84000 Glossary of Terms

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སའི་སྙིང་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།

  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
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  • Kṣiti­garbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣiti­garbha
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva mahāsattva.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
Definition in this text:

One of the bodhisattvas attending the delivery of this teaching.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
Definition in this text:

“Essence of Earth,” one of the “eight close sons of the Buddha,” and one of the most popular bodhisattvas in East Asia. In China he has been venerated in particular for his ability to rescue beings reborn in the hells, and in Japan as a protector of children and travelers.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
Definition in this text:

An important bodhisattva disciple of the Buddha.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
Definition in this text:

One of the sixteen great bodhisattvas. The content of the list varies from text to text.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha AD
  • 地藏
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Kṣitigarbha
  • སའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • sa’i snying po
  • kṣitigarbha
Definition in this text:

One of the celestial bodhisattvas.