84000 Glossary of Terms
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དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | Glossary of Terms
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དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- dri za’i grong khyer
- gandharvapura
- gandharvanagara
- Term
Publications: 3
Translation by Laura Dainty · Khenpo Tsöndrü Sangpo
- city of gandharvas
- དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- dri za’i grong khyer
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Cloud formations that look like elaborate celestial cities, one classical example of illusory phenomena.
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- fata morgana
- དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- dri za’i grong khyer
- gandharvapura
A particular kind of mirage in which buildings, mountains, and so on can appear in the sky above the horizon. In India, called the “city of gandharvas,” as it was believed to be a glimpse of the residences of these divine beings.
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- gandharva castle in the sky
- དྲི་ཟའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- dri za’i grong khyer
- gandharvanagara
See “gandharva.”