གནམ་སྐོས། | Glossary of Terms

གནམ་སྐོས།

gnam skos

Term

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Appears in our translations as:

divinely mandated

The Third Well-Spoken Branch: An Exact Account of How All the Victorious One’s Teachings Extant Today in the Land of Snow Mountains Were Put into Print

divinely mandated

གནམ་སྐོས།

gnam skos

Definition in this text:

Here the “divine mandate” or “mandate of heaven” (天命) refers to the political and religious concept used in China to characterize the divine right to rule of emperors.

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AO

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