84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཤི་བི། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཤི་བི།

  • shi bi
  • śibi
  • śivi
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  • Śibi
  • ཤི་བི།
  • shi bi
  • śibi
Definition in this text:

A king who is the Buddha in a former life.

  • Śibi
  • ཤི་བི།
  • shi bi
  • śibi
  • śivi
Definition in this text:

A king who ruled in the palace of Catuṣka before the time of Śākyamuni Buddha. He was a previous incarnation of the Buddha who as a bodhisattva bargained his own flesh and blood away to Śakra (appearing in the guise of a cannibal demon) in return for hearing the verse that appears as the first in the Udānavarga collection.