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Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, the Glossary

The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra (khorlo demchok, The "Binding of the Wheels" Tantra) is an influential Buddhist Tantra.^[1]

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Abhayakaragupta

Abhayākaragupta (Wylie: 'jigs-med 'byung-gnas sbas-pa) was a Buddhist monk, scholar and tantric master (vajracarya) and the abbot of Vikramasila monastery in modern-day, Bihar in India.

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Adi-Buddha

In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Ādi-Buddha is the "First Buddha" or the "Primordial Buddha".

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Alexis Sanderson

Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson (born 1948) is an indologist and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford.

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Asura

Asuras are a class of beings in Indian religions.

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Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bhairava

Bhairava (भैरव), or Kala Bhairava, is a Shaivite and Vajrayāna deity worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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Bochum

Bochum (also,; Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Buddhist cosmology

Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to Buddhist scriptures and commentaries.

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Buddhist tantric literature

Buddhist tantric literature refers to the vast and varied literature of the Vajrayāna (or Mantrayāna) Buddhist traditions.

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Buton Rinchen Drub

Butön Rinchen Drup, (1290–1364), 11th Abbot of Shalu Monastery, was a 14th-century Sakya master and Tibetan Buddhist leader.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism

Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism refers to the categorization of Buddhist tantric scriptures in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism are Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Classical Tibetan

Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period.

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Dakini

A ḍākinī (डाकिनी;; хандарма;; alternatively 荼枳尼,; 荼吉尼,; or 吒枳尼,; Japanese: 荼枳尼 / 吒枳尼 / 荼吉尼, dakini) is a type of female spirit, goddess, or demon in Hinduism and Buddhism. Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and dakini are Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Damaru

A damaru (डमरु,; Tibetan ཌ་མ་རུ་ or རྔ་ཆུང) is a small two-headed drum, used in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism.

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Deity yoga

The fundamental practice of Vajrayana and Tibetan tantra is deity yoga (devatayoga), meditation on a chosen deity or "cherished divinity" (Skt. Iṣṭa-devatā, Tib. yidam), which involves the recitation of mantras, prayers and visualization of the deity, the associated mandala of the deity's Buddha field, along with consorts and attendant Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and deity yoga are Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Guhyagarbha tantra

The Guhyagarbha Tantra (Skt.; Tib. རྒྱུད་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་, Gyü Sangwé Nyingpo; Wyl. rgyud gsang ba'i snying po, "The Tantra of the Secret Essence" or the "Secret Womb Tantra") is the most important Buddhist tantra of the Mahayoga class and the primary tantric text studied in the Nyingma tradition.

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Guhyasamāja Tantra

The Guhyasamāja Tantra (Tantra of the Secret Society/Community), Tōhoku Catalogue No. Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and Guhyasamāja Tantra are Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Guimet Museum

The Guimet Museum (full name in Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet; MNAAG; Musée Guimet) is an art museum located at 6, place d'Iéna in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Heruka

Heruka (Sanskrit; Tibetan) is the name of a category of wrathful deities, enlightened beings in Vajrayana Buddhism that adopt a fierce countenance to benefit sentient beings.

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Hevajra

Hevajra (Tibetan: ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ kye'i rdo rje / kye rdo rje; Chinese: 喜金剛 Xǐ jīngāng / 呼金剛 Hū jīngāng) is one of the main yidams (enlightened beings) in Tantric, or Vajrayana Buddhism. Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and Hevajra are Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Indra

Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.

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Je Tsongkhapa

Tsongkhapa (Tibetan: ཙོང་ཁ་པ་, meaning: "the man from Tsongkha" or "the Man from Onion Valley", c. 1357–1419) was an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi, whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Kalaratri

Kalaratri is the seventh of the nine Navadurga forms of the goddess Mahadevi.

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Kapalika

The Kāpālika tradition was a Tantric, non-Puranic form of Shaivism which originated in Medieval India between the 4th and 8th century CE.

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Kartika (knife)

A kartika or drigug (kartari;, or kartrika in Nepal) is a small, crescent-shaped, hand-held ritual flaying knife used in the tantric ceremonies of Vajrayana Buddhism.

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Kashmir Shaivism

The Kashmir Shaivism tradition, also called Trika Shaivism, is a non-dualist branch of Shaiva-Shakta Tantra Hinduism that originated in Kashmir after 850 CE.

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Kathmandu

Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and approximately 4 million people in its urban agglomeration.

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Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra

The Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra ("The Basket's Display", Full Sanskrit: Āryakāraṇḍavyūhanāmamahāyānasūtra, Tibetan: za ma tog bkod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo; p) is a Mantrayāna sūtra which extols the virtues and powers of Avalokiteśvara, who is presented here as a primordial cosmic overlord (a kind of adibuddha figure) and as the source of numerous Indian deities.

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Khaṭvāṅga

A khaṭvāṅga (खट्वाङ्ग) is a long, studded staff or club originally understood as Shiva's weapon.

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Mahakala

Mahākāla (Sanskrit: महाकाल) is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and Mahakala are Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Mandala

A mandala (circle) is a geometric configuration of symbols. Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and mandala are Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Mantra

A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.

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Mount Meru

Mount Meru (Sanskrit/Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru, or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes.

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Mundamala

Mundamala, also called kapalamala or rundamala, is a garland of severed Asura heads and/or skulls, in Hindu iconography and Tibetan Buddhist iconography.

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Nepalese painting

Nepalese Painting or Nepali Painting begins with the religious paintings with Hindu and Buddhist subjects, almost all Newa art by the Newari people of the Kathmandu valley.

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Newar Buddhism

Newar Buddhism is the form of Vajrayana Buddhism practiced by the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

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Patna Museum

Patna Museum is the state museum of the Indian state of Bihar.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Ratnagiri

Ratnagiri (IAST:Ratnāgirī; ɾət̪n̪aːɡiɾiː) is a port city on the Arabian Sea coast in Ratnagiri District in southwestern Maharashtra, India.

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Rigveda

The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).

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Rinchen Zangpo

Lochen Rinchen Zangpo (958–1055), also known as Mahaguru, was a principal lotsawa or translator of Sanskrit Buddhist texts into Tibetan during the second diffusion of Buddhism in Tibet, variously called the New Translation School, New Mantra School or New Tantra Tradition School.

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Rubin Museum of Art

The Rubin Museum of Art, also known as the Rubin Museum, is dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art and cultures of the Himalayas, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and other regions within Eurasia, with a permanent collection focused particularly on Tibetan art.

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Rudra

Rudra (रुद्र) is a Rigvedic deity associated with Shiva, the wind or storms, Vayu, medicine, and the hunt.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Sachen Kunga Nyingpo

Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092–1158) was a Tibetan spiritual leader and the first of the Five Venerable Supreme Sakya Masters of Tibet.

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Sand mandala

Sand mandala (THL kyinkhor) is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand. Cakrasaṃvara Tantra and sand mandala are Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Shaivism

Shaivism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Supreme Being.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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Siddhi

In Indian religions, (Sanskrit: सिद्धि; fulfillment, accomplishment) are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through sādhanās such as meditation and yoga.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakrasaṃvara_Tantra

Also known as Cakrasamvara, Cakrasamvara Tantra, Cakrasaṃvara, Chakrasambara, Chakrasamvara, Demchok (deity), Khorlo Demchok.

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