84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཕོ་བྲང་འཁོར་སྐྱོང་། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཕོ་བྲང་འཁོར་སྐྱོང་།

  • pho brang ’khor skyong
  • rāṣṭrapāla
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  • ཕོ་བྲང་འཁོར་སྐྱོང་།
  • pho brang ’khor skyong
  • rāṣṭrapāla
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The standardized name in Tibetan according to the Mvy (Sakaki 1361) is yul ’khor skyong. In the Pāli texts, Raṭṭhapāla is famous for having forced his parents to consent to his becoming a Buddhist monk by going on a hunger strike.