84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཀ་ཙང་ཀ་ལ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཀ་ཙང་ཀ་ལ།

  • ka tsang ka la
  • kacaṅkalā
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  • Kacaṅkalā
  • ཀ་ཙང་ཀ་ལ།
  • ka tsang ka la
  • kacaṅkalā
Definition in this text:

A woman who, because she had previously been the Buddha’s mother for five hundred lifetimes, saw him as her son and ran to embrace him. Then, hearing the Dharma from him, she became ordained and manifested arhatship, and the Buddha declared her foremost among nuns who interpret the sūtras.