84000 Glossary of Terms

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བཀྲ་ཤིས་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • བཀྲ་ཤིས་པ།

  • བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྡན།
  • bkra shis pa
  • bkra shis ldan
  • svastika
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  • Svastika
  • བཀྲ་ཤིས་པ།
  • bkra shis pa
  • svastika
Definition in this text:

The grass seller that the Bodhisattva encounters en route to the tree of awakening whose name is attested in the Sanskrit manuscript of this sūtra as well as the Lalitavistara.

  • Svastika
  • བཀྲ་ཤིས་པ།
  • bkra shis pa
  • svastika
Definition in this text:

The boy, a grass seller, who offered Prince Siddhārtha grass for his seat on the eve of his awakening.

  • Svastika
  • བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྡན།
  • bkra shis ldan
  • svastika
Definition in this text:

Grass peddler who offered Gautama the grass that he would sit upon in meditation to attain enlightenment.