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ཁྱབ་འཇུག | Glossary of Terms
ཁྱབ་འཇུག
khyab ’jug
Viṣṇu
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A god.
- Viṣṇu
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- Viṣṇu
One of the central gods in the Hindu pantheon today. He had not yet risen to an important status during the Buddha’s lifetime and only developed his own significant following in the early years of the common era. Vaishnavism developed the theory of ten emanations, or avatars, the ninth being the Buddha. His emanation as a dwarf plays an important role in this sūtra. The Sanskrit etymology of the name is uncertain, but it was already in use in the Vedas, where he is a minor deity, and has been glossed as “one who enters (everywhere).”
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
- khyab ’jug
- Viṣṇu
One of the central gods in the Hindu pantheon today. He had not yet risen to an important status during the Buddha’s lifetime and only developed his own significant following in the early years of the common era. Vaishnavism developed the theory of ten emanations, or avatars, the ninth being the Buddha. His emanation as a dwarf plays an important role in this sūtra. The Sanskrit etymology of the name is uncertain, but it was already in use in the Vedas, where he is a minor deity, and has been glossed as “one who enters (everywhere).”
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
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- Viṣṇu
The preserver of the universe. He is part of the Hindu triad of gods, with Brahmā the creator and Śiva the destroyer.
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
- khyab ’jug
- Viṣṇu
One of the eight great gods in the Indian pantheon.
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
- khyab ’jug
- Viṣṇu
One of the principal deities in the Hindu pantheon.
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
- khyab ’jug
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One of the primary gods of Hinduism, associated with the preservation and continuance of the universe, held by many as a supreme being.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
- khyab ’jug
- Viṣṇu
A Hindu deity.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
- khyab ’jug
- Viṣṇu
One of the principal three Hindu gods.
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
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- Viṣṇu
The god Viṣṇu; also the names of various kings.
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- khyab ’jug
- Viṣṇu
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Viṣṇu
- བིཥྞུ།
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
- biSh+Nu
- khyab ’jug
- Viṣṇu
The god of creation.
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
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- Viṣṇu
One of the Hindu gods.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Viṣṇu
- ཁྱབ་འཇུག
- khyab ’jug
- Viṣṇu
One of the primary gods of the Brahmanical tradition, he is associated with the preservation and continuance of the universe.
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In the schema of the eight guardians of the directions, Viṣṇu guards the nadir.