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སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།

  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ།
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sgrib pa rnam sel
  • sarva­nivaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkaṃbhin
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An important bodhisattva, included among the “eight close sons of the Buddha.” His name means “One Who Completely Dispels All Obscurations” and, accordingly, he is said to have the power to exhaust all the obscurations of anyone who merely hears his name. According to The Jewel Cloud (1.10, Toh 231), Sarva­­nīvaraṇa­­viṣkam­bhin originally dwelt in the realm of the Buddha Padma­netra, but he was so touched by the Buddha Śākyamuni’s compassionate acceptance of the barbaric and ungrateful beings who inhabit this realm that he traveled to see the Buddha Śākyamuni, offer him worship, and inquire about the Dharma. He is often included in the audience of sūtras and, in particular, he has an important role in the The Basket’s Display, Toh 116, in which he is sent to Vārāṇasī to obtain Avalokitesvara’s mantra.

  • Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarva­nīvaraṇavi­ṣkambhin
Definition in this text:

One of the eight great bodhisattvas. In particular, he has an important role in the Lotus Sūtra, in which Buddha Śākyamuni sends him to Vārāṇasī to see Avalokiteśvara. This is paralleled in the Kāraṇḍavyūha, in which he is sent to Vārāṇasī to obtain Avalokitesvara’s mahāvidyā.

  • Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkaṃbhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkaṃbhin
Definition in this text:

One of the bodhisattvas attending the delivery of this teaching.

  • Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkam­bhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkam­bhin
Definition in this text:

A great bodhisattva, visitor from the distant buddhafield of Padmanetra, and the Buddha Śākyamuni’s main interlocutor in this text.

  • Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin
Definition in this text:

One of the eight great bodhisattvas, his name literally means “Remover of Hindrances.” He plays an important role in The White Lotus of the Good Dharma (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, Toh 113), in which the Buddha Śākyamuni sends him to Vārāṇasī to see Avalokiteśvara. This is paralleled in The Basket’s Display (Kāraṇḍavyūha, Toh 116), in which he is sent to Vārāṇasī to obtain Avalokiteśvara’s mantra.

  • Sarva­nivaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ།
  • sgrib pa rnam sel
  • sarva­nivaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Sarva­nivaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ།
  • sgrib pa rnam sel
  • sarva­nivaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel ba
  • sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkambhin
Definition in this text:

One of the sixteen great bodhisattvas. The content of the list varies from text to text.

  • Sarva­nivaraṇa­viṣkambhin
  • སྒྲིབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ།
  • sgrib pa thams cad rnam par sel
  • sarva­nivaraṇa­viṣkambhin
Definition in this text:

One of the celestial bodhisattvas.