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revelatory accounts

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term revelatory accounts

Referenced by:
accounts, revelatory (cross-reference only)
Tibetan lung-bstan-pa
Sanskrit vyakarana
Pali
Definition One of the twelve scriptural categories. (1) Buddha's revelations of what has happened in the past or prophesies of what will occur in the future. (2) According to some explanations, scriptures of definitive meaning.

TRANSLATIONS

German offenbarende Berichte / enthüllende Berichte
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... prophesy; prophesied{BJ 8.3}; taught in scripture; scriptural teaching