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ཀླུ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཀླུ།
- ན་ག
- klu
- na ga
- nāga
- bhujaga
- Term
A class of nonhuman beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments, where they guard wealth and sometimes also teachings. Nāgas are associated with serpents and have a snakelike appearance. In Buddhist art and in written accounts, they are regularly portrayed as half human and half snake, and they are also said to have the ability to change into human form. Some nāgas are Dharma protectors, but they can also bring retribution if they are disturbed. They may likewise fight one another, wage war, and destroy the lands of others by causing lightning, hail, and flooding.
- Nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
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- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of serpentine water spirits and repositors of subaquatic and subterranean treasure.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- bhujaga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- 龍
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A nonhuman class of beings who live in subterranean and/or aquatic environments and are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- 龍神
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings who live in aquatic environments and who are said to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings that live in subterranean environments and are said to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A nonhuman class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semi-divine being similar to a large snake.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of semidivine beings that inhabit bodies of water and act as guardians of treasure.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
Type of being in Buddhist cosmogony.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
In India, this was the cobra deity, which in Tibet was equated with water spirits and in China with dragons, neither country having cobras.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings who live in aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings with bodies that are half snake and half human.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments where they are known to guard wealth and esoteric teachings. Nāgas are associated with serpents and often assume a snakelike appearance. In Buddhist art and in written accounts, nāgas are regularly portrayed as being half human and half snake, and, as mentioned in this sūtra, said to have the ability to change into human form. Some nāgas are Dharma protectors, but they can also bring retribution if they are disturbed. Nāgas likewise fight one another, wage war, and destroy the lands of others by causing lightning, hail, and flooding.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. Nāgas are associated with snakes and serpents, and often assume a snakelike appearance.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments where they are known to guard wealth and esoteric teachings. Nāgas are associated with serpents and often assume a snakelike appearance. In Buddhist art and in written accounts, nāgas are regularly portrayed as being half human and half snake, and, as mentioned in this sūtra, said to have the ability to change into human form. Some nāgas are Dharma protectors, but they can also bring retribution if they are disturbed. Nāgas likewise fight one another, wage war, and destroy the lands of others by causing lightning, hail, and flooding.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments where they are known to guard wealth and esoteric teachings. Nāgas are associated with serpents and often assume a snakelike appearance. In Buddhist art and in written accounts, nāgas are regularly portrayed as being half human and half snake, and, as mentioned in this sūtra, said to have the ability to change into human form. Some nāgas are Dharma protectors, but they can also bring retribution if they are disturbed. Nāgas likewise fight one another, wage war, and destroy the lands of others by causing lightning, hail, and flooding.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and are said to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents, and are subordinate to Virūpākṣa, the Great King of the West.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings that live in subterranean aquatic environments and that are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
Nāgas are associated with springs, streams, rivers, and water in general, and among their many magical powers is the ability to produce rain.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A mythical being usually depicted as having the top half of a human and the bottom half of a snake. However, the nāga has a myriad of associations within Buddhism and Indian traditions in general; the term may be associated with deities, snakes (more specifically cobras), elephants, subterranean spirits, water spirits, or ethnic groups of people from the Indian subcontinent. In Tibet they became specifically associated with water spirits (klu), and in China they came to be associated with dragons. Here the image of the nāga is the twenty-seventh of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean acquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
One of the lords of the ocean, appearing as a great, many headed, sea dragon.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
Nāgas are serpent-like animals who live (invisibly) in the human realm and have an ambivalent status, on occasion positive but also frequently harmful.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are said to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- 龍
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are said to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman serpentine beings. They can change their shape and are usually said to reside in water.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of semidivine beings who live in aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings that live in subterranean aquatic environments and that are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
Snake-like mystical creatures with supernatural powers, which belong to the animal realm.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A serpentine class of beings associated with intelligence and wealth.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean and aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A supernatural being usually depicted as having the top half of a human and the bottom half of a snake. However, the nāga has a myriad of associations within Buddhism and Indian traditions in general; the term may be associated with deities, snakes (more specifically cobras), elephants, subterranean spirits, water spirits, or ethnic groups of people from the Indian subcontinent. In Tibet they became specifically associated with water spirits (klu), and in China they came to be associated with dragons (龍).
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments where they are known to guard wealth and esoteric teachings. Nāgas are associated with serpents and often assume a snakelike appearance. In Buddhist art and in written accounts, nāgas are regularly portrayed as being half human and half snake, and, as mentioned in this sūtra, said to have the ability to change into human form. Some nāgas are Dharma protectors, but they can also bring retribution if they are disturbed. Nāgas likewise fight one another, wage war, and destroy the lands of others by causing lighting, hail, and flooding.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
Nāgas belong half to the animal realm and half to the god realm (Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary). They are believed to abide in subterranean realms, having control over rain, ponds, rivers, and soil productivity. Some are Dharma protectors, but they can bring retribution if they are disturbed. Often in Buddhist arts and in written accounts, they are portrayed as being half human and half snake (Rigzin 9).
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments where they are known to guard wealth and esoteric teachings. Nāgas are associated with serpents and often assume a snakelike appearance. In Buddhist art and in written accounts, nāgas are regularly portrayed as being half human and half snake, and are said to have the ability to change into human form. Some nāgas are Dharma protectors, but they can also bring retribution if they are disturbed.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- 龍
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- 龍
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A nonhuman class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. They are associated with snakes and serpents.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of semi-divine beings with bodies that are half human, half snake.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings, half-human and half-snake.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
Serpentine beings typically associated with waterways, springs, and the rains.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of nonhuman beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and who are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. Nāgas are associated with snakes and serpents and often assume a snakelike appearance.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of terrestrial beings.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class of semidivine beings that are half serpent, half human.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
Class of semi-divine serpent-like beings.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A semidivine class of beings who live in subterranean aquatic environments and are known to hoard wealth and esoteric teachings. Associated with snakes and serpents, they can both obstruct and protect human life.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- ན་ག
- klu
- na ga
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
A class on nonhuman beings, half-snake and half-human.
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga
- nāga
- ཀླུ།
- klu
- nāga