word; saying; teaching; order; word [of Buddha]
Skt. vacana. 1) precept, word, command, speech, order, utterance, pronouncement, edict, spiritual command, permission; directives, commandment, law, proclamation, proclaimed order. 2) instruction, teaching, advice; precepts. 3) the Buddha's Words, Teachings, the Canon, the canonical scriptures, the Buddhist scriptures. Syn {bka' 'gyur}; abbr. of {bka' 'gyur sangs rgyas kyi bka'}. 4) Kagyü; abbr. of {bka' brgyud}. 5) Kahma, abbr. of {bka' ma}, the Oral Tradition, transmitted precepts
the words of the Buddha