མཚན། | Glossary of Terms
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མཚན།
- mtshan
- lakṣaṇa
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The thirty-two primary physical characteristics of a “great being,” mahāpuruṣa, which every buddha and cakravartin possesses. They are considered “major” in terms of being primary to the eighty minor marks or signs of a great being.
- major mark
- མཚན།
- mtshan
- lakṣaṇa
For their enumeration in this text, see UT22084-029-001-5641.
- major marks
- མཚན།
- mtshan
- lakṣaṇa
See “thirty-two major marks.”
- major marks
- མཚན།
- mtshan
- lakṣaṇa
Listed as thirty-two marks on the body of a buddha.
- buddha marks
- མཚན།
- mtshan
- lakṣaṇa
The thirty-two major and eighty minor marks of a buddha.
- mark
- མཚན།
- mtshan
- lakṣaṇa
The thirty-two primary physical characteristics of a “great being,” mahāpuruṣa, which every buddha and cakravartin possesses.
- primary signs
- མཚན།
- mtshan
- lakṣaṇa
The thirty-two primary physical characteristics of a “great being,” a mahāpuruṣa, which every buddha possesses.
- signs (of a great being)
- མཚན།
- mtshan
- lakṣaṇa
The thirty-two primary physical characteristics of a “great being,” mahāpuruṣa, which every buddha and cakravartin possesses. See UT22084-037-007-4379 for a complete list according to this sūtra.