Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Sanskrit myth., a universal sovereign, ‘the wheels of whose chariot roll even where without obstruction.’
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Because you are uninterruptedly harmed (by this last one), then even if, within this circle of samsaric rebirth, you have attained the high state of a universal chakravartin emperor, Brahma, Indra, or the like, you have not passed beyond suffering.
Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part One: Preliminaries the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug-dorjey 2008
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As the Sui founder styled himself a Buddhist universal emperor (Skt. chakravartin), both the Uighur and Eastern Turk leaders called themselves “bodhisattva princes.”
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Wendi, however, who reunified Han China after three and a half centuries of fragmentation and founded the Sui Dynasty (589 - 618), called himself a Buddhist universal emperor (Skt. chakravartin).
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Originally, the text says women have not yet been able to reach the five ranks of a Brahma, an Indra, one of the guardian protectors of the four directions, a chakravartin universal emperor, or a bodhisattva incapable of sliding back.
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The latter seems more likely, given the precedents of the Sui Dynasty founder declaring himself a chakravartin emperor and the Tang Empress Wu declaring herself Maitreya Buddha.
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A (chakravartin) emperor of the universe, one that has great strength.
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A (chakravartin) emperor of the universe, one that has great strength.
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The latter seems more likely, given the precedents of the Sui Dynasty founder declaring himself a chakravartin emperor and the Tang Empress Wu declaring herself Maitreya Buddha.
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When the lifespan is increasing from ten back to eighty thousand, there will be the appearance of the universal monarchs who have a wheel of authority, the chakravartin emperors.
General Introduction to the Initial Scope Teachings of the Graded Path (Lam-rim) ��� Day Two: Karma and Refuge Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1980
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Wheel-wielding emperors (‘khor-los sgyur-ba’i rgyal-po, chakravartin emperors) are also considered “great persons” and their bodies also display the thirty-two excellent signs and eighty exemplary features.
The Thirty-two Excellent Signs (Major Marks) of a Buddha's Enlightening Body 1979
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