རི་གླང་རུ། | Glossary of Terms
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བ་ལང་གི་མགོ་བོ།
- རི་གླང་རུ།
- ri glang ru
- ba lang gi mgo bo
- gośṛṇga
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- Place
- Mount Gośṛṇga
- རི་གླང་རུ།
- ri glang ru
- gośṛṇga
A mountain in Khaṣa. Gośṛṅga means “cow horn” in Sanskrit and the hill is said to have received this name due to having two pointed peaks.
- Mount Gośṛṅga
- རི་གླང་རུ།
- ri glang ru
The hill in Khotan from which the Buddha deliveres his prophecy. Gośṛṅga means “cow horn” in Sanskrit and the hill is said to have received this name due to having two pointed peaks.
A hill in the Central Asian oasis city-state of Khotan. According to The Prophecy on Mount Gośṛṅga (Toh 357), it is here that the Buddha prophesied that this area would one day become a great Buddhist kingdom. Gośṛṅga means “cow horn” in Sanskrit, and the hill is said to have received this name due to having two pointed peaks. Note that in The Prophecy on Mount Gośṛṅga this place name is rendered ri glang ru.