84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཐུབ་པ་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཐུབ་པ་ཆེན་པོ།

  • thub pa chen po
  • mahāmuni
  • Term
Publications: 2
  • great sage
  • ཐུབ་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
  • thub pa chen po
  • mahāmuni
Definition in this text:

An epithet of a buddha.

  • great sage
  • ཐུབ་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
  • thub pa chen po
  • mahāmuni
Definition in this text:

An epithet of a buddha. Muni is an ancient title, derived from the verb man (“to contemplate”), given to someone who has attained the realization of a truth through their own contemplation and not by divine revelation.