པོ་ཏ་ལ། | Glossary of Terms
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གྲུ་འཛིན་རི།
- གྲུ་འཛིན།
- པོ་ཊ་ལ།
- པོ་ཏ་ལ།
- ཡུལ་གྲུ་འཛིན།
- po ta la
- gru ’dzin
- gru ’dzin ri
- yul gru ’dzin
- potala
- potalaka
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- Potalaka
- གྲུ་འཛིན།
- gru ’dzin
- potalaka
A mountain in South India, presently known as Potikai, that was of great importance to both Tamil Buddhists and Śaivists (who saw it as the residence of Śiva, known as Lokeśvara). This is the first mention in a sūtra that has identified Avalokiteśvara with this mountain as his residence rather than the pure realm of Sukhāvatī. However, in this sūtra the verse appears to locate it in the ocean, while the prose appears to describe it on land. In Tibet and China, Potalaka was believed to be an island. In Tibet it is usually referred to by the shortened form Potala.
- Potalaka
- གྲུ་འཛིན།
- gru ’dzin
- potalaka
The name of the mountain where the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara dwells (Edgerton 354.2). A city ruled by King Mahendra before the time of Buddha Śākyamuni.
- Potalaka
- ཡུལ་གྲུ་འཛིན།
- yul gru ’dzin
- potalaka
Potalaka is the pure land of Avalokiteśvara.
- Potala
- གྲུ་འཛིན་རི།
- gru ’dzin ri
- potala
- Potala
- པོ་ཏ་ལ།
- གྲུ་འཛིན།
- པོ་ཊ་ལ།
- po ta la
- gru ’dzin
- po Ta la
- potala
The mountain in the paradise of Avalokiteśvara.