84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཀླུ་འདབ་བཟངས་ཀྱི་གདོན། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཀླུ་འདབ་བཟངས་ཀྱི་གདོན།

  • klu ’dab bzangs kyi gdon
  • nāga­suparṇī­graha
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • fine-winged nāga graha
  • ཀླུ་འདབ་བཟངས་ཀྱི་གདོན།
  • klu ’dab bzangs kyi gdon
  • nāga­suparṇī­graha
Definition in this text:

The Sanskrit term suparṇī in nāga­suparṇī­graha, translated by the Tibetan term ’dab bzang, literally means “fine-winged” or “beautiful-leaved.” While this can be an epithet for the mythical garuḍa bird, here it seems to simply describe a general characteristic of the nāga.

1 Related glossary entries:

འདབ་བཟངས།

  • suparṇi
  • suparṇi