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ཁྱད་པར་སེམས། | Glossary of Terms

    ཁྱད་པར་སེམས།

    tshangs pa chen po khyad par sems

    Viśeṣacintin

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Translation by Bhikṣuṇī Thubten Damcho
  • Viśeṣacintin
  • ཁྱད་པར་སེམས།
  • ཚངས་པ་ཁྱད་པར་སེམས།
  • ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཁྱད་པར་སེམས།
  • khyad par sems
  • tshangs pa khyad par sems
  • tshangs pa chen po khyad par sems
  • Viśeṣacintin

Literally “Distinctive Thinker.” A great bodhisattva who is the main interlocutor in this discourse. Also referred to as Brahmaviśeṣacintin and Mahābrahmaviśeṣacintin in The Questions of Brahmaviśeṣacintin (Brahmaviśeṣacintiparipṛcchā, Toh 160).