84000 Glossary of Terms
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འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
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ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- འབྱུང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- ’byung ba chen po bzhi
- ’byung po chen po bzhi
- chen po bzhi
- caturmahābhūta
- mahābhūta
- Term
Publications: 6
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- four great elements
- འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- ’byung ba chen po bzhi
- caturmahābhūta
The four “main” or “great” outer elements of earth, water, fire, and air.
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- four great elements
- འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- ’byung ba chen po bzhi
- caturmahābhūta
The four “main” or “great” outer elements of earth, water, fire, and air.
Translation by Shenghai Li · Zhuo Siyu
- four great elements
- འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- ’byung ba chen po bzhi
- caturmahābhūta
Earth, water, fire, and wind.
Translation by Dr. Anne Burchardi · Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche · Dr. Ulrich Pagel
- four great elements
- འབྱུང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- ’byung po chen po bzhi
- caturmahābhūta
Earth, water, fire, and wind. Also called “four elements.”
Translation by Timothy Hinkle
- four great elements
- ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- chen po bzhi
- ’byung ba chen po bzhi
- mahābhūta
- 四大
The four “main” or “great” outer elements of earth, water, fire, air, and (when there is a fifth) space.
Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
- four great elements
- འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
- ’byung ba chen po bzhi
- caturmahābhūta
Earth, water, fire, and wind.