མཚུན། | Glossary of Terms

མཚུན།
མི་མ་ཡིན་པ།

mtshun
mi ma yin pa

pitṛ

Term

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pitṛ

The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī

pitṛ

མི་མ་ཡིན་པ།

mi ma yin pa

pitṛ

Definition in this text:

Usually used in the plural‍—spirits of the deceased.

3 passages contain this term

The Tantra of Subāhu’s Questions

pitṛ

མཚུན།

mtshun

pitṛ

Definition in this text:

The spirits of deceased ancestors who need to be regularly appeased through ritual offerings of food. The term preta is a derivation of pitṛ.

3 passages contain this term

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AO

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AD

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AA

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

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SU

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