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Langdarma ([[glang dar ma]]).  
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'''Wu-t'ai shan''' (ri bo rtse lnga). '''Five-Peaked Mountain'''.
  
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*Tyrant king of Tibet known as Langdarma who was assassinated by [[Lhalung Palgyi Dorje]]. The word ‘Lang’ means ox, referring to his former rebirth as a beast of burden who was used to carry stones and earth for the building of the [[Great Stupa of Boudhanath]]. [[Padmasambhava]] explained that while the brothers formed virtuous aspirations, the ox made the ‘black wish’ to be able to destroy whatever the brothers could create. History shows that this negative aspiration was almost successful. [[EPK]]
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*mountain with 5 peaks in China
  
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*Brother of the great Dharma king [[Ralpachen]] and the persecutor of the Sangha in central Tibet during a five year reign. During his brief reign, he almost succeeded in eradicating Buddhism in Tibet. [RY]
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*Sacred mountain in northern China, especially associated with Manjushri and with practice of Mantrayana.
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*[[Persecution by Langdarma]] ([[glang dar ma]]): 841-846 [MR]
 
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*Assasinated by [[Lhalung Palgi Dorje]], 906 [RY]; 846 or 906 [MR]
 
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*Langdarma / Glang dar ma - Brother of [[ral pa can]]; persecuted the Sangha in central Tibet during a five year reign, initiating a period of anarchy and disruption [RY]
 
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*[[Langdarma]] ([[glang dar ma]]): 838-842?]] (reign) /Tucci  /836-841 Tarthang [MR]
 
  
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Mount Wutai (五台山 ''Wǔ-tái-shān'', ‘Five-Peaked Mountain’) in China, a mountain most sacred to the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī (-kumārabhūta) according to both Chinese and Tibetan tradition. It is located in Shanxi Province (山西省 ''Shān-xī shěng'' in northeastern China. In Tibetan it is known as (''shar phyogs kyi'') [[spang ri rtse lnga]] or more commonly, [[ri bo rtse lnga]], 'the Five-Peaked Mountain (of the eastern direction)'. This is usually identified with Mount Wutai (五台山 ''Wǔ-tái-shān'', ‘Five-Peaked Mountain’) in China, according to both Chinese and Tibetan tradition.
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སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེའི་མདོ་ལས་ཀྱང་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་སྤང་རི་རྩེ་ལྔ་ལ་གནས་ཤིང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཁྲི་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ་བཞུགས་པར་འབྱུང་ངོ༌།
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"And in the ''Buddha’s Flower Adornment Scripture'' (''[mahāvaipulya]-buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra'') too, it is stated that he (Mañjuśrīkumārabhūta) resides on the five-peaked grassy mountain in the eastern direction, and lives there together with ten thousand bodhisattvas."
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[Erick Tsiknopoulos]

Latest revision as of 17:15, 25 June 2020

Wu-t'ai shan (ri bo rtse lnga). Five-Peaked Mountain.

  • mountain with 5 peaks in China
  • Sacred mountain in northern China, especially associated with Manjushri and with practice of Mantrayana.

Mount Wutai (五台山 Wǔ-tái-shān, ‘Five-Peaked Mountain’) in China, a mountain most sacred to the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī (-kumārabhūta) according to both Chinese and Tibetan tradition. It is located in Shanxi Province (山西省 Shān-xī shěng in northeastern China. In Tibetan it is known as (shar phyogs kyi) spang ri rtse lnga or more commonly, ri bo rtse lnga, 'the Five-Peaked Mountain (of the eastern direction)'. This is usually identified with Mount Wutai (五台山 Wǔ-tái-shān, ‘Five-Peaked Mountain’) in China, according to both Chinese and Tibetan tradition.

སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེའི་མདོ་ལས་ཀྱང་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་སྤང་རི་རྩེ་ལྔ་ལ་གནས་ཤིང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཁྲི་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཏུ་བཞུགས་པར་འབྱུང་ངོ༌། "And in the Buddha’s Flower Adornment Scripture ([mahāvaipulya]-buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra) too, it is stated that he (Mañjuśrīkumārabhūta) resides on the five-peaked grassy mountain in the eastern direction, and lives there together with ten thousand bodhisattvas."

[Erick Tsiknopoulos]

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