Virūpākṣa
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Virūpākṣa (P. Virupakkha; T. mig mi bzang/spyan mi bzang མིག་མི་བཟང་/སྤྱན་མི་བཟང་; C. guang mu tian 廣目天) — one of the four great kings. Guardian King of the West and ruler of the nagas.[1][2]
His Sanskrit name (Virūpākṣa) means "dreadful eye," "deformed eyes," "ugly eyes," etc.[1] The Tibetan name (mig mi bzang) has the same meanings.
Virūpākṣa is also a common epithet of Śiva, where it indicates his odd number of eyes.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2
mig mi bzang, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Virūpākṣa
External links
Virūpākṣa, Wikipedia- mig mi bzang, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- spyan mi bzang, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
Virupaksha, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
