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མི་འཁྲུགས་པ། | Glossary of Terms
མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
mi ’khrugs pa
Akṣobhya
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Lit. “Not Disturbed” or “Immovable One.” The buddha in the eastern realm of Abhirati. A well-known buddha in early Mahāyāna, regarded in the higher tantras as the head of one of the five buddha families, the vajra family in the east.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
Name of a buddha.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་སྒུལ་བ།
- mi sgul ba
- Akṣobhya
The buddha in the eastern realm of Abhiratī. The translation of his name in this sūtra differs from the usual translations, which are either mi ’khrugs pa, mi skyod pa, or mi bskyod pa. In the higher tantras he is the head of one the five buddha families, the vajra family, in the east, and he was also well known early in the Mahāyāna sūtra tradition.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
A buddha who dwells in a celestial realm in the East.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུག་པ།
- mi ’khrug pa
- Akṣobhya
Name of a Buddha dwelling in an eastern region.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས།
- mi ’khrugs
- Akṣobhya
In Sanskrit, “Immovable,” the name of a tathāgata. In Surata’s next life, he returns to Abhirati, the realm of Akṣobhya.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
The buddha in the eastern realm of Abhirati. Akṣobhya, who in the higher tantras is the head of one the five buddha families, the vajra family in the east, was well known early in the Mahāyāna tradition.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
A buddha.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
The buddha in the eastern realm, Abhirati. Akṣobhya, who in the higher tantras is the head of one the five buddha families, the vajra family in the east, was well known early in the Mahāyāna tradition.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
The buddha in the eastern realm, Abhirati. Akṣobhya (Unshakable) was well known early in the Mahāyāna tradition.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
The buddha in the eastern realm of Abhirati. A well-known buddha in early Mahāyāna who became the head of one of the five buddha families, the eastern vajra family, in the higher tantras.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
The head of one of the five tathāgata families.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
Name of a tathāgata.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
The buddha in the eastern realm, Abhirati. Akṣobhya, who in the higher tantras is the head of one the five buddha families, the vajra family in the east, was well-known early in the Mahāyāna tradition.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
In the Ratnaketudhāraṇī, he is one of the six “directional” tathāgatas.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
A buddha.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་བསྐྱོད་པ།
- mi bskyod pa
- Akṣobhya
One of the five tathāgatas.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
Buddha of the universe Abhirati, presiding over the eastern direction; also prominent in tantric works as one of the five dhyāni buddhas, or tathāgatas (see Lamotte, pp. 360-362, n. 9).
- Akṣobhya
- མི་སྒུལ་བ།
- mi sgul ba
- Akṣobhya
The name of a buddha.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- akṣobhya
“Unmovable One.”
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
The buddha in the realm of Manifest Joy.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་གཡོ་བ།
- mi g.yo ba
- Akṣobhya
A buddha whose realm, Abhirati, lies in the eastern direction.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
Name of the thus-gone one of the world system Delightful.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་བསྐྱོད་པ།
- mi bskyod pa
- Akṣobhya
A buddha of the east.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
One of the five tathāgatas.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་བསྐྱོད་པ།
- mi bskyod pa
- Akṣobhya
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་བསྐྱོད་པ།
- mi bskyod pa
- Akṣobhya
One of the five buddhas; in the system followed in the CMT, he is at the center of the maṇḍala.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
A tathāgata and important esoteric deity. Among the five families, he is head of the vajra family.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- Akṣobhya
The tathāgata who dwells in the eastern realm of Abhirati.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Akṣobhya
- མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
- ཨ་ཀྵོ་བྷྱ།
- mi ’khrugs pa
- a k+Sho b+h+ya
- Akṣobhya
One of the five primary tathāgatas, he presides over the vajra family.