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སྒྱུ་མ། | Glossary of Terms
སྒྱུ་མ།
sgyu ma
māyā
- Term
Publications: 4
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Illusion
- སྒྱུ་མ།
- sgyu ma
- māyā
Also translated here as “magical display.”
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Translation by Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes · Konstantin Brockhausen · Konstantin Brockhausen · Katrin Querl · Konstantin Brockhausen · Susanne Fleischmann · Doris Unterthurner
- Illusion
- སྒྱུ་མ།
- sgyu ma
- māyā
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Magical display
- སྒྱུ་མ།
- sgyu ma
- māyā
Also translated here as “illusion.”
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- Something conjured up by magic
- སྒྱུ་མ།
- sgyu ma
- māyā