THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

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ཀླུ་གཏོར་
Transliteration: klu gtor
"Nāga torma". The general name for a torma that will be offered to a nāga or the nāgas in general for appeasement purposes.

ཀླུ་དཔལ་
Transliteration: klu dpal
<name> "Nāgaśhrī". Translation of the Sanskrit "nāgaśhrī". The name of an important householder bodhisatva follower of the Buddha.

ཀླུ་དུག་
Transliteration: klu dug
<noun> "Nāga poisoning". The general name given to the human disease that occurs when nāgas inflict themselves on humans.

ཀླུ་སྨན་
Transliteration: klu sman
<noun> 1) "Nāga medicine" meaning medicine effect against disease caused by nāgas. 2) "Nāga substances" meaning the medicinal herbs to be mixed in a nāga torma; see ཀླུ་གཏོར་ "nāga torma".

ཀླུ་ནད་
Transliteration: klu nad
<noun> "Nāga disease". The name given in general to diseases believed to be caused by ཀླུ་ nāgas. It includes leprosy. It also includes other kinds of illness appearing on humans as skin diseases like rashes, boils, and other sores which are said to be caused by "being bitten by a nāga" and which do not respond to Western medical treatments.