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བཟང་སྐྱོང་། | Glossary of Terms
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བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
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Head of the “sixteen excellent men” (ṣoḍaśasatpuruṣa), a group of householder bodhisattvas present in the audience of many sūtras. He appears prominently in certain sūtras, such as The Samādhi of the Presence of the Buddhas (Pratyutpannabuddhasaṃmukhāvasthitasamādhisūtra, Toh 133) and is perhaps also the merchant of the same name who is the principal interlocutor in The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant (Toh 83).
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
Lit. “Guardian of Good.” A bodhisattva great being present in the audience of this sūtra.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
Name of a bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
- 賢護
A merchant.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
Name of a bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
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- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
- 賢護
“Kind Protector.” Head of the “sixteen excellent men” in this sūtra. He is a bodhisattva who appears prominently in a number of sūtras, where he is depicted as a lay practitioner.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A bodhisattva present in the circle around Śākyamuni.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A great bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
One of “the sixteen excellent men.” A bodhisattva who appears prominently in certain sūtras, such as The Samādhi of the Presence of the Buddhas, and perhaps also the merchant of that name who is the principal interlocutor in The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant (tshong dpon bzang skyong gyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo, toh 83).
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
One of the “sixteen excellent men.” A bodhisattva and householder who appears prominently in several sūtras.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
Name of a bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A householder, listed as one of the sixteen holy beings attending this teaching.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
- 跋陀婆羅
A bodhisattva in the Buddha’s retinue.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A great bodhisattva.
- Bhadrapāla
- བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
- bzang skyong
- bhadrapāla
A bodhisattva in one of the paintings of Śākyamuni.