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ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།
phyag rgya chen po
mahāmudrā
- Term
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Mahāmudrā
- ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།
- phyag rgya chen po
- mahāmudrā
Lit. “great seal.” One of the three types of mudrā, with aspects as causal and resultant mahāmudrā (see Introduction, UT22084-077-002-77 et seq.).
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Mahāmudrā
- ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།
- phyag rgya chen po
- mahāmudrā
Awakened state described as the union of wisdom and means.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Mahāmudra
- ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།
- phyag rgya chen po
- mahāmudra
A very advanced practice that combines wisdom and means.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Great seal
- ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།
- phyag rgya chen po
- mahāmudrā
- Great seal
- ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།
- phyag rgya chen po
- mahāmudrā
An important and polyvalent term in esoteric Buddhist literature, it is used here to refer to the form of Vajradhara as a “seal” of ultimate reality that one adopts in one’s meditative practice.