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སྒྲ་གཅན། | Glossary of Terms
སྒྲ་གཅན།
sgra gcan
Rāhu
- Person
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- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
A powerful asura said to cause eclipses.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
A powerful asura, said to cause eclipses.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- rāhu
A demon who is supposed to seize the sun and moon and thus cause eclipses.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
One of the four asura kings present at the teaching of the sūtra.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
A powerful asura, said to cause eclipses.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
The asura who is said to cause eclipses by seizing the sun and moon.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
A lord of the asuras.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
One of the kings of the asuras; the demon who causes an eclipse.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
A ruler of the asuras.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
An asura who is said to cause eclipses.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་ཅན།
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra can
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
An asura king.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
Eminent among the long-life gods, he is said to have on different occasions seized the sun and moon, only releasing them on the Buddha’s order.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
The demon who causes an eclipse.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
One of the kings of asuras; the demon who is thought to cause an eclipse.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
The celestial demon of the eclipse, regarded as the leader, or one of the leaders, of the asuras.
- Rāhu
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhu
The demon who ‟swallows” the moon or the sun during an eclipse.
- Rāhula
- སྒྲ་གཅན་ཟིན།
- sgra gcan zin
- Rāhula
A powerful asura, said to cause eclipses.
- Rāhula
- སྒྲ་གཅན་ཟིན།
- sgra gcan zin
- rāhula
- 羅睺羅
An asura king. He is said to cause eclipses by seizing or blocking the sun and moon.
- Rāhula
- སྒྲ་གཅན།
- sgra gcan
- Rāhula