སྐྱེ་གནས་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

སྐྱེ་གནས་བཞི།

skye gnas bzhi

caturyoni

Term

Publications: 2

The fourfold classification of ways in which beings are born: (1) birth from an egg, (2) birth from a womb, (3) birth from warmth and moisture, and (4) miraculous birth.

Appears in our translations as:

1

four birthplaces of being

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines

four birthplaces of being

སྐྱེ་གནས་བཞི།

skye gnas bzhi

caturyoni

1 passage contains this term

1

four kinds of birth

The White Lotus of Compassion

four kinds of birth

སྐྱེ་གནས་བཞི།

skye gnas bzhi

caturyoni

1 passage contains this term

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AO

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AD

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AA

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RP

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RS

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four birthplaces of being

four kinds of birth

སྒོ་ང་ལས་སྐྱེས་པ།

མངལ་ནས་སྐྱེས་པ།

དྲོད་གཤེར་ལས་སྐྱེས།

རྫུས་ཏེ་སྐྱེ་བ།