• གོ་ཆ།
  • go cha
  • kavaca
  • saṃnāha
  • Term
Publications: 2
  • armor
  • གོ་ཆ།
  • go cha
  • saṃnāha
Definition in this text:

This is a protective clothing, made of closely interwoven strands, strapped around the body. In the Mahāyāna sūtras, it can be understood symbolically: the strands are the six perfections interlocking in a way that nothing can get through them. The strands bound together in the protective clothing may also be the net of interlocking beings occasioning a bodhisattva’s never-failing empathy.

  • armor
  • གོ་ཆ།
  • go cha
  • kavaca