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རི་དགས་འཛིན་གྱི་མ། | Glossary of Terms
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བྱི་ཤ་ཁྲ་འབོ་ཏ།
- བྱི་ཤྭ་ཁྲ་འཕོ་ཏ།
- རི་དགས་འཛིན་གྱི་མ་ས་ག
- རི་དགས་འཛིན་གྱི་མ།
- ས་ག
- ri dags ’dzin gyi ma
- byi shwa khra ’pho ta
- byi sha khra ’bo ta
- ri dags ’dzin gyi ma sa ga
- sa ga
- mṛgāramātṛ
- viśākhā
- viśākhā mṛgāramātā
- mṛgāramātā
- viśālā
- vaiśākhā
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- Person
- Mṛgāramātā
- རི་དགས་འཛིན་གྱི་མ།
- ri dags ’dzin gyi ma
- mṛgāramātā
Another name for Viśākhā Mṛgāramātā, a lay follower of the Buddha.
- Mṛgāra’s mother
- རི་དགས་འཛིན་གྱི་མ།
- ri dags ’dzin gyi ma
- mṛgāramātṛ
This is the nickname of an upāsikā (female lay practitioner), actually called Viśākhā, who is sometimes considered the most prominent among female lay followers of the Buddha. She had married the son of a man called Mṛgāra, who was originally a Jaina but went to meet the Buddha and even become a stream enterer thanks to her. Feeling indebted to her, he said that she was like his mother, which is the origin of the nickname.
- Vaiśākhā
- ས་ག
- sa ga
- vaiśākhā
During the Buddha’s time, a certain lay vow holder in Śrāvastī. Elsewhere there is also the Viśākha who was the son of King Prasenajit’s minister.
- Viśākhā
- བྱི་ཤྭ་ཁྲ་འཕོ་ཏ།
- བྱི་ཤ་ཁྲ་འབོ་ཏ།
- byi shwa khra ’pho ta
- byi sha khra ’bo ta
- viśākhā
- 毘舍佉母
Praised as the foremost of female lay practitioners.
- Viśākhā Mṛgāramātā
- རི་དགས་འཛིན་གྱི་མ་ས་ག
- ri dags ’dzin gyi ma sa ga
- viśākhā mṛgāramātā
A lay follower of the Buddha.
- Viśālā
- ས་ག
- sa ga
- viśālā