- དབང་ཕྱུག
- དབང་ལྡན།
- dbang phyug
- dbang ldan
- īśvara
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- Person
- Īśvara
- དབང་ཕྱུག
- dbang phyug
- īśvara
Literally “Lord,” this is an epithet for the god Śiva but functions more generally in Buddhist texts as a generalized “supreme being” to whom the creation of the universe is attributed. It is often synonymous with Maheśvara, though sometimes the two are, as in this sūtra, presented as separate deities.
- Īśvara
- དབང་ལྡན།
- dbang ldan
- īśvara
One of the most frequently used names for Śiva. A deity of the jungles, named Rudra in the Vedas, he rose to prominence in the Purāṇic literature at the beginning of the first millennium.
- Īśvara
- དབང་ཕྱུག
- dbang phyug
- īśvara
Literally “lord,” this term is an epithet for the god Śiva, but functions more generally in Buddhist texts as a generalized “supreme being” to whom the creation of the universe is attributed.
- God
- དབང་ཕྱུག
- dbang phyug
- īśvara
The lord of the world; the permanent, single agent who created the universe; God as accepted by theistic brahmanical schools.