ཤཱ་ཀྱ་འཕེལ། | Glossary of Terms

ཤཱ་ཀྱ་འཕེལ།

shA kya ’phel

śākyavardhana
śākyapravṛddha

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Śākyavardhana

The King of Samādhis Sūtra

Śākyavardhana

ཤཱ་ཀྱ་འཕེལ།

shA kya ’phel

śākyavardhana
śākyapravṛddha

Definition in this text:

A yakṣa that was the protective deity for the Śākya clan, which was the Buddha’s clan. The Śākyas had a temple devoted to him and he is represented in sculpture as being present at his birth.

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