84000 Glossary of Terms

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གྲུབ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • གྲུབ་ཐོབ།

  • གྲུབ་པ།
  • སིདྡྷ།
  • grub pa
  • grub thob
  • sid+d+ha
  • siddha
  • Term
Publications: 8
  • siddha
  • གྲུབ་པ།
  • grub pa
  • siddha
Definition in this text:

Someone who has attained supernatural powers.

  • siddha
  • གྲུབ་ཐོབ།
  • grub thob
  • siddha
Definition in this text:

An accomplished being; a class of semidivine beings.

  • siddha
  • གྲུབ་པ།
  • grub pa
  • siddha
Definition in this text:

An accomplished being; a class of semi-divine beings.

  • siddha
  • གྲུབ་ཐོབ།
  • grub thob
  • siddha
Definition in this text:

An accomplished being; a class of semidivine beings.

  • siddha
  • གྲུབ་པ།
  • grub pa
  • siddha
Definition in this text:

Accomplished being; also a class of semidivine beings similar to vidyādharas.

  • siddha
  • གྲུབ་པ།
  • grub pa
  • siddha
Definition in this text:

A class of nonhuman beings renowned for their magical powers. In this usage, siddhas are not to be confused with the human adepts who bear the same title.

  • siddha
  • གྲུབ་པ།
  • སིདྡྷ།
  • grub pa
  • sid+d+ha
  • siddha
Definition in this text:

A class of powerful semidivine beings. In its ordinary sense of “accomplished” and so forth, this word is always translated here according to context.

  • siddha
  • གྲུབ་པ།
  • grub pa
  • siddha
Definition in this text:

A class of nonhuman beings renowned for their magical powers. They can be supplicated and ritually propitiated to bestow those powers on people. In this usage, siddhas are not to be confused with the human adepts who bear the same title.