84000 Glossary of Terms

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ག་ཡ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ག་ཡ།

  • ག་ཡཱ།
  • ga ya
  • gayā
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  • Gayā
  • ག་ཡཱ།
  • ga yA
  • gayā
Definition in this text:

One of the sacred towns of ancient India, south of the Ganges in present-day Bihar. In the Buddha’s lifetime, this was in the kingdom of Magadha. Uruvilvā, the area including Bodhgayā where the Buddha attained enlightenment, is nearby to the south, upriver from Gayā.

  • Gayā
  • ག་ཡཱ།
  • ga yA
  • gayā
Definition in this text:

One of the sacred towns of ancient India, south of the Ganges in present-day Bihar. In the Buddha’s lifetime, this was in the kingdom of Magadha. Uruvilvā, the area including Bodhgayā where the Buddha attained enlightenment, is nearby to the south, upriver from Gayā.

  • Gayā
  • ག་ཡ།
  • ga ya
  • gayā
Definition in this text:

One of the sacred towns of ancient India, south of the Ganges in present-day Bihar. In the Buddha’s lifetime, this was in the kingdom of Magadha. Uruvilvā, the area including Bodhgaya where the Buddha attained enlightenment, is nearby to the south, upriver from Gayā.

  • Gayā
  • ག་ཡ།
  • ga ya
  • gayā
Definition in this text:

An ancient city in North India, located in the modern state of Bihar.

  • Gayā
  • ག་ཡ།
  • ga ya
  • gayā
Definition in this text:

City in Magadha, now in the Indian state of Bihar, on the left bank of the River Nairañjanā (parts of which are now called the Lilaja and Phalgu), a tributary of the Ganges.

  • Gayā
  • ག་ཡཱ།
  • ga yA
  • gayā
Definition in this text:

The name of the town that lies close to the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment.