མེར་མེར་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

མར་མེར།
མེར་མེར་པོ།

mer mer po
mar mer

kalala

Term

Publications: 2

Appears in our translations as:

1

first-week embryo

The Stem Array

first-week embryo

མར་མེར།

mar mer

kalala

Definition in this text:

The Gaṇḍavyūha uses the same terminology as the Jain text Tandulaveyāliyua and differs from other sūtras. In the Nandagarbhāvakrantinirdeśasūtra, kalala is translated as mer mer po. In other texts the first stage is translated as nur nur po.

1 passage contains this term

1

kalala

The Teaching to the Venerable Nanda on Entry into the Womb

kalala

མེར་མེར་པོ།

mer mer po

kalala

Definition in this text:

The embryo in the first week of gestation.

10 passages contain this term

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AO

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AD

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AA

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RP

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RS

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SU

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