84000 Glossary of Terms

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ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ནམ་མཁའ་སྙིང་པོ།

  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • རྣམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • rnam mkha’i snying po
  • nam mkha’ snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
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  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

An important bodhisattva, his name means “essence of space.” He is one of the “eight great close sons” (aṣṭa­mahopa­putra, nye ba’i sras chen brgyad).

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Ākāśa­garbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśa­garbha
  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའ་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’ snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

One of the eight main bodhisattvas, the heart sons of the Buddha.

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའ་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’ snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

One of the bodhisattvas attending the delivery of this teaching.

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva residing in a buddha realm in the northern direction during the time of the Buddha Śākyamuni.

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

One of the eight great bodhisattvas, his name means “Essence of Space.”

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

The titular figure of the present sūtra. An important bodhisattva, his name means “essence of space.” He is one of the “eight close sons of the Buddha.”

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

The name of a bodhisattva.

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha
Definition in this text:

One of the bodhisattvas attending the delivery of the MMK.

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • nam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha AD
  • 虛空藏
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva.

  • Ākāśagarbha
  • རྣམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
  • rnam mkha’i snying po
  • ākāśagarbha AD
Definition in this text:

A bodhisattva. This may refer to the bodhisattva of this name who is counted among the eight main bodhisattvas.