84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྒྱལ་ཆེན་བཞི།

  • རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་པོ།
  • རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
  • རྒྱལ་པོ་བཞི།
  • rgyal po chen po bzhi
  • rgyal chen bzhi
  • rgyal po chen po bzhi po
  • rgyal po bzhi
  • caturmahārāja
  • catur mahārāja
  • cāturmahārāja
  • catvāro mahārājāḥ
  • catvāro mahā­rājānaḥ
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Four gods who live on the lower slopes (fourth level) of Mount Meru in the eponymous Heaven of the Four Great Kings (Cāturmahā­rājika, rgyal chen bzhi’i ris) and guard the four cardinal directions. Each is the leader of a nonhuman class of beings living in his realm. They are Dhṛtarāṣṭra, ruling the gandharvas in the east; Virūḍhaka, ruling over the kumbhāṇḍas in the south; Virūpākṣa, ruling the nāgas in the west; and Vaiśravaṇa (also known as Kubera) ruling the yakṣas in the north. Also referred to as Guardians of the World or World-Protectors (lokapāla, ’jig rten skyong ba).

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རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།

  • mahārāja
  • mahā­rājā
  • Great King
  • Great Kings
  • mahārāja