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གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལྟ་སྟངས།
གླང་པོ་ཆེའི་ལྟ་སྟངས།

glang po che’i lta stangs
glang po chen po’i lta stangs

nāgāvalokita

Term

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Appears in our translations as:

elephant gaze

Discussions of Thus-Gone Ones

elephant gaze

གླང་པོ་ཆེའི་ལྟ་སྟངས།

glang po che’i lta stangs

nāgāvalokita

Definition in this text:

When a buddha turns to look at someone or something, like an elephant he turns his whole body, not just his head.

1 passage contains this term

the way that an elephant gazes

The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines

the way that an elephant gazes

གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལྟ་སྟངས།

glang po chen po’i lta stangs

nāgāvalokita

Definition in this text:

A simile that describes an undistracted, unmoving, but all-encompassing gaze.

1 passage contains this term

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AS

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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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SU

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