84000 Glossary of Terms

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བྱེ་བ་ལྡན། | Glossary of Terms

    བྱེ་བ་ལྡན།

    bye ba ldan

    Kṣemavatī

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Publications: 2
Translation by Joseph McClellan
  • Kṣemavatī
  • བྱེ་བ་ལྡན།
  • བདེ་ལྡན་མ།
  • bye ba ldan
  • bde ldan ma
  • Kṣemavatī
  • Kṣemā

The mother of Suvarṇottamaprabhāsā, who was married to King Bimbisāra. She is likely to be the same person as Khemā in the Pali Canon, one of Bimbisāra’s consorts who became an arhat and bhikṣuṇī. See also UT22084-055-005-140.

Translation by Benjamin Ewing · Lowell Cook
  • Kṣemavatī
  • བདེ་ལྡན་མ།
  • bde ldan ma
  • Kṣemavatī

One of the wives of King Bimbisāra. May possibly be the Khemā of Pali literature.