• རྣམ་པར་འཐོར་བའི་རླུང་།
  • rnam par ’thor ba’i rlung
  • vairambhavātā
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  • gales of wind
  • རྣམ་པར་འཐོར་བའི་རླུང་།
  • rnam par ’thor ba’i rlung
  • vairambhavātā AD
Definition in this text:

A kind of powerful, gusty wind (the Tibetan translation means “scattering wind” referred to in a wide range of Buddhist literature. The Pali forms are veramba or verambha. The term Vairambha is also found in Buddhist literature as the name of a city and as the name of a sea, famed for its powerful winds. For a detailed discussion, see Skilling 2021, pp. 304–8.