སྒྲ་ཆེན། | Glossary of Terms

སྒྲ་ཆེན།

sgra chen

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Great Sound

The Hundred Deeds

Great Sound

སྒྲ་ཆེན།

sgra chen

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A garuḍa, king of birds, who lived on Mount Meru, and eventually went for refuge and took the fundamental precepts. He was the previous incarnation of the great king Vaiśravaṇa.

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