Jalavanaddhahastapada, Jālāvanaddhahastapāda, Jalavanaddha-hastapada: 1 definition

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Source: academia.edu: A Prayer for Rebirth in the Sukhāvatī

Jālāvanaddhahastapāda (जालावनद्धहस्तपाद) refers to “webbed hands and feet” and represents the twenty-seventh of the thirty-two major marks of distinction (lakṣaṇa) mentioned in the Sukhāvatī and following the order, but not always the exact wording, of the Mahāvyutpatti (236-67). In Tibetan, the characteristic called Jālāvanaddhahastapāda is known as ‘phyag dang zhabs dra bas ’brel ba’. The Sukhāvatī represents a prayer for rebirth which was composed by Karma chags med, a Karma bka’ brgyud master, who lived in the seventeenth century.

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