84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྐྱེ་གནས་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

  • སྐྱེ་གནས་བཞི།

  • skye gnas bzhi
  • caturyoni
  • Term
Publications: 2

The fourfold classification of ways in which beings are born: (1) birth from an egg, (2) birth from a womb, (3) birth from warmth and moisture, and (4) miraculous birth.

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སྒོ་ང་ལས་སྐྱེས་པ།

  • aṇḍaja
  • aṇḍajā
  • birth from an egg
  • born from an egg
  • oviparous birth

མངལ་ནས་སྐྱེས་པ།

  • jarāyuja
  • jārāyuja
  • jārāyujā
  • birth from a womb
  • born from a womb
  • viviparous birth

དྲོད་གཤེར་ལས་སྐྱེས།

  • samsvedajā
  • saṃsvedaja
  • saṃsvedajā
  • birth from heat and moisture
  • birth from warmth and moisture
  • born from heat and moisture

རྫུས་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ།

  • aupapāduka
  • upapāduka
  • upapādukaja
  • upapādukā
  • born miraculously
  • miraculous birth
  • miraculously born