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VAJRAKUMARA;See Vajrakila +
DAMARU;A small ritual drum. +
kun tu bzang mo;SAMANTABHADRI;Consort of Samantabhadra, symbol of emptiness. +
SACRED LANDS AND PLACES;sacred lands and places;The twenty-four countries, thirty-two lo-cations, and eight charnel grounds inhabited by dakas and dakinis. They have a psychophysical significance and are correlated with certain points of the subtle body. +
Ekajati;EKADZATI;ekadzati;A female wisdom protector of the tantric teachings, an emanation of Samantabhadri. See dharmapala +
bka 'gyur;KANGYUR;kangyur;The collection of 108 volumes containing the canon of Buddhist scriptures embodying the teachings of the Buddha Shakyamuni. +
SAMBHOGAKAYA;See Trikaya +
srin po;ORCS,OGRES,AND CANNIBALS;orcs,ogres,and cannibals;rakshasa;A class of dangerous, flesh-devouring nonhuman beings figuring in the Hindu and Buddhist worldview. +
DEITY;deity;See god +
rdzogs chen;DZOGCHEN;dzogchen;See Great Perfection +
DHARMAKAYA;See Trikaya +
man ngag;UPADESHA;An essential instruction for the practice of tantra. +
phyag na rdo rje;VAJRAPANI;The Bodhisattva who personifies the Mind of all the Buddhas. +
rin chen 'byung gnas;RATNASAMBHAVA;Lit., Source of Jewels. The Buddha of the Jewel Family, corresponding to the wisdom of equality, which is the pure nature of the aggregate of feeling and affliction of pride, and is linked with the enlightened activity of increase. +
ri rab;MOUNT MERU;mount meru;The king of mountains and world-axis, ac-cording to the cosmology of ancient India. Around it are located the four continents and eight subcontinents, of which one universe is composed. All universes, of which there are an infinite number, are arranged in the same way. +
srin po;RAKSHASAS;See ores, ogres, and cannibals +
TERMA;terma;See Treasure +
srong btsan sgam po;SONGTSEN GAMPO;songtsen gampo;The first Buddhist king of Tibet, who flourished in the seventh century and is said to have been a manifesta-tion of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig. Four reigns separate him from Trisong Detsen (eighth and ninth centuries). +
chos dbyings;DHARMADHATU;The expanse of ultimate reality, emptiness. +
THREE DOORS;three doors;Body, speech, and mind. +
