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ས་འཚོ་མ། | Glossary of Terms

    ས་འཚོ་མ།

    sa ’tsho ma

    Gopā

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Publications: 7
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Gopā
  • གོ་པ།
  • go pa
  • Gopā

A wife of Śākyamuni and the kalyāṇamitra of chapter 43.

Translation by David Jackson
  • Gopā
  • ས་འཚོ་མ།
  • sa ’tsho ma
  • Gopā

The name of a Śākya girl who in certain sources becomes Prince Siddhārtha’s wife.

Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Gopā
  • ས་འཚོ་མ།
  • sa ’tsho ma
  • Gopā
Translation by Zachary Beer
  • Gopā
  • ས་འཚོ་མ།
  • sa ’tsho ma
  • Gopā

The maiden whom the Buddha married while he was still a bodhisattva.

Translation by Dr. Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö
  • Gopā
  • ས་འཚོ་མ།
  • sa ’tsho ma
  • Gopā

Along with Yaśodharā, a spouse of Gautama who, in this text, spurned the advances of Devadatta and subjected him to brutal humiliation.

Translation by Ruth Gamble · Tenzin Ringpapontsang
  • Gopā
  • ས་འཚོ་མ།
  • sa ’tsho ma
  • Gopā

One of the wives of Prince Siddhārtha, prior to his leaving his kingdom and attaining awakening as the Buddha.

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Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Gopā
  • གོ་པཱ།
  • go pA
  • Gopā

The name of Buddha’s wife as found in some texts, including the Lalitavistara; the name of Buddha’s tantric consort.