mahābhūta
Tags: Terms & Concepts
Also known as catvāri dhātu
Tibetan: འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་ རྒྱུ་གཟུགས་བཞི་ ཁམས་བཞི་
Tibetan (Wylie): byung ba chen po bzhi
Tibetan (phonetics): chung wa chen po shi
English term: Four great elements
Alternative: Four types of causal form; four elements
English Definition: All-pervading substances that act as supporting bases for the great masses of derived matter, causing them to disintegrate or to be formed. Alternatively translated as: four types of causal form, four elements.
Spanish: Cuatro grandes elementos
