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ཤིང་སཱ་ལ་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཤིང་སཱ་ལ་ཆེན་པོ།
- shing sA la chen po
- mahāśāla
- mahāsāla
- Term
- great sāl tree
- ཤིང་སཱ་ལ་ཆེན་པོ།
- shing sA la chen po
- mahāsāla
- mahāśāla
This can refer either to the sal (or sala) tree (Shorea robusta) or to a great (mahā) household (śāla). The Buddha was said to have been born and died beneath a sāla tree.
- great sāl tree
- ཤིང་སཱ་ལ་ཆེན་པོ།
- shing sA la chen po
- mahāsāla
- mahāśāla
This can refer either to the sal (or sala) tree (Shorea robusta) or to a great (mahā) household (śāla). The Buddha was said to have been born and died beneath a sāla tree.
- great sāl tree
- ཤིང་སཱ་ལ་ཆེན་པོ།
- shing sA la chen po
- mahāsāla
- mahāśāla
This can refer either to the sal (or sala) tree (Shorea robusta) or to a great (mahā) household (śāla). The Buddha was said to have been born and died beneath a sāla tree.
- great household
- ཤིང་སཱ་ལ་ཆེན་པོ།
- shing sA la chen po
- mahāśāla
- great household
- ཤིང་སཱ་ལ་ཆེན་པོ།
- shing sA la chen po
- mahāśāla
- great śāla tree
- ཤིང་སཱ་ལ་ཆེན་པོ།
- shing sA la chen po
- mahāśāla
An adjectival phrase typically linked to a brahmin, kṣatriya, or other upper-caste family, it denotes that the person in question has a large and prosperous household, family, or clan.