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དབྱངས་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms
དབྱངས་ཅན།
dbyangs can
Sarasvatī
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- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་དང་ལྡན་པ།
- dbyangs dang ldan pa
- Sarasvatī
The Indian goddess of eloquence and music. Also translated elsewhere as dbyangs can.
- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་ཅན་མ།
- dbyangs can ma
- Sarasvatī
The goddess of music and eloquence. The Sanskrit name means “she who has flow,” or “she who has a body of water.” She was originally the personification of the Punjab river of that name.
- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་ཅན་མ།
- dbyangs can ma
- Sarasvatī
Hindu goddess of art and wisdom, consort of Brahmā.
- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་ཅན།
- dbyangs can
- Sarasvatī
Literally “The Melodious One.” The goddess of eloquence and learning.
- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་ཅན།
- dbyangs can
- Sarasvatī
“The Melodious One,” the goddess of eloquence and learning.
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.
- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་ཅན་མ།
- dbyangs can ma
- Sarasvatī
Goddess of learning; she is visualized as part of the Perfection of Wisdom practice.
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.
- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་ཅན།
- dbyangs can
- Sarasvatī
Goddess of learning; one of the eight great yakṣiṇīs who form the retinue of Vasudharā.
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.
- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་ཅན།
- དབྱངས་ལྡན་མ།
- སྒྲ་དབྱངས་མ།
- སྒྲ་དབྱངས།
- ཚིག་ལྡན།
- dbyangs can
- dbyangs ldan ma
- sgra dbyangs ma
- sgra dbyangs
- tshig ldan
- Sarasvatī
The goddess of speech and of learning.
- Sarasvatī
- ཚིག་དབང་ལྷ་མོ།
- དབྱངས་ཅན་མ།
- tshig dbang lha mo
- dbyangs can ma
- Sarasvatī
The goddess of learning; in the Bhūtaḍāmara maṇḍala she is one of the eight goddesses of offerings.
- Sarasvatī
- དབྱངས་ཅན།
- dbyangs can
- Sarasvatī
A river goddess.