金こん輪りん王おう

noun

golden-wheel-turning sage king

Buddhist term for a universal monarch who rules by the golden wheel, a concept from ancient Indian cosmology. Rare in everyday Japanese; encountered mainly in Buddhist texts or historical contexts.

• 仏ぶっ典てんには、金こん輪りん王おうが世よを治おさめる理り想そうの王おうとして描えがかれている。

  In Buddhist scriptures, the golden-wheel-turning sage king is depicted as an ideal ruler who governs the world.