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འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
’phags skyes po
Virūḍhaka
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- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Mahārājas, he is the guardian of the southern direction and the lord of the kumbhāṇḍas.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the four great kings, the protectors of the world; guardian of the south.
- Virūḍhaka
- བེ་རོ་ཀ
- be ro ka
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings, he presides over the southern quarter and rules over the kumbhāṇḍas.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings, he presides over the southern quarter and rules over the kumbhāṇḍas.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Mahārājas, he is the guardian of the southern direction and the lord of the kumbhāṇḍas.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the four mahārājas. He is the guardian of the southern direction and the lord of the kumbhāṇḍas.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
- Viruḍhaka
One of the four mahārājas. He is the guardian of the southern direction and the lord of the kumbhāṇḍas.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
- Virūḍha
One of the Four Great Kings.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings, or guardians of the world, he presides over the southern quarter and rules over the preta kumbhāṇḍa spirits that live there.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
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One of the Four Great Kings (rgyal po chen po bzhi) ruling the four directions of the desire realm. Virūḍhaka rules the southern direction and the kumbhāṇḍas (grul bum) that reside there. In The Question of Mañjuśrī his image is the fifty-first of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the four great kings.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings, the protector of the south.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings, he presides over the southern quarter and rules over the kumbhāṇḍas.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེ་པོ།
- ’phags skye po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings, guardian of the south.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the four great kings, protector of the cardinal direction to the south of Mount Meru. (’phags skyes po, his name in Tibetan, is also the Tibetan name of Videha).
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
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“Noble Birth” (Tib.) or “Sprouting/Growing Forth,” (Skt.) guardian of the southern direction. Also the name of a king of Kosala during the lifetime of Śākyamuni Buddha.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings, he is the guardian of the southern direction and the lord of the kumbhāṇḍas.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍha
The king of kumbhāṇḍas (one of the four great kings of the directions).
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- ’phags skyes po
- Virūḍhaka
One of the “four great kings, guardians of the world,” he is held to dwell in the south, presiding over the preta kumbhāṇḍa spirits that live there.
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- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས་པོ།
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས།
- ’phags skyes po
- ’phags skyes
- Virūḍhaka
One of the Four Great Kings.
- Virūḍhaka
- འཕགས་སྐྱེས།
- ’phags skyes
- Virūḍhaka
One of the great kings of the four cardinal directions, Virūḍhaka guards the southern quarter of the heavens.