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བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས་ཀྱི་ལྷ། | Glossary of Terms
བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས་ཀྱི་ལྷ།
bdud kyi ris kyi lha
mārakāyika
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The deities ruled over by Māra. The term can also refer to the devas in his paradise, which is sometimes identified with Paranirmitavaśavartin, the highest paradise in the realm of desire. This is distinct from the four personifications of obstacles to awakening, also known as the four māras (devaputramāra, mṛtyumāra, skandhamāra, and kleśamāra).
- Māra class
- བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས།
- bdud kyi ris
- Mārakāyika
- Māra class
- བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས།
- bdud kyi ris
- Mārakāyika
- Māra’s gods
- བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས་ཀྱི་ལྷ།
- bdud kyi ris kyi lha
- mārakāyika
Deities in the Paranirmitavaśavartin paradise in which Māra is the principal deity. They attempt to prevent anyone from attaining liberation from saṃsāra. This is distinct from the four personifications of obstacles to enlightenment: Devaputra-māra (lha’i bu’i bdud), the Divine Māra, which is the distraction of pleasures; Mṛtyumāra (’chi bdag gi bdud), the Māra of Death; Skandhamāra (phung po’i bdud), the Māra of the Aggregates, which is the body; and Kleśamāra (nyon mongs pa’i bdud), the Māra of the Afflictions.
- Māra’s gods
- བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས་ཀྱི་ལྷ།
- bdud kyi ris kyi lha
- mārakāyika
Deities in the Paranirmitavaśavartin paradise in which Māra is the principal deity. They attempt to prevent anyone from attaining liberation from saṃsāra. This is distinct from the four personifications of obstacles to enlightenment: Devaputra-māra (lha’i bu’i bdud), the Divine Māra, which is the distraction of pleasures; Mṛtyumāra (’chi bdag gi bdud), the Māra of Death; Skandhamāra (phung po’i bdud), the Māra of the Aggregates, which is the body; and Kleśamāra (nyon mongs pa’i bdud), the Māra of the Afflictions.
- League of Māra
- བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས།
- bdud kyi ris
- Mārakāyika
The class of gods ruled over by Māra or living in his abode.
- Māra god
- བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས་ཀྱི་ལྷའི་བུ།
- bdud kyi ris kyi lha’i bu
- mārakāyikadevaputra
The “divine sons,” members of the māra type of nonhuman being, but in this case without a negative or harmful character. See also Sārthavāha.
- Mārakāyika
- བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས།
- bdud kyi ris
- mārakāyika
The deities ruled over by Māra. This can also mean the devas in his paradise, which is sometimes identified with the Paranirmitavaśavartin, the highest paradise in the “realm of desire,” which incudes all ordinary samsaric existences.