84000 Glossary of Terms

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ལྕེས་གདོང་གི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ཐམས་ཅད་ཁེབས། | Glossary of Terms

  • ལྕེས་གདོང་གི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ཐམས་ཅད་ཁེབས།

  • lces gdong gi dkyil ’khor thams cad khebs
  • jihvayā sarva­mukha­maṇḍalam ācchādyati
  • Term
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  • tongue that covers the entire circle of his face
  • ལྕེས་གདོང་གི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ཐམས་ཅད་ཁེབས།
  • lces gdong gi dkyil ’khor thams cad khebs
  • jihvayā sarva­mukha­maṇḍalam ācchādyati
Definition in this text:

This description is in reference to one of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In some lists of the signs, this one is simply described as having a long and slender tongue, but in others it is explained that the tongue is capable of reaching anywhere on the face up to the hairline.