84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཡོངས་སུ་སྐྱོབ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཡོངས་སུ་སྐྱོབ་པ།

  • yongs su skyob pa
  • parītta
  • paritrāṇa
  • Term
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  • paritta
  • ཡོངས་སུ་སྐྱོབ་པ།
  • yongs su skyob pa
  • parītta
  • paritrāṇa
Definition in this text:

A Pali term meaning “protection,” referring to the practice of reciting scriptures to confer protection from harm as well as to the texts so used.