བ་མེན། | Glossary of Terms

བ་མེན།

ba men

gavaya

Term

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gaur

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma

gaur

བ་མེན།

ba men

gavaya

Definition in this text:

Bos gaurus, a massive wild ox, also called the Indian bison. The largest extant bovine.

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gayal

The Question of Mañjuśrī

gayal

བ་མེན།

ba men

gavaya

Definition in this text:

Bos frontalis, a species of ox also known as gayal. Twenty-sixth of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.

1 passage contains this term

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AO

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AD

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AA

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

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SU

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