84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་བཅུ་དྲུག | Glossary of Terms

  • སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་བཅུ་དྲུག

  • skyes bu dam pa bcu drug
  • ṣoḍaśasatpuruṣa
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • sixteen excellent men
  • སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་བཅུ་དྲུག
  • skyes bu dam pa bcu drug
  • ṣoḍaśasatpuruṣa
Definition in this text:

A list of sixteen bodhisattvas headed by Bhadrapāla, mentioned in many sūtras as present in the audience. Unlike many other great bodhisattvas, they are all householders. Their names are‍—according to The White Lotus of the Good Dharma (Toh 113): Bhadrapāla, Ratnākara, Susārthavāha, Naradatta, Guhyagupta, Varuṇadatta, Indradatta, Uttaramati, Viśeṣamati, Vardhamānamati, Amoghadarśin, Susaṃprasthita, Su­vikrānta­vikrāmiṇ, Anupamamati, Sūryagarbha, and Dharaṇīṃdhara.

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སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ།

  • satpuruṣa
  • good beings
  • holy beings