84000 Glossary of Terms
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ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ།
- nyan thos chen po
- mahāśrāvaka
- Term
Publications: 5
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- mahāśrāvaka
- ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ།
- nyan thos chen po
- mahāśrāvaka
An epithet for the Buddha’s principal students who had attained the goal of the path.
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- mahāśrāvaka
- ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ།
- nyan thos chen po
- mahāśrāvaka
Principal Hīnayāna pupils of the Buddha.
Translation by Adam Krug · Dr. Andreas Doctor
- great hearer
- ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ།
- nyan thos chen po
- mahāśrāvaka
A term denoting the primary disciples of a buddha.
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- great śrāvaka
- ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ།
- nyan thos chen po
- mahāśrāvaka
A term referring to the Buddha Śākyamuni’s closest and most important śrāvaka disciples.
Translation by David Jackson
- most important disciple
- ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ།
- nyan thos chen po
- mahāśrāvaka
A term referring to the Buddha Śākyamuni’s closest and most important disciples.