84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྫུས་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྫུས་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ།

  • རྫུས་ཏེ་སྐྱེས་པ།
  • rdzus te skye ba
  • rdzus te skyes pa
  • upapāduka
  • upapādukā
  • aupapāduka
  • upapādukaja
  • Term
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One of the four modes of birth (caturyoni; skye gnas bzhi). Those who take miraculous birth are spontaneously born fully mature at the time of their birth. There are many categories of beings who can be born under these circumstances, including gods, hungry ghosts, hell beings, beings born in the intermediate state (antarābhava; bar ma do), and even humans in special circumstances or in the pure realms.