ཉི་མའི་རིགས། | Glossary of Terms

ཉི་མའི་རིགས།

nyi ma’i rigs

sūryavaṃśa
sauryakula

Term

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Appears in our translations as:

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Clan of the Sun

The Hundred Deeds

Clan of the Sun

ཉི་མའི་རིགས།

nyi ma’i rigs

sauryakula

Definition in this text:

An epithet of the Buddha’s tribe derived from a legend concerning his ancestry (Rigzin 128). See also “Śākya.”

1 passage contains this term

1

solar lineage

The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways

solar lineage

ཉི་མའི་རིགས།

nyi ma’i rigs

sūryavaṃśa

Definition in this text:

A mythical ancient Indian clan with divine origins to which Siddhārtha Gautama’s family was said to belong.

1 passage contains this term

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AS

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AO

Attested in other text

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AD

Attested in dictionary

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AA

Approximate attestation

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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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