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Vedic goddess of a now dried-up river, who became patron deity of poetry, music, science and all the creative arts, and in much this form was adopted into the Buddhist pantheon, with Mañjuśrī as Her consort. +
'the Sun-like', n. of a Buddha, Lord of the Tathāgata Family. +
Field of (Accumulation of) M. (''tshogs zhing''); Merits and Wisdom (''tshogs (gnyis)''): see Accumulations. +
lit. 'departed', i.e. the spirit of a dead person, one of the six destinies of samsaric beings, often called 'hungry ghosts' because of their main form of suffering. They are of many kinds; those that dwell in our world are normally invisible to humans, but may be seen by animals. +
sixty qualities are ascribed to the Buddha's voice in a Sūtra. +
a kind of ''vīṇā''. +
'wrathful king', a title of fierce deities +
the ''vajra'' cross-legged position, like the 'lotus position' of Hindu ''yoga'' but reversed. +
'seer', inspired Vedic sage, Brahmanical ascetic with magical powers. +
release from the bondage of ''saṃsāra'', whether as an ''Arhant'' or as a Buddha, the latter being 'Great L.' +
a kind of large drum. +
one learned in the profound mantric lore (D). +
besides the Bodhisattva vows and (in the higher classes of Tantra) the Tantric vows, one receiving a Tantric empowerment has to take numerous pledges, which must be kept purely if the practice is to be successful. See Tsong-ka-pa, ''The Yoga of Tibet'', 69—76; Beyer, 406-7. +
the female genitals. +
a staff surmounted by a freshly-severed head, a withered one and a skull, and a triple point, carried by Tantric adepts and representing the secret consort. +
a class of beings slightly inferior to ''devas'', who live within sight of a ''deva'' realm and are plagued by envy of their neighbours. +
through i. of good and evil one is reborn in ill destinies; through i. of Ultimate Truth one is reborn in ''saṃsāra'' in general +
