སྦྱིན་པ་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

སྦྱིན་པ་པོ།

sbyin pa po

dāyaka
dātṛ

Term

Publications: 2

Appears in our translations as:

1

donor

Describing the Benefits of Producing Representations of the Thus-Gone One

donor

སྦྱིན་པ་པོ།

sbyin pa po

dātṛ

Definition in this text:

A person who gives alms, an offerer of a gift, or a donor. In the context of the text it is the person who orders an artist to produce the Tathāgata’s image and offers it to the monastic community.

8 passages contain this term

1

giver

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines

giver

སྦྱིན་པ་པོ།

sbyin pa po

dāyaka

18 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

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

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SU

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