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ཨར་མོ་ནིག་ལྟ་བུའི་རྡོ་ལེབ། | Glossary of Terms
ཨར་མོ་ནིག་ལྟ་བུའི་རྡོ་ལེབ།
ar mo nig lta bu’i rdo leb
Pāṇḍukambalaśilātalam
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Indra’s colossal throne underneath the Pāriyātraka tree in Heaven of the Thirty-Three (Trāyastriṃśa), which is made of a whitish stone and therefore resembles a “whitish woolen blanket” (pāṇdukambala).
- Pāṇḍukambala rock
- ལ་བ་དཀར་པོ་ལྟ་བུའི་རྡོ་ལེབ།
- la ba dkar po lta bu’i rdo leb
- pāṇḍukambalaśilā
- Pāṇḍukambala rock
- ཨར་མོ་ནིག་ལྟ་བུའི་རྡོ་ལེབ།
- ar mo nig lta bu’i rdo leb
- Pāṇḍukambalaśilā
- Stone platforms like Indra’s throne
- ཨར་མོ་ནིག་ལྟ་བུའི་རྡོ་ལེབ།
- ar mo nig lta bu’i rdo leb
- pāṇḍukambalaśilātala
Commonly listed as one of the features of the garden groves of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, this term can be used to describe Indra’s throne itself or any number of divine stone platforms that resemble Indra’s throne.
- Throne of Indra
- ཨར་མོ་ནིག་ལྟ་བུའི་རྡོ་ལེབ།
- ar mo nig lta bu’i rdo leb
- Pāṇḍukambalaśilātalam
A huge flat rock, Indra’s throne in the Realm of the Thirty-Three Gods; it is called Pāṇḍukambala, “like a blanket,” because it is made of a pale stone reminiscent of thick wollen cloth. Sakaki 7127 in the Mahāvyutpatti.