84000 Glossary of Terms

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འབུམ་སྡེ་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms

  • འབུམ་ཆེན་སྡེ་ལྔ།

  • འབུམ་སྡེ་ལྔ།
  • ’bum sde lnga
  • ’bum chen sde lnga
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  • Five Sets of One Hundred Thousand
  • འབུམ་སྡེ་ལྔ།
  • འབུམ་ཆེན་སྡེ་ལྔ།
  • ’bum sde lnga
  • ’bum chen sde lnga
Definition in this text:

(1) The long Prajñā­pāramitā (Toh 8), which contains 100,000 ślokas; (2) the Mahā­pari­nirvāṇa (Toh 119–120), which contains 100,000 testaments given by the Buddha at the time of his pari­nirvāṇa; (3) the Ratna­kūṭa (Toh 45–93), which contains 100,000 distinct names of the Buddha; (4) the Avataṃsaka (Toh 44), which contains 100,000 aspirations; and (5) the Laṅkāvatāra (Toh 107–108), which contains 100,000 discourses that are ways of subjugating the rākṣasas. These five sets of 100,000 features are also said to correspond to the Buddha’s body, speech, mind, qualities, and activities, respectively.