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དཀྱིལ་འཁོར། | Glossary of Terms
དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
dkyil ’khor
maṇḍala
- Term
- Maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
In the higher tantras this is usually a diagram representing the details of the visualization of a deity and its palace and retinue. In the Kāraṇḍavyūha it is a simpler representation of a few deities, made of precious powders.
- Maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Apart from the well-known meaning of a magical diagram and several other conventional meanings, this term seems to denote any magically charged area or sphere of a specific type, such as, e.g., the maṇḍala of wind, the maṇḍala of sound, etc.
- Maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
A mystic diagram, usually consisting of a square within a circle, used to define a sacred space in the context of esoteric rituals of initiation and consecration preliminary to certain advanced meditational practices.
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.
- Maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
The energy centers along the middle channel.
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.
- Maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Also rendered in this sūtra as “disk.”
- Maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Literally a “disk” or “circle,” in the ritual context maṇḍala is a sacred space on the ground or a raised platform, arranged according to a pattern that varies from rite to rite.
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.
- Maṇḍala
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- མཎྜ་ལ།
- མཎྜལ།
- dkyil ’khor
- maN+Da la
- maN+Dala
- maṇḍala
A magical circle or sacred area; also a chapter or section of a book.
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.
- Disk
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala
Also rendered in this sūtra as “maṇḍala.”
- Inner circle
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍalaka
A demarcated area within a larger boundary. An official act of the saṅgha requires a “consensus” of all monks present within the monastery’s boundaries or of a quorum of monks within an “inner circle.”
- Orb
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
- dkyil ’khor
- maṇḍala