84000 Glossary of Terms

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ནག་པོ་འཆར་ཀ | Glossary of Terms

  • ཆར་ཀ་ནག་པོ།

  • ནག་པོ་འཆར་ཀ
  • ནག་པོ་འཆར་ལྡན།
  • འཆར་ཀ་ནག་པོ།
  • འཆར་བྱེད་ནག་པོ།
  • nag po ’char ka
  • nag po ’char ldan
  • char ka nag po
  • ’char ka nag po
  • ’char byed nag po
  • kālodāyin
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  • Kālodāyin
  • འཆར་ཀ་ནག་པོ།
  • ’char ka nag po
  • kālodāyin
Definition in this text:

The pupil of the Buddha who is said to be foremost in inspiring faith among laypeople.

  • Kālodāyin
  • འཆར་བྱེད་ནག་པོ།
  • ’char byed nag po
  • kālodāyin
Definition in this text:

Śrāvaka arhat.

  • Kālodāyin
  • ཆར་ཀ་ནག་པོ།
  • char ka nag po
  • kālodāyin
Definition in this text:

Sometimes called simply Udāyin, he was also known as Black Udāyin, as in this text, because of his dark skin. He was the son of the court priest in Kapilavastu, the Buddha’s hometown.

  • Kālodāyin
  • ནག་པོ་འཆར་ལྡན།
  • nag po ’char ldan
  • kālodāyin
Definition in this text:

According to the Pāli tradition, he was the the son of King Śuddhodana’s family priest or minister (purohita) and was a playmate of the young Siddhārtha in their early childhood. As a counselor to Śuddhodana, he was sent by the Buddha’s father to invite the recently enlightened son to pay a visit to his former home.

  • Kālodāyin
  • ནག་པོ་འཆར་ཀ
  • nag po ’char ka
  • kālodāyin