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ས་འཛིན། | Glossary of Terms

  • ས་འཛིན་པ།

  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • sa ’dzin pa
  • dharaṇīdhara
  • dhāraṇī­dhara
  • dharaṇidhara
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  • Person
Publications: 8
Translation by Klaus-Dieter Mathes · Julika Weber · Katrin Querl · Konstantin Brockhausen · Susanne Fleischmann · Daniel Gratzer · Georgi Krastev · Jamie Gordon Creek
  • Dharaṇīdhara
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • dharaṇīdhara
Definition in this text:

Name of a bodhisattva.

Translation by Maurizio Pontiggia
  • Dharaṇīdhara
  • ས་འཛིན་པ།
  • sa ’dzin pa
  • dharaṇīdhara
  • 持地
Definition in this text:

“Earth Bearer.” One of the bodhisattvas in the entourage of the Buddha Śākyamuni when he taught the girl Vimalaśraddhā.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · James Gentry
  • Dharaṇidhara
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • dharaṇidhara
Definition in this text:

A great bodhisattva.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Dharaṇīdhara
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • dharaṇīdhara
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva present at the sūtra’s teaching.

Translation by David Jackson
  • Dhāraṇī­dhara
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • dhāraṇī­dhara
Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Dharaṇī­dhara
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • dharaṇī­dhara
Definition in this text:

Name of a bodhisattva.

Translation by Miguel Sawaya
  • Dharaṇīdhara
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • dharaṇīdhara
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

Translation by Bhikṣuṇī Thubten Damcho
  • Dharaṇīdhara
  • ས་འཛིན།
  • sa ’dzin
  • dharaṇīdhara
Definition in this text:

Literally “Holder of the Earth.” A great bodhisattva present at this discourse.