84000 Glossary of Terms
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ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད། | Glossary of Terms
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ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད།
- ཤི་ཤུ་མཱ་ར།
- chu srin byis pa gsod
- shi shu mA ra
- śiśumāra
- Term
Publications: 2
Translation by David Jackson
- śiśumāra
- ཆུ་སྲིན་བྱིས་པ་གསོད།
- chu srin byis pa gsod
- śiśumāra
A type of sea creature, its name literally means “child killer.”
Translation by Dr. Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö
- śiśumāra
- ཤི་ཤུ་མཱ་ར།
- shi shu mA ra
- śiśumāra
A sea monster; lit. “the child-killer,” the Gangetic porpoise or dolphin (Monier-Williams).