84000 Glossary of Terms

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མེ་སྐྱོང་ཁྱབ་འཇུག | Glossary of Terms

  • མེ་སྐྱོང་ཁྱབ་འཇུག

  • me skyong khyab ’jug
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  • Guardian of the Flame Govinda
  • མེ་སྐྱོང་ཁྱབ་འཇུག
  • me skyong khyab ’jug
Definition in this text:

A previous incarnation of Buddha Śākyamuni in The Hundred Deeds, he was the son of King Diśāṃpati of Pāṁśula’s magistrate, the householder Govinda. After his father’s death, he took over his work and became known as Guardian of the Flame, Guardian of the Flame Govinda, Govinda the Teacher, Mahā­govinda, or just Govinda.

4 Related glossary entries:

ཁྱབ་འཇུག་ཆེན་པོ།

  • mahā­govinda
  • Mahā­govinda

སྟོན་པ་ཁྱབ་འཇུག

  • Govinda the Teacher

བྲམ་ཟེ་ཆེན་པོ་གནག་ལྷས་སྐྱེས།

  • brāhmaṇa mahāgovinda
  • Brahmin Mahāgovinda

ཁྱབ་འཇུག

  • govinda
  • Govinda