- གླིང་ལྡན།
- gling ldan
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- Person
- Endowed with Islands
- གླིང་ལྡན།
- gling ldan
The royal priest of King Ajātaśatru, a king at the time of the Buddha Dīpaṅkara. The name in the Tibetan, meaning Endowed with Islands, may be a conflation with the name of the city of Dīpaṅkara’s birth in earlier sources for the narrative related in The Prophecy of Dīpaṅkara (see UT22084-061-008-71–UT22084-061-008-81), for example, the city of Dvīpavatī in the Divyāvadāna and Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā. In other sources the father’s (or the priest’s or king’s) name is the graphically similar Dīpa (Lamp), Dīpavat (Endowed with Lamps), and so forth, which is reflected also in the name Arcimat (Shining). See, for example, Matsumura 2011b: 1140–43.