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བདུད་རྩི། | Glossary of Terms
བདུད་རྩི།
bdud rtsi
amṛta
- Term
- Amrita
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- amṛta
The divine nectar that prevents death, often used metaphorically for the Dharma.
- Amrita
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- amṛta
The nectar of immortality possessed by the devas, it is used as a metaphor for the teaching that brings liberation.
- Amrita
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- amṛta
The divine nectar that prevents death, often used metaphorically for the Dharma.
- Ambrosia
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- amṛta
The ambrosia (also translated here as “immortality”) that prevents death or spiritual death (hence the Tibetan term means “crushes spiritual death”). The Sanskrit term literally means immortality. It is often used metaphorically to mean the Dharma.
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- Ambrosia
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- amṛta
- Nectar
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- —
The name of a karmic wind involved in the formation of an embryo in its sixteenth week.
- Nectar
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- amṛta
- Amṛta
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- amṛta
The divine nectar that prevents death.
- Immortality
- བདུད་རྩི།
- bdud rtsi
- amṛta
The ambrosia that prevents death or spiritual death (hence the Tibetan term means “crushes spiritual death”). The Sanskrit term literally means immortality. It is often used metaphorically to mean the Dharma.