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བཟང་སྐྱོང་། | Glossary of Terms

  • 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).

Translation by Gareth Sparham
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

Lit. “Guardian of Good.” A bodhisattva great being present in the audience of this sūtra.

Translation by Gyurme Dorje
  • Bhadra­pāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadra­pāla
Definition in this text:

Name of a bodhisattva.

Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
  • 賢護
Definition in this text:

A merchant.

Translation by Klaus-Dieter Mathes · Julika Weber · Katrin Querl · Konstantin Brockhausen · Susanne Fleischmann · Daniel Gratzer · Georgi Krastev · Jamie Gordon Creek
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

Name of a bodhisattva.

Translation by Jake Nagasawa · ErdeneBaatar Erdene-Ochir · Jaakko Takkinen
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

Translation by Dr Karen Liljenberg · Dr Ulrich Pagel
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

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Translation by Maurizio Pontiggia
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
  • 賢護
Definition in this text:

“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.

Translation by Thomas Doctor
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva present in the circle around Śākyamuni.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · James Gentry
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

A great bodhisattva.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

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).

Translation by Gyurmé Avertin
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

Translation by Andreas Doctor
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

One of the “sixteen excellent men.” A bodhisattva and householder who appears prominently in several sūtras.

Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

Name of a bodhisattva.

Translation by Gyurmé Avertin
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

A householder, listed as one of the sixteen holy beings attending this teaching.

Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
  • 跋陀婆羅
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva in the Buddha’s retinue.

Translation by Dr. Karen Liljenberg · Dr. Ulrich Pagel
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

Translation by Thomas Doctor
  • Bhadra­pāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadra­pāla
Definition in this text:

A great bodhisattva.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Bhadrapāla
  • བཟང་སྐྱོང་།
  • bzang skyong
  • bhadrapāla
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva in one of the paintings of Śākyamuni.