84000 Glossary of Terms
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གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་དུས། | Glossary of Terms
གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་དུས།
gnyis ldan gyi dus
dvāparayuga
- Term
Publications: 2
Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · Timothy Hinkle · Benjamin Collet-Cassart
- Age of twofold endowment
- གཉིས་ལྡན་གྱི་དུས།
- gnyis ldan gyi dus
- dvāparayuga
The third of the four ages of human life in Jambudvīpa. In this age humans are endowed with two quarters, or half of the good qualities that they had during the age of perfection.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- Dvāparayuga
- ཆ་གཉིས་ལྡན།
- cha gnyis ldan
- Dvāparayuga
The third in the cycle of four eons.