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བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ། | Glossary of Terms

    བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།

    blo gros rgya mtsho

    Sāgara­mati

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Translation by David Jackson
  • Sāgara­mati
  • བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
  • blo gros rgya mtsho
  • Sāgara­mati
Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • Sāgaramati
  • བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
  • blo gros rgya mtsho
  • Sāgaramati

A bodhisattva from the world Adorned with Immaculate and Countless Precious Qualities. The protagonist of this discourse, his name can be translated as Oceanic Intelligence, which is referenced in the omen of the flooding of the trichiliocosm at the beginning of the sūtra.

Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • Sāgaramati
  • བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
  • blo gros rgya mtsho
  • Sāgaramati

A bodhisattva.

Translation by Tenpa Tsering
  • Sāgara­mati
  • བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
  • blo gros rgya mtsho
  • Sāgara­mati

A bodhisattva.

Translation by Dr. Karen Liljenberg · Dr. Ulrich Pagel
  • Sāgaramati
  • བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
  • blo gros rgya mtsho
  • Sāgaramati

A bodhisattva.

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Translation by Thomas Doctor
  • Sāgaramati
  • བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
  • blo gros rgya mtsho
  • Sāgaramati

A bodhisattva.

Translation by Gareth Sparham
  • Sāgaramati
  • བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
  • blo gros rgya mtsho
  • Sāgaramati

A bodhisattva, protagonist of the The Questions of Sāgaramati (Sāgara­mati­paripṛcchā), Toh 152, his name can be translated as “Oceanic Intelligence,” which is referenced in the omen of the flooding of the trichiliocosm at the beginning of that sūtra.