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གཤིན་རྗེ། | Glossary of Terms
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གཤིན་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་གཤིན་རྗེ།
- འཆི་བདག
- ཡ་མ།
- gshin rje
- gshin rje rgyal po
- chos kyi rgyal po gshin rje
- ’chi bdag
- ya ma
- yama
- dharmarāja yama
- mṛtyu
- yāma
- yamarāja
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- Term
- Person
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The god of death.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
Lord of death.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death, who judges the dead and rules over the hells; the realm of Yama is synonymous with the world of the pretas.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death, he judges the dead and rules over the underworld inhabited by the pretas.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The Lord of Death, who judges the dead and rules over the hells.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death in Indian mythology who judges the dead and rules over the hells and the realm of the hungry ghosts.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
Lord of the dead in Indian mythology.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The king of the preta realm.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- gshin rje rgyal po
- yama
The lord of death, who judges the dead and rules over the hells.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The god of death and the overlord of the hell realms.
- Yama
- འཆི་བདག
- ’chi bdag
- yama
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
From Vedic times, the Lord of Death, who directs the departed into the next realm of rebirth.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
Lord of the dead.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death in Indian mythology, who judges the dead and rules over the hells and the realm of the hungry ghosts.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The Lord of the Dead; name of the ruler over the netherworld.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The Hindu and Buddhist god of death.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The god of death.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The Lord of Death.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The Lord of Death.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The god of death who rules over the realm of the pretas; a vidyārāja from the personal retinue of Vajrapāṇi; one of the kings of rākṣasas.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
See “Dharmarāja Yama.”
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The Lord of Death, he judges the dead and rules over the hells.
- Yama
- ཡ་མ།
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- ya ma
- gshin rje
- yama
The god of the dead.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The god of death, a guardian of the southern quarter.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The Lord of Death who judges the dead and rules over the hells.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death who judges the dead and rules over the hells.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The god of death.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The Indic lord of death who judges the dead and rules over the hells. Also, the deity who governs the southern direction.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
One of the eight guardians of the directions, Yama guards the southern quarter.
- Yama
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death, who judges the dead and rules over the hells.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The lord of death who judges the dead and rules over the hells.
- Lord of Death
- འཆི་བདག
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- ’chi bdag
- gshin rje
- mṛtyu
- yama
Another name for King Yama (Skt. yamarāja; Tib. gshin rje rgyal po), the deity who judges the dead and rules over the hell realms of the underworld.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yāma
The Lord of Death who directs the departed into the next realm of rebirth.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yāma
From Vedic times, the Lord of Death who directs the departed into the next realm of rebirth.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
Lord of Death.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
From Vedic times, the Lord of Death is the one who directs the departed into the next realm of rebirth.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
Usually the Lord of Death who directs the departed into the next realm of rebirth, but here refers to the Lord of the hungry ghost realm.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
Ruler of the hell realms.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yāma
From Vedic times, the Lord of Death who directs the departed into the next realm of rebirth.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The ruler of the lower realms.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
God of the lower realms.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
The god of death and the overlord of the hell realms.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- gshin rje
- yama
From Vedic times, the deity who directs the departed into the next realm of rebirth.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- gshin rje rgyal po
- yama
The lord of death in Indian mythology, who judges the dead and rules over the hells and the realm of the hungry ghosts.
- Lord of Death
- གཤིན་རྗེ།
- འཆི་བདག
- gshin rje
- ’chi bdag
- yama
Ruler of the hells.
- Lord of Death
- འཆི་བདག
- ’chi bdag
- mṛtyu
Another name for King Yama (Skt. yamarāja; Tib. gshin rje rgyal po), the deity who judges the dead and rules over the hell realms of the underworld.
- Dharmarāja Yama
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་གཤིན་རྗེ།
- chos kyi rgyal po gshin rje
- dharmarāja yama
The Lord of Death in both Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Yama is said to uphold the Dharma by reviewing the karma of the dead and thereby determining their next rebirth.
- Yamarāja
- གཤིན་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- gshin rje rgyal po
- yamarāja
Another name of Yama.