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རབ་འབྱོར། | Glossary of Terms

    རབ་འབྱོར།

    rab ’byor

    Subhūti

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Translation by Gareth Sparham
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the ten great śrāvaka disciples of the Buddha Śākyamuni, known for his profound understanding of emptiness. He plays a major role as an interlocutor of the Buddha in the Prajñā­pāramitā­sūtras.

Translation by Gyurme Dorje
  • Su­bhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Su­bhūti

Name of an elder.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

A foremost pupil of the Buddha, known for his wisdom.

Translation by Thomas Doctor
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha.

Translation by Ulrich Pagel
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

A prominent disciple of the Buddha.

Translation by Thomas Doctor
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha Śākyamuni, known for his profound understanding of emptiness.

Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the monks attending this teaching in Śrāvastī, at Jeta Grove.

Translation by Benjamin Ewing
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his profound understanding of emptiness.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · James Gentry
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the Buddha’s foremost hearer disciples.

Translation by Gregory Forgues
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

The name of a hearer.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

A foremost pupil of the Buddha, known for his wisdom.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

A foremost pupil of the Buddha, known for his wisdom.

Translation by Joseph McClellan
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his profound understanding of emptiness.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Timothy Hinkle
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the four great hearers.

Translation by David Jackson
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti
Translation by Gyurmé Avertin
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti
Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

Disciple noted for his profound concentration on voidness; as interlocutor of the Buddha, a major figure in the Prajñā­pāramitā­sūtras. See also UT22084-060-005-927.

Translation by Dr. Shenghai Li · Zhuo Siyu
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti
Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his profound understanding of emptiness.

Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha.

Translation by Dr. Karen Liljenberg · Dr. Ulrich Pagel
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

A monk (bhikṣu) and disciple of the Buddha.

Translation by Gregory Forgues · Rolf Scheuermann
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • subhūti
Translation by Miguel Sawaya
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his profound understanding of emptiness.

Translation by Jordi Roig
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the Buddha’s foremost disciples and younger brother of the benefactor Anāthapiṇḍada; regarded as the disciple with the foremost understanding of emptiness.

Translation by Jed Forman · ErdeneBaatar Erdene-Ochir · Michael Ium
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his profound understanding of emptiness. 

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the śrāvakas attending the delivery of the MMK; one of the eight great śrāvakas.

Translation by James Gentry
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti
Translation by Gareth Sparham
  • Subhūti
  • རབ་འབྱོར།
  • rab ’byor
  • Subhūti

One of the ten great śrāvaka disciples of the Buddha Śākyamuni, known for his profound understanding of emptiness. He plays a major role as an interlocutor of the Buddha in the Prajñā­pāramitā­sūtras.