84000 Glossary of Terms

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གཟའ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱད། | Glossary of Terms

  • གཟའ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།

  • གཟའ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱད།
  • gza’ chen po rgyad
  • gza’ chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭāmahāgraha
  • Term
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  • eight great celestial bodies
  • གཟའ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱད།
  • gza’ chen po rgyad
  • aṣṭāmahāgraha
Definition in this text:

Literally the “great seizers,” there are traditionally nine: the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the eclipse (rahu), and comets/meteors (ketu). All are believed to exert influence on the world according to Indic astrological lore. When listed as eight, it is not certain which is excluded.

  • eight great celestial bodies
  • གཟའ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
  • gza’ chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭāmahāgraha
Definition in this text:

Literally the “great seizers,” there are traditionally nine: the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the eclipse (rahu), and comets/meteors (ketu). All are believed to exert influence on the world according to Indic astrological lore. When listed as eight, it is not certain which is excluded.

  • eight great celestial bodies
  • གཟའ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
  • gza’ chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭāmahāgraha
Definition in this text:

Literally the “great seizers,” there are traditionally nine: the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the eclipse (rahu), and comets/meteors (ketu). All are believed to exert influence on the world according to Indic astrological lore. When listed as eight, it is not certain which is excluded.

  • eight great celestial bodies
  • གཟའ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱད།
  • gza’ chen po rgyad
  • aṣṭāmahāgraha
Definition in this text:

Literally the “great seizers,” there are traditionally nine: the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the eclipse (rahu) and comets/meteors (ketu). All are believed to exert influence on the world according to Indic astrological lore. When listed as eight, it is not certain which is excluded.