བཅུད་ལེན། | Glossary of Terms | 84000 Reading Room

བཅུད་ཀྱིས་ལེན།
བཅུད་ལེན།
སྨན་བཅུད་ཀྱིས་ལེན།

bcud len
bcud kyis len
sman bcud kyis len

rasāyana

Term

Publications: 3

Appears in our translations as:

alchemy

The Glorious Sovereign Tantra of Mahākāla

alchemy

བཅུད་ལེན།
བཅུད་ཀྱིས་ལེན།

bcud len
bcud kyis len

rasāyana AS

Definition in this text:

The name of a siddhi.

4 passages contain this term

elixir

The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch

elixir

བཅུད་ལེན།

bcud len

rasāyana

3 passages contain this term

rasāyana

The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (2)

rasāyana

སྨན་བཅུད་ཀྱིས་ལེན།

sman bcud kyis len

rasāyana AD

Definition in this text:

The extraction of the elixir of life from herbs or minerals.

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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