84000 Glossary of Terms

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མགྲིན་སྔོན། | Glossary of Terms

  • ནཱི་ལ་ཀཎ་ཋ།

  • མགུལ་སྔོན།
  • མགྲིན་པ་སྔོན་པོ།
  • མགྲིན་སྔོན།
  • mgrin sngon
  • mgrin pa sngon po
  • mgul sngon
  • nI la kaN Tha
  • nīlakaṇṭha
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  • Nīlakaṇṭha
  • མགྲིན་སྔོན།
  • མགྲིན་པ་སྔོན་པོ།
  • མགུལ་སྔོན།
  • ནཱི་ལ་ཀཎ་ཋ།
  • mgrin sngon
  • mgrin pa sngon po
  • mgul sngon
  • nI la kaN Tha
  • nīlakaṇṭha
Definition in this text:

Literally “Blue Throat,” he is associated with the legend of the churning of the great ocean. In the Buddhist context he is Vajrapāṇi, and in the Hindu context, Śiva. In the AP the name may refer to one of the lokeśvara emanations of Avalokiteśvara.