ཅང་ཤེས་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཅང་ཤེས་པ།
- cang shes pa
- ājāneya
- ājanya
- Term
- thoroughbred
- ཅང་ཤེས་པ།
- cang shes pa
- ājāneya
Meaning “thoroughbred horse,” the term is used here and in the introductory narratives of many sūtras as a metaphor for nobility.
- well bred
- ཅང་ཤེས་པ།
- cang shes pa
- ājanya
Being the best of a particular kind, a combination of good breeding and good training, a term that is applied to animals as well as humans, and perhaps particularly of horses in the sense of a thoroughbred.