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ཚངས་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཚངས་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ།

  • tshangs pa’i ’khor lo
  • brāhmacakra
  • Term
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  • Brahma wheel
  • ཚངས་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ།
  • tshangs pa’i ’khor lo
  • brāhmacakra
Definition in this text:

Here the sense is “the supreme wheel” or perhaps “the wheel of what is supreme.” See brahmacakkaṃ pavattetīti ettha brahmanti seṭṭhaṃ uttamaṃ visiṭṭhaṃ | Mahāsīhanādasutta-Aṭṭhakathā, Mūlapaṇṇāsa, Majjhimanikāya.