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འཁྲུལ་འཁོར། | Glossary of Terms
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ཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- འཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- ’khrul ’khor
- khrul ’khor
- yantra
- Term
- magical device
- ཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- khrul ’khor
- yantra
A sacred diagram that is drawn or constructed for ritual use. The Sanskrit word is derived from the Sanskrit root √yam, “to control.”
- magical device
- འཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- ’khrul ’khor
- yantra
A magical diagram; any mechanical tool or device.
- yantra
- འཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- ’khrul ’khor
- yantra
A magical diagram; any mechanical tool or device.
- yantra
- འཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- ’khrul ’khor
- yantra
A magical diagram; any mechanical tool or device.
- contraption
- འཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- ’khrul ’khor
- yantra
- diagram
- འཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- ’khrul ’khor
- yantra
A diagram drawn in tantric rituals.
- machine
- འཁྲུལ་འཁོར།
- ’khrul ’khor
- yantra
This term can refer to a magical diagram or any mechanical tool or device (such as a siege weapon). In The Questions of the Householder Vīradatta it is used metaphorically in the latter sense to refer to the human body as a machine.