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རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ། | Glossary of Terms
རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
rnam thos kyi bu
Vaiśravaṇa
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- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the Four Great Kings and god of wealth.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- ངལ་བསོ་པོ།
- ngal bso po
- Vaiśravaṇa
As one of the Four Mahārājas, he is the lord of the northern region of the world and the northern continent, though in early Buddhism he is the lord of the far north of India and beyond. He is also the lord of the yakṣas and a lord of wealth. Translated in other sūtras as rnam thos kyi bu and mchog gi gzugs.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་བུ།
- rnam thos bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the Four Great Kings, he presides over the northern quarter and rules over the yakṣas. He is also known as Kubera.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the Four Great Kings, he presides over the northern quarter and rules over the yakṣas. He is also known as Kubera.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the four great guardian kings, he presides over the northern direction and rules over the yakṣas.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- མཆོག་གི་གཟུགས།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- mchog gi gzugs
- Vaiśravaṇa
As one of the four mahārājas, he is the lord of the northern region of the world and the northern continent, though in early Buddhism he is the lord of the far north of India and beyond. He is also the lord of the yakṣas and a lord of wealth.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
As one of the four mahārājas, he is the lord of the northern region of the world and the northern continent, though in early Buddhism he is the lord of the far north of India and beyond. He is also the lord of the yakṣas and a lord of wealth.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the Four Great Kings; a god of wealth.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the Four Great Kings.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the Four Great Kings, or guardians of the world, he presides over the northern quarter and rules over the yakṣas that live there. He is also known as Kubera.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the four great kings, also known as Kubera.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the Four Great Kings, the protector of the north.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the Four Great Kings, he presides over the northern quarter and rules over the yakṣas. He is also known as Kubera.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- རྣམ་ཐོས་སྲས།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- rnam thos sras
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the four great guardian kings, he presides over the northern quarter and rules over the yakṣas. He is also known as Kubera.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་བུ།
- rnam thos bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
A yakṣa.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
The “Son of Viśrava (Completely Renowned),” guardian of the northern direction. He and his father are both also referred to as Kubera, and he is also known as Jambhala. He rules over spirits called guhyakas (literally “secret/hidden ones”), described in various capacities, giving rise to his epithet Guhyakādhipati, “Lord of the Guhyakas.”
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས།
- rnam thos
- Vaiśravaṇa
Another name of Kubera.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the eight great yakṣas who form the retinue of Jambhala.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rnam thos kyi bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the “four great kings, guardians of the world,” he is held to dwell in the north, presiding over the yakṣa spirits that live there.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས།
- rnam thos
- Vaiśravaṇa
The yakṣa god of wealth and one of the Four Great Kings.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས།
- rnam thos
- Vaiśravaṇa
Another name for Kubera, king of the yakṣas. Among the four great kings who preside over the directions, Vaiśravaṇa is the king in the north.
- Vaiśravaṇa
- རྣམ་ཐོས་བུ།
- rnam thos bu
- Vaiśravaṇa
One of the eight guardians of the directions, Vaiśravaṇa guards the northern quarter. Also known as Kubera.