84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཤ་ཀྱ་འཕེལ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཤ་ཀྱ་འཕེལ།

  • sha kya ’phel
  • śākyavardhana
  • śākyapravṛddha
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Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Śākyavardhana
  • ཤ་ཀྱ་འཕེལ།
  • sha kya ’phel
  • śākyavardhana
  • śākyapravṛddha
Definition in this text:

A yakṣa that was the protective deity for the Śākya clan, which was the Buddha’s clan. The Śākyas had a temple devoted to him and he is represented in sculpture as being present at his birth.

2 passages contain this term