84000 Glossary of Terms

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བྱོལ་སོང་། | Glossary of Terms

  • དུད་འགྲོ།

  • བྱོལ་སོང་།
  • byol song
  • dud ’gro
  • tiryak
  • tīryak
  • Term
Publications: 3
  • animal
  • དུད་འགྲོ།
  • dud ’gro
  • tīryak
Definition in this text:

One of the five or six classes of sentient beings, who suffer from gross ignorance or bewilderment (gti mug, moha). They inhabit the realm of desire along with human beings.

  • animal
  • བྱོལ་སོང་།
  • byol song
  • tiryak
Definition in this text:

One of the three lower realms of existence (Skt. durgati, apāya). Unlike the Western biological classification of life (in which humans belong to the animal kingdom), Buddhism in ancient Asia has developed its own unique taxonomic system that divides all forms of sentient life (plants are mostly excluded from sentient life in the South Asian and Tibetan Buddhist taxonomies) into six (sometimes five) realms or rebirth destinies (Skt. gati): gods (Skt. deva), demigods (Skt. asura), humans (Skt. manuṣya), animals (Skt. tiryak), hell (Skt. naraka), and ghosts (Skt. preta).

  • animal
  • དུད་འགྲོ།
  • dud ’gro
  • tiryak
Definition in this text:

One of the three unfortunate rebirths, above that of hell beings and hungry ghosts.