84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཚངས་པའི་གཟེར་བུ་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཚངས་པའི་གཟེར་བུ་ཆེན་པོ།

  • tshangs pa’i gzer bu chen po
  • mahā­brahmā­śaṅku
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  • Great Nail of Brahmā
  • ཚངས་པའི་གཟེར་བུ་ཆེན་པོ།
  • tshangs pa’i gzer bu chen po
  • mahā­brahmā­śaṅku
Definition in this text:

Or “Great Spike of Purity,” the name of a bodhisattva. Possibly śaṅku is a misreading or misspelling of sanatku, which would be “the bodhisattva Sanatkumāra” (Pali: Sanaṅkumāra), who was a being of the class of Mahābrahmās‍—in Vedic legend, one of the four or seven “mind-born” sons of Brahmā‍—and who appears in various suttas in the Pali canon.