84000 Glossary of Terms

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ས་འཛིན། | Glossary of Terms

  • གན་དྷ་ར།

  • བ་ལང་འཛིན།
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • gan d+ha ra
  • ba lang ’dzin
  • gan dha ra
  • gandhāra
  • gandhara
  • gāndhāra
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  • Place
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  • Gāndhāra
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • gāndhāra
Definition in this text:

A country.

  • Gandhara
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • gāndhāra AD
Definition in this text:

The present-day Gandhara region was located in northwest Pakistan and northeast Afghanistan. This region was historically important for the development of Buddhism. In this chapter, Gandhara is identified as the region in which the dwelling place of bodhisattvas called Cave of Provisions is located.

  • Gandhāra
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • gandhāra
Definition in this text:

An ancient kingdom once located in northwestern India in what is now Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. It lasted from around the sixth century ʙᴄᴇ to the eleventh century ᴄᴇ and attained its height in the first to fifth centuries under the Buddhist Kushan kings.

  • Gandhāra
  • གན་དྷ་ར།
  • gan dha ra
  • gandhāra
Definition in this text:

Name of a region in present-day eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.

  • Gandhara
  • གན་དྷ་ར།
  • gan d+ha ra
  • gandhara RP
Definition in this text:

A land to the north of Jambudvīpa.

  • Gāndhāra
  • བ་ལང་འཛིན།
  • ba lang ’dzin
  • gāndhāra
  • Gāndhāra
  • བ་ལང་འཛིན།
  • ba lang ’dzin
  • gāndhāra
Definition in this text:

A geographical location in this sūtra.