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ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- འཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- ’khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāla
- mahācakravāḍa
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- Mahācakravāḍa
- འཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- ’khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāḍa
Name of a mountain range in Buddhist cosmology.
- Mahācakravāḍa
- འཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- ’khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāḍa
A mountain range.
- Mahācakravāḍa
- ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāḍa
A mountain, or sometimes a range of mountains.
- Mahācakravāla
- ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāla
This appears to refer to the great circles of mountains that enclose a thousand worlds, each with its own Cakravāla.
- Mahācakravāla
- ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāla
Means “Great Periphery.” Name of mountain range that surrounds the world according to Buddhist cosmology.
- Mahācakravāla
- ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāla
“Great Cakravāla,” an epithet for the ring of mountains forming the periphery of a world system in Buddhist cosmology.
- Great Cakravāḍa
- ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- —
Name of a god who personifies a mountain of this name. See Cakravāḍa.
- great encircling mountain ranges
- ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāḍa
- great ring of mountains
- ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāla
A ring of mountains marking the circumference of the world in ancient Buddhist cosmology.
- Mahācakravāḍa Mountains
- ཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāḍa
Name of a mountain range in Buddhist cosmology.
- Mount Mahācakravāla
- འཁོར་ཡུག་ཆེན་པོ།
- ’khor yug chen po
- mahācakravāla