འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ། | Glossary of Terms
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འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་།
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- ’jig rten skyong
- skyong ba
- lokapāla
- pāla
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- guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
Literally “world protectors.” They are the same as the four Mahārājas, the Four Great Kings of the quarters (Tib. rgyal chen bzhi), namely, Vaiśravaṇa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Virūḍhaka, and Virūpākṣa, whose mission is to report on the activities of humankind to the gods of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven (Heaven of the Thirty-Three) and who have pledged to protect the practitioners of the Dharma. Each universe has its own set of four.
- guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
They are the same as the Four Great Kings of the four directions, namely Vaiśravaṇa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Virūḍhaka, and Virūpākṣa, whose mission is to report on the activities of mankind to the gods of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven and who have pledged to protect the practitioners of the Dharma. Each universe has its own set of four.
- guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
Also known as the four great kings (mahārāja), Vaiśravaṇa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Virūḍhaka, and Virūpākṣa are pledged to protect practitioners of the Dharma.
- guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
One category of Dharma protectors in Buddhism. See also “four guardians of the world.”
- guardians (of the world)
- སྐྱོང་བ།
- skyong ba
- pāla
In this case, “guardians” seems to refer to the Four Great Kings of the cardinal directions, namely, Vaiśravaṇa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Virūḍhaka, and Virūpākṣa, who pledged to protect the Dharma and practitioners.
- guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
See “Four Great Kings.”
- guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
This refers to the Four Great Kings.
- guardians of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
- Lokapāla
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
Lit. “World Protectors.” They are usually the same as the Four Mahārājas but are here included as a separate group.
- lokapāla
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
Literally, protector of the world, this term is another way of referring to the Four Great Kings.
- Lokapāla
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་།
- ’jig rten skyong
- lokapāla
Lit. “World-Protectors.” They are the same as the four Mahārājas, the great kings of the quarters (rgyal chen bzhi), namely, Vaiśravaṇa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Virūḍhaka, and Virūpākṣa, whose mission is to report on the activities of mankind to the gods of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven and who have pledged to protect the practitioners of the Dharma. Each universe has its own set of four.
- lokapāla
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
“World protector,” a class of guardian deities, usually presiding over the quarters of the world.
- world protector
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
See “Lokapāla.”
- world protector
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
A group of four nonhuman beings who stand guard over the four directions.
A collective term for deities committed to protecting Buddhism. Often, but not always, refers to the Four Guardian Kings of the four directions.
- protector of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
One category of Dharma protectors in Buddhism.
- protector of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
One category of Dharma protectors in Buddhism.
- protectors of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
See “lokapāla”.
May refer to the Four Great Kings of the cardinal directions, namely, Vaiśravaṇa, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Virūḍhaka, and Virūpākṣa, who pledged to protect the Dharma and practitioners.
- world guardian
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་།
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
A class of guardian deities. Sometimes used to refer to the Four Great Kings (see “Four World Guardians”).
- world guardian
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
See “Four Great Kings.”
- world guardians
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
A class of guardian gods, usually presiding over the quarters of the world.
- world guardians
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
A class of guardian deities, usually presiding over the quarters of the world. This often refers to the Four Great Kings.
- world protectors
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
Also known as the Four Great Kings.
- world protectors
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
The guardians of the cardinal and ordinal directions, the zenith, and nadir.
- Guardian of the world
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
- lokapāla
Another term for the Four Guardian Kings.
- worldly protector
- འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ།
- ’jig rten skyong ba
A class of guardian deities, usually presiding over the quarters of the world.