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མ་ཕམ་པ། | Glossary of Terms
མ་ཕམ་པ།
ma pham pa
Ajita
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- མ་ཕམ་པ།
- ma pham pa
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Another name for Maitreya, the future buddha.
- Ajita
- མ་ཕམ།
- ma pham
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An epithet of the bodhisattva Maitreya.
- Ajita
- མ་ཕམ་པ།
- ma pham pa
- Ajita
The other name of Maitreya, the bodhisattva who became Śākyamuni’s regent and is prophesied to be the next buddha, the fifth buddha in the fortunate eon. In early Buddhism he appears as the human disciple Maitreya Tiṣya, sent to pay his respects by his teacher. The Buddha gives him the gift of a robe and prophesies he will be the next buddha, while his companion Ajita will be the next cakravartin. As a bodhisattva in the Mahāyāna he has both these names.
- Ajita
- མི་ཕམ་པ།
- mi pham pa
- Ajita
The other name of Maitreya (or Maitraka), the bodhisattva who will be the fifth buddha of the Good Eon.
- Ajita
- མ་ཕམ།
- ma pham
- Ajita
Another name for Maitreya.
- Ajita
- མ་ཕམ་པ།
- ma pham pa
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- 阿逸多
The name of Maitreya before his awakening.
- Ajita
- མ་ཕམ་པ།
- ma pham pa
- Ajita
Epithet for the bodhisattva and future Buddha Maitreya.
- Ajita
- མ་ཕམ་པ།
- ma pham pa
- Ajita
“Unconquered,” an alternate name for the bodhisattva Maitreya; the name of a bodhisattva; also an epithet of the deity Viṣṇu.
- Ajita
- མ་ཕམ་པ།
- ma pham pa
- Ajita
Another name of Maitreya, the bodhisattva who became Śākyamuni’s regent and is prophesied to be the next buddha, the fifth buddha in the fortunate eon.