡན་ཞིང་སོ་མཉམ་ལ་སོ་དཀར་བ།
  • so bzhi bcu dang ldan zhing so mnyam la so dkar ba
  • catvāriṃśaddantaḥ śukla­dantaḥ *samadantaḥ
Definition in this text:

Having “forty even and white teeth” is included in the thirty-two signs of a great being. Depending on the list, this sign is often divided into two separate signs of having “forty teeth” and having “white teeth.” In the Sanskrit parallel of The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant, this quality is described as having “very beautiful and very bright teeth” (suśobhana­dantaḥ sudīpta­dantaḥ).