84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།

  • skal ldan shing rta
  • bhagīratha
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  • Bhagīratha
  • སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།
  • skal ldan shing rta
  • bhagīratha
Definition in this text:

The king of the “solar race,” from Puranic narratives, who is said to have brought down the river Gaṅgā from the heavens. He is identified in Buddhist texts as an ancestor of the buddha Śākyamuni; also, the name of a previous buddha.

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ཆུ་ཀླུང་སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།

  • bhāgīrathī
  • bhāgīrāthī
  • Bhāgīrathī
  • Bhāgīrāthī