ཁ་ཁྱེར། | Glossary of Terms

ཁ་ཁྱེར།

kha khyer

vedikā

Term

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Appears in our translations as:

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railing

The Chapter on the Restoration Rite

railing

ཁ་ཁྱེར།

kha khyer

vedikā

Definition in this text:

The Blessed One ordered railings be built on the second story of meditation halls to prevent monks from falling to the ground. This word can also mean “balcony.”

1 passage contains this term

1

vedikā

The Ornament of the Light of Awareness That Enters the Domain of All Buddhas

vedikā

ཁ་ཁྱེར།

kha khyer

vedikā

Definition in this text:

An architectural element similar to a pedestal.

2 passages contain 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

The attestation of this name is approximate. It is based on other names where the relationship between the Tibetan and source language is attested in dictionaries or other manuscripts.

RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

This term is a reconstruction based on the Tibetan phonetic rendering of the term.

RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

This term is a reconstruction based on the semantics of the Tibetan translation.

SU

Source unspecified

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