84000 Glossary of Terms

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གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱིས་འཚོ་བ། | Glossary of Terms

  • གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱིས་འཚོ་བ།

  • grong khyer gyis ’tsho ba
  • nagarāvalambikā
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  • city beggar woman
  • གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱིས་འཚོ་བ།
  • grong khyer gyis ’tsho ba
  • nagarāvalambikā AD
Definition in this text:

Lit. “one whose livelihood is from the city.” This is a Tibetan rendering of the Sanskrit nagarāvalambikā, referring to a person dependent on the city for alms, or a beggar.

(Skilling 2021, pp. 301–4, includes a detailed discussion of this Sanskrit term and notes that different Tibetan translations of it include the following: grong khyer gyis ’tsho ba (“one who is supported by the city,” which is the Tibetan translation found in this sūtra), grong khyer rten pa (“city dependent”), grong khyer gyi sprang po (“city beggar”), and grong gi sprang po (also “city beggar”).)