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ཕྲེང་འཛིན། | Glossary of Terms
ཕྲེང་འཛིན།
phreng ’dzin
Mālādhāra
- Term
- Mālādhāra
- ཕྲེང་ཐོགས།
- phreng thogs
- mālādhāra
“Garland-Holder,” a class of divine beings who live on Mount Sumeru.
- Mālādhāra
- ཕྲེང་འཛིན།
- ཕྲེང་ཐོགས།
- phreng ’dzin
- phreng thogs
- Mālādhāra
One of the three classes of yakṣas at the base of Meru, below the paradises of the mahārājas, as part of the lowest class of paradises in the desire realm. Their name means “with māla beads in their hands,” and they are said to be constantly counting and therefore unable to follow the path to enlightenment.
- Garland Bearer
- ལག་ན་ཕྲེང་ཐོགས།
- lag na phreng thogs
- mālādhāra
Name of a class of gods, a group of yakṣa associated with the Four Great Kings.
- Garland-bearer gods
- ཕྲེང་ཐོགས་ལྷ།
- phreng thogs lha
- mālādhara
A class of gods associated with the Four Great Kings.
- Garland-bearing god
- ཕྲེང་ཐོགས།
- ཕྲེང་ཐོགས་ཀྱི་ལྷ།
- phreng thogs
- phreng thogs kyi lha
A class of gods associated with the Four Great Kings.
- Mālādhārin
- ཕྲེང་ཐོགས།
- phreng thogs
- mālādhārin
A class of godlings, probabably related to yakṣas.