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སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་། | Glossary of Terms
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
sangs rgyas kyi zhing
buddhakṣetra
- Term
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A buddhafield is the particular world system over which a specific buddha presides. There are innumerable such fields in Mahāyāna Buddhist cosmology.
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas zhing
- buddhakṣetra
- 佛剎
A pure realm manifested by a buddha or advanced bodhisattva through the power of their great merit and aspirations.
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
The field of activity of a specific buddha.
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A buddhafield is the particular world system over which a specific buddha presides. There are innumerable such fields in Mahāyāna Buddhist cosmology.
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
Roughly, a synonym for “universe,” although Buddhist cosmology contains many universes of different types and dimensions. “Buddhafield” indicates, in regard to whatever type of world-sphere, that it is the field of influence of a particular Buddha. For a detailed discussion of these concepts, see Lamotte, Appendice, Note I.
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
The field of activity of a particular buddha.
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A pure realm manifested by a buddha or advanced bodhisattva through the power of their great merit and aspirations.
- Buddhafield
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A buddhafield is the particular world system over which a specific buddha presides. There are innumerable such fields in Mahāyāna Buddhist cosmology.
- Buddha realm
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A pure realm manifested by a buddha or advanced bodhisattva through the power of their great merit and aspirations.
- Buddha realm
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
The realm permeated by a buddha’s teaching and blessing.
- Buddha realm
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A pure realm manifested by a buddha or advanced bodhisattva through the power of their great merit and aspirations.
- Buddha realm
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
Also translated as “buddha field.”
- Buddha realm
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A pure realm manifested by a buddha or advanced bodhisattva through the power of their great merit and aspirations.
- Buddha realm
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
The realm influenced by the activity of a specific buddha.
- Buddha realm
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A pure realm manifested by a buddha or advanced bodhisattva through the power of their great merit and aspirations.
- Buddha realm
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A realm manifested by a buddha or advanced bodhisattva through the power of their great merit and aspirations.
- Buddha field
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
Also translated as “buddha realm.”
- Buddha field
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་།
- sangs rgyas kyi zhing
- buddhakṣetra
A pure realm manifested by a buddha or advanced bodhisattva through the power of their great merit and aspirations.