84000 Glossary of Terms

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གསང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms

  • གསང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ།

  • gsang ba chen po lnga
  • pañca­mahā­guhyaka
  • Term
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  • five great guhyakas
  • གསང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ།
  • gsang ba chen po lnga
  • pañca­mahā­guhyaka
Definition in this text:

It is not clear who these five are. The Ratna­ketu­dhāraṇī (Toh 138) mentions the “five yakṣa generals” and gives six names: Āṭavaka/Bhīṣaṇaka, Chinnasrotas, Jñānolka, Saṃjñika, and Tṛṣṇājaha. See The Ranaketu Dhāraṇī, 12.1.