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དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བའི་སྡེ། | Glossary of Terms
དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བའི་སྡེ།
de lta bu byung ba’i sde
itivṛttaka
- Term
- Parables
- དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བའི་སྡེ།
- de lta bu byung ba’i sde
- itivṛttaka
One of the “twelve branches of excellent speech.”
- Parables
- འདས་པ་བརྗོད་པའི་སྡེ།
- དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བའི་སྡེ།
- ’das pa brjod pa’i sde
- de lta bu byung ba’i sde
- itivŗttaka
- Parables
- དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བའི་སྡེ།
- de lta bu byung ba’i sde
- itivṛttaka
One among the twelve sections of scripture.
- Account
- དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བ།
- de lta bu byung ba
- itivṛttaka
Accounts of the lives of past buddhas and bodhisattvas. Literally “thus it has happened.” One of the twelve aspects of the wheel of Dharma.
- Former events
- དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བའི་སྡེ།
- de lta bu byung ba’i sde
- itivṛttaka
- 如是諸經
One of the twelve branches of Buddhist scriptures.
- Histories
- དེ་ལྟ་བྱུང་།
- de lta byung
- itivṛttaka
Accounts of the lives of past buddhas and bodhisattvas. Literally “thus it has happened.” One of the nine aspects of the Dharma according to this sūtra. More commonly there are said to be twelve that include these nine.
- Itivṛttaka
- འདི་ལྟ་བུ་འདས་པ།
- ’di lta bu ’das pa
- itivṛttaka
As one of the twelve aspects of the Dharma, it means accounts of the lives of past buddhas and bodhisattvas.
See also “twelve wheels of the Dharma.”
- Quotations
- དེ་ལྟ་བུ་བྱུང་བའི་སྡེ།
- de lta bu byung ba’i sde
- itivṛttaka
Seventh of the twelve branches of the scriptures.