84000 Glossary of Terms

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གཙུག་ཕུ་ལྔ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • གཙུག་ཕུ་ལྔ་པ།

  • གཙུག་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • མགོ་ལྔ།
  • ཟུར་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phu lnga pa
  • zur phud lnga pa
  • gtsug phud lnga pa
  • mgo lnga
  • pañcaśikha
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  • Pañcaśikha
  • གཙུག་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A certain young gandharva allied with the god Śakra.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • གཙུག་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A gandharva king.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • གཙུག་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A gandharva who is employed by Śakra to serve the Buddha.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • གཙུག་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A gandharva prominent in early Buddhism who is featured on early stūpa reliefs playing a lute and singing.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • གཙུག་ཕུ་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phu lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A gandharva who was very prominent in early Buddhism and is featured on early stupa reliefs playing a lute and singing. He would come to Buddha Śākyamuni, who was not portrayed as omniscient, to inform him of what was occuring in the paradises. He also accompanies Indra on a visit to the Buddha and plays music to bring the Buddha out of his meditation. He performs the same role in the Mahāyāna sūtra The White Lotus of Compassion. He was portrayed as living on a five-peaked mountain, and appears to be the basis for Mañjuśrī, first known as Mañjughoṣa (Beautiful Voice) with Pañcaśikha still being one of Mañjuśrī’s alternate names. In this sūtra he is clearly distinct from Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • ཟུར་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • zur phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

An eminent gandharva.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • ཟུར་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • zur phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A gandharva known for playing the lute.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • གཙུག་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • ཟུར་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phud lnga pa
  • zur phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A certain young gandharva allied with the god Śakra.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • གཙུག་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A gandharva king who is employed by Śakra to serve the Buddha. He is sometimes said to be a form of Mañjuśrī or historically to have been his original identity.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • གཙུག་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • gtsug phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

One of the gandharva kings.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • མགོ་ལྔ།
  • mgo lnga
  • pañcaśikha AD
  • 五頂
Definition in this text:

A gandharva said to live on Gandhamādana Mountain, on the central peak of five peaks, at the source of the Ganges. In the early sūtras he acts as a messenger between the devas and the Buddha. His depiction evolved into Mañjughoṣa or Mañjuśrī, who retains Pañcaśikha as one of his names.

  • Pañcaśikha
  • ཟུར་ཕུད་ལྔ་པ།
  • zur phud lnga pa
  • pañcaśikha
Definition in this text:

A gandharva king.