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ཚངས་པ་གཙུག་ཕུད་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms
ཚངས་པ་གཙུག་ཕུད་ཅན།
tshangs pa gtsug phud can
Brahmā Śikhin
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- Brahmā Śikhin
- ཚངས་པ་གཙུག་ཕུད་ཅན།
- tshangs pa gtsug phud can
- Brahmā Śikhin
In some canonical sources, this name denotes Brahmā Sahāmpati, the lord of the Sahā universe who famously asked the Buddha Śākyamuni to teach for the first time. See, for example, Tathāgatācintyaguhyanirdeśa (Toh 47), Lalitavistara (Toh 95), and Tathāgatamahākaruṇānirdeśa (Toh 147). But in another canonical text, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (Toh 113), it is used for a different Brahmā god. The current sūtra does not provide enough context to allow us to determine which of these two gods is under discussion.
- Top-Knotted Brahmā
- ཚངས་པ་གཙུག་ཕུད་ཅན།
- tshangs pa gtsug phud can
- śikhī brahmā
The god of the Brahmā realm, also called Brahmā Sahāṃpati, who encouraged the Buddha Śākyamuni to turn the wheel of Dharma for the first time after his awakening.