སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོ།
- sgyu ’phrul chen mo
- mahāmāyā
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- Mahāmāyā
- སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོ།
- sgyu ’phrul chen mo
- mahāmāyā
(1) The Buddha’s mother. (2) The mother of a future Buddha whose name is also Śākyamuni.
- Mahāmāyā
- སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོ།
- sgyu ’phrul chen mo
- mahāmāyā
Buddha Śākyamuni’s mother. She and her sister Māyā both married King Śuddhodana of Kapilavastu. Here she is said to be the daughter of Śākya Suprabuddha. In other stories, Mahāmāyā is alternatively said to be the daughter of King Āñjāna of Devaḍaha. Also called “Mahāmāyādevī” and “Māyādevī.”