84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྒྱལ་རིགས་ཆེ་ཞིང་མཐོ་བའི་རིགས། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྒྱལ་རིགས་ཆེ་ཞིང་མཐོ་བའི་རིགས།

  • rgyal rigs che zhing mtho ba’i rigs
  • kṣatriya­mahā­śāla­kula
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  • great and lofty royal family
  • རྒྱལ་རིགས་ཆེ་ཞིང་མཐོ་བའི་རིགས།
  • rgyal rigs che zhing mtho ba’i rigs
  • kṣatriya­mahā­śāla­kula
Definition in this text:

Note that the metaphor within the Sanskrit term (“a great sal tree”) is here interpreted in the Tibetan term. In equivalent passages in other versions of the sūtra, the metaphorical part of the term is rendered literally in the Tibetan. See also UT22084-026-001-377.