གཡུང་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

གཡུང་པོ།

g.yung po

pukkaśa
puṣkasa
pukkasa

Term

Publications: 3

Appears in our translations as:

1

defiled by crime

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines

defiled by crime

གཡུང་པོ།

g.yung po

puṣkasa
pukkasa

1 passage contains this term

1

garbage worker

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines

garbage worker

གཡུང་པོ།

g.yung po

pukkaśa

1 passage contains this term

1

pukkasa

Sitātapatrā Born from the Uṣṇīṣa of All Tathāgatas

pukkasa

གཡུང་པོ།

g.yung po

pukkasa

Definition in this text:

The name of a group of people positioned outside, and thus below, the primary caste hierarchies of Indic society

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

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

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RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

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SU

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