ལྷ་མ་ཡིན། | Glossary of Terms
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ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- ལྷ་མིན།
- ཨ་སུ་ར།
- lha ma yin
- lha min
- a su ra
- asura
- daitya
- dānava
- Term
A type of nonhuman being whose precise status is subject to different views, but is included as one of the six classes of beings in the sixfold classification of realms of rebirth. In the Buddhist context, asuras are powerful beings said to be dominated by envy, ambition, and hostility. They are also known in the pre-Buddhist and pre-Vedic mythologies of India and Iran, and feature prominently in Vedic and post-Vedic Brahmanical mythology, as well as in the Buddhist tradition. In these traditions, asuras are often described as being engaged in interminable conflict with the devas (gods).
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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See also “gods.”
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- dānava
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
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- 阿修羅
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
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- asura
One of the six classes of living beings, sometimes included among the gods and sometimes among the animals. A class of nonhuman beings, sometimes misleadingly called demigods, engendered and dominated by envy, ambition, and hostility, who are metaphorically described as being incessantly embroiled in a dispute with the gods over the possession of amrita.
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- ལྷ་མིན།
- lha ma yin
- lha min
- asura
- 阿修羅
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- ལྷ་མིན།
- lha ma yin
- lha min
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
See “demigod.”
- asura
- ལྷ་མིན།
- lha min
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
The asuras are the enemies of the devas, fighting with them for supremacy.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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The asuras, sometimes called the demi-gods or titans, are the enemies of the devas, fighting with them for supremacy. They are powerful beings who live around Mount Sumeru, and are usually classified as belonging to the higher realms.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
One of the six classes of living beings, sometimes included among the gods and sometimes among the animals. A class of superhuman beings, sometimes misleadingly called demigods, engendered and dominated by envy, ambition, and hostility, who are metaphorically described as being incessantly embroiled in a dispute with the gods over the possession of a magical tree.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
A class of titans or demigods.
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
A class of divine beings who are engaged in a mythic war with the gods (Skt. deva) for possession of the nectar of immortality. In Buddhist cosmology, they inhabit a realm below those of the gods, from which they observe the gods with intense jealousy.
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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Powerful beings who live around Mount Meru and are usually classified as belonging to the higher realms. They are characterized as jealous and ambitious, forever in conflict with the gods.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
The asuras, sometimes called the demigods, are the enemies of the gods, fighting with them for supremacy. They are powerful beings who live around Mount Sumeru and are usually classified as belonging to the higher realms.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
Often described as demigods or warrior gods, these giants are at constant war with the gods.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
Titan .
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
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Demi-gods, titans.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
A class or powerful nonhuman beings, sometimes called demigods, who are often portrayed as the enemies of the devas. One of the six classes of beings.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
A class or powerful nonhuman beings, sometimes called demigods, who are often portrayed as the enemies of the devas. One of the six classes of beings.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མིན།
- lha min
- asura
A class of celestial beings.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
A class of nonhuman beings who inhabit one of the six types of worlds (loka) that make up saṃsāra. The asuras are the enemies of the gods (deva), vying with them in an eternal struggle for supremacy.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
A class of beings constantly in conflict with the gods.
- asura
- ཨ་སུ་ར།
- a su ra
- asura
See also “animal.”
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- ལྷ་མིན།
- lha ma yin
- lha min
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མིན།
- lha min
- asura
A class of divine beings ranking below gods (deva), known for their jealous and warlike disposition.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
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- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
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- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- asura
- ལྷ་མིན།
- lha min
- asura
A class of nonhuman beings that are engaged in a perpetual war with the gods (deva) for possession of the nectar of immortality. In Buddhist cosmology, they count as one of the six classes of beings and are tormented by their intense jealousy of the gods.
- asura
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- dānava
- demigod
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
The traditional adversaries of the devas (gods) who are frequently portrayed in the brahmanical mythology as having a disruptive effect on cosmological and social harmony.
- demigod
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
The titans who inhabit one of the six types of “worlds” (loka) that make up saṃsāra.
- demigod
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- demigod
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
- demigod
- ལྷ་མ་ཡིན།
- lha ma yin
- asura
Also called “antigods” or “titans,” these are a lower type of celestial being who out of jealousy are forever in conflict with the gods. See also “five destinies.”
- daitya
- ལྷ་མིན།
- lha min
- daitya
A class of nonhuman beings sometimes used to refer to asuras more generally, but also more specifically to those nonhuman beings who are said to descent from Diti.