84000 Glossary of Terms

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གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་སེམས་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms

  • གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་སེམས་ཅན།

  • gshin rje’i ’jig rten pa’i sems can
  • yāmalaukika
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • inhabitants of Yāma’s kingdom
  • གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་སེམས་ཅན།
  • gshin rje’i ’jig rten pa’i sems can
  • yāmalaukika
Definition in this text:

This refers to hungry ghosts, or pretas. Yāma (gzhin rje) is the Lord of Death.

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གཤིན་རྗེའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།

  • yamaloka
  • yāmaloka
  • domain of the Lord of Death
  • realm of ghosts
  • realm of the Lord of Death
  • realm of the Lord of the Dead
  • realm of Yama
  • realms of Yama
  • spirit world governed by Yama
  • world of Death
  • World of the Lord of Death
  • world of Yama
  • Yama’s realm
  • Yama’s world