གཞུ། | Glossary of Terms

གཞུ།

gzhu

dhanus
dhanu
cāpa

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Publications: 3

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bow

The Question of Mañjuśrī

bow

གཞུ།

gzhu

dhanu RS
cāpa RS

Definition in this text:

Thirty-sixth of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.

1 passage contains this term

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Dhanus

The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī

Dhanus

གཞུ།

gzhu

dhanus

Definition in this text:

Sagittarius (zodiac sign and constellation); also the name of an ancient king.

3 passages contain this term

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Sagittarius

The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī

Sagittarius

གཞུ།

gzhu

dhanus

Definition in this text:

See “Dhanus.”

4 passages contain this term

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AS

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AO

Attested in other text

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AD

Attested in dictionary

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AA

Approximate attestation

The attestation of this name is approximate. It is based on other names where the relationship between the Tibetan and source language is attested in dictionaries or other manuscripts.

RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

This term is a reconstruction based on the Tibetan phonetic rendering of the term.

RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

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SU

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bow

Dhanus

Sagittarius

རི་མོའི་རྗེས་ཀྱི་མཚན་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།

Attested in source text

Attested in other text

Attested in dictionary

Approximate attestation

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

Source unspecified