སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ། | Glossary of Terms

སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།

skal ldan shing rta

bhagīratha

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Bhagīratha

In Praise of the Goddess Revatī

Bhagīratha

སྐལ་ལྡན་ཤིང་རྟ།

skal ldan shing rta

bhagīratha

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The king of the “solar race,” from Puranic narratives, who is said to have brought down the river Gaṅgā from the heavens. He is identified in Buddhist texts as an ancestor of the buddha Śākyamuni; also, the name of a previous buddha.

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