ཤིང་ཤལ་མ་ལི་ཆེན་པོའི་ཚལ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཤམ་བ་ལ།
- ཤལ་མ་ལ།
- ཤལ་མ་ལི་ནགས།
- ཤལ་མ་ལི།
- ཤིང་ཤལ་མ་ལའི་ཚལ་ཆེན།
- ཤིང་ཤལ་མ་ལི་ཆེན་པོའི་ཚལ།
- ཤིང་ཤལ་མ་ལིའི་ཚལ།
- shing shal ma li chen po’i tshal
- shing shal ma la’i tshal chen
- shing shal ma li’i tshal
- shal ma li
- shal ma la
- sham ba la
- shal ma li nags
- mahāśālmalivana
- śālmalivana
- śalmali
- śālmalī
- śālmali
- śālmalīvana
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- Śālmali
- ཤམ་བ་ལ།
- sham ba la
- śālmali
The hell of the Simul trees, also called cotton trees, that have vicious thorns. The Tibetan had a corrupted, transliterated version of the name. This is classed among the neighboring hells. It is where beings continually climb up and down the trees in search of a loved one.
- śālmali
- ཤལ་མ་ལི།
- shal ma li
- śālmali
Also known as the red cotton tree. It has red flowers and ripened capsules that contain cotton-like fibers. In particular, the trunk is covered in spikes to deter climbing animals, and therefore it is an iron version of this tree that is found in the hells.
- cotton tree
- ཤལ་མ་ལི།
- shal ma li
- śālmalī
Bombax ceiba. Also known as the red cotton tree. It has red flowers and ripened capsules that contain cotton-like fibers. In particular, the trunk is covered in spikes to deter climbing animals, and therefore it is an iron version of this tree that is found in the hells.
- Great Śālmali Forest
- ཤིང་ཤལ་མ་ལི་ཆེན་པོའི་ཚལ།
- ཤིང་ཤལ་མ་ལའི་ཚལ་ཆེན།
- shing shal ma li chen po’i tshal
- shing shal ma la’i tshal chen
- mahāśālmalivana
One of sixteen realms that surround the Great Howling Hell.
- Hell of Iron-Thorn Trees
- ཤལ་མ་ལི།
- shal ma li
- śalmali
One of the neighboring hells. Named after the trees Bombax ceiba, also known as silk-cotton trees or kapok trees. They are covered by large woody thorns. Inhabitants of this hell are made to climb the thorny trees.
- Śālmali Forest
- ཤིང་ཤལ་མ་ལིའི་ཚལ།
- shing shal ma li’i tshal
- śālmalivana
One of sixteen realms that surround the Great Howling Hell.
- śālmali trees
- ཤལ་མ་ལི།
- shal ma li
- śālmali
Bombax heptaphyllum or Salmalia malabarica (a lofty and thorny tree).
- Śālmalīvana
- ཤལ་མ་ལི་ནགས།
- shal ma li nags
- śālmalīvana
“Forest of Silk Cotton Trees,” one of the hot hells (the thorns of a silk cotton tree are supposed to be used in torture).
- silk-cotton tree
- ཤལ་མ་ལ།
- shal ma la
- śālmalī
Salmalia malabarica.