84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྒྱ་ཡུལ། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྒྱ་ནག

  • རྒྱ་བ།
  • རྒྱ་ཡུལ།
  • rgya yul
  • rgya nag
  • rgya ba
  • cīna
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  • Place
Publications: 3
  • China
  • རྒྱ་བ།
  • rgya ba
  • cīna AD
Definition in this text:

The two Chinese translations of this text render the name as zhendan 眞旦 (Taishō 278) and zhendan 震旦 (Taishō 279), both of which refer to China. In this chapter, it is the region in which the dwelling place of bodhisattvas called Nārāyaṇa Cave is located.

  • China
  • རྒྱ་ཡུལ།
  • rgya yul
  • China
  • རྒྱ་ནག
  • rgya nag
  • cīna
Definition in this text:

A land to the north of Jambudvīpa.

1 Related glossary entries:

རྒྱ་ནག་གཞན།

  • Second China