དུས་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་བ། | Glossary of Terms | 84000 Reading Room

དུས་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་བ།

dus kyi rjes su ’brang ba

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Term

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Appears in our translations as:

benzoin resin

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma

benzoin resin

དུས་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་བ།

dus kyi rjes su ’brang ba

kālānusārin

Definition in this text:

Also called gum benzoin and gum benjamin. Not to be confused with the unrelated chemical called benzoin. It is the resin of styrax trees.

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The Questions of the Nāga King Anavatapta

benzoin resin

དུས་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་བ།

dus kyi rjes su ’brang ba

kālānusārin AD

Definition in this text:

The aromatic resin of styrax trees used in perfume and incense.

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AO

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AD

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