གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།
- glang po chen po
- mahānāga
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- great bull elephants
- གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།
- glang po chen po
- mahānāga
- Great Elephant
- གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།
- glang po chen po
An epithet of the Buddha.
- great elephants
- གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།
- glang po chen po
- mahānāga
Mahānāga here could be a middle-Indic word possibly originating from the Sanskrit mahānagna, meaning “a great champion,” “a man of distinction and nobility.”
- mighty nāga
- གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།
- glang po chen po
- mahānāga
This term, meaning “elephant” in this context, is a metaphor, suggesting that those present in the assembly were leaders of considerable stature rather than followers.