Glossary
Types of attestation for names and terms of the corresponding source language
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Anantamukhasādhakā
Wylie: sgo mtha’ yas sgrub pa
Tibetan: སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་སྒྲུབ་པ།
Sanskrit: anantamukhasādhakā AD
The name of a dhāraṇī goddess.
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Bandé Yeshé Dé
Wylie: ban+de ye shes sde
Tibetan: བནྡེ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ།
Yeshé Dé (late eighth to early ninth century) was the most prolific translator of sūtras into Tibetan. Altogether he is credited with the translation of more than one hundred sixty sūtra translations and more than one hundred additional translations, mostly on tantric topics. In spite of Yeshé Dé’s great importance for the propagation of Buddhism in Tibet during the imperial era, only a few biographical details about this figure are known. Later sources describe him as a student of the Indian teacher Padmasambhava, and he is also credited with teaching both sūtra and tantra widely to students of his own. He was also known as Nanam Yeshé Dé, from the Nanam (sna nam) clan.
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Consecrated in Great Gnosis
Wylie: ye shes chen por dbang bskur ldan pa
Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་ཆེན་པོར་དབང་བསྐུར་ལྡན་པ།
The name of a dhāraṇī goddess.
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Destroying All Māras
Wylie: bdud thams cad rnam par ’joms ma
Tibetan: བདུད་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་མ།
The name of a dhāraṇī goddess.
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Durdāntā
Wylie: gdul dka’ ma
Tibetan: གདུལ་དཀའ་མ།
Sanskrit: durdāntā AD
The name of a dhāraṇī goddess.
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Mahāpratisarā
Wylie: so sor ’brang ba chen mo
Tibetan: སོ་སོར་འབྲང་བ་ཆེན་མོ།
Sanskrit: mahāpratisarā AD
The name of a dhāraṇī goddess.
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maṇḍala of consecration in great gnosis
Wylie: ye shes chen por dbang bskur ba’i dkyil ’khor
Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་ཆེན་པོར་དབང་བསྐུར་བའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
The name of the maṇḍala in The Noble Dhāraṇī of the Eight Goddesses.
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Mañjuśrī
Wylie: ’jam dpal
Tibetan: འཇམ་དཔལ།
Sanskrit: mañjuśrī AD
Mañjuśrī is one of the “eight close sons of the Buddha” and a bodhisattva who embodies wisdom. He is a major figure in the Mahāyāna sūtras, appearing often as an interlocutor of the Buddha. In his most well-known iconographic form, he is portrayed bearing the sword of wisdom in his right hand and a volume of the Prajñāpāramitāsūtra in his left. To his name, Mañjuśrī, meaning “Gentle and Glorious One,” is often added the epithet Kumārabhūta, “having a youthful form.” He is also called Mañjughoṣa, Mañjusvara, and Pañcaśikha.
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rākṣasa
Wylie: srin po
Tibetan: སྲིན་པོ།
Sanskrit: rākṣasa AD
A class of nonhuman beings that are often, but certainly not always, considered demonic in the Buddhist tradition. They are often depicted as flesh-eating monsters who haunt frightening places and are ugly and evil-natured with a yearning for human flesh, and who additionally have miraculous powers, such as being able to change their appearance.
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Relinquishing All Misdeeds
Wylie: sdig pa thams cad spong ba
Tibetan: སྡིག་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་སྤོང་བ།
The name of a dhāraṇī goddess.
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Śīlendrabodhi
Wylie: shI len+dra bo d+hi
Tibetan: ཤཱི་ལེནྡྲ་བོ་དྷི།
Sanskrit: śīlendrabodhi RP
An Indian paṇḍita resident in Tibet during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.
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Sukhāvatī
Wylie: bde ba can
Tibetan: བདེ་བ་ཅན།
Sanskrit: sukhāvatī AD
The buddha realm in which the Buddha Amitābha lives. It is classically described in The Display of the Pure Land of Sukhāvatī (Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra).
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Unconquered Vajra
Wylie: rdo rje mi pham ma
Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་མི་ཕམ་མ།
The name of a dhāraṇī goddess.
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Vajradhātvīśvarī
Wylie: rdo rje’i dbyings kyi dbang phyug ma
Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེའི་དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་མ།
Sanskrit: vajradhātvīśvarī AD
The name of a dhāraṇī goddess.
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Vajrapāṇi
Wylie: phyag na rdo rje
Tibetan: ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ།
Sanskrit: vajrapāṇi AD
Vajrapāṇi means “Wielder of the Vajra.” In the Pali canon, he appears as a yakṣa guardian in the retinue of the Buddha. In the Mahāyāna scriptures he is a bodhisattva and one of the “eight close sons of the Buddha.” In the tantras, he is also regarded as an important Buddhist deity and instrumental in the transmission of tantric scriptures.
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vighna
Wylie: bgegs
Tibetan: བགེགས།
Sanskrit: vighna AD
A term for obstacles to well-being and spiritual advancement in general, and specifically to a class of beings that personify obstructive forces.