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ཉེ་དགའ། | Glossary of Terms
ཉེ་དགའ།
nye dga’
Upananda
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One of eight mythological nāga kings. The story of the two nāga kings Upananda and Nanda and their taming by the Buddha and Maudgalyāyana is told in the Vinayavibhaṅga (Toh 3, D vol. 6, ’dul ba, ja, F.221a–224a).
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ་བོ།
- nye dga’ bo
- Upananda
A nāga king.
- Upananda
- བསྙེན་དགའ་བོ།
- bsnyen dga’ bo
- Upananda
One of the main nāga kings, usually associated with the nāga king Nanda.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ་བོ།
- nye dga’ bo
- Upananda
A nāga king; a member of the Buddha’s retinue.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upananda
One of eight mythological nāga kings.
The story of the two nāga kings Upananda and Nanda and their taming by the Buddha and Maudgalyāyana is told in the Vinayavibhaṅga (Toh 3, D vol. 6, ’dul ba, ja, F.221a–224a).
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upananda
A powerful nāga king.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ་བུ།
- nye dga’ bu
- Upananda
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- upananda
A nāga king.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upananda
A nāga king.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upananda
One of the eight great nāga kings. Usually paired with the nāga king Nanda.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upananda
The name of a bhikṣu of the Buddha’s listed as being present at the sūtra’s teaching and listed along with the Buddha’s half-brother, the bhikṣu Nanda.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upananda
One of the main nāga kings, usually associated with the nāga king Nanda.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upananda
A nāga king.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ་བོ།
- nye dga’ bo
- Upananda
A nāga king; a member of the Buddha’s retinue.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ་བོ།
- nye dga’ bo
- Upananda
A nāga king present in the assembly of the Buddha Śākyamuni.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upananda
One of the main nāga kings, usually associated with the nāga king Nanda.
- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ་བོ།
- nye dga’ bo
- Upananda
One of the śrāvakas attending the delivery of the MMK; one of the kings of nāgas.
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- Upananda
- ཉེ་དགའ་བོ།
- nye dga’ bo
- Upananda
One of the nāga kings.
- Upananda
- བསྙེན་དགའ་བོ།
- bsnyen dga’ bo
- Upananda
Name of a nāga king.
- Upananda (the nāga)
- ཉེ་དགའ་བོ།
- nye dga’ bo
- Upananda
The name of a certain nāga.
Not to be confused with “Upananda,” one of King Mahādeva’s ministers; or with Upananda, the monk.
- Upanandaka
- ཉེ་དགའ།
- nye dga’
- Upanandaka