84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཕོ་ཉ་མོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཕོ་ཉ་མོ།

  • pho nya mo
  • dūtī
  • Term
Publications: 6
  • dūtī
  • ཕོ་ཉ་མོ།
  • pho nya mo
  • dūtī
Definition in this text:

Female dūta.

  • dūtī
  • ཕོ་ཉ་མོ།
  • pho nya mo
  • dūtī
Definition in this text:

A female “messenger” deity.

  • dūtī
  • ཕོ་ཉ་མོ།
  • pho nya mo
  • dūtī
Definition in this text:

Female dūta.

  • dūtī
  • ཕོ་ཉ་མོ།
  • pho nya mo
  • dūtī
Definition in this text:

Female dūta.

  • dūtī
  • ཕོ་ཉ་མོ།
  • pho nya mo
  • dūtī
Definition in this text:

“Messenger,” a female spirit often employed in magical rites.

  • dūtī
  • ཕོ་ཉ་མོ།
  • pho nya mo
  • dūtī
Definition in this text:

A class of nonhuman female beings (masc. dūta); the name literally means “messenger,” which implies that these beings can be employed as messengers through magical rites.