84000 Glossary of Terms

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ནམ་མཁའི་ངོས་ལས་འགྲོ་བ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ནམ་མཁའི་ངོས་ལས་འགྲོ་བ།

  • nam mkha’i ngos las ’gro ba
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  • one who courses in the vault of the heavens
  • ནམ་མཁའི་ངོས་ལས་འགྲོ་བ།
  • nam mkha’i ngos las ’gro ba
Definition in this text:

An epithet, given to the seer Vyāsa, that alludes to the association of the Vedic seers with a range of astronomical phenomena. Like the figure of the siddha, the great seers can also be understood as beings who dwell “in the vault of the heavens,” which symbolizes their ascension to a semidivine status through the practice of intense asceticism.