འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
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འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི་པོ།
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi po
- catvāro lokapālāh
- caturlokapāla
- catur lokapāla
- catvāraḥ lokapālāḥ
- catvāro lokapālā
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- four guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- catvāro lokapālāh
These guardians are the four great kings of the quarters; Vaiśravaṇa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Virūḍhaka, and Virūpākṣa. Their mission is to report on the activities of humans to the gods and to protect the practitioners of the Dharma.
- Four Guardians of the World
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- caturlokapāla
Vaiśravaṇa (Kubera), Virūḍhaka, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and Virūpākṣa.
- four guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- catur lokapāla
See the “four great kings.”
- Four Guardians of the World
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- caturlokapāla
See “Four Great Kings.”
- Four Protectors of the World
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- catvāraḥ lokapālāḥ
Four deities guarding the four quarters, namely, Dhṛtarāṣṭra in the east, Virūḍhaka in the south, Virūpākṣa in the west, and Vaiśravaṇa in the north. Also referred to as the Four Great Kings.
- Four Protectors of the World
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི་པོ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi po
- catvāro lokapālā
The Four Great Kings of the cardinal directions.
- Four World-Protectors
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- caturlokapāla
See “Four Great Kings.”
- Four World-Protectors
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- caturlokapāla
Four deities at the base of Mount Meru, each one the guardian of his direction: Vaiśravaṇa in the north, Dhṛtarāṣṭra in the East, Virūpākṣa in the west, and Virūḍhaka in the south.
- Four World Guardians
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- caturlokapāla
The powerful nonhuman guardian kings of the four quarters—Virūḍhaka, Virūpākṣa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and Vaiśravaṇa—who rule, respectively, over the kumbhāṇḍas in the south, nāgas in the west, gandharvas in the east, and yakṣas in the north. Also known as the Four Great Kings.
- world protectors
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཞི།
- ’jig rten skyong ba bzhi
- catvāro lokapālā
See “Four Great Kings.”