མཐོན་ཁ་ཆེན་པོས་སྙིང་པོར་གྱུར་པ། | Glossary of Terms | 84000 Reading Room

མཐོན་ཀ་ཆེན་པོ།
མཐོན་ཁ་ཆེན་པོས་སྙིང་པོར་གྱུར་པ།

mthon kha chen pos snying por gyur pa
mthon ka chen po

mahānīla

Term

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Appears in our translations as:

deep blue sapphire

The Teaching on the Great Compassion of the Tathāgata

deep blue sapphire

མཐོན་ཁ་ཆེན་པོས་སྙིང་པོར་གྱུར་པ།

mthon kha chen pos snying por gyur pa

mahānīla

1 passage contains this term

magnificent sapphires

The Sūtra of Vasiṣṭha

magnificent sapphires

མཐོན་ཀ་ཆེན་པོ།

mthon ka chen po

mahānīla

Definition in this text:

A large and/or deep-blue sapphire.

1 passage contains this term

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