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གཞལ་མེད་ཁང་། | Glossary of Terms
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ཁང་བརྩེགས།
- གཞལ་མེད་ཁང་།
- གཞལ་མྱེད་ཁང་།
- གཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་།
- gzhal med khang
- gzhal yas khang
- khang brtsegs
- gzhal myed khang
- vimāna
- Term
- aerial palace
- གཞལ་མྱེད་ཁང་།
- གཞལ་མེད་ཁང་།
- gzhal myed khang
- gzhal med khang
- vimāna
These palaces served as both vehicles and residences for deities.
- airborne palace
- གཞལ་མེད་ཁང་།
- gzhal med khang
- vimāna
Vimāna, translated here as “airborne palace,” can mean a divine chariot or palace, or a combination of the two, as in this translation. These flying palaces of the deities are well known in Indian mythology. Burnouf translates as “chariots”; Kern has “aerial cars.”
- celestial chariot
- ཁང་བརྩེགས།
- khang brtsegs
- vimāna
The Sanskrit term vimāna can refer to a multistoried mansion or palace, or even an estate, but is more often used in the sense of a celestial chariot of the gods, sometimes taking the form of a multistoried palace; hence the Tibetan translation, khang brtsegs, literally “storied house.”
- celestial palace
- གཞལ་མེད་ཁང་།
- gzhal med khang
- vimāna
The Sanskrit term vimāna can refer to a multistoried mansion or palace, or even an estate, but is more often used in the sense of a celestial chariot of the gods, sometimes taking the form of a multistoried palace.
- palace
- གཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་།
- gzhal yas khang
- vimāna
Here refers to a palace of the gods (devavimāna). Alternatively, it can refer to a chariot or self-moving aerial car.