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ཁྲི་དྲུག་འགྱོགས་
Transliteration: khri drug 'gyogs
<phrase> "The supports of the six thrones". There are various types of throne mentioned in the Buddhist tradition and each type is typified by being held up by a specific creature. This formulation gives the six creatures that hold up six different types of throne. According to [DGT] they are: 1) སེངྒེ་ "lion"; 2) གླང་ཆེན་ "elephant"; 3) རྟ་མཆོག་ "supreme horse"; 4) རྨ་བྱ་ "peacock"; 5) ཤང་…
རྨ་བྱ་
Transliteration: rma bya
<noun> A type of bird, the "peacock". One of the qualities of the peacock is that it eats poisonous plants yet has the most magnificent colouration. Because of this, the peacock is used e.g., as an example of the bodhisatva who stays in the poison of cyclic existence but only becomes more beautiful because of it. The peacock is one of the animals that is a throne support, see ཁྲི་དྲུག་འགྱོག…
གྱད་ཀྱི་མི་
Transliteration: gyad kyi mi
<phrase> 1) "Strong man / champion athlete or competitor in sports". A man with exceptional strength. E.g., a weight lifter, an athlete who specializes in sports requiring strength, a naturally exceptionally strong man, etcetera. 2) A "strongman" is one of the beings that is a throne support, see ཁྲི་དྲུག་འགྱོགས་. 3) "A Malla"; a person of the Malla tribe of ancient India.
ཤང་ཤང་ཏེའུ་
Transliteration: shang shang te'u
<noun> "Shang shang teyu". 1) The name of a mythical bird. The bird is like a peacock but with upper half human-like. It has wings but the wings are like human arms. The shang shang teyu is one of the animals that is a throne support, see ཁྲི་དྲུག་འགྱོགས་. 2) The name of a bird that lives at the edge of waters such as lakes. [SCD] quoting yet another source states that it is a pheasant or p…
སེང་གེ་
Transliteration: seng ge
<noun> The name of the animal "lion". From the Sanskrit "siṃha". The transliteration is more properly written as སེངྒེ་. Other approximations to the Sanskrit of སིངྷ་, སིང་ཧ་, སེངྷ་ and the less-well written སེང་ཧ་ are also seen in Tibetan texts. 2) The lion is regarded as one of the གཅན་གཟན་ཆེ་དགུ་ "nine great beasts of prey". 3) The lion is also one of the animals that is a throne support…
རྟ་མཆོག་
Transliteration: rta mchog
<noun> "The supreme horse", "supreme steed", "excellent horse" (there are several translations of this term). The supreme horse is one of the animals that is a throne support, see ཁྲི་དྲུག་འགྱོགས་. 1) Generally it means a horse which is both swift and fine-looking. 2) Particularly it refers to the steed of a འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ Chakravartin emperor. It is one of the རྒྱལ་སྲིད་རིན་པོ…
གླང་པོ་ཆེ་
Transliteration: glang po che
<noun> The animal "elephant". Translation of the Sanskrit "hasti". Freq. abbrev. to གླང་ཆེན་. The elephant is one of ཁྲི་དྲུག་འགྱོགས་ "supports of the six thrones" q.v. In Ancient Indian literature, and in Tibetan literature following it, there were many allegorical names for an elephant; [TC] gives a partial list: འཁོར་ལོའི་རྐང་; མཆེ་བ་སྟོབས་ལྡན་; གཉིས་འཐུང་; སྟོབས་ལྡན་; ཐིག་ལེ་ཅན་; ནགས་ཚལ…