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ཚེ་དཔག་མེད། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཚེ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ།

  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • འོད་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • ’od dpag med
  • tshe dpag tu med pa
  • amitāyus
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  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ།
  • tshe dpag tu med pa
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha in the western realm of Sukhāvatī. Later and presently better known by his alternative name Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

Name of a buddha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha associated with longevity.

  • Amitāyus
  • འོད་དཔག་མེད།
  • ’od dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

A tathāgata, his names mean "infinite life;" another name for Amitābha, “Infinite Light.”

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha residing in the western buddha realm of Sukhāvatī. He is also known as Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha associated with longevity.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha in the realm of Sukhāvatī. Later and presently better known by his alternative name Amitābha, while Amitāyus is most commonly used as the short form of the Buddha Aparamitāyurjñāna’s name.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The Buddha in the western realm of Sukhāvatī. Later and presently better known by his alternative name Amitābha. Not to be confused with the buddha of long life, Aparimitāyus, whose name has been incorrectly back-translated into Sanskrit as Amitāyus also.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

Buddha especially associated with life energy and long life; the sambhogakāya aspect of Amitābha. Also a name of Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha in the realm of Sukhāvatī. Later and presently, he is better known by his alternative name, Amitābha. Not to be confused with the buddha of long life, Aparimitāyus, whose name has been incorrectly back-translated into Sanskrit as Amitāyus also.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

In the Ratnaketudhāraṇī, he is one of the six “directional” tathāgatas.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ།
  • tshe dpag tu med pa
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

A buddha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

Celestial buddha of infinite life, another name for the Buddha Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha associated with longevity.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

Another name for Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

Name of the thus-gone one of the world system Sukhāvatī. Alternate name for Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The name of a buddha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha in the western realm of Sukhāvatī, also known as Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ།
  • tshe dpag tu med pa
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The Buddha of Boundless Life, one of the three deities of longevity in the Tibetan tradition.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha who presides over the buddhafield Sukhāvatī; also known as Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha who presides over the buddhafield Sukhāvatī; also known as Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ།
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag tu med pa
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus AD
  • 無量壽
Definition in this text:

The buddha of the western realm of Sukhāvatī. Also known as Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ།
  • tshe dpag tu med pa
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha residing in the western buddha realm of Sukhāvatī, he is sometimes identified with Amitābha. More commonly translated into Tibetan as tshe dpag med.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ།
  • tshe dpag tu med pa
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha residing in the western buddha realm of Sukhāvatī, he is also sometimes identified with Amitābha. More commonly translated into Tibetan as tshe dpag med.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ།
  • tshe dpag tu med pa
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha residing in the western buddha realm of Sukhāvatī. He is sometimes known as Amitābha. More commonly translated into Tibetan as tshe dpag med.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha residing in the western buddha realm of Sukhāvatī, he is also sometimes known as Amitābha.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

Amitāyus is commonly used as the short form of the Buddha Aparimitāyur­jñāna’s name. It also often refers to Amitābha, as it was also the principal name for Amitābha in the earlier sūtras on Sukhāvatī.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

Amitāyus is commonly used as the short form of the Buddha Aparimitāyur­jñāna’s name. It also often refers to Amitābha, as it was also the principal name for Amitābha in the earlier sūtras on Sukhāvatī.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

A celestial tathāgata closely connected with and often regarded as identical with Amitābha. The two, however, have a different iconographic form.

  • Amitāyus
  • ཚེ་དཔག་མེད།
  • tshe dpag med
  • amitāyus
Definition in this text:

The buddha of the western buddhafield of Sukhāvatī, he is also known as Amitābha.