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དུས་མ་ཡིན་པར་འཆི་བ། | Glossary of Terms
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དུས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་འཆི་བ།
- དུས་མ་ཡིན་པར་འཆི་བ།
- dus ma yin par ’chi ba
- dus ma yin pa’i ’chi ba
- akālamaraṇa
- Term
- untimely death
- དུས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་འཆི་བ།
- dus ma yin pa’i ’chi ba
- akālamaraṇa
See “unnatural death.”
- untimely death
- དུས་མ་ཡིན་པར་འཆི་བ།
- dus ma yin par ’chi ba
- akālamaraṇa
- untimely death
- དུས་མ་ཡིན་པར་འཆི་བ།
- dus ma yin par ’chi ba
- akālamaraṇa
- unnatural death
- དུས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་འཆི་བ།
- dus ma yin pa’i ’chi ba
- akālamaraṇa
This term literally means an “untimely death.” In both Buddhist and non-Buddhist South Asian literature, human beings are said to be allotted a certain lifespan, and that lifespan is a function of the age in which they live. In the current age, the full human lifespan is said to be one hundred years. Thus any death that occurs before one has lived out an entire one hundred years is technically considered an “untimely death.” The list of various “untimely deaths” in Buddhist literature generally includes tragic and unnatural ways of dying such as drowning, contracting a sudden illness, being burned to death, etc.