84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།

  • སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ།
  • སྨན་པ་རྒྱལ་པོ།
  • sman gyi rgyal
  • sman gyi rgyal po
  • sman pa rgyal po
  • bhaiṣajyarāja
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Publications: 6
Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Bhaiṣajyarāja
  • སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ།
  • sman gyi rgyal
  • bhaiṣajyarāja
Definition in this text:

A thus-gone one to whom the Bodhisattva made offerings in a past life.

Translation by Andreas Doctor · Zachary Beer · Thomas Doctor
  • Bhaiṣajyarāja
  • སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ།
  • sman gyi rgyal
  • bhaiṣajyarāja
Definition in this text:

A buddha.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · James Gentry
  • Bhaiṣajyarāja
  • སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
  • sman gyi rgyal po
  • bhaiṣajyarāja
Definition in this text:

A buddha.

Translation by Gyurmé Avertin
  • Bhaiṣajyarāja
  • སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ།
  • sman gyi rgyal
  • bhaiṣajyarāja
Definition in this text:

A buddha.

Translation by Gyurmé Avertin
  • Bhaiṣajyarāja
  • སྨན་པ་རྒྱལ་པོ།
  • sman pa rgyal po
  • bhaiṣajyarāja
Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman
  • Bhaiṣajyarāja
  • སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
  • sman gyi rgyal po
  • bhaiṣajyarāja
Definition in this text:

Lit. “King of Healers.” In the story of Śākyamuni’s former life in this sūtra, he is the tathāgata of the universe Mahāvyūha, during the eon called Vicaraṇa, who taught Prince Candracchattra about Dharma-worship. In later Buddhism, this buddha is believed to be the supernatural patron of healing and medicine.