84000 Glossary of Terms

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ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་མ།

  • ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ།
  • lha mo sgyu ’phrul
  • lha mo sgyu ma
  • māyādevī
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Publications: 5
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Māyādevī
  • ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་མ།
  • lha mo sgyu ma
  • māyādevī
Definition in this text:

The queen who was the mother of Śākyamuni Buddha.

Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Māyādevī
  • ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ།
  • lha mo sgyu ’phrul
  • māyādevī
Definition in this text:

The Buddha Śākyamuni’s mother, who died shortly after his birth; also called here simply Māyā. She was one of the wives of King Śuddhodana of Kapilavastu and is said to have been the daughter of Śākya Suprabuddha.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Māyādevī
  • ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ།
  • lha mo sgyu ’phrul
  • māyādevī
Definition in this text:

Buddha Śākyamuni’s mother.

Translation by Dr. Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö
  • Māyādevī
  • ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ།
  • lha mo sgyu ’phrul
  • māyādevī
Definition in this text:

See “Mahā­māyā.”

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Māyādevī
  • ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ།
  • lha mo sgyu ’phrul
  • māyādevī
Definition in this text:

Buddha’s mother.