84000 Glossary of Terms

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རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྣ་བདུན། | Glossary of Terms

  • ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོ་སྣ་བདུན།

  • ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བདུན།
  • ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྣ་བདུན།
  • རིན་ཆེན་བདུན།
  • རིན་ཆེན་མཆོག་བདུན།
  • རིན་ཆེན་སྣ་བདུན།
  • རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བདུན།
  • རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྣ་བདུན།
  • རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྣ་ཚོགས་བདུན།
  • རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྫས་བདུན།
  • rin po che sna bdun
  • rin chen bdun
  • rin po che’i rdzas bdun
  • rin po che bdun
  • rin chen sna bdun
  • rin chen mchog bdun
  • rin po che sna tshogs bdun
  • nor bu rin po che sna bdun
  • nor bu rin po che chen po sna bdun
  • nor bu rin po che bdun
  • saptaratna
  • sapta­maṇi­ratna
  • sapta­mahā­maṇi­ratna
  • Term
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The set of seven precious materials or substances includes a range of precious metals and gems, but their exact list varies. The set often consists of gold, silver, beryl, crystal, red pearls, emeralds, and white coral, but may also contain lapis lazuli, ruby, sapphire, chrysoberyl, diamonds, etc. The term is frequently used in the sūtras to exemplify preciousness, wealth, and beauty, and can describe treasures, offerings materials, or the features of architectural structures such as stūpas, palaces, thrones, etc. The set is also used to describe the beauty and prosperity of buddha realms and the realms of the gods.

In other contexts, the term saptaratna can also refer to the seven precious possessions of a cakravartin or to a set of seven precious moral qualities.