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སྟོབས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བ། | Glossary of Terms
སྟོབས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བ།
stobs kyi ’khor los sgyur ba
balacakravartin
- Term
- Balacakravartin
- སྟོབས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བ།
- stobs kyi ’khor los sgyur ba
- balacakravartin
A cakravartin is a king who rules over at least one continent, and gains his territory by the rolling of his magic wheel over the land. Therefore he is called a “king with the revolving wheel.” This is as the result of the merit he has accumulated in previous lifetimes. A balacakravartin king is a lesser kind of cakravartin who has attained his dominion through his great might and his powerful army.
- Great universal monarch
- སྟོབས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- stobs kyi ’khor los sgyur ba’i rgyal po
- rājā balacakravartī
See “universal monarch.”
- Powerful monarch
- སྟོབས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བ།
- stobs kyi ’khor los sgyur ba
- balacakravartin
A balacakravartin king is a lesser kind of cakravartin (universal monarch) who has attained his dominion through his great might and his powerful army.
See also “universal monarch.”
- Universal monarch who rules through force
- སྟོབས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར།
- stobs kyi ’khor los sgyur
- balacakravartin
In Buddhist mythology, a universal monarch who rules the four continents and is willing to use force (Skt. bala; Tib. stobs) if necessary.
- Wheel-turning king of power
- སྟོབས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བའི་རྒྱལ་པོ།
- stobs kyi ’khor los sgyur ba’i rgyal po
- balacakravartin
A kind of inferior wheel-turning king.